Look, kid, we know you want to try out for the position of Right Gadfly, get out there and mock the pretensions and hypocrisy of the left. Sure you do, this is the SDMB, the big time, downtown. But you see, kid, what we got here is what they call a “deep bench” for that position. We got guys been suiting up and hitting the line for years now!
Have you considered some of the new franchises, you know, the kind that post pornographic ads on other message boards? A start-up, you know? They might have an opening. Think of it as a triple-A farm team, get some razzle-dazzle going, learn some new chops, 'cause right now you’re really weak on razzle, and dazzle you ain’t got.
Look, we’ll keep you file, and if Shodan and Starkers and Ivn all get hit by meteors on the same day, well, maybe…
My, such a high opinion you have of yourself! The self-annointed Decider In Chief!
I completely understand that, after having lost the argument, calling me ‘kid’ might provide a little comfort to you. I’m happy to oblige, although I’m 42. In fact I generally don’t engage the kids on this board (Lobo being the prime example… although he continues to post at me; at least it keeps him off the Jabba The Hutt fanboy sites).
So for the record, and to see if you’ll even answer one question before changing the subject, do you or do you not attribute any of the blame for the OP’s poll to the legacy media?
OK I’ll bite: how was what I asked you pre-polarized?
I’m trying to determine where you are in the political spectrum. If you absolutely hate everything about every conservative, fine, it’s a free country (assuming you are American).
If my invective seems immoderate to you, perhaps that’s a YP, not an MP (little Boogie Nights reference there). Or maybe you could go back and re-read all of my posts in this thread. I have hammered Fox almost as much as I’ve hammered CBS and CNN… but most of this board only reacts to one side of the hammering, the half that fits your template.
My favorite technique of his is when he is caught spouting misleading statements, and then tries the superiority dance of “you just don’t understand poor boy, so I win.”
Ask yourself how casually pairing Daily Kos and the Huffington Post with the Propaganda outlet of the Union of Soviet Socialistic Republics migt possibly be an indicator of polarization on your part.
If you can come up with an answer, you’re well on your way to understanding the stupidity behind trying to claim being a moderate and pairing those to the right of Howard Dean with Pat Buchanon.
You know, if Stalin, Mao, Hitler or Pol Pot were around today and posting on the SDMB, they’d all be claiming to be moderates. Words are cheap, but any observant poster would notice that despite their claims of moderacy, their rhetoric frequently turns radical. Your rhetoric has a decided tendency to match that of the radical right, rather than that of an actual moderate.
People who watch Fox are more likely to think that Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11 some, that Obama was not born in the US, that some Republicans voted for the health care bill, and that there were death panels.
If you run a news organization that makes people less well informed, then you are either doing it deliberately (what I think) or are a bunch on ignoramuses (I had to look that one up in the dictionary. It was next to czar).
Not addressed to me, but I can’t anymore. I used to respect McCain and George Will, but they have drunk the kool aid. I guess I still respect Olympia Snow, but less and less every day she continues to caucus with the Republicans and enable gridlock.
Nope, you could still be a birther or some such.
I read about those in Pravda.
There are lots a ways to be radical while still holding a few centrist beliefs.
Is your disdain for those slightly to the left of you, like KOS, and Huffington a sign of a “big ten centrist” or a “little tent centrist”?
What the hell is a little tent centrist anyway? Those guys are supposed to get along with other people near them on the political spectrum.
You don’t. DanBlather: Yes, McCain even voted against PayGo this week.
Of course he’s running under 50% approval in AZ, and being primaried from the right, so he’s got to toe the radical line.
I think this is the first time you’ve brought up the watch thread, so it probably doesn’t amount to following him around from thread to thread. Yet. Consider this a friendly reminder that the rules prohibit doing that. No warning issued.
I believe that you believe that.
We’ve seen since 9/11 that people believe all kinds of different stuff. Lots of folks have belief systems with huge contradictions wrapped into their very structure. Heck, Newt Gingrich and Michele Bachmann probably see themselves as ‘moderates’.
I recall reading in “How to win friends and influence people” how Al Capone saw himself as a good, upstanding citzen. Everyone wants to believe in their own virtue, their own ‘moderation.’
Yep, people believe all sorts of crazy stuff, but the mere belief does not make them right.
These days, the right desperately wants to believe they’re the ‘silent majority’ .
In part, that comes from the insecurity that causes em to be conservatives in the first place, but another big hunk off it comes from realizing how badly they’ve screwed up this past decade. They want so much for that to be invisible that they pretend that it is invisible, and that everyone loves them for being just what they are.
Sorry to burst any bubbles, but the so called ‘moderate’ right is still running around in public, downtown, without their pants, and much of the nation knows it.