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No you simply missed the point random thoughts Send a noteboard - 02/10/2009 02:40:30 PM
Those were both wars that were created by sensationalist press. There are multiple examples of other internal conflict that were fanned by the press. Segregation was press fed in a large part. Truman was bullied into allowing MacArthur to act like a king in Korea by people calling him an appeaser and claiming he was soft on the commies. Read that piss poor excuse for a poem some posted, over the top political rhetoric is hardly new.

Simply sating that there is more instant coverage of politics in no ways proves that coverage is more inflammatory it just means it is more instant. Yes you can now get news quicker but the average American still can't name his congressman. And must of them only pay attention to the stories with sex or the ones they think affect them directly. I see this as nothing more then the left making excuses for the inept way they have failed in communicating their agenda.

The left rode the wave of partisan attack into power. Cheered on by people such as yourself who delighted in promoting stories about senators tapping their feet in bathroom stalls and by claiming that Bush was an evil insane gnome and now they cry because the beast has turned on them. WTF did they think was going to happen?


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This message last edited by random thoughts on 02/10/2009 at 02:47:07 PM
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Just some kid random thoughts - 01/10/2009 11:31:46 PM 443 Views
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Dumb column from Friedman.....read a history book..... trzaska2000 - 01/10/2009 11:15:46 PM 352 Views
politcas has always been a full contact sport random thoughts - 01/10/2009 11:40:19 PM 321 Views
I disagree, obviously. Legolas - 02/10/2009 12:11:48 AM 417 Views
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remarkably, i agree with the troll moondog - 02/10/2009 06:27:40 AM 346 Views
Partisanship, yes, but this is more than that. Joel - 02/10/2009 06:57:14 AM 412 Views
i see things at a different level than you do moondog - 02/10/2009 07:31:24 AM 336 Views
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Not true Roland00 - 02/10/2009 12:32:58 AM 338 Views
why did we fight the Spanish American War and the War of 1812 again? random thoughts - 02/10/2009 04:18:56 AM 297 Views
You just completely undermined your point Roland00 - 02/10/2009 06:22:54 AM 348 Views
No you simply missed the point random thoughts - 02/10/2009 02:40:30 PM 340 Views
don't forget imlad - 02/10/2009 06:50:17 PM 314 Views
I didn't forget it, it was in my first line for part A Roland00 - 03/10/2009 12:53:18 AM 331 Views
honest??? imlad - 02/10/2009 06:46:30 PM 303 Views
all things are relative random thoughts - 02/10/2009 10:11:27 PM 309 Views
maybe we should go back to the good old days of Aaron Burr imlad - 02/10/2009 06:25:37 PM 343 Views
I think the role of cable news is over played random thoughts - 01/10/2009 11:29:26 PM 342 Views
Possibly. Legolas - 02/10/2009 12:02:05 AM 349 Views
To many people distrust the media for it to be just the right who distrust them random thoughts - 02/10/2009 04:15:50 AM 395 Views
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i agree that the fringe has way more power than it should, but... moondog - 02/10/2009 06:38:41 AM 337 Views
I think Friedman puts it very well when he says... Legolas - 02/10/2009 11:24:02 AM 311 Views
did I read this correctly? random thoughts - 02/10/2009 03:00:33 PM 337 Views
As I already told you, this is not about "the left" complaining. Legolas - 02/10/2009 03:38:15 PM 422 Views
it didn't become an issue until it started hurting the left random thoughts - 02/10/2009 04:44:29 PM 313 Views
Eh, many aspects of it have been criticized for a long time. Legolas - 02/10/2009 09:12:22 PM 376 Views
a few points random thoughts - 02/10/2009 11:23:12 PM 561 Views
Re: a few points Legolas - 03/10/2009 12:52:03 AM 470 Views
one final point random thoughts - 03/10/2009 06:48:09 AM 301 Views
also, about clinton, since you say you were too young to remember... moondog - 02/10/2009 06:47:45 AM 439 Views
really because my memory goes back further then that and things were nasty then to random thoughts - 02/10/2009 03:04:58 PM 303 Views
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No, where did common sense go? Vodalus - 02/10/2009 10:27:22 PM 329 Views
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