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Old 06-03-2008, 10:37 PM
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Pretty much anyone who watches Fox News and gets tricked into thinking their "fair and balanced" coverage is really giving them the true, unbiased story.
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Pretty much anyone who watches Fox News and gets tricked into thinking their "fair and balanced" coverage is really giving them the true, unbiased story.
Oh please. All of the other news stations are obviously run by Communists... Besides, you can't truly claim that Fox are the only ones that do it. There isn't such a thing as the independent media these days.
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Oh please. All of the other news stations are obviously run by Communists... Besides, you can't truly claim that Fox are the only ones that do it. There isn't such a thing as the independent media these days.
I can't claim that only Fox does it, but I can claim that they are the most well-known for doing it, and perhaps the most biased of them all. CNN leans a little left, but there is still some reliable information to be seen. The major news networks are mostly a joke, although MSNBC is not terrible. The point is, Fox News certainly spews the most BS out, and does so quite loudly thanks to Bill-O.
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Don't watch Fox then. I certainly don't watch CNN. Someone has to get the conservative voice out there, Fox News just happens to do it the most ardently. Like I said, there is no such thing as an independent media anymore. Even HBO has that idiot Bill Maher with his own show.
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Oh please. All of the other news stations are obviously run by Communists...
Just so you know, the Cold War ended many years ago.
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People that follow leaders blindly are.

I also think one note voters are. i.e. I will vote for so and so because of the pro life stance.

I will vote for this one because they support the NRA.
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So who exactly is more likely to be provincial and ignorant of other ways of thinking? The question is rhetorical. That is why the late distinguished University of Chicago professor Allan Bloom wrote his best-selling "The Closing of the American Mind," not about religious or conservative America but about secular liberal America as embodied in its temple, the university.

I do hear what you're saying, Tom, and agree to a certain extent. Yet secular universities at least encourge exploration of and debate along a range of points of view, regardless of the subject and including religions, so are inherently less insular. That's a bias I can live with.

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Excellent OP,Tom. Now prepare for the secular left thrashing that "those who cannot be questioned" will try to administer here.
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