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 skyth wrote:
You act as if there isn't a persecution complex theme running through conservative talking points. Just see the 'war' on Christmas.


To be fair, as a commie lefty liberal scum myself, I'd like to point both sides have a persecution complex, the right for thinking that Obama is coming after his Christmas/Guns/baby jesus and the left for thinking that the right wants to go back to a lawless wild west shootout.


The difference between these two persecution complexes being that the constitution backed by the supreme court robustly defends gun ownership and there is very few major restrictions, while in 2015 more people were shot by toddlers than by terrorists.


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It just proves that, in America, even our toddlers are dangerous than you are.


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 LordofHats wrote:

And this is why Fox news is it's own brand of special. Because it gets otherwise smart people to repeat this nonsense.

Obama has nothing to do with Trump beyond being a Democrat who beat classic Republicans in national elections twice. Trump's rise isn't about "tapping into anger" with Obama. It's about the GOP's failure to actually realize how far gone it's become. One of the great ironies is that Fox's "News" has heavily contributed to this, feeding a cycle of insanity in right wing politics where facts don't matter, everything else is a lie, and you should be angry angry ANGRY because America "sucks now" all based on dubious double speak about "traditional values", "Un-Americanism", and "make America great because the 'liberals' are ruining it." Fox created Trump. To watch them spend hours trying to say it's all Obama's fault is the greatest comedy I've seen in years. And by Fox I mean right wing politics, which have for years boxed themselves into an ideological corner doomed to explode on itself.

Trump isn't a creation of anyone or anything but right wing politics and its gradual collapse since the Bush administration failed to reignite that Reagan magic everyone has convinced themselves existed.

Uh... so, everything that Obama does is rainbow colored icecream shat by a Unicorn?



Trump is simply a product of the GOP's failure post Dubya. Guess who's been president since that time?


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 whembly wrote:

Uh... so, everything that Obama does is rainbow colored icecream shat by a Unicorn?




Trump is simply a product of the GOP's failure post Dubya. Guess who's been president since that time?


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 cuda1179 wrote:
Since Fox News is the highest rated news network (by a large margin), they are either a very liberal news network, or conservative news does sell.

Media plays what they want you to hear.


But why does the media play what they want you to hear? Are you forgetting that "the media" is a bunch of corporations owned by shareholders that want to see a profit on their investment? If conservative news did sell (and Fox News hasn't already taken that entire market) then more of those profit-seeking corporations would start offering conservative news products and make easy money. The fact that nobody really bothers to do so pretty strongly suggests that the market for conservative news isn't very profitable.

And really, conservatives should have the least room to disagree with this fact. After all, it is conservatives who are the strongest advocates of the power of the free market. If you want to dispute the fact that conservative news doesn't sell then you're going to need to make some major revisions to your economic theories.

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 LordofHats wrote:
 whembly wrote:

Uh... so, everything that Obama does is rainbow colored icecream shat by a Unicorn?



What? That all you got for that youtube vid? Seriously, check it out, it's hysterical. (not political at all, just looking for an excuse to post it).

Trump is simply a product of the GOP's failure post Dubya. Guess who's been president since that time?


And Internet Explorer caused murder;



Had Romney won in '12, do you think Trump would be enjoying his successes now?

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 whembly wrote:

What? That all you got for that youtube vid? Seriously, check it out, it's hysterical. (not political at all, just looking for an excuse to post it).


Funny, but that doesn't change that no one argued Obama is perfect.

Had Romney won in '12, do you think Trump would be enjoying his successes now?


Except he didn't win.

   
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 LordofHats wrote:
Except he didn't win.


But if something different had happened things would have happened differently therefor Obama is the cause of all our problems.

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 Ahtman wrote:
 LordofHats wrote:
Except he didn't win.


But if something different had happened things would have happened differently therefor Obama is the cause of all our problems.


And that's the exact kind of nonsense logic that produced Trump. Thanks Fox! The party of personal responsibility everyone!

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 LordofHats wrote:
 whembly wrote:

What? That all you got for that youtube vid? Seriously, check it out, it's hysterical. (not political at all, just looking for an excuse to post it).


Funny, but that doesn't change that no one argued Obama is perfect.
Had Romney won in '12, do you think Trump would be enjoying his successes now?


Except he didn't win.

Its an asinine to take the stance that Obama's actions had no bearing to the current election cycle.

In 2008, Obama ran against Dubya to great success. Right?

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All joking aside, as you guys said this really is a literally perfect example of how the GOP got where it is now.

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 whembly wrote:
 LordofHats wrote:
 whembly wrote:

What? That all you got for that youtube vid? Seriously, check it out, it's hysterical. (not political at all, just looking for an excuse to post it).


Funny, but that doesn't change that no one argued Obama is perfect.
Had Romney won in '12, do you think Trump would be enjoying his successes now?


Except he didn't win.

Its an asinine to take the stance that Obama's actions had no bearing to the current election cycle.

In 2008, Obama ran against Dubya to great success. Right?


Yet in many key instances he didn't govern very differently than Dubya. He maintained many of the same policies in place and followed similar agendas. What do you think McCain or Romney would have done that was significantly divergent from much of the domestic and foreign policy decisions made by the Obama administration? Dubya wasn't very conservative, neither was McCain and neither was Romney. Sure they're more conservative than Trump but it's not like they're Jeff Sessions or Jim Demint. There would have been more similarities than you're accounting for.

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 whembly wrote:

Its an asinine to take the stance that Obama's actions had no bearing to the current election cycle.


Ignore that there were 16 candidates in the GOP primary. Ignore that the party itself, despite desperately wanting anyone but Trump, failed to produce an alternative. Ignore that at their lowest point their best alternative was Ted Cruze, and even then they still couldn't rally around the guy they hate to stop the guy they supposedly hate more.

Yes. Lets ignore all of that, which is infinitely more news worthy, to whine for hours about how Obama has destroyed America and Trump is his fault.

   
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 Ouze wrote:
Each sides have their pet causes, obviously. It just seems like some of the dumber louder stuff has been coming from the right, though, and with more frequency. I mean, look at the thread we're in! Look at the thread slightly below this about people arguing in presumably good faith that pedophiles are prevented from molesting children if they're not allowed to be in the bathroom! It's just gotten stranger and stranger.

Donald Trump is going to be the GOP nominee for president. To say things have taken a turn seems self evident at this point.


Look up the term "Triggly Puff". After watching that I dare you to say that the loudest and stupidest causes are from conservatives. Demands for Safe Spaces and Trigger warnings, free housing and tuition based on race, Reparations, etc.


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 LordofHats wrote:
lmao at Yahoo News being "liberal." And the Washington Post? What is this 1975?

So we're just throwing news sources under random banners based on personal preference then?

 cuda1179 wrote:
Since Fox News is the highest rated news network (by a large margin), they are either a very liberal news network, or conservative news does sell.

Media plays what they want you to hear.



If every news network were willing to shill itself into a political propaganda platform that ignores the inconvenience of facts you might have a point. It's being really general to call a lot of Fox's programming "news." I overheard O'Reilly the other day. Guy is funnier than Colbert ever was.


I don't argue that FOX doesn't sell itself to the right. I am amused that you think NBC and the others don't sell themselves to the Left. Have you ever heard Rachel Maddow talk? She's just the Female, leftish version of O'Reilly.

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 cuda1179 wrote:
 Ouze wrote:
Each sides have their pet causes, obviously. It just seems like some of the dumber louder stuff has been coming from the right, though, and with more frequency. I mean, look at the thread we're in! Look at the thread slightly below this about people arguing in presumably good faith that pedophiles are prevented from molesting children if they're not allowed to be in the bathroom! It's just gotten stranger and stranger.

Donald Trump is going to be the GOP nominee for president. To say things have taken a turn seems self evident at this point.


Look up the term "Triggly Puff". After watching that I dare you to say that the loudest and stupidest causes are from conservatives. Demands for Safe Spaces and Trigger warnings, free housing and tuition based on race, Reparations, etc.


Going with Cuda her. I have some dumb stuff coming from the Left. Like getting/allowing a Depper Delay Entry Contract into joining the Military to help make the US Naturalization part go faster because he/she are about to serve in the US Military

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 cuda1179 wrote:
 Ouze wrote:
Each sides have their pet causes, obviously. It just seems like some of the dumber louder stuff has been coming from the right, though, and with more frequency. I mean, look at the thread we're in! Look at the thread slightly below this about people arguing in presumably good faith that pedophiles are prevented from molesting children if they're not allowed to be in the bathroom! It's just gotten stranger and stranger.

Donald Trump is going to be the GOP nominee for president. To say things have taken a turn seems self evident at this point.


Look up the term "Triggly Puff". After watching that I dare you to say that the loudest and stupidest causes are from conservatives. Demands for Safe Spaces and Trigger warnings, free housing and tuition based on race, Reparations, etc.


The first three links on Google is to right-wing outrage machine pages like Infowars helpfully declaring this "Trigglypuff" the "new bloated face of Feminism". I think you might be proving our point for us. If nothing else, compare Trump to Clinton.

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 cuda1179 wrote:
I don't argue that FOX doesn't sell itself to the right. I am amused that you think NBC and the others don't sell themselves to the Left.


Why? Because it doesn't pander to the base, actually reports opposing views, and doesn't spin a constant web of nonsense designed to convince me that everything else is a lie? Yeah. No. NBC's greatest crime is the same crime most mainstream television news is guilty of, which is prioritizing drama and treating their programming like some low level reality TV. This is why everyone should be a good citizen and support print media. It's much better I think that's true of most news though. To be fair, have you ever watched the House of Representatives for more than an hour? It's borrrrrrriiinnnngggg.

Have you ever heard Rachel Maddow talk? She's just the Female, leftish version of O'Reilly.


She's definitely similar. The big difference is that when I watch Maddow, I'm not constantly interrupted by some bold face lie thrown up as a fact, and she doesn't shoot herself in the foot with a phrase like "the no spin zone" before she spins everything. Maddow openly states she's biased. Hell. I'd go so far as to say she embraces her own bias as a strength, which is probably tooting her own horn a bit to much.

And that there is the general difference between MSNBC and Fox. Both know exactly what they are, but one has dedicated itself to fabricating its own version of reality and rejecting everything outside that fabrication as a falsehood. That's the difference between news with a ton of bias, and propaganda masquerading as news.

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 AlmightyWalrus wrote:
 cuda1179 wrote:
 Ouze wrote:
Each sides have their pet causes, obviously. It just seems like some of the dumber louder stuff has been coming from the right, though, and with more frequency. I mean, look at the thread we're in! Look at the thread slightly below this about people arguing in presumably good faith that pedophiles are prevented from molesting children if they're not allowed to be in the bathroom! It's just gotten stranger and stranger.

Donald Trump is going to be the GOP nominee for president. To say things have taken a turn seems self evident at this point.


Look up the term "Triggly Puff". After watching that I dare you to say that the loudest and stupidest causes are from conservatives. Demands for Safe Spaces and Trigger warnings, free housing and tuition based on race, Reparations, etc.


The first three links on Google is to right-wing outrage machine pages like Infowars helpfully declaring this "Trigglypuff" the "new bloated face of Feminism". I think you might be proving our point for us. If nothing else, compare Trump to Clinton.


If you investigate the incident involving "triggly Puff" you will see what the outrage is about. Feminists and campus activists shouting down and trying to stop a group of speakers with conservative views having a civil discussion. They actually accused a speaker (that is a gay man) of being a homophobe.
   
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 LordofHats wrote:
 whembly wrote:

Its an asinine to take the stance that Obama's actions had no bearing to the current election cycle.


Ignore that there were 16 candidates in the GOP primary. Ignore that the party itself, despite desperately wanting anyone but Trump, failed to produce an alternative. Ignore that at their lowest point their best alternative was Ted Cruze, and even then they still couldn't rally around the guy they hate to stop the guy they supposedly hate more.

Yes. Lets ignore all of that, which is infinitely more news worthy, to whine for hours about how Obama has destroyed America and Trump is his fault.

Can't hear you while you move the goal-post. Let's try again:

Again, didn't Obama run against Dubya in 2008?

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 LordofHats wrote:
 cuda1179 wrote:
I don't argue that FOX doesn't sell itself to the right. I am amused that you think NBC and the others don't sell themselves to the Left.


Why? Because it doesn't pander to the base, actually reports opposing views, and doesn't spin a constant web of nonsense designed to convince me that everything else is a lie? Yeah. No. NBC's greatest crime is the same crime most mainstream television news is guilty of, which is prioritizing drama and treating their programming like some low level reality TV. This is why everyone should be a good citizen and support print media. It's much better I think that's true of most news though. To be fair, have you ever watched the House of Representatives for more than an hour? It's borrrrrrriiinnnngggg.

Have you ever heard Rachel Maddow talk? She's just the Female, leftish version of O'Reilly.


She's definitely similar. The big difference is that when I watch Maddow, I'm not constantly interrupted by some bold face lie thrown up as a fact, and she doesn't shoot herself in the foot with a phrase like "the no spin zone" before she spins everything. Maddow openly states she's biased. Hell. I'd go so far as to say she embraces her own bias as a strength, which is probably tooting her own horn a bit to much.

And that there is the general difference between MSNBC and Fox. Both know exactly what they are, but one has dedicated itself to fabricating its own version of reality and rejecting everything outside that fabrication as a falsehood. That's the difference between news with a ton of bias, and propaganda masquerading as news.


I hate to inform you of this, but in the non-opinion show FOX has been shown to be more rounded than MSNBC. MSNBC gives less equal talking times and the host interrupts the conservative side more. They also allow the liberal side to interrupt more often without shutting them down.

As for Rachel Maddow not lying.....LOL, what are you on? Try watching a discussion on the "wage gap". She flatly refuses to accept about a dozen facts and keeps disseminating the same old lies.
   
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 whembly wrote:

Can't hear you while you move the goal-post. Let's try again:

Again, didn't Obama run against Dubya in 2008?


Why didn't the GOP nominate anyone but Trump?

See, we can both ask questions. The difference is that mine are actually relevant, and don't run on circular reasoning.

   
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 LordofHats wrote:
 whembly wrote:

Can't hear you while you move the goal-post. Let's try again:

Again, didn't Obama run against Dubya in 2008?


Why didn't the GOP nominate anyone but Trump?

That's their failing and not germane to the conversation.

You already know that Trump is the "Acid Reflux Disease" of Republican politics...

See, we can both ask questions. The difference is that mine are actually relevant, and don't run on circular reasoning.


Lordy. You stated that Obama had nothing to do with the rise of Trump.

I call BS to that.

His governance, and the GOP's failure to address their constituents in real meaningful lead to Trump's rise.

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 LordofHats wrote:
lmao at Yahoo News being "liberal." And the Washington Post? What is this 1975?

So we're just throwing news sources under random banners based on personal preference then?


I've found, in all seriousness, the best metric to be, "What do they call illegal aliens?"

But the Post's editorial board is certainly liberal, sure. Have you read their op-eds?


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 LordofHats wrote:
And that there is the general difference between MSNBC and Fox. Both know exactly what they are, but one has dedicated itself to fabricating its own version of reality and rejecting everything outside that fabrication as a falsehood. That's the difference between news with a ton of bias, and propaganda masquerading as news.


Do you actually believe this? I'm genuinely curious.

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Turn it down about 3 notches, folks. Believe it or not, and contrary to what you might see out of certain polarizing figures on both sides of the hypothetical aisle, it IS possible to have a conversation with people with views that differ from you.

 cuda1179 wrote:
Let's not forget that to the Left, Air conditioning is sexist, chicken sandwiches are racist, Time is racist and anti-cultural, grades are racist, freedom of speech doesn't extend to offensive thoughts, rape allegations should never be questioned, AIDS was created by the CIA, and Blacks can never be racist.
This is a good example of what NOT to do - statements like these don't leave any room for conversation with people whose views differ from yours. And since this is a discussion forum....

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 cuda1179 wrote:
 AlmightyWalrus wrote:
 cuda1179 wrote:
 Ouze wrote:
Each sides have their pet causes, obviously. It just seems like some of the dumber louder stuff has been coming from the right, though, and with more frequency. I mean, look at the thread we're in! Look at the thread slightly below this about people arguing in presumably good faith that pedophiles are prevented from molesting children if they're not allowed to be in the bathroom! It's just gotten stranger and stranger.

Donald Trump is going to be the GOP nominee for president. To say things have taken a turn seems self evident at this point.


Look up the term "Triggly Puff". After watching that I dare you to say that the loudest and stupidest causes are from conservatives. Demands for Safe Spaces and Trigger warnings, free housing and tuition based on race, Reparations, etc.


The first three links on Google is to right-wing outrage machine pages like Infowars helpfully declaring this "Trigglypuff" the "new bloated face of Feminism". I think you might be proving our point for us. If nothing else, compare Trump to Clinton.


If you investigate the incident involving "triggly Puff" you will see what the outrage is about. Feminists and campus activists shouting down and trying to stop a group of speakers with conservative views having a civil discussion. They actually accused a speaker (that is a gay man) of being a homophobe.


You just ranted about how silly it is to believe that blacks can't be racist, and yet you're now unwilling to entertain the notion that someone who's gay can also be a homophobe or using homophobic concepts.

Regardless, there's still the Trump card. All these examples are relatively minor in comparison to the total insanity that is Donald Trump. The US left is going to have to try a lot harder to out-crazy Trump, and it's hard to get louder than a nominee-apparent. Unless he wins, that is.

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 cuda1179 wrote:
I hate to inform you of this, but in the non-opinion show FOX has been shown to be more rounded than MSNBC. MSNBC gives less equal talking times and the host interrupts the conservative side more. They also allow the liberal side to interrupt more often without shutting them down.


That's looking at a really simplistic view of balance.

As for Rachel Maddow not lying.....LOL, what are you on? Try watching a discussion on the "wage gap". She flatly refuses to accept about a dozen facts and keeps disseminating the same old lies.


I've watched maybe one bit where she talked about the wage gap, and didn't notice anything fallacious. Some over/under statements I think (can't remember any in particular), but nothing that made me roll my eyes in disgust.

You might notice that my respect for television news in general is limited. I don't watch it that much, so I've hardly seen every segment Maddow or O'Reilly have ever produced. the big difference is that I've never taken O'Reilly seriously, because my respect for my own intellect isn't low enough. Maddow on the other hand doesn't send me into an existential crisis about my fellow men (or in her case I suppose it would be wo/men ).

Seaward wrote:
But the Post's editorial board is certainly liberal, sure. Have you read their op-eds?


Pretty sure Maddow has one. They also host The Volokh Conspiracy, which is patently Libertarian.

The Washington Post is a grab bag, which is one of the things I like about it. The liberals definitely outnumber the conservatives in my experience, but if you've got an outlook, the Post has someone who shares it and writes regularly.

Do you actually believe this? I'm genuinely curious.


Fox News' slogan is "Fair and Balanced." MSNBC's is "The Place for Politics." Academically, it is a wonderfully fascinating juxtaposition.

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 LordofHats wrote:
Do you actually believe this? I'm genuinely curious.


Fox News' slogan is "Fair and Balanced." MSNBC's is "The Place for Politics." Academically, it is a wonderfully fascinating juxtaposition.


Is it? Shows you how much I watch network news, I guess, as I stopped watching MSBNC back when they were still claiming to be journalists at least.

Anyway, is your issue with Fox their commentary programs, or do you believe their actual news reporting is biased?
   
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Seaward wrote:
Is it? Shows you how much I watch network news, I guess, as I stopped watching MSBNC back when they were still claiming to be journalists at least.


You're not missing anything.

Anyway, is your issue with Fox their commentary programs, or do you believe their actual news reporting is biased?


Fox's commentary programs are definitely bad. Their entire television programming is bad. But when I say, go their website, the website is better (though that's a narrow improvement, and I'd say the same for MSNBC honestly). Their online stuff generally includes more information, and makes me roll my eyes less than what I see on television. The bias is still there, but there's a lot less outright stupidity. Literally just went upstairs to get some pizza for dinner, Fox news was on and they were talking about Justin Bieber sitting in a park without shoes on... 24 hour news cycle, all the gak going on in the world, and that's what they're talking about *shutters*

This thread got weird.


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