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History Lesson from Sarah Palin (pg. 5)
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| Lews |
Depends on your definition of left and right, really. This country is so far to the right it's hilarious. The Democrats are at best centrist, but could definitely be considered to be center-right. But that's the nature of having majoritarian elections.
On the "American" scale of politics, though, I wouldn't list the media in the left or right. The general media fits into the "useless" category.
Occasionally they do some real reporting, but for the most part they just repeat that's been said by someone twitter and then argue amongst themselves. Obviously that's a generality and the media organizations do spread out a bit. Fox News is clearly extreme-right, and MSNBC leans left, but CNN is just completely worthless. |
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| chimera66 |
| you can't compare weiner or anyone else to palin :wtf:. she's a moron who makes up ; i don't hate her because she's a republican i hate her because she is an embarrassment to american politics. republican or not you can't honestly defend her stupidity i mean really come on this has dragged on too long. kevin i have to believe you are better than that... |
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| Adamo |
| cor notes: sarah palin is a dumb bitch, the 17sss will continue to defend her because of jew ties, srussell is still as gay and irrelevent as ever |
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| srussell0018 |
You don't really need a cor notes for a thread that's short and simple enough that anyone who isn't a complete ing moron like you can understand.
Also, so irrelevant that you felt the need to say that :haha:
It's cute, really. |
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
| quote: | Originally posted by WittyHandle
You don't think the media in general is? I see it sometimes, and I'm by no means a republican. |
Absolutely not. I find those allegations beyond absurd (akin to calling a Marxist student newspaper right-wing). Mainstream media is big business, and big business is not left-wing. The media may favour a party or a candidate over others, but that isn’t a left wing bias, it’s a partisan bias. Some publications or outlets may be more left than others, but on the whole business serves the interest of business, not the working class, the poor or the regular folk.
But again, it may depend on where you sit on the spectrum. To someone like kev, the entire world looks left-wing ;) |
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| The17sss |
| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
Absolutely not. I find those allegations beyond absurd (akin to calling a Marxist student newspaper right-wing). Mainstream media is big business, and big business is not left-wing. The media may favour a party or a candidate over others, but that isn’t a left wing bias, it’s a partisan bias. Some publications or outlets may be more left than others, but on the whole business serves the interest of business, not the working class, the poor or the regular folk.
But again, it may depend on where you sit on the spectrum. To someone like kev, the entire world looks left-wing ;) |
Pssh. Please. If you lived here and were inundated on a daily basis by American media it wouldn't be difficult to see. The majority of the media in this country slants left and it's not even close. No tough questions or tough follow-ups for Obama ever... they toss him softball after softball burying their noses in his rectum. I have never seen media carry water for someone like they do for Obama; they have to- they invested their reputations in Hopeandchange. I would argue the opposite of what you guys are saying- anything to the Right like Fox looks extreme because so much of it (media) resides on the Left. NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, the New York Times... you think the heads of those networks and their employees are pulling the Republican lever at the ballot box? LOL!
And big business will most certainly be whatever they need to be to get favors. Obama got a hell of a lot more campaign donations from big business and Wall Street than McCain, or any other politician before him. They know how anti private sector he is and they're scared to death, so they're sucking up until the storm passes. Look at GE reaping the rewards for kissing up to him. One of the world's largest and most profitable companies just banked sick profits and paid no taxes in 2010. |
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| srussell0018 |
| Fox looks extreme because it is extreme. You just think everyone who doesn't see eye to eye to you as being ultra left-wing fanatics. |
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| The17sss |
| quote: | Originally posted by srussell0018
Fox looks extreme because it is extreme. You just think everyone who doesn't see eye to eye to you as being ultra left-wing fanatics. |
No... I just call a spade a spade. Uber radical Marxist George Soros (who makes no bones about his radical views) just gave $1.8 million to NPR to fund 50 new reporter positions. His 30+ organizations/foundations also have ties to funding NBC, the NY Times, the AP, and more. ABC's Christiane Amanpour and the Washington Post editor serve on boards that are funded by Soros' money. ProPublica, funded by Soros, is made up of a "Journalism Advisory Board" which includes CNN's David Gergen, the managing editor of the NY Times, the Senior VP of editing for ABC News, etc. How about Soros' laughably named "Center for Public Integrity" which has again Amanpour on its board along with Arianna Huffington, executive VP of NBC Paula Madison, ABC News president Ben Sherwood... and this is just the tip of the iceberg.
His money and tentacles are everywhere... it's insane. And we never hear about it. And we are to believe this man's billions of dollars of influence to all these media outlets are with no strings? They are not objective. They have an agenda and they follow it. And to keep the cash spigot opened they slant in the direction the puppet master wants. |
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| Lews |
| quote: | Originally posted by The17sss
Pssh. Please. If you lived here and were inundated on a daily basis by American media it wouldn't be difficult to see. The majority of the media in this country slants left and it's not even close. No tough questions or tough follow-ups for Obama ever... they toss him softball after softball burying their noses in his rectum. I have never seen media carry water for someone like they do for Obama; they have to- they invested their reputations in Hopeandchange. I would argue the opposite of what you guys are saying- anything to the Right like Fox looks extreme because so much of it (media) resides on the Left. NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, the New York Times... you think the heads of those networks and their employees are pulling the Republican lever at the ballot box? LOL!
And big business will most certainly be whatever they need to be to get favors. Obama got a hell of a lot more campaign donations from big business and Wall Street than McCain, or any other politician before him. They know how anti private sector he is and they're scared to death, so they're sucking up until the storm passes. Look at GE reaping the rewards for kissing up to him. One of the world's largest and most profitable companies just banked sick profits and paid no taxes in 2010. |
Slanting left in America is slanting right compared to the rest of the world and it's just gotten worse and worse as the years go on. And not asking Obama tough questions isn't because they are controlled by socialists, it's because they're incompetent.
Check out this article, by the way:
http://articles.cnn.com/2011-05-24/...n?_s=PM:OPINION |
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| The17sss |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lews
Slanting left in America is slanting right compared to the rest of the world and it's just gotten worse and worse as the years go on. And not asking Obama tough questions isn't because they are controlled by socialists, it's because they're incompetent.
Check out this article, by the way:
http://articles.cnn.com/2011-05-24/...n?_s=PM:OPINION |
I'm not worried about the rest of the world. I'm worried about our domestic economic policies.
That article is pretty funny... the ending should say Obama is taking all of the RINO's ideas, not the GOP's. He's right though... the current crop of challengers is garbage. I have zero excitement right now for 2012. |
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| Lews |
| quote: | Originally posted by The17sss
I'm not worried about the rest of the world. I'm worried about our domestic economic policies. |
Domestic economic policies are terrible and they can be blamed on people on the right and the left. It's not a simple matter, no matter how much the Tea Party would like to believe that. |
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| The17sss |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lews
Domestic economic policies are terrible and they can be blamed on people on the right and the left. It's not a simple matter, no matter how much the Tea Party would like to believe that. |
... but mostly the Left, considering they are in charge and have been now for a while, and are making said policies. From what I gather, the Tea Party would not support Bush's economic policies today either. |
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