One extremist using the words and actions of a small group of people to smear a larger group of people complaining because an extremist is using the words and actions of a small group to smear a larger group.
Except I don't think that the Guardian is trying to smear all conservatives, just documenting the dangerously out of touch extremism of Beck, Fox and their true believers. On the plus side, it appears you ARE capable of siding with liberals against conservatives after all, so I guess that's something. Unfortunately, I think most of the liberals jumping on the bash Mubarak bandwagon are doing so largely because he's a conservative aligned with the US, largely blind to the many potential replacements as much or more brutal and repressive as he is, so I'm not sure where that leaves us. I'd love to see a peaceful democracy in Egypt; unfortunately that's just not how the Mid-East works and much of why it doesn't, no matter how many conservatives try to force it on Iraq or how many liberals try to force it on Egypt.
And soirry the "you can't make fun of our biased news source while we are trying to make fun of yours" argument really doesn't carry much weight.
The Guardian may be biased, though you'll need to provide more credible evidence than laughing at Glenn Beck, but at least it isn't predicting war to the knife in the streets of every city on Earth if Mubarak doesn't retain power. This would be a good time to remind me that the right doesn't indulge violent imagery for the sake of inflammatory rhetoric.
/Media: Guardian's take on funny Americans' take on Egypt
03/02/2011 09:32:52 PM
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I think you should replace "Fox" by "funny Americans".
03/02/2011 09:44:26 PM
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Pfft. Synonyms.
03/02/2011 09:46:42 PM
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Well, you'll get accusations and sour reactions anyway.
03/02/2011 09:50:28 PM
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Re: Well, you'll get accusations and sour reactions anyway.
03/02/2011 09:52:20 PM
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This is true. We'll just have to leave it to Glenn Beck to provide the poetry, now. *NM*
03/02/2011 09:54:59 PM
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Re: Pfft. Synonyms.
03/02/2011 09:51:30 PM
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Re: Pfft. Synonyms.
03/02/2011 09:52:56 PM
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Re: Pfft. Synonyms.
03/02/2011 09:56:34 PM
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That leads to the interesting question of how you define "anti-American".
03/02/2011 09:54:13 PM
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Re: That leads to the interesting question of how you define "anti-American".
03/02/2011 10:21:56 PM
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I think you should replace "funny Americans" with "blowhard pundits who don't deserve time of day" *NM*
04/02/2011 12:28:22 AM
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I posted earlier with observations on how idiotic Fox is sounding generally on the Egypt situation.
04/02/2011 02:15:23 AM
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I saw Guardian use the phrase balanced coverage and stopped
04/02/2011 06:20:31 PM
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You always do this.
05/02/2011 01:28:11 AM
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It is the irony I find funny
07/02/2011 04:03:38 PM
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That after watching that you think the GUARDIAN'S the one over the top here?
08/02/2011 04:02:04 PM
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sorry the Guardian is shit
08/02/2011 04:21:09 PM
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Maybe, but I'll need evidence; regardless, that's not what this is about, is it?
08/02/2011 04:48:06 PM
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Oh, is Beck a "socialism fan favor[ing] the violent dicator since he can bring order and subsidies"?
05/02/2011 08:04:17 AM
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So you are saying you have a lot in common with Glen Beck?
07/02/2011 04:04:41 PM
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Not really.
08/02/2011 03:46:10 PM
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it is easy to understand why Beck wants to defend Mubarak
08/02/2011 04:23:11 PM
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By the Grace of God, Glenn Beck and Alex Jones do not represent America, or even most of the right.
05/02/2011 08:30:26 AM
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Did find this linked article at your link interesting:
05/02/2011 09:02:44 AM
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Been over all of this before, so I'll just point out that Lebanon is not Syria. *NM*
05/02/2011 07:20:10 PM
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Oops....
06/02/2011 12:03:27 AM
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Gah. "Someone is wrong on the internet!", and all that, and I can't resist.
06/02/2011 12:34:59 AM
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I know that feeling well.
06/02/2011 01:50:41 AM
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America shouldn't take the blame for Fox! That's Rupert Murdoch's, the Aussie's, fault! *NM*
06/02/2011 03:16:04 AM
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