IMUS IMUS IMUS.........................

I don't listen to Bortz or Coulter, but I know of them and don't listen to them.

Used it elsewhere but it applies here as well...


Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.


Friedrich Nietzsche

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Originally Posted by ezed

I don't listen to Bortz or Coulter, but I know of them and don't listen to them.

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Good, you're not missing anything. Again, what I would like to see is having the crap that a Coulter or Boortz dispend daily be put under the same microscope that Imus has been put under these last few days. That once their crap is exposed and scrutinized for everyone to see, that the marketplace determine what stays and what goes. I have faith in the intelligence of the masses that they wouldn't accept the crap of a Boortz or Coulter. ...I'm not for government censorship, but I am for the balance that scrutiny brings out.

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Originally Posted by Realgirls4me

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Originally Posted by Kramer

So why did CBS and MSNBC panic?????

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Maybe because their reputations are on the line?


If the threats by Jackson or Sharpton were hollow and weren't going to accomplish a thing, why are you panicking? What have you got against a minority making inroads through the media?

Enlighten me.

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CBS still has a shred of reputation left?? Thats news to me (pun intended)

Otto,

Well, it has far more than, say, Fox News. Look how they just did Obama for example:

http://www.crooksandliars.com/


They did what they've done many times -- took a partial quote to smear someone and also fit their agenda.

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http://www.newshounds.us and http://www.oreilly-sucks.com/ check those ones out as well.

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Originally Posted by Realgirls4me

Otto,

Well, it has far more than, say, Fox News. Look how they just did Obama for example:

http://www.crooksandliars.com/


They did what they've done many times -- took a partial quote to smear someone and also fit their agenda.

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I put all of those alphabet channels AND Faux News in the same steaming pile of excrement they want to call news. I personally don't care to digest the tripe that comes from ANY alphabet channel (cbs, nbc, abc) with an embedded pro-Alqueda sympathizing correspondent, or alternatively,... a vapid, teleprompter reading muppet with bleached blond hair sequewaying into the star spangled banner with a smile on her face.

They are all the shite.

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Originally Posted by Legend

http://www.newshounds.us and http://www.oreilly-sucks.com/ check those one out as well.

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Coulter and O'Reilly appeal to a target audience that pretty much alienates anyone:

making under 500k a year
supporting abortion rights
gay rights
anti war

pretty much 99% of this board

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Originally Posted by DJ_Asia

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Originally Posted by Legend

http://www.newshounds.us and http://www.oreilly-sucks.com/ check those one out as well.

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Coulter and O'Reilly appeal to a target audience that pretty much alienates anyone:

making under 500k a year
supporting abortion rights
gay rights
anti war

pretty much 99% of this board

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Most of those channels with their iconoclasts are purely there for ratings...hence the disparate disconnect with most people. Whether conservative or liberal...the executives know that divisive opinion and the talking heads who espouse their opinions, and give a forum for it, will attract the most lively of debate, which the public does tune into. So, however much you hate Oreilly, Coulter, Hannity, etc... an equal and justified corellation to some of the figureheads on the left either in Hollywood, the arts, activist speaking, etc...can be made generally to characterize in the same manner.

The only problem I have with that take of yours, Otto, is that the former act as journalists, where those from Hollywood are just highly visible private citizens. Many out there look at a Hannity or O'Reilly as actual journalists, but they'll dismiss the Hollywood type because they aren't.