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re: Libs - Who should to pay attention to on your side for reasonable viewpoints?
Posted on 8/13/14 at 6:18 pm to Draconian Sanctions
Posted on 8/13/14 at 6:18 pm to Draconian Sanctions
chris wallace - fox
a cooper - cnn
john tapper - cnn
morning joe - msnbc -> different than the others, but balanced. best morning show imo.
a cooper - cnn
john tapper - cnn
morning joe - msnbc -> different than the others, but balanced. best morning show imo.
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Posted on 8/13/14 at 6:18 pm to ironsides
I don't have to listen to anyone to form my opinion or shape my views. Dittoheads are amusing to me.
Posted on 8/13/14 at 6:28 pm to Kickadawgitfeelsgood
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I don't have to listen to anyone to form my opinion or shape my views.
This.
Posted on 8/13/14 at 6:35 pm to wfeliciana
Whats funny is the guy you responded to either regurgitates talking points, or flames.
Good choice.
Good choice.
Posted on 8/13/14 at 6:55 pm to ironsides
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Megyn Kelly
Shephard Smith
Mike Huckabee
Tucker Carlson
Brit Hume
Greta Van Sustern
Dana Loesch
This is kind of a ridiculous list. Huckabee? Greta is essentially running an Amber Alert Power Hour.
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Chris Matthews
Ed Schultz
Melissa Harris-Perry
Chris Hayes
Al Sharpton
Rachel Maddow
I think it's unfair to include Maddow in this list. She's a Stanford grad, Rhodes Scholar, published academic. She's smarter than anyone on any other cable news channel. I don't think it's fair to dismiss her views.
That said, I shun any and all television political bullshite. Their job isn't to be reasonable, or even to report the news...it's to sell commercials.
Read Vox or Five Thirty Eight . These blogs aren't explicitly "liberal," but as Stephen Colbert said, reality has a well known liberal bias.
Or for kicks, watch John Oliver. Liberal, funny, digestible. Not an a-hole like Maher.
This post was edited on 8/13/14 at 6:58 pm
Posted on 8/13/14 at 6:57 pm to Acadien
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I think it's unfair to include Maddow in this list. She's a Stanford grad, Rhodes Scholar, published academic. She's smarter than anyone on any other cable news channel. I don't think it's fair to dismiss her views.
What's your stance on Harris-Perry, then?
(ETA: MHP's an actual professor.)
This post was edited on 8/13/14 at 7:03 pm
Posted on 8/13/14 at 7:02 pm to 90proofprofessional
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What's your stance on Harris-Perry, then?
I can't say I'm intimately familiar with her TV work. I know some of her published work at Tulane, which is run-of-the-mill contemporary race/gender commentary (not that I fundamentally disagree with her scholarship). I thought the Snowden narrative of her's was bullshite.
I guess my answer is that I think all of television is hopelessly fricked, and intelligent people who care about meaningful discourse should look elsewhere. So re: Harris-Perry...I don't care.
Posted on 8/13/14 at 7:07 pm to CptBengal
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Whats funny is the guy you responded to either regurgitates talking points, or flames.
Good choice.
Can't help what he does (not that I agree with you) but I think any reasonably intelligent person ought not depend on a talking head to tell them what to think.
Posted on 8/13/14 at 7:09 pm to wfeliciana
So do I, and your posts show a rational thought process. His do not.
Posted on 8/13/14 at 7:10 pm to Acadien
I don't disagree with your broader point about TV news media.
I do take issue with the claim that RM's credentials redeem her in the slightest from being nothing more than a smug partisan douche, usually making Hannity-quality arguments, at least in her role as a commentator. She clearly isn't dull by any stretch, but so what?
I didn't see anyone in the OP's list I really lend much credence to, FWIW. (not familiar w Dana Loesch)
I do take issue with the claim that RM's credentials redeem her in the slightest from being nothing more than a smug partisan douche, usually making Hannity-quality arguments, at least in her role as a commentator. She clearly isn't dull by any stretch, but so what?
I didn't see anyone in the OP's list I really lend much credence to, FWIW. (not familiar w Dana Loesch)
This post was edited on 8/13/14 at 7:11 pm
Posted on 8/13/14 at 7:11 pm to Kickadawgitfeelsgood
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I don't have to listen to anyone to form my opinion or shape my views. Dittoheads are amusing to me.
Yeah, nobody should read any opinion pieces or listen to anybody on the radio or TV. That's for morons.
This post was edited on 8/13/14 at 7:12 pm
Posted on 8/13/14 at 7:13 pm to 90proofprofessional
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didn't see anyone in the OP's list I really lend much credence to, FWIW
Nor did I. If I'm going to listen to taking heads spout bullshite, I'll listen to Alex Jones..at least it's entertaining.
I do like Penn and Tellers political commentary, usually pretty straight up.
Posted on 8/13/14 at 7:17 pm to CptBengal
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I do like Penn and Tellers political commentary
Yeah me too, from the little I've seen & heard... but I'm inherently sympathetic to them already as I largely share their views. I don't think they're very likely to win anyone over to their side, given the fat dude's style.
Posted on 8/13/14 at 7:22 pm to 90proofprofessional
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I don't think they're very likely to win anyone over to their side, given the fat dude's style.
I have a soft spot for people that dont beat around the bush, but instead just burn it to the ground.
Posted on 8/13/14 at 7:28 pm to Al Dante
Never mind. I know, my best post ever.
This post was edited on 8/13/14 at 7:29 pm
Posted on 8/13/14 at 7:51 pm to Acadien
quote:GOOD GOD ALMIGHTY, PEOPLE . . . WTF ? !!!!!!!!!
I think it's unfair to include Maddow in this list.
Posted on 8/13/14 at 7:57 pm to ironsides
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A couple of threads have gotten me to thinking - there are awful media personalities out there. I pay attention mostly to conservatives because that's the way I lean. That being said, there are conservative personalities that I just won't listen to because I don't think they are very reasonable / use bullshite to stir up contraversy / distort facts. What I want to know is - on your side, who should we pay attention to?
I don't listen to personalities. I formulate my opinions using primary sources of information, for the most part.
Posted on 8/13/14 at 8:08 pm to Acadien
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I think it's unfair to include Maddow in this list. She's a Stanford grad, Rhodes Scholar, published academic. She's smarter than anyone on any other cable news channel. I don't think it's fair to dismiss her views.
I dont understand this view, Sheila Jackson Lee is well "educated " but she is a complete and total idiot
Posted on 8/13/14 at 9:19 pm to Acadien
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reality has a well known liberal bias
I did not know this
Posted on 8/13/14 at 9:20 pm to Draconian Sanctions
and they wonder why they lose elections.
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