On Sep 10, 11:53 am, snipped-for-privacy@ieee.org wrote: [....]
> 3. There is a huge double standard that exists. The left can virtually say
> > and do anything it wants and get away with it but the right cannot.
>
> Jon Slaughter never noticed Karl Rove's crews of trained liars? I'm
> not surprised - Jon Slaughter isn't strong on reasoning or logic.
You need to be able to compare a trained liars words against the facts to detect the lie. It isn't a logic problem. It is a lack of information problem. If all you listen to is the same, you won't detect the lies.
[...] > if it is a good or bad thing but if it's good(which might be proven if
> > McCain is elected) then it could set a new trend empowering women which
> > might benefit mankind.
>
> Margaret Thatcher and Golda Mier were there first - and neither of
> them were populist air-heads. Jon Slaughter doesn't know much and
> understands less.
He is trying to rationalize his vote for McCain / Palin.
[...] > 5. The media is almost entirely liberal and completely biased but are not
> > held accountable(this no doubt stems from the double standard). When I
> > watch cnn and msnbc there is almost always no conservative voice
> > represented. On several show shows it consists of all liberal commentators
> > bashing the right(and almost always unfairly).
>
> A well-known and persistent right-wing claim, which looks odd to the
> rest of the world. Jon Slaughter's problem (which he shares with other
> rabid right-wing creeps like Jim Thompson) is that he sees people who
> share his lunatic beliefs as representing the un-biased norm, and
> since the sane population all lies to the left of them, the media
> (which looks pretty right-wing to European eyes) looks left wing to
> him.
The claim is widely believed in the US. American media is all operated my large corporations and yet people don't seem to notice the lack of independent news.
> > Also there is a subtle/subliminal wording used by the liberal media that
> > almost always portrays Obama as good and McCain/Palin as bad. (one could say
> > the same about the right wing media but it is much less disproportionate and
> > at least fox news tries to be balanced and not outright biased).
>
> Palin isn't "bad" - she's just inadequate.
>
> --
> Bill Sloman, Nijmegen