# doorhinge, answer the question **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 3, 2015, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doorhinge-answer-the-question/729817 "2015-09-03T14:52:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2015, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doorhinge-answer-the-question/729817/21 "2015-09-03T17:11:35Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > Do you really believe Sharpton is the victim in Ferguson? No, but there is nothing wrong with helping the people there organize and articulate their grievances. ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2015, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doorhinge-answer-the-question/729817/22 "2015-09-03T17:13:56Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Hey, if they didn’t talk about it so much, we wouldn’t have to listen! That’s so true. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2015, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doorhinge-answer-the-question/729817/23 "2015-09-03T17:15:37Z")
If I am going to talk at **doorhinge** , I’m going to have to start using smilies. Easy call. ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2015, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doorhinge-answer-the-question/729817/24 "2015-09-03T17:16:20Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > No, but there is nothing wrong with helping the people there organize and articulate their grievances. You implied that Sharpton was the victim. Did Sharpton organize the protests, the burning, OR the looting in Ferguson? ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2015, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doorhinge-answer-the-question/729817/25 "2015-09-03T17:23:09Z")
Discussion of Fox News always reminds me of that great line from the movie _Blues Brothers_: “Oh we got _both_ kinds of opinion here, wingnut _and_ batshit.” > [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > The only thing remotely clever or interesting about him is that his name rhymes with “more whinge.” And here I thought “Doorhinge” was that rare 4-leaf clover of a word that rhymes with “orange.” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2015, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doorhinge-answer-the-question/729817/26 "2015-09-03T17:23:27Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > Maybe you should ask yourself - WWDTD. just sayin’ “What would Dan Tanna do?” ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2015, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doorhinge-answer-the-question/729817/27 "2015-09-03T17:28:52Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > “What would Dan Tanna do?” OK, sure. The Robert Urich Scholarship fund could use the boost. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2015, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doorhinge-answer-the-question/729817/28 "2015-09-03T17:32:15Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > “What would Dan Tanna do?” Norman Maclean immortalized that as _A T-bird Runs Through It._ ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2015, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doorhinge-answer-the-question/729817/29 "2015-09-03T17:41:33Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > A door hinge is only something to a door. At least you’re thinking about me. :eek: My door hinges are far more useful to me than you’ll ever be, so be as flattered by that as you choose. ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2015, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doorhinge-answer-the-question/729817/30 "2015-09-03T17:44:28Z")
> [@bryan ekers](#): > > my door hinges are far more useful to me than you’ll ever be, so be as flattered by that as you choose. WooHoo !!! ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2015, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doorhinge-answer-the-question/729817/31 "2015-09-03T17:44:46Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > But, so much turns on his answer! Nyuk-nyuk-nyuk! Jamb a sock in it, you! [eye poke] ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2015, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doorhinge-answer-the-question/729817/32 "2015-09-03T17:45:44Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > You implied that Sharpton was the victim. > > Did Sharpton organize the protests, the burning, OR the looting in Ferguson? All of us are victims when there is racial injustice, or as they say, “No one is free when others are oppressed.” I honestly don’t know what is intended to be conveyed by terms like “race baiting” or “race card.” Race issues are real, and there is nothing wrong with raising them. ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2015, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doorhinge-answer-the-question/729817/33 "2015-09-03T17:49:26Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > Norman Maclean immortalized that as _A T-bird Runs Through It._ [Verse:] I’m going down to Florence, gonna wear a pretty dress I’ll sit on top the magic wall with the voices in my head Then we’ll drive on through to Memphis, past the strongest shores And on to Arkansas just to touch the crumbled soul [Chorus:] A feather’s not a bird The rain is not the sea A stone is not a mountain But a river runs through me - Rosanne Cash ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2015, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doorhinge-answer-the-question/729817/34 "2015-09-03T17:54:15Z")
> [@Richard\_Parker](#): > > It feels like there are more and more **doorhinge** types on the board lately. > > Is that a real thing or just my confirmation bias? I agree, it used to be someone like him would pop up once in a while, not other idiots to talk to and wander off, but now some of them have stayed creating a colony of idiots who travel around the Dope supporting each other. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2015, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doorhinge-answer-the-question/729817/35 "2015-09-03T18:16:43Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > you must put “scandal” in quotes when you’re talking about Fox News and Secretary Clinton. > > Like the Benghazi “scandal.” Fox News has reported on 30 of the last 10 political scandals. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2015, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doorhinge-answer-the-question/729817/36 "2015-09-03T18:48:39Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > I would prefer it if all of the “news” organizations did a better job of providing the facts. Actual facts, not their political spins or activisms. Fox News does a decent job of reporting the news. They also add their particular spins. Does it then follow that you would prefer that they do _not_ put “their particular spins” on their reporting? Because they do so, does this mean that they’re not actually reporting (based on your original premise)? > [@doorhing](#): > > If it wasn’t for media outlets like Fox, the public wouldn’t hear anything about many of the important issues of the day. Like ol’ Hillary’s email scandal. Shhhhhhhh. It’s like a great, big, political secret or something. This is crap. From the past 2 days alone: > **[Top Clinton aide says no work-related emails were withheld or destroyed | CNN...](https://www.cnn.com/2015/09/03/politics/hillary-clinton-bryan-pagliano-cheryl-mills/index.html)** > > Hillary Clinton could be damaged by a former State Department employee’s refusal to testify before Congress about it. > **[Nearly 7,000 more pages of Clinton emails released](https://www.cbsnews.com/video/nearly-7000-more-pages-of-clinton-emails-released/)** > > The State Department released almost 7,000 more pages of email from Hillary Clinton's private server. About 150 are said to contain classified information, although Clinton maintains the material was not marked classified when the messages were sent... [https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/new-batch-of-clinton-e-mails-due-monday-minus-150-deemed-classified/2015/08/31/dcbdcbbc-501e-11e5-8c19-0b6825aa4a3a\_story.html](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/new-batch-of-clinton-e-mails-due-monday-minus-150-deemed-classified/2015/08/31/dcbdcbbc-501e-11e5-8c19-0b6825aa4a3a_story.html) > **[Hillary Clinton emails: Thousands of new pages released](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34111855)** > > Thousands of pages detailing Hillary Clinton's emails while US secretary of state are released, including many censored after being deemed classified. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2015, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doorhinge-answer-the-question/729817/37 "2015-09-03T18:48:47Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > I would prefer it if all of the “news” organizations did a better job of providing the facts. Actual facts, not their political spins or activisms. Fox News does a decent job of reporting the news. They also add their particular spins. So, Fox News isn’t journalism, it is political advocacy like most other news outlets? Have I got your position correct? ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2015, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doorhinge-answer-the-question/729817/38 "2015-09-03T19:01:00Z")
Sounds like they’re the Harlem Globetrotters of the news. They _can_ report the news straight, but that doesn’t sell as many tickets. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2015, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doorhinge-answer-the-question/729817/39 "2015-09-03T19:41:15Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > My door hinges are far more useful to me than you’ll ever be, so be as flattered by that as you choose. More than useful, they’re essential. They have a purpose, they’re flexible, and if they start groaning it doesn’t take much to make them stop. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2015, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doorhinge-answer-the-question/729817/40 "2015-09-03T19:43:05Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > I would prefer it if all of the “news” organizations did a better job of providing the facts. Actual facts, not their political spins or activisms. A defensible position, but one hardly thought of before the 20th Century. For a media outlet to have a definite editorial position that shamelessly biases its news coverage is a tradition as old as print journalism. Just to keep all this in its historical context. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doorhinge-answer-the-question/729817.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doorhinge-answer-the-question/729817.md?page=3)