lordjedi said:Mielr said:Janskeet said:I thought you guys were smart? I go into the politics thread and I see all this republican biased talk and people labeling Democrats as socialists/communists?
I was thinking the exact opposite- there seem to be a lot of conservatives here, so it follows that there must be a lot of smart people here! (which I already knew, of course. Star Wars fans are naturally smart).
;-)
For the record, I'm as disappointed about what's happened to the Republican party as anyone. I'm voting for John McCain, but he was not my #1 choice for nominee.
Tiptup said:
"Sorry, no, these studies were done by media analysts. Your average american of the conservative persuasion is much more interested in the details of issues and the news than the other side for whatever reason. I'm convinced that's why Fox News made so much money and why the other news networks tried to have programming that would attract conservatives (at least for a while)."
Yup, that's why conservative talk-radio is so successful, and liberal talk-radio is failing miserably.
Well, I wouldn't say it's all failing miserably. Air America has failed miserably yes, but liberals like Alan Colmes and a few others have pretty successful radio shows. I don't personally listen to them, but I do appreciate their point of view (however wrong I think it might be).
That's because Alan Colmes is one of the VERY FEW liberals to take on the conservative viewpoint head-on and challenge it. Plus, he is supported by Fox News' structure & money.
Colmes usually gets blown out of the water in arguments, but so does the typical liberal argument. But I like the guy, nonetheless. At least he has the testes enough to argue his point, even when he's dead wrong. Sadly, idiots like Al Franken, Barbara Streisand, Rosie O'Donnell, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, Vermont House Rep Bill Lippert (who seems to totally support child molesters) all run away at the utterance of the name "Bill O'Rielly". That is because they would be proven by O'Rielly to be dead wrong and are scared to go on his show. If O'Reilly was the moron they play him out to be, then surely they'd be happy to go on his show and expose his ignorance. But alas, they never do, because they are morons who cannot come up with decent talking points to support their point of view (or treasonous beliefs).