Originally posted by: andy_k_250
Oh, come on - Bush-supporting conservatives are far more guilty of jingoism than liberals. "Bush lied, people died" might be a slogan, but it has a lot more back-story and support for it than when the Bush administration says that Bin Laden "hates freedom." Bin Laden doesn't hate freedom; he hates that America has arguably persecuted his people. There is a big difference between often-repeated statements that are encapsulating an idea versus oversimplifying/distorting an idea.

For the record, I was accusing all idiots who don't bother to think for themselves, this includes the mindless Fox News group as much as it includes the mindless CNN, MSNBC, liberal bloggers, etc. group. The whole thing about Bin Laden's people being persecuted is of course the reason why he attacked America repeatedly, right? I guess we should have seen 9/11 as a reason to wake up and stop the persecution rather than a reason to retaliate. If this is the result of free thought, maybe it isn't such a good idea after all. At any rate saying things like "Bush-supporting conservatives are far more guilty of jingoism than liberals" is a kind of silly way of saying liberals are the ultimate free thinkers (and in general, I think they think they are, but so do the brain hunters on the conservative side). Global warming is excellent evidence to the liberal zombification. Can you honestly really feel one side is less guilty than the other? Both sides are just taking what they are given, it is all a bunch of regurgitation. Who really spends the time to try to see things for what they are, or to at least try to measure what they are given to see how well it really weights out? The answer is very few. But again, that is how it is suppose to work. If too many people question things it doesn't please the pigs (see Sean's sig for details).