I loathe the conventions, but this will make it worse
Roland00 Send a noteboard - 01/09/2012 03:52:15 AM
since these things are all so scripted to begin with, have the speakers submit their scripts to the major news outlets who will be broadcasting the conventions. these networks then run fact checkers on all the talking points in each speech and put up a small blurb with the actual truth each candidate is trying to twist to support their platform. we all already know each candidate is trying to twist and spin the facts to portray their opponents as something other than what they are, let's have their words thrown back at them in real time coverage too! 
One of the few things that is good about the conventions is that it is for 3 or 4 days the media can't filter the whole damn thing. It is good that for occasionally we get things live and unfiltered. Wait an hour later or the next day in the newspaper for the media to call flat out lies bs.
Now I personally loathe the conventions for other reasons. Conventions are not about how the political parties are really going to govern, this is just in a window into their souls and shows how they would act without reality kicking in. It is pure Id. Sure it is pure BS but it shows the best and worse of the parties.
This message last edited by Roland00 on 01/09/2012 at 03:55:38 AM
how to make political convention speeches more entertaining
- 31/08/2012 03:57:11 PM
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and how fact checks the fact checkers? *NM*
- 31/08/2012 05:19:45 PM
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Fox, presumably. 
- 31/08/2012 06:05:56 PM
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- 31/08/2012 06:05:56 PM
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the fact checkers tend be journalist and deserve all the trust that goes with that *NM*
- 01/09/2012 10:36:18 AM
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Facts are facts, and not in the eye of the beholder.
- 01/09/2012 12:08:41 PM
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That might be true if fat checkers limited themsleves to facts and not opinion
- 01/09/2012 02:44:41 PM
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Stating opinions as fact invites checking them as facts.
- 01/09/2012 02:59:23 PM
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I will let Scott Wlaker explain it to you
- 01/09/2012 05:56:00 PM
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Even Walker admits "It’s closed — has been as long as Obama has been president."
- 01/09/2012 06:27:32 PM
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well since Ryan never claimed Obama caused the plant to close it doesn't matter when it closed
- 01/09/2012 08:10:26 PM
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How could he save a plant already closed?
- 01/09/2012 08:31:55 PM
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It's obvious.
- 01/09/2012 10:12:33 PM
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what is obvious is despite him saying they would his policies didn't save the plant
- 02/09/2012 09:48:08 PM
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If he could save it he shouldn't have he could but he did say he could
- 02/09/2012 09:43:56 PM
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The video says his comments were 2 Feb, 2008, when the plant was open;when he took office it was not
- 02/09/2012 10:26:46 PM
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Then what would Daily Show and Colbert do every night if someone does their work for them? *NM*
- 31/08/2012 09:38:17 PM
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presumably they would have plenty of other material to work with.... *NM*
- 01/09/2012 06:33:33 AM
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I loathe the conventions, but this will make it worse
- 01/09/2012 03:52:15 AM
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you're talking about what people who already follow these things do
- 01/09/2012 06:40:42 AM
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We fundamentally disagree
- 01/09/2012 01:54:26 PM
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The absence of either filter or rebuttal diminishes the informative value of conventions.
- 01/09/2012 03:21:03 PM
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