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Fox News firebrand Glenn Beck facing axe

Ah, but you obviously care more about Beck. So, can I conclude that if it is a liberal whack job, then you really don't pay attention, but if that voice comes from the right you're all over it?


j-mac

Actually no. I got pulled into this thread for reasons other than interest, and saw statements I felt I needed to reply to. Whether Beck gets fired or not is entirely FOX's decision, and I won't lose sleep over it either way. Mostly I have just been correcting some misunderstandings of capitalism.
 
LoLz. I love the world you live in Barb. It's so simple. "We are the victims! It's not our fault, it's all liberals!".
Excuse me Redress, but why is that comment in double quotation marks?
 
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CU is the Dred Scot decision of our era. It is interesting that in 1857, the SC ruled that a person is property without rights. A century and a half later, the SC rules that property is a person with rights. We have fallen so far down the rabbit hole that we should be eating chow mein for dinner and it will not be foreign food.
I'd love for you to make a new topic thread of this as I'd like to debate you on the accuracy of it as an analogy. Here though, beyond a mere passing observation, it's way off-topic.
 
I think that you should avoid concluding. You seem to lack this skill.

And I think you should avoid this sort of elitism you show here. It makes you look petty and small.

I don't think the average liberal whackjob's voice is loud enough to matter to me, but we deal with Glenn Beck's slavering zombie followers daily on DP (see this thread). I would care less about Glenn Beck if his followers weren't so annoying.

Ah, so voices of opinion that disagree with yours annoy you....Seek help.

It's basically how I feel about BYU football.

Too bad.

j-mac
 
:clap: Roger Ailes was awesome in that video. He told'em, especially Arianna Huffington :lamo
Thanks, that made my day.;)
I told you Ailes was a sharp cookie. He knows his business and won't let some jerk bamboozle him.
 
I did mention that my original post was slightly off topic but relevant to all the posts on this thread pertaining to boycotts.

I am drafting a post on the CU subject as it relates to boycotts, etc.

Where do y'all think it should go? it's relevant to the Wisconsin question. As it relates to the unions using dues to support political campaigns, and corporations using their stockholders funds to do the same.

But is it Breaking News, Partisan Politics, or what? I go On Topic, Off Message enough as it is,:mrgreen:, so let's put it where it belongs.
 
I did mention that my original post was slightly off topic but relevant to all the posts on this thread pertaining to boycotts.

I am drafting a post on the CU subject as it relates to boycotts, etc.

Where do y'all think it should go? it's relevant to the Wisconsin question. As it relates to the unions using dues to support political campaigns, and corporations using their stockholders funds to do the same.

But is it Breaking News, Partisan Politics, or what? I go On Topic, Off Message enough as it is,:mrgreen:, so let's put it where it belongs.
For me it's more into the courts and constitutional interpretation as the broader issue.
 
If Obama wasn't such an obvious Republican lackey, he could enact more goverment regulations on big business, like in Canada
where Fox News was recently banned from broadcasting!
 
If Obama wasn't such an obvious Republican lackey, he could enact more goverment regulations on big business, like in Canada
where Fox News was recently banned from broadcasting!

Right, love liberals who want to silence any opposing views. What exactly is it in the Democratic Party that creates such loyal followers who would trample all over "Freedom of Speech" in order to promote their agenda?
 
"I" feel that Fox news indulges in far too much propaganda. The sneaky cognitive linquistic type. Lying scientifically. Deliberately deceiving.

I wish no one felt it necessary to use these tools in our national discourse. And I am disgusted by the Dems deciding "If you can't beat them, join them", designing their own propaganda firehose.

The only solution that I find acceptable is to educate the American people about these techniques. That way, their effectiveness will be reduced, and their use should be reduced commensurately.

I am deeply disturbed that so few here will even discuss "persuasion" techniques and their impact on our society.

But everyone I have spoken to that has a degree that includes these techniques in their curriculum were given some form of " the first rule of persuasion is that no one talks about persuasion" admonition. BECAUSE if everyone knew how this science works, it would be harder for them to use these tools for their future employers.

Communication/marketing, law, poly sci, all these disciplines study these tools.
I'm sure there are others.

This science, and the fact that few who are aware of it will even discuss it, is, IMHO the single greatest threat facing this nation.
 
If Obama wasn't such an obvious Republican lackey, he could enact more goverment regulations on big business, like in Canada
where Fox News was recently banned from broadcasting!

Right, love liberals who want to silence any opposing views. What exactly is it in the Democratic Party that creates such loyal followers who would trample all over "Freedom of Speech" in order to promote their agenda?

How is being Govmnt/ NeoCon mouthpieces for the Pentagon and CIA,

free speech exactly?:soap
 
How is being Govmnt/ NeoCon mouthpieces for the Pentagon and CIA,

free speech exactly?:soap

How about offering something of substance instead of letwing opinions?
 
"I" feel that Fox news indulges in far too much propaganda. The sneaky cognitive linquistic type. Lying scientifically. Deliberately deceiving.

I wish no one felt it necessary to use these tools in our national discourse. And I am disgusted by the Dems deciding "If you can't beat them, join them", designing their own propaganda firehose.

The only solution that I find acceptable is to educate the American people about these techniques. That way, their effectiveness will be reduced, and their use should be reduced commensurately.

I am deeply disturbed that so few here will even discuss "persuasion" techniques and their impact on our society.

But everyone I have spoken to that has a degree that includes these techniques in their curriculum were given some form of " the first rule of persuasion is that no one talks about persuasion" admonition. BECAUSE if everyone knew how this science works, it would be harder for them to use these tools for their future employers.

Communication/marketing, law, poly sci, all these disciplines study these tools.
I'm sure there are others.

This science, and the fact that few who are aware of it will even discuss it, is, IMHO the single greatest threat facing this nation.

If Fox News makes liberals act this crazy then I will have to watch more and help increase their already extremely high ratings. I keep hearing that it is a Republican mouthpiece but challenge anyone to provide verifiable evidence that the Hard News Reports on Fox are partisan? Too many continue to buy what they are told yet offer nothing of substance to show they have any credibility.
 
If Obama wasn't such an obvious Republican lackey, he could enact more goverment regulations on big business, like in Canada
where Fox News was recently banned from broadcasting!

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How about offering something of substance instead of letwing opinions?

How about Ollie North, Glenn Beck and Hannity and Zakaria, and the other govmnt mouthpieces promoting endless war,
stop subverting our free press and the peoples democracy!
 
How is being Govmnt/ NeoCon mouthpieces for the Pentagon and CIA,

free speech exactly?:soap

PBS had an entire show dedicated toward the Neoconservative viewpoint for many many years. In the mainstream media, that is quite the rarity.
 
Bit rich coming from you isn't it?

Depends on who I am dealing with, some people wouldn't know what substance is. Hope you aren't in that group but substance is anything factual that can be verified and in context.
 
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How about Ollie North, Glenn Beck and Hannity and Zakaria, and the other govmnt mouthpieces promoting endless war,
stop subverting our free press and the peoples democracy!

How about Obama keeping GITMO Open, spending more money on the military than any of the Bush budgets, expanding the Patriot Act, and seeking internet control? How about Media Matters, MoveOn, Huffington Post, MSNBC as mouthpieces for the leftwing whackos?
 
Depends on who I am dealing with, some people wouldn't know what substance is. Hope you aren't in that group but substance is anything factual that can be verified and in context.

Like the time you said Jon Stewart and Stephen Colberts rally had been co-opted by communists, that wasn't just opinion or anything :coffeepap
 
If Obama wasn't such an obvious Republican lackey, he could enact more goverment regulations on big business, like in Canada
where Fox News was recently banned from broadcasting!
Great! Another liberal genius who doesn't know he's a fascist. "F" Troop back to normal sir! :saaaaalute::roll:
 
Like the time you said Jon Stewart and Stephen Colberts rally had been co-opted by communists, that wasn't just opinion or anything :coffeepap

What? Prove it? You obviously have me confused with someone else.
 
Fox News firebrand Glenn Beck facing axe from controversial TV show after losing a million viewers in a year | Mail Online

Best news I've had all day. Does this mean a million people wised up last year? God, I hope so.

Don't be too foolish. Even should they move his slot, remove his show, and so forth, there is always one vexing question: what to fill the time with?

Guess what, liberals still will not be pleased, and conservatives will have to yet again defend their choice rockstar pundits. People love pundits, they eat them up. Liberals and conservatives are doing it.
 
How about Ollie North, Glenn Beck and Hannity and Zakaria, and the other govmnt mouthpieces promoting endless war,
stop subverting our free press and the peoples democracy!

How about Obama keeping GITMO Open, spending more money on the military than any of the Bush budgets, expanding the Patriot Act, and seeking internet control? How about Media Matters, MoveOn, Huffington Post, MSNBC as mouthpieces for the leftwing whackos?

Right. And HuffPO sucks and censors the wars out. Obama is a Bush clone. MSNBC censors for the govmnt too, I agree. Im glad Olberman got fired, he was tabloid crap.
Jim Lehrer was a career govmnt flunkie, and NPR is funded by big oil, they suck!
 
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