CNN shows it's liberal bias

[JD50]

Originally posted by: Atheus
To the rest of the world all American media is right wing.

So what? This is an American forum, our discussions are in that context.

 

[Fear No Evil]

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: Fear No Evil
Gee, I have no idea why conservatives may feel the way they do right now. It couldn't be because of all the names and lies that the left throws out about them like you just did?

Actually in your case they're not lies.

Could you PLEASE stop PM'ing me saying that you actually agree with me but you have to keep up your bad-ass image?

 

[Tab3076]

Originally posted by: BMW540I6speed
Blowhards Beck, Hannity, O'Reilly (not to mention Congresswoman Bachman) are trying like hell to whip up a frenzy of hate by using the legitimate anger of the lower classes against their own interests. Rather than point towards the moneyed interests (which make up the ruling class) as the true source of their collective misery, the demagogues are attempting to channel that rage toward the "other": immigrants, intellectuals, gays, Atheists etc.

Ever read What's the Matter with Kansas?

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: Fear No Evil

Originally posted by: BMW540I6speed
Todays Conservatives love to Be and feel Persecuted...Their self pity seems to be a character trait..

I noticed some time ago that there is something in the psyche of todays political conservatives that loves to cast themselves as a persecuted minority. The only thing that I'd add is that it's not something that's exclusive to them. I've also noticed that religious conservatives love to cast themselves as being a persecuted minority. And, they both cast themselves as a persecuted minority even when they are in the majority. It's something that perhaps a psychologist can understand.

Jonah Goldberg continuously insisted that conservative magazines are so very, very important to the political landscape - indispensably so -- because conservative voices are frozen out of mainstream media venues by The Liberal Media, so that poor, lonely, stigmatized conservatives can only get right-wing opinion in places like Weekly Standard and National Review. In between Jonah's petulant laments about how conservative opinion cannot be heard in The Mainstream Media, Bill Kristol talked about his New York Times column and his Washington Post column, John Podhoretz told stories about his tenure editing The New York Post Editorial Page and Charles Krauthammer's years of writing a column for Time and The New Republic, and Jonah referenced his Los Angeles Times column...Nearly unimprovable, as parody. The perfect April fools joke.

In the broader view, one has to see that self pity and its concomitant emotion - resentment - must be a key psychological element of authoritarians and their followers. Never doubt the mass movements that can be grown and sustained through appeals to self-pity.

Blowhards Beck, Hannity, O'Reilly (not to mention Congresswoman Bachman) are trying like hell to whip up a frenzy of hate by using the legitimate anger of the lower classes against their own interests. Rather than point towards the moneyed interests (which make up the ruling class) as the true source of their collective misery, the demagogues are attempting to channel that rage toward the "other": immigrants, intellectuals, gays, Atheists etc.

Periods of severe economic downturn can be ripe opportunities for fascism to take root, and today is no exception.

"Believe in something. Even if it's wrong." - Glenn Beck

I guess after your post I understand why conservatives feel this way. In your post alone they are referred to as:

"poor, lonely, stigmatized.."
"Blowhards"
"demagogues"

And people such as above are:

"Trying like help to whip up a frenzy of hate"
"channel that rage"

And of course all this is directed at:

"Gays, immigrants, atheists, and intellectuals" I assume by intellectual you mean someone who things like you do.

Gee, I have no idea why conservatives may feel the way they do right now. It couldn't be because of all the names and lies that the left throws out about them like you just did? Or, should I say the HATE you throw out at them? The tea parties were awefully peaceful for these people so full of hatred and rage toward gays, immigrants, atheists, and intellectuals"..

The night is black, without a moon.
The air is thick and still.
The vigilantes gather on
The lonely torchlit hill.

Features distorted in the flickering light,
Faces are twisted and grotesque.
Silent and stern in the sweltering night,
The mob moves like demons possesed.
Quiet in conscience, calm in their right,
Confident their ways are best.

The righteous rise
With burning eyes
Of hatred and ill-will.
Madmen fed on fear and lies
To beat and burn and kill.

They say there are strangers who threaten us,
Our immigrants and infidels.
They say there is strangeness too dangerous
In our theatres and bookstore shelves,
That those who know what's best for us
Must rise and save us from ourselves.

Quick to judge,
Quick to anger,
Slow to understand
Ignorance and prejudice
And fear walk hand in hand.