Liberals Shun Opposing Views Because They're Used to Controlling the Media

[Phokus]

Says the idiot who...oh, you got rid of the link in your sig proving that conservatives are racist by showing businesses in an overwhelmingly blue state being racist.

Nevermind then.

Only because the mods said i had to cut down on my sig by a lot due to the new sig rules.

That link still holds true and you're an idiot to not see how capitalists being racist might be a good explanation as to why they support free markets so much.

 

[Phokus]

You might want to reread that thread...or better yet, get someone with an IQ over 100 to read it to you and help you understand what was being said. If you weren't such an arrogant son of a bitch I'd just ignore you. But we'd both be betraying our nature and we couldn't have that now could we? I know this will be difficult for you...so read this very slowly in order to fully grasp what's being said....you're brain dead and are too fucking stupid to realize it.

Mad? Yeah you mad.

Sorry i made you look stupid in that thread though (just like most threads you post in).

Funny how posting one bible verse made you lose your cool.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Conservatives are open to hearing other viewpoints? Then why did Fox News spend so much time assuring their viewers that Mitt Romney was winning while every other network had called the race for Obama (in reflection of reality, mind you)? That sort of logical disconnect is the problem with an opinion like this. She has an experience to support her belief, but other people can point to experiences that don't mesh with what she's saying, and ultimately, nothing is resolved. The fact is that there are a wide variety of personalities on both sides of the coin; there are conservatives who are willing to consider opposing viewpoints and conservatives who will immediately discount anything that challenges their beliefs. Same with liberals. To paint an entire political philosophy as broadly as she has is just ludicrous. As a general rule, any time someone drops a gem like "every conservative/liberal does this," that opinion is immediately worth discounting as overly broad, impossible to prove, and offering nothing but partisan bickering to the conversation.

 

[nehalem256]

I thought they shunned opposing views, because they know that any view opposing their's is racist, sexist, and/or homophobic?

 

[monovillage]

Conservatives are open to hearing other viewpoints? Then why did Fox News spend so much time assuring their viewers that Mitt Romney was winning while every other network had called the race for Obama (in reflection of reality, mind you)? That sort of logical disconnect is the problem with an opinion like this. She has an experience to support her belief, but other people can point to experiences that don't mesh with what she's saying, and ultimately, nothing is resolved. The fact is that there are a wide variety of personalities on both sides of the coin; there are conservatives who are willing to consider opposing viewpoints and conservatives who will immediately discount anything that challenges their beliefs. Same with liberals. To paint an entire political philosophy as broadly as she has is just ludicrous. As a general rule, any time someone drops a gem like "every conservative/liberal does this," that opinion is immediately worth discounting as overly broad, impossible to prove, and offering nothing but partisan bickering to the conversation.

The difference is that most conservatives are willing and open to admitting the bias in Fox News, but most liberals will lie through their teeth rather than admit bias in other media outlets.

 

[Incorruptible]

I think that Phokus and incorruptible are just the 2 sides of a parody poster coin.

I agree that phokus is a parody poster but I am not, I get really passionate when I debate and whenever I see someone violating freedom(supporting income tax) then I have to smack them down

Says the idiot who...oh, you got rid of the link in your sig proving that conservatives are racist by showing businesses in an overwhelmingly blue state being racist.

Nevermind then.

Its a good thing he got rid of that POS, It makes no sense, The idea people want Capitalism just so they can discriminate against minorities is insane but its not surprising that it came from phokus

 

[Atreus21]

Only because the mods said i had to cut down on my sig by a lot due to the new sig rules.

That link still holds true and you're an idiot to not see how capitalists being racist might be a good explanation as to why they support free markets so much.

Oh, and yet your sig labeled it as conservatives being racists? We all know liberals wouldn't be caught dead owning any businesses. That's pretty sad.

 

[Gonad the Barbarian]

Probably here somewhere, I don't have time, but have at it ...

http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/Pages/index.aspx

Well surely that's not it.

 

[fskimospy]

Kirsten Powers: Liberals Shun Opposing Views Because They're Used to Controlling the Media

A ray of hope on a cold, cold day. Kirsten Powers is starting to see the light. We'll convert them painstakingly one by one if need be. Click link for full transcript.

KIRSTEN


POWERS, DAILY BEAST: You know, I have to say this actually jibes with sort of real life experience that I have found, especially as I came into more contact with conservatives as I got older because I used to really live very much in a Democratic bubble when I worked in politics. I did find that they were much more open to sort of hearing other viewpoints, where I think liberals because they are so used to controlling all the media pretty much, academia, that for them when they hear things that don't jibe with what they want to hear, it's very disconcerting and unsettling to them. And it doesn't surprise me that they’re really less interested, whereas conservatives are kind of used to it. They’ve lived in a world where pretty much, you know, the whole media has been sort of liberal.

O’REILLY: So they’re used to the joust more than the liberals are?

POWERS: Yeah, I think they don’t, they just have a sort of, they just sort of expect it, where the liberals are sort of taken aback because they feel like, “What are you talking about? Everybody knows that what I think is right and nobody thinks differently.”
Growing up in a liberal part of the country and in a perilously left-leaning household, this very much rings true to me.

It seems that so much of what liberals see and read in the media today totally supports their view of the world thereby making it inconceivable to them that they could possibly be wrong.

Just this week I got into an email argument with a childhood friend of mine - someone I've known since kindergarten - who claimed emphatically that Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush each created more federal debt than Obama.

When I pointed out the actual statistics supplying a link to the Treasury's website for confirmation, he refused to believe what he was seeing and changed the subject.

What's become clear of late is the liberal media's propaganda machine is so strong it's impossible for some in our nation to accept the truth.

Even worse, when they're confronted with facts, they strike out demanding the conversation end immediately threatening to dissolve the relationship if it doesn't.

Scary stuff when you think about it.


Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-s...views-because-theyre-used-contr#ixzz2Itczwf9Y

The liberal media is a right wing persecution myth.

End of story.

 

[etrigan420]

The liberal media is a right wing persecution myth.

End of story.

I got 10 to 1 that the Conservatives on this board will shun your "opposing view".

 

[shadow9d9]

The difference is that most conservatives are willing and open to admitting the bias in Fox News, but most liberals will lie through their teeth rather than admit bias in other media outlets.

Except, they don't... fox news are the most uninformed of the news networks.

And "liberals" don't have a presence in US politics. You mean the moderate/right democrats... so who would admit moderate/right media bias? That is ridiculous.

 

[OrByte]

The difference is that most conservatives are willing and open to admitting the bias in Fox News, but most liberals will lie through their teeth rather than admit bias in other media outlets.

No that is wrong.

Everyone admits Fox and MSNBC are biased.

But anything beyond that there is no consensus on what is biased and what isn't..it is all just party and team mentality...

 

[DominionSeraph]

The entire point of always saying conservatives are stupid is to marginalize them before even hearing what they have to say.

Yup, you certainly have to ignore what a conservative says to believe he's stupid...

Yup, there is no place of advancement beyond that of the conservative. It is an impossibility that there could be a place that one more liberal than he can stand and properly view his beliefs as lacking...

 

[monovillage]

I got 10 to 1 that the Conservatives on this board will shun your "opposing view".

What if I could come up with a scientific peer reviewed study that can prove there is media bias, even if it only has a small impact ? Would that change your mind?

 

[Incorruptible]

The liberal media is a right wing persecution myth.

End of story.

The media is biased

End of story

 

[*kjm]

What if I could come up with a scientific peer reviewed study that can prove there is media bias, even if it only has a small impact ? Would that change your mind?

Small impact? I don't think so; it’s the media and what they are teaching our kids in school.... sick as heck but the left have the upper hand.

I have seen it at a college level and now with my neighbors children at a grade school level... the "Fox lies Fox lies" BS is getting old!

Can’t wait… if Walker gets his school choice program through is WI I can send my kids to private schools and end this BS!

 

[etrigan420]

What if I could come up with a scientific peer reviewed study that can prove there is media bias, even if it only has a small impact ? Would that change your mind?

Change my mind on what?

 

[mect]

The OP is somehow news? I've found that pretty much everyone that has already defined their political box doesn't really pay attention to what the other side has to say, whether conservative, liberal, or independent. If someone feels they already know the answer, they're not interested in learning, just interested in being "right". Because of this, they tend to surround themselves with like minded thinkers, or at least they don't typically discuss these types of topics on a regular basis. I never discuss politics with my parents because if anything paints a democrat in any kind of a positive light, they discard it immediately as a lie. If something portrays a democrat negatively, they instantly believe it without any thought about credibility. I have a sister with MS that has had huge issues with insurance, and my parents were still opposed to the part of the health care plan that prevents insurance companies from denying coverage for per-existing conditions. For them, it is impossible for any good to come from a democrat. That's how some people are. There are many on these forums that think there is no such thing as something good coming from a democrat. There are others that think the same about republicans. It is hard for people to get past the party label and to start evaluating ideas purely on their merit, rather than the letter next to the name of the person who proposed it. People have a natural tendency to believe something that supports their current opinion while being extremely skeptical of anything that opposes it.

 

[DominionSeraph]

 

[DominionSeraph]

 

[HomerJS]

The media is biased

End of story

Chris Mathews didn't force crazy Republicans to put through forced vaginal probes in Va thereby pissing off women enough to effect the gender gap.

Rachel Maddow didn't force the GOP to hate gay people enough to not allow them to serve in the military

 

[*kjm]

Rachel Maddow didn't force the GOP to hate gay people enough to not allow them to serve in the military

Give me a dam brake..... just like women wanting combat roles.... till they have to register with the selective service just like the men.

Edit: Parents of females are/would freak out! How our we as a nation going to accept the coffins coming back?

 

[Charles Kozierok]

This is for DominionSeraph. I read it years ago on Usenet.

 

[DominionSeraph]

Give me a dam brake.....

How our we as a nation

Yup, no way to tell that conservatives are idiots...

 

[DominionSeraph]

This is for DominionSeraph. I read it years ago on Usenet.

http://www.theinvisiblepinkunicorn.com/stsasha.htm