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Post by Bob Forsythe on May 8, 2011 17:55:42 GMT -8
That, "Fascist," term is thrown around rather cavalierly by some people. My father in law grew up in a true fascist country. I think he'd mock the people here who throw that term around when talking about right wing newssites. They're hardly, "Fascists." Well first, it's a rather extreme right-wing website - calling it a "news site" is an insult to all responsible journalists and pundits, left and right. But second, I referred to it as "fascist" more or less to get a rise out of Pooh who constantly links to it. =Bob |
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Post by Bob Forsythe on May 8, 2011 18:06:41 GMT -8
I don't know Newsmax from shinola so I don't know if this applies to them or not. But, generally, the problem with the extremist news sites and blogs (left or right) is that they spin the stories they report on to the point of serious distortion. I don't want the spin -- I want to read the original article, before someone has twisted it to fit a particular ideology. Some of the extremists on this board post the spin as if it were fact, rather than as someone's highly politicized opinion of what the facts mean or (in their opinions) should mean. I don't know if Newsmax is fascist or not. But I do know that anybody who doesn't post the link to the original material that they are reporting on, when it is available, is highly suspect. It's a huge red flag that says, "I'd prefer to spoon feed you my ideologically tainted version of the facts, and interpret them for you, than let you reach your own conclusions -- conclusions that might not agree with my ideology". For gawd's sake, never read any report that has been filtered through someone else's ideology if there is any way to read the original report instead. And if there isn't a link to the source when it exists, then chances are, you're being fed more ideology than fact and it should be avoided, lest the writer's ideology pollute yours. Your ideology should be your own -- a product of your own critical thinking. It should not be a product of someone else thinking ideologically, for you. Yoda out... That is exactly why I like Drudge and Breitbart. Drudge is mostly just links to original content while Breitbart posts mostly videos. I like to use Newsmax or those kind of links just to spin up lefties. You see, a place like this with faceless people posting nonsense is more about having fun than trying to shape opinion or changing someone's mind. Except that Breitbart lies through the use of edited videos. Do you really think Bill Buckley or even Krauthammer or Krystal would engage in that nonsense? This a lot of the problem with the right-wing these days - they engage in southern style politics. And by that I don't mean racist, I just mean that politics in the south have a rather colorful history of being really, really nasty. Faulkner wrote some really funny stuff about that. =Bob |
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