These are brownshirt tactics which deserve no respect and put to the lie the Left’s professed love for the Bill of Rights. They want a monopoly on speech in the public forum. Just like Stalin and Mao.

Look Sugar Bear, embrace your bias is about your obsessive need to make snarky comments about ANY issue regarding blacks. “Uh..uh what about Al Sharpton…I mean what about Jesse Jackson….Bill Cosby said… I’m not prejudiced…Bob Byrd…Not me”

And all this time I thought you were at least quick enough to get that. I’ll make sure to dumb it down next time.

Bradky on July 29, 2007 at 8:07 AM

So as I suspected, you’re using the term incorrectly… You should be saying “prejudice” not “bias” genius… but either way, you’re making (as liberals, especially you, love to do) a strawman arguments. You’re putting words in my mouth because (as usual, and as predicted) you can’t defend your own claims and analogies. YOU made the stupid analogy that forged rite busted you on, you tried to brush it off so I spelled it out for you, and you have to turn it in to the childish thing you have because you have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to add and no way to defend or support your initial statement… if you did, you’d have stated it and we’d have moved on.

Whether you’re talking about “campaign finance reform” or the Orwellian Fairness Doctrine or this effort to take Fox down, these leftists just don’t believe that you ought to be free to question them.

I’d modify that just a bit: It’s not so much that they don’t like being questiond as much as they can’t stand “diversity” when it extends to anything beyond skin color, gender or sexual preference.

The distinction between the self-styled “liberal” mind and that of the conservative is on stark display: When confronted with what they see as pervasive liberal bias in the major broadcast and print media, conservatives walk away and form their own alternative information channels: AM talk radio, FOX News, conservative blogs.

When liberals see media they perceive as having a conservative bias, they try to silence it.

It’s not so much that they object to conservatives having access to “biased” media of their own; what they don’t like is that there is any conservative means of media expression at all.

A good definition of hypocrisy isn’t so much saying one thing and doing another (which may reflect weakness as opposed to cynicism), as much as taking a position or making a statement without believing in it.

Liberals often react to conservative complaints about media bias with, “Why don’t you change the channel?” But when conservatives create a new channel and turn to it, liberals confronted with an information source they disagree with don’t “change the channel” but react with, “Hey, you can’t do that! You need to be silenced!” That’s hypocrisy.

Scratch a liberal, and you’ll find a totalitarian underneath.

Seixon on July 29, 2007 at 8:38 AM

Seixon,

What happened with the Dixie Chicks was spontaneous combustion. There was no organized, financed effort to censor them – it began with Country music fans calling the stations and telling them they didn’t want to hear from the Chicks, and took off from there.

Meanwhile, my effort to induce sponsors to boycott Fox News until they have Julie Banderas do newscasts in a bikini has not born fruit.

radjah shelduck on July 28, 2007 at 10:38 PM

Where do I sign up to support this?

Sadly, even after my turn to the dark side (becoming Republican) I still feel that it is the right that is more likely to set some ridiculous boundary about what is and is not appropriate to say; for instance, the proposed Flag Burning Amendment, where we come off like a bunch of loser muslims who just had their prophet insulted. We will look like a bunch of fools if after voting on a flag burning amendment we turn around and denounce the fairness doctrine. Why should anyone listen?

Hypocrisy is still what runs the Left these days, I guess.

Bradky on July 28, 2007 at 2:51 PM

Yeah, all we need is George Soros and we’re set to go.

Seriously though, national advertisers should be able to figure out when they are being spammed by activists. And I agree with the idea that WalMart (and others) should run an ad campaign to counter these Leftist (who probably don’t spend money with these advertisers anyway).

My bias”? You always act like I’m pretending I don’t have a conservative bias
RightWinged on July 29, 2007 at 2:16 AM

Look Sugar Bear, embrace your bias is about your obsessive need to make snarky comments about ANY issue regarding blacks. “Uh..uh what about Al Sharpton…I mean what about Jesse Jackson….Bill Cosby said… I’m not prejudiced…Bob Byrd…Not me”

And all this time I thought you were at least quick enough to get that. I’ll make sure to dumb it down next time.

Meanwhile, my effort to induce sponsors to boycott Fox News until they have Julie Banderas do newscasts in a bikini has not born fruit.

radjah shelduck on July 28, 2007 at 10:38 PM

No one watching (well at least not the men) would hear a word she said. Fox really should put out a swimsuit calendar: “The Babes of Fox News”

Yawn… did you say something? Embrace your bias and quit stalking me.

Bradky on July 28, 2007 at 11:08 PM

Get a new line dude… “My bias”? You always act like I’m pretending I don’t have a conservative bias… It’s clear you’ve only recently learned that word and over-use it (and incorrectly). I can’t count how many times you’ve tossed that line out there (because you have NOTHING to say, so you divert… again proving my point). Yeah, good thing I’m hiding my bias behind such a moderate name…. RightWinged!

I think the left is getting desperate. They are exposed. The only thing that can save them is to silence the competition. Be on the lookout for all manner of derision of conservatives, laws abridging speech(except their speech), infringements on our rights, you name it. It’ll all be done under the guise of getting the money out of politics, or of fighting crime and terrorism.

Just keep the following in mind:

1) Money does not cause corruption. The corrupt are corrupt to begin with, and money is nothing but a tool or an end to the corrupt.

2) “Gun Control” is actually law-abiding-citizen control, not a means to keep arms out of the hands of criminals. That’s merely the “justification”.

3) The “Fairness Doctrine” is nothing more than censorship.

4) “Political Correctness” is alteration of the language to circumvent the strict scrutiny of the Constitution, Bill of Rights, and common sense.

5) Malapropism runs rampant, destroying venerated and time-honored institutions. One such example is “insurgents”, “guerrillas”, and “rebels” being called “Militia”.

The leftist liberals are not that dumb, folks. They think we are, though. They have chosen guile over honor, pretense over veracity, and will attempt to goad you into their bidding because they themselves lack altruism – all the while feigning only they have honor, veracity, and altruism. Want proof? Just look at Al Gore’s “Carbon Footprint”. Look at Rosie O’Donald’s armed body guards. Listen to Harry Reid, or Nancy Pelosi speak for two minuets.

Have a good day.

Woody

RightWinged on July 28, 2007 at 11:02 PM

Yawn… did you say something? Embrace your bias and quit stalking me.

Oh it washes just fine.
In your case it rubs a sore spot you don’t like to acknowledge. But I’ve schooled you on that enough and won’t get caught up in an exchange of diatribes from you.
Find someone else to throw your manifestos at.

Bradky on July 28, 2007 at 10:21 PM

Lol, you’ve schooled me? You’re so pathetic I can’t differentiate you from the other libs around here. You get caught up in lying or pretending you know something about statistics and making fools of yourselves, or diverting every issue at every chance you get. I can’t remember which of these tools are your favorite, but I want to say you’re the bonehead who tried to come up with some statistics based on the assumption that the country is 50/50 Republican/Democrat.

That said, I wasn’t even in your discussion, but I did happen to read what forged rite said in response to your stupid comment:

Democrats in general are not fascists. It is disingenuous to let the action of 5000 people define several million people. Saying that the Klan’s actions represent the republicans at large is a similar claim without merit.

You completely ignored forged rite’s point, that if the institution that is the KKK were to associate with one party, it wouldn’t be the Republicans dude. That is why your analogy doesn’t wash.

You can say “don’t let the actions of 5000 people speak for all Democrats, the same way we don’t let the actions of Ron Paulites speak for all Republicans”, or something else.. but the KKK example is simply flawed, and you repasting it doesn’t change that.

Fox’s audience is solid, secure and assured. Let the self-deluded Kos creeps, MoveOn, etc. do their thing. Their impotence will once again be revealed by real-world results (of course their failed efforts will (again) go unreported by any TV network other than Fox).

RightWinged on July 28, 2007 at 9:50 PM

Oh it washes just fine.
In your case it rubs a sore spot you don’t like to acknowledge. But I’ve schooled you on that enough and won’t get caught up in an exchange of diatribes from you.
Find someone else to throw your manifestos at.

All levels of our government have sufficient power to keep far right proclivities in check, but We the People have far too few and mostly weak choices with our sources of power to keep leftist hegemony(overgrown, intrusive government) at bay until, of course, those in that government get so far out of line that our one definitive power – revolution – becomes viable or necessary.

Our voices have been targeted and hit squarely by such as the McCain-Feingold atrocity; all but destroying the Freedom of Speech when it is…Heh!… or rather WAS… most effective; specifically, right before an election. The power necessary to revolt is under attack as much if not more than our Freedom of Speech. Y’all better be as adamant of the Second Amendment protected right as you are of the First Amendment protected freedoms and rights. Unless, of course, you like being a child of the state, or one of its helots…

Woody

Be careful who you choose to stand behind and support. If you are unwilling to take care of yourself, you must take whatever care that comes along. I’ve yet to see a flock of sheep, no matter how well cared for and tended, that doesn’t get fleeced from time to time and eventually end up on the dinner table. Not many sheep die a natural death.