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Originally Posted by Ustwo
As I've stated time and time again.
The talking heads are not a problem. I know Rush Limbaugh is a conservative, I know Al Franklin (or is it Franken) is a liberal. I know what their spin is.
The problem is when unknown, writes and unknown story, with an unknown bias. After 2000 when the mainstream was really alterted to this kind of thing the excuse by news execs was that well it exsisted but it was unconcious. I think a lot of it isn't intented but if you have a world view you will spin that world view because you think its 'right'. Some of it is most definately intended with someone like CBS's Dan Rather taking the prize.
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Very true. Clicking on host's link to an article at fair.org did not lead to an article anywhere that implied the current administration, or Republicans in general, have ever done anything right, I mean correctly.
With a name like fair.org, the average person would expect impartiality. However, one of the first available sections states that its editor, Jim Naureckas, is the author of "The Way Things Aren't: Rush Limbaugh's Reign of Error." Another sample of his slant: "Former prisoners of Guantánamo have long complained that guards and interrogators mistreated their Qurans."
The article host references was written by Michael Dolney, who was recently an organizer for the Kucinich for President campaign.
In Congress, Kucinich has authored and co-sponsored legislation to create a national health care system, preserve Social Security, lower the costs of prescription drugs, provide economic development through infrastructure improvements, abolish the death penalty, provide universal prekindergarten to all 3, 4, and 5 year olds, create a Department of Peace, regulate genetically engineered foods, repeal the USA PATRIOT Act, and provide tax relief to working class families.
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Presumably, if you oppose indoctrination of three-year-olds, government wealth redistribution, or think the working class should pay taxes, Dolney would consider you a right-wing fanatic. I'm forced to bear this in mind while awaiting the link that ratbastid promised us.