Author Topic: Ann Coulter on Couric, Biden  (Read 9215 times)

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Re: Ann Coulter on Couric, Biden
« Reply #25 on: October 03, 2008, 04:48:13 AM »
PBS is the nearest thing to fair I've heard. Usually they will present both sides of the argument.

Yeah... left, and far-left...
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Re: Ann Coulter on Couric, Biden
« Reply #26 on: October 03, 2008, 05:40:49 AM »
PBS is the nearest thing to fair I've heard. Usually they will present both sides of the argument.

Yeah... left, and far-left...

That was the joke when David Gergen (a "Republican") and Mark Shields did PBS M/L Newshour to provide "contrast."  Gergen provided the left-wing view and Shields the far-left-wing view.  Quite the spectrum.

These days, it is David Brooks who plays the "Republican" while shields soldiers on.  Brooks is the kind of "conservative" who is embarrassed by actual conservative ideas.
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Re: Ann Coulter on Couric, Biden
« Reply #27 on: October 03, 2008, 01:10:21 PM »
PBS is the nearest thing to fair I've heard. Usually they will present both sides of the argument.

Yeah... left, and far-left...
It's all relative. I listen to PBS because from what I've heard they are close to middle. If you belong to the far right, a view which is to your left or in the middle is still left of you even though it is not of the left of middle. It seems to me that to the right wingers it is a black and white issue. It is either black or white and no middle.

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Re: Ann Coulter on Couric, Biden
« Reply #28 on: October 03, 2008, 01:43:36 PM »
Decades ago, the right was the center, and the far right was the right. Socialism (or liberalism, as we call it today) was called for what it was.

The good news is that the country has been moving to the right over the last several years. That makes Obama a real anomaly.

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Re: Ann Coulter on Couric, Biden
« Reply #29 on: October 03, 2008, 01:44:16 PM »


The good news is that the country has been moving to the right over the last several years. That makes Obama a real anomaly.

Him and the 51% of the voters about to cast one for him?
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Re: Ann Coulter on Couric, Biden
« Reply #30 on: October 03, 2008, 03:22:51 PM »
I agree that print media is often bias, but to say that radio is fair is a stretch. Limbaugh, Hannity, Liddy and others are fair? Talk radio from my observation is dominated by the right.

Yeah, that's exactly what I said.  G. Gordon Liddy is fair and balanced.  Or not.

I was actually about to say that conservative talk is dominant, but when you figure in NPR, the hourly news updates from CNN, CBS, et al, various local hosts, and the occasional political talk from Howard Stern or others, I would say there is much more of a contest going on in radio, than on the left-dominated TV and print.

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If you belong to the far right, a view which is to your left or in the middle is still left of you even though it is not of the left of middle. It seems to me that to the right wingers it is a black and white issue. It is either black or white and no middle.

The so-called middle is on the left today, calling for more govt intervention, and condoning the murder of innocents only in some cases.  Hence, anyone not solidly conservative is on the left. 

And no, my "extremist" views don't mean I see less nuance than you.  It just means I am more correct than you are.  Tongue
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Re: Ann Coulter on Couric, Biden
« Reply #31 on: October 03, 2008, 03:55:39 PM »
I agree that print media is often bias, but to say that radio is fair is a stretch. Limbaugh, Hannity, Liddy and others are fair? Talk radio from my observation is dominated by the right.

Yeah, that's exactly what I said.  G. Gordon Liddy is fair and balanced.  Or not.

I was actually about to say that conservative talk is dominant, but when you figure in NPR, the hourly news updates from CNN, CBS, et al, various local hosts, and the occasional political talk from Howard Stern or others, I would say there is much more of a contest going on in radio, than on the left-dominated TV and print.

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If you belong to the far right, a view which is to your left or in the middle is still left of you even though it is not of the left of middle. It seems to me that to the right wingers it is a black and white issue. It is either black or white and no middle.

The so-called middle is on the left today, calling for more govt intervention, and condoning the murder of innocents only in some cases.  Hence, anyone not solidly conservative is on the left. 

And no, my "extremist" views don't mean I see less nuance than you.  It just means I am more correct than you are.  Tongue
No, you are more right than I and you illustrate my point beautifully. Thanks for the help.