[Oe List ...] the question of belittling.

[LAURELCG at aol.com]

Susan, I'm glad to know that you sometimes turn off Fox News in disgust.  
Wish I had the source of the study, but my own biased news source (Rachel  
Maddow) recently reported on a study that said 96% of Republicans get all  
their news exclusively from Fox. I watch Fox occasionally on the  tredmill at 
the gym for as long as I can take it -- about 30 seconds. And  see quite a 
few clips used as satire by Jon Stewart and Steven  Colbert.
 
Left and Right isolation has been almost complete in the health care  
confrontations during August.
 
I think that journalism has deteriorated tremendously.
 
The two preceding statements are brainstorm items of issues  toward  our 
contradiction statement.
 
Jann  
 
In a message dated 9/3/2009 8:38:32 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
susan at gmdtech.com writes:

And I suppose no one on this list has belittled me?   All those rash 
comments about what conservatives do and don't believe or  support when no one who 
isn't a conservative has a clue about what we believe  or don't believe 
(and I suspect it is hard to find two conservatives in  lock step with each 
other in the first place) and when no one has offered  any proof of what we do 
and don't support?
 
I said nothing, repeat,  nothing, about Acorn and the last election. I  
repeated what has been reported on the news channels that the current  
Administration has now either given grants or contracts to Acorn to go to the  Town 
Meetings around the country to support the health care plan of the Obama  
Administration.  I'm sure if you googled Acorn and Town Meetings you  could 
pull up some news reports on this that have aired recently.  That  is why, 
when you hadn't heard the reports, apparently, and yet were quick to  dismiss 
what I had heard, characterizing it as yet  another right wing conspiracy to 
discredit Acorn and the Administration -- at  least that's what it sounded 
like you were saying,  Perhaps I  misunderstood you. Because you were 
unwilling to believe a news report  aired on a major news channel (yup, you guessed 
it, Fox News), I suggested you  were hearing and seeing only what you 
wanted to hear and see, i.e., burying  your head in the sand.  That was a 
sarcastic remark, but rather mild  compared to some of the comments leveled at the 
beliefs I  espouse.
 
I'm guessing that everyone on this list serv would rather  die than be 
caught dead listening to Fox News, but if you haven't ever watched  that channel 
or heard what is being said there, how can you criticize  it?  Sometimes I 
have to turn off Fox News in disgust because I can't  take any more of the 
far lefties regularly on their  programs.
 
I may disagree with most of the opinions and  arguments I hear from 
liberals, but I do try to stay in touch with what  they are saying and weigh the 
possibility of their being right.  I don't  often see that happening on the 
other side, but perhaps I've run into the  wrong ones.  I will say that I have 
been heartened by this dialogue --  some were closed minded, but I heard 
others sifting through and  considering things they didn't initially agree 
with.  It's the  "considering" part that I think is important.
 
Susan



 
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