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Originally Posted by OpieCunningham
Why? Because you are making a claim that differs from the accepted. By default, media in a vacuum is non-biased. If you offer nothing in support of your opinion that media outside a vacuum is liberal, there is no truth in your claim. If you intend to demonstrate that your opinion has value, you must support it with facts and reason. If you do not intend to demonstrate that your opinion has value, you have no reason to state your opinion other than the purpose of propogation of a valueless opinion. Further, your opinion which you either refuse to substantiate or are unable to substantiate is clearly affecting your judgement, and in so far as that affects the politics of the country I live in, you affect my life.
I'm none too pleased to know that you are propogating an unsubstantiated opinion, which if it is as I suspect, baseless, leads to the manipulation of political discourse in this country by virtue of shifting the conceptualized "center".
In essence: put up or shut up.
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It differs from your "accepted". I have yet to see you or anyone else prove that the media is balanced in terms of left and right so your claims of "put up or shut up" are without merit. There are plenty of threads in Politics which discuss this point and the case has NEVER been made that the media is completely without bias.
Your insinuation that "If you offer nothing in support of your opinion that media outside a vacuum is liberal, there is no truth in your claim." is additionally without merit. I can make the claim that the sky is blue with no evidence to back it up and that does not mean that it's false.
You make judgement calls on a daily basis "Bush lied" etc with NO EVIDENCE but you seem to find no reason to think "there is no truth in your claim".
I am so sorry that you are "none too pleased" with my propagations. It's ironic that you offer little to no evidence of your continual Bush bashing but my assertions need to somehow meet a higher standard than those you set for yourself.