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Originally Posted by alansmithee
The only problem I have is that the amoral left also uses the same polarizing tactics. And it seems that this is often ignored in their attacks on the religious right. They fail to see how their language is just as polarizing. It doesn't make it polarizing speech just because you don't agree with it.
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I don't regard any of the posts made on TFP Politics as particularly "polarizing" or
as "attacks", if they are accompanied by references to supporting sources; news
reports, research from secular academic and scientific sources, and opinion polls from established polling organizations. The NY Times, the AP news pool, Chicago Tribune, LA Tribune, are sources that I prefer to quote. Historically, along with the three major broadcasters, these have been the sources of record in the U.S.
Feel free to counter my posts that are supported by these sources. You can accuse me of being extremely critical of Bush and Republican politics and it's
leaders and orchestrators, and of the political communications and other activities of the Christian right, but I try hard to post accurate reports from reliable sources every time.
If you start your post or thread by including sources such as Fox News, the Washington Times, Agape Press, or townhall.com, IMO, you run the risk of
seeming less credible than you need to be. I try to restrain myself from simply shooting your "messenger", because it is easy to refute the information in the source you point to, because it is much more often one sided and inaccurate than the sources that I try to use. When anyone attempts to discredit my points by bashing the reporting of the Times or of one of the "Tribs", in general, instead of mounting an argument on the merits of what they report,
you communicate to me and to other readers, that you are not interested in a discussion that includes the accuracy or the reliability of what is reported.
Now.....as far as LeHaye and "Mind Siege"......not to worry, IMO. The book is
in print over two years, now. It is the 429,000 most popular sale at Amazon,
and LeHaye's newest book is #249 in popularity.
Here is a link to the top 20 current bestsellers:
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/new-for-you/top-sellers/-/books/all/ref=pd_dp_ts_b/">http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/new-for-you/top-sellers/-/books/all/ref=pd_dp_ts_b/</a>
I am concerned about the popularity of the #10 book, Mark Levine's rant against the Supreme Court, but not so much after the damage that the
right inflicted on itself in the recent "Weekend Coup". "States Rights" and the
"Sanctity of Marriage" are empty slogans after Bush's rush back to D.C. to sign that bill in oorder to "err on the side of life". "Mind Siege" already did it's damage......Bush was voted his "mandate" and is spending his political capital with all the competence and the intuitiveness that he showed the world during his presidential debate performances last fall. LeHaye's readers were
impressed enough by Bush to vote "four more" of his mediocrity.