Geoffrey Rush: It is a mystery!
Is it an accusation I’m making, or a question I’m posing? I’m pretty sure that Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter are being deliberately and provocatively biased at times, but that doesn’t mean that everyone posting here on the SDMB is similarly biased, does it? That’s what I’m looking to find out, or at least find if other people can discern provocative bias more clearly than I can when it pops up here.
How many times has Obama been Pitted by a leftie on the SDMB? Do you suppose that has anything to do with political bias?
Absolutely. Racking up a deficit is a bad idea.
Where does the deficit stand currently, and what is it projected to be next year?
There have been threads on a messageboard I frequent suggesting that Bush was going to cancel the 2004 elections and rule as a dictator, that an invasion of Iran was imminent, that conservatives want to bring back slavery, that everyone in the pro-life movement wants women to suffer. Should you therefore dismiss arguments from the left, or take them seriously?
Regards,
Shodan
This place is dripping with extreme partisanship. Picking an example of it should be trivially easy. And yet you picked an example in which the OP completely fleshed out and justified his argument, didn’t attack the left or right generally or specifically or any particular politician, but merely made an argument against one specific policy. You could’ve picked OPs at random and come up with a better example.
If anything, that OP should be praised for discussing a political issue while not being a partisan bash fest. So it wasn’t just a matter of it being not the best example - but it’s actually a pretty counterproductive example to your point.
The best examples of this particular lack of thinking come on the issue of scandals. Either side has scandals - sex scandals, quid pro quo legislative scandals, money scandals, so it’s not a party-specific issue. But the funny thing about reactions to scandals is the news may be saying “Congressman so and so has been accused of taking money from big tobacco to create a secret government squad to anally rape orphans” and most people would say “Congressman so and so… he’s a… democrat? or republican? I can’t remember. I don’t know whether to be outraged or not!”
Followed by “Oh, he’s [party X]? THAT SON OF A BITCH RUINED AMERICA AND SHOULD BE PUT TO DEATH” or “Oh, he’s [party Y]? Oh, well, it’s really not a big deal, orphan anal rape scandals happen all the time, let’s just drop the issue”.
See, I don’t happen to agree with your example there. I think lefties are much more willing to leave their own out to dry. Personally, I had little sympathy for Clinton (though I’m far more left than right) and I called for my own Governor, whom I had just voted for, Spitzer to resign and be dragged out of Albany in chains and shame. I also think that Gary Condit was a democrat–in either case, the fact that I don’t remember his party but I do remember tihnking he was a total sleazeball, or that I thought Blago was worse, or that I thought Roland Burriss was and is a clown–well, these are all guys whom (you say) I should be defending and siding with and downplaying the significance of their scandals. Gary Hart, too, though I had thought he was a pretty sharp candidate for a while. and John Edwards, who I certainly would have voted for if he’d been nominated. What’s your point? That I’m an anomaly among Democrats and that most Democrats loyally defended these cretins? I don’t agree with that.
Please cite the times that you Pitted all these people.
Regards,
Shodan
Shodan almost plays a cartoon character of himself. He actually comes into a thread discussing blind partisanship by displaying… blind partisanship.
He either doesn’t have an off button - this is essentially the entirety of his personality - or, well, there’s another possibility.
Naturally, if you don’t make a pit thread for every single thing you don’t approve of, you’re just another hypocrite leftist! So where’s your proof, commie!? Cite?!?!
Please tell me all the smooching of my butt in public you’re prepared to do for every cite I produce.
The problem with pissing contests is that some poor functionary has to follow you guys around with a mop and a bucket of disinfectant.
Closed.
[ /Moderating ]