smooth I'm glad I have your not so subtle arrogance to tell me what makes someone smart because they like the kind of things you do
You are quite eloquent is really saying nothing at all, congratulations, you would fit in nicely at any liberal dinner party where you can lament the poor state of the average american who only wants entertainment and doesn’t understand the refined things in life.
I find Bill Myer dull, the BBC biased, and Chris Matthews a hack, and in the past have enjoyed Limbaugh who I have found to be very insightful.
Oh no, I must not be intelligent!
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Basically all I was saying was that corporate values allow subordinating truth to profit, whereas liberal values don't.
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Liberal values? What would those be exactly? I’ve never seen liberal values in the parties that claim to represent Liberals, they seem to enjoy playing with the truth, so what are these ‘liberal values’?
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It so happens that conservatives are in charge of huge chunks of corporate media right now, and the definition of conservatism is to retain power whereas the definition of classical liberalism is to deconsolidate power
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Why are you using classic definitions that have no bearing on the current usage? By the classic definitions many of todays conservatives are liberals, and liberals are conservative. It bears no meaning to ‘liberal’ radio as those are not liberals who wish to deconsolidate power. Do you use this to confuse the issue or are you trying to equate todays ‘liberal’ with the classic idea of liberal?
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so perhaps that explains why these people are willing to engage in what I see are vulgar politics. The air america crew thought it best to emulate that, and I suggest that their audience thinks its no good in the same way that we thought the other side's was no good.
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Translated, liberals are not going to listen to liberal ‘shock jocks’ like the stupid conservatives do.
I don’t know if Frank Herbert took this from somewhere else or not, but one line from his works always stood out in my mind because it seems to be true. It seems very fitting for your postings.
"The patterns, ahhh, the patterns. Liberal bigots are the ones who trouble me most. I distrust the extremes. Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocrat. It's true! Liberal governments always develop into aristocracies. The bureaucracies betray the true intent of people who form such governments. Right from the first, the little people who formed the governments which promised to equalize the social burdens found themselves suddenly in the hands of bureaucratic aristocracies. Of course, all bureaucracies follow this pattern. Ahhh, well, if patterns teach me anything it's that patterns are repeated."
Edit: and if I may add the Daily-show isn't really high commedy, its liberal commedy. I think what you really wanted to say was that 'conservatives who like my liberal sources of entertainment and news are smart.'.