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Originally Posted by ratbastid
Amazing. Flip "left" to "right" and I'd say precisely the same thing.
You don't actually think Fox News is anything more than a mouthpiece for the Republican party, do you? Surely you don't actually buy that it's "fair and balanced"? Do you REALLY think its agenda is in line with middle America?
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I also think that part of the issue is the ridiculous notion that the terms political center or middle America are anything other than relativist mumbo-jumbo. After all, is the center the median or the mode of the spectrum of political opinions, and is the range made up of modern American views, or historical ones or contemporary international ones or those of english speaking peoples or what academics can conceive of? Even if you tried to make these definitions, you've got the problem statisticians face all the time: weighting the results so they reflect objective reality and not your expectations. When people start saying "center" and "moderates" I don't know what they're talking about.