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Death to the Incumbent!! Your guide to the 2010 primaries

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Kepler said:
Depends what TV and online you mean.

When I talk MSM TV I am thinking the 3 dinosaur networks, and although people from Freep and Kos go through the roof when I say it, I don't think any of them are editorially biased. OTOH, Fox News and MSNBC are so bad they might be parodies.

Newspapers, insofar as they're even relevant any more, have more obvious editorial bias. CSM and McPaper are unbiased. NYT, WaPo and WSJ are biased but will at least acknowledge contrary evidence. The rest are either inward-looking local papers with little or no real national reporting, or clown outfits like the Washington Times.

Talk radio is right wing crazytown. The NPR network is probably trying to be neutral but they can't help themselves since everybody has a doctorate in New Age Healing from UCSB. And then there is a scant lefty network that, like Fox or MSNBC, just recycles the waste back into their audience, without even the pretense of legitimacy.

The web is so broad I don't think anybody can claim dominance or even preponderance. I heard a ghastly story a few days ago that there are now web search engines with particular ideological filters -- Islamic, Fundamentalist Christian, etc. Think Conservapedia but even sadder. Talk about people feeling they are entitled to their own facts.

We will someday reach that Great Moment when everyone has fastened their blinders on securely, and nobody is ever bothered by any thought outside their comfort zone ever again.
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You must have rejoiced when WTNT 570 AM went from all talk (Ingraham, Doyle, Savage, et al) to all sports on Monday.
 
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the MSM isn't heavily biased? Dan Rather? Charlie Gibson? Diane Sawyer?
the gals on The View? maybe its changed now but in the 90's and early 00's conservatives, actually even moderates, were few and far between at ABC.
 
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Rover said:
I do get a kick out of the right wing bias in the media. If one poll shows a close race for the Dems, its "REPUBLICANS ON CUSP OF SENATE TAKEOVER!!!!"....but, when the last 5 polls have Murray up outside of MOE on Rossi, or Boxer up on Fiorina, you need a telescope to find the coverage. :D Not to mention the Gallup poll showing Dems up 1% in the generic ballot.

Left wing media my arse. :p
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I take your point on the Senate races, but if it takes a miniscule lead in the Gallup- a poll that usually favors Democrats- in a survey of registered, not likely, voters- another metric that usually favors Democrats, to get you all excited,well then, more power to you:D
 
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joecct said:
You must have rejoiced when WTNT 570 AM went from all talk (Ingraham, Doyle, Savage, et al) to all sports on Monday.
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I switched over to XM 3 years ago and now over-the-air radio is as unlistenable as network TV is unwatchable. God bless Radio Classics and 1st Wave.
 
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Well THIS ought to give everyone the warm and fuzzies about a GOP Congress.

http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatc...-solutions-on-medicare-social-security-reform

Looks like The Boner admits to having no solutions for Medicare and Social Security spending, except for (and I quote) "having an adult conversation with the American people". Unless he means he's going to support taxes on people talking dirty to each other (which ought to bring in some money when GOP senators try to pick up men in airport bathrooms) my guess is he has no clue and will dedicate this time in office to passing tax breaks for big GOP campaign contributors while borrowing money to do so.
 
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Aw, he's the Boner. It's not his job to have ideas.


Seriously though, there's enough intellectual firepower in the GOP to come up with some good things, if the people running the place are smart enough to let them do so that is.

Edit: I enjoyed this from the White House
notable for what it doesn’t talk about: protecting Social Security and Medicare from privatization schemes
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Gasp!
 
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Kepler said:
The NPR network is probably trying to be neutral but they can't help themselves since everybody has a doctorate in New Age Healing from UCSB.
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:D You must spread...
 
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Rover said:
Well THIS ought to give everyone the warm and fuzzies about a GOP Congress.

http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatc...-solutions-on-medicare-social-security-reform

Looks like The Boner admits to having no solutions for Medicare and Social Security spending, except for (and I quote) "having an adult conversation with the American people". Unless he means he's going to support taxes on people talking dirty to each other (which ought to bring in some money when GOP senators try to pick up men in airport bathrooms) my guess is he has no clue and will dedicate this time in office to passing tax breaks for big GOP campaign contributors while borrowing money to do so.
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Remember, folks, a bad solution is better than no solution. You'll thank us later.
 
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Kepler said:
More disrespect for the will of the people could be in the works.
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That is a preposterous statement - if Castle or Murkowski get more votes in the general election, how on earth could their election be interpreted to be "against the will of the people?"
 
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LynahFan said:
That is a preposterous statement - if Castle or Murkowski get more votes in the general election, how on earth could their election be interpreted to be "against the will of the people?"
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Because if they are like his coworkers in northern Virginia they are nothing but a bunch of rubes. Hence, should them or anyone disagree with his worldview, which is clearly the way everyone needs to think, it must be against the will of the people.

[Insert latin phrase here]
 
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LynahFan said:
That is a preposterous statement - if Castle or Murkowski get more votes in the general election, how on earth could their election be interpreted to be "against the will of the people?"
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Um. Sarcasm? Did it really need a smiley? :confused:
 
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Hammer said:
Brazilians elect illiterate clown to Congress
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Tiririca caught the attention of disillusioned voters by asking for their support with the humorous slogan: "It can't get any worse" and a promise to do nothing more in Congress than report back to them on how politicians spend their time.
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I would sprint to the polls to vote for someone who ran on that platform here.
 
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Tiririca caught the attention of disillusioned voters by asking for their support with the humorous slogan: "It can't get any worse" and a promise to do nothing more in Congress than report back to them on how politicians spend their time.
I would sprint to the polls to vote for someone who ran on that platform here.
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You don't want to know. :p
 
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