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People who wonder why I seem so angry living in the state that's famous for giving us Joe the Retard and two terms of Bush are retarded.
Drunks Against Mad Mothers
http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/filmnotes/newsreel.html
Looks like it caught on a lot sooner than that.
There is an entire type of poetry that is called trench poetry that was written by soldiers that were dissatisfied and disenfranchised with the war.
Rose tinted glasses are fun!
I remember guys like Joe from high school. They read a book like A Farewell to Arms or All Quiet on the Western Front and come away from it thinking the theme of the book was serving your country(tm). Although I doubt Joe reads books at all.
Now let's not get hasty here.
Goddammit, humanity.
Fuck - has she not heard of, you know...Hillary Clinton?!?!?
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Not to mention the obnoxious persecution complex Republicans tend to have (while, paradoxically, claiming that they represent the desires of 'real Americans' - I suppose this means there's actually more fake Americans than real ones now).
Bugs Bunny needs to start killing Japanese people again
ah the good old days
It's more that the minority immoral elitist Jew Ivy Leaguers have all the power. I mean, look, the DEMONcrats have the house, senate, and executive!!!!!!!11
The usual logic given is that the majority of journalists skew Democratic.
It's a librul conspiracy, I tells ya.
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Yes I know that, it is pretty implicit. My question is their reasoning as to why so many journalists skew Democratic, i.e. is it something in the culture or what?
I mean the obvious reason is that people who spend a lot of time around and reading about the news tend to have a more clear idea of what's actually going on in the world, which tends towards the Democratic Party. But clearly this isn't the accepted logic if you're a Republican who believes in liberal media bias.
Because they're liberally biased.
The really nasty anti-Semitic stuff these days comes not from the average conservative (the way would have, say, fifty or sixty years ago, when Anti-semitism was just as acceptable as racism against blacks or hispanics). Rather, it comes from the creepy libertarian Ron Paul types who will explain, at length, how "international bankers" or some other euphemism are "responsible for all the wars in the world" or some similar bullshit. If you press them enough, most of them will admit that they think many of the people behind these machinations are, indeed, Jews. It's scary, to me at least, how nonsense like that refuses to die even in this day and age.
That's not exactly the "obvious reason". I think the reason has more to do with a common notion of reporters as being noble crusaders trying to save the world, which has a certain glamour which appeals to the same mindset that wishes to save the world via grand social programs.
You know that most economists skew Republican, right? Do you take this to mean that clearly Republicans have the best ideas on the economy?
The military skews Republican. Does this mean that the Republicans have the best ideas on defense and foreign policy?
Maddie: "I am not!"
Riley: "You're a marsupial!"
Maddie: "I am a placental mammal!"
Clever.
Isn't it? It's wonderfully insidious.
Well these assumptions are closely held as truths by many people.
I think the whole liberal media bias came about more as a meme propagated as a good PR tactic by the Pub's, rather than a reality-begets-sterotypes thing.
True, but I think with economics and the military it also has to do with it being a matter of keeping power. If more radical and social economic thought increases in influence then a lot of free-market capitalist economists are going to suffer. If a Democrat gets elected, the amount of influnce the military has is likely to wane. The news, on the other hand, isn't really going anywhere.
Well, I think it's pretty well documented that journalists tend to skew liberal. Doesn't necessarily imply a bias in reporting, only that reporters self-identify a certain way. Similarly, editors tend to skew conservative, station heads probably skew conservative, and so on. Presumably if reporters were just swayed by all that unbridled truthiness, the effect would translate to editors to some extent, as well.
More likely, something about journalism on the ground attracts liberals and something about editing attracts conservatives. Just like education attracts liberals, engineering (in my experience) attracts conservatives, and so on.
Regarding your statement above, I'd wager that a bunch of conservatives noticed that not everything said about them in the news is rosy, they caught wind of the fact that journalists skew liberal, and suddenly they had a perfect "explanation" for why the media isn't always giving them a giant, editorial blowjob.
Maddie: "I am not!"
Riley: "You're a marsupial!"
Maddie: "I am a placental mammal!"
They also tend to be college educated (at least), live in an urban area, and make a pretty good salary though not 'rich' (even though they have no idea what constitutes wealthy if Bob Schieffer is any judge) where voting Republican would be in their own self interest. All of that generally describes a Democrat.
What I don't get is how reporters suddenly have all the power and the largely Republican editorial staff has no influence over what gets covered, cut, or a page 1 spread. Their liberalness knows no bounds.
I believe that happened around the Watergate investigation. Taking down a sitting Republican president by talking about all the illegal shit he did tends to stick in the craw just a bit. It's a miracle the current administration survived the full eight years what with all that unfettered liberal bias oozing out of the news media.
You're muckin' with a G!
The liberal reporters outnumber them. Editors likely fear for their lives, and bow to the chaotic whims of their journalistic underlords.
Maddie: "I am not!"
Riley: "You're a marsupial!"
Maddie: "I am a placental mammal!"
Well, the thing is about reporting is that it's people doing the reporting. Words have straightforward factual meaning and will also often have more subtle but no less impactful secondary or implied meaning. You'll find many articles from respected journalists where the facts are presented partially, or weighted, or omitted entirely in favour of repeating statements from selected members of the public. Even when they *try* their hardest to be completely neutral, there are often assumptions made in the interest of preventing the article from being overly wordy or rambling on about defining things in context.
Bias exists, even when it's muted or explicitly avoided.
They don't give the Republicans sloppy blowjobs, so they're clearly liberal shils.
edit: and this
Beat'd. And I thought I was the only one here that read that comic.
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(Would still like to point out, again, I did not like palin in the least. But still.)
GM: Rusty Chains (DH Ongoing)
Because 9% think it's too high, and shouldn't be cut! 9% of respondents could not fully
get their arms around the question. There should be another box you can check for, "I
have utterly no idea what you're talking about. Please, God, don't ask for my input."
You're not much on reading are you? I think this more of "Man we dodged a bullet because Palin is a retard" thread.
If nothing else, she put Clinton's relatively minor gibbering into perspective. No matter what she or her campaign said or did, we can always fall back on "But she's better than Palin."