And, oh yes, the joke about the blind was hysterical!

Wadda sensa huma!

You ever toss any dwarves?

You are a waste of my time.

In the land of the blind, the man with one eye is king.

And you are the king, baby. All (who are blind) hail the King!

I wasn’t asking you to do my research. In fact, I wasn’t even asking you to do research. I said, “Yet you provide none,” in reference to the fact that you made an unsupported statement.

BTW, your “spoon” turned up 476000 hits.

My “spoon” turns up 2190000 hits.

There is an obvious flaw — can you guess what it is?

Well, asking millions of people on one day who they want for President is a huge poll with a huge sample and is representative of popular opinion. Excuse me if you couldn’t decipher the analogy.

Pot turns to kettle

Stay arrogant.

Now run along and play.

projecting your flaws onto others as a way to attack their  flaws rather than dealing with your own is NOT healthy.

I guess it isn’t, but that’s not what projection is:

A defense mechanism, operating unconsciously, in which what is emotionally unacceptable in the self is unconsciously rejected and attributed (projected) to others.

Please stop this. I hate “fisking”. It’s tedious and annoying.

Yet you provide none. There is plenty of evidence of left wing bias in the media going back to the early 70 s.

It’s called Google, Frank. Here I’ll spoon feed you. Do your own research next time – I’m not here to make your life easier.

Yet when 3000 people are polled on Bush s job performance and 1600 say he s not performing well, you ll say he s slipping in the polls.

Frank the mind reader – not very good at it, though. Polls are rubbish, and only provide a glimmer of insight into people’s views. They are not gospel, and should not be relied upon as such. Sadly, your knee-jerk reaction here indicates that you are unable to separate individual liberals viewpoints from your manufactured worldview of ALL liberals. Sad, really.

Not to mention the fact that projection is not a terrible thing. You should have stayed awake in psychology class, junior.

Stay arrogant. It makes hoisting you on your own petard all the sweeter. Projection in the sense of transferring feelings onto a therapist may not neccessarily be a bad thing, but projecting your flaws onto others as a way to attack their ‘flaws’ rather than dealing with your own is NOT healthy.

You re just saying bad things about someone you don t even know.

Sad that this is how you view things. I am not only saying bad things about YOU, and that isn’t the thrust of my comments. I am destroying your asinine arguments one at a time. The fact that you cannot tell the difference between the two says a lot about you.

Now run along and play.

There have been enough studies, books and evidence that clearly points to the contrary

Yet you provide none. There is plenty of evidence of left wing bias in the media going back to the early 70′s. But don’t feel bad, Oliver has never shown that there is no left wing bias, either, and he’s in the business.

Also, insinuating that half the country isn t liberal because Bush won is completely ludicrous. Citizens that voted in 2004 do not comprise the entire population of the United States.

Yet when 3000 people are polled on Bush’s job performance and 1600 say he’s not performing well, you’ll say he’s slipping in the polls.

Projection is a terrible thing.

“I know you are, but what am I.”

Not to mention the fact that projection is not a terrible thing. You should have stayed awake in psychology class, junior.

because you are full of shit and so long as I read your comments, I will take them to task.

You are not “taking me to task.” Jeebus, are you that stupid? You’re just saying bad things about someone you don’t even know.
Why don’t you get yourself a blog or a web page, and just type terrible things in it about people you know, and some that you don’t.

That’s what you’re doing here.

Maybe you can get Quaker and Wilbur to co – author.

My point is, that you don’t. Until you get it, I will call you on it. And, get it straight, John S. you’re not disagreeeing with me or disputing me — you’re attacking me. I’m not whining about it; I’m just letting you know that I know the difference.

You still don’t.

Your inferiority complex is astonishing.

What makes it mindless?

Because there is no thought put into proclaiming that the media suffers from left-wing bias. There have been enough studies, books and evidence that clearly points to the contrary, so you marching around a point of view that only exists amongst one particular segment of political culture is evident that it emanates from the echo-chamber.

Also, insinuating that half the country isn’t liberal because Bush won is completely ludicrous. Citizens that voted in 2004 do not comprise the entire population of the United States. When you peddle such baseless opinions as if they were gospel, they can only be categorized as talking points.

Put up or shut up. Like most of the other twits that inhabit these threads, you never respond to anything. You just attack.

Projection is a terrible thing.

My question to you, which is awaiting an answer is:  Why did you come on this blog, and immediately start attacking me?

I already answered you in the other thread, but the short version is because you are full of shit and so long as I read your comments, I will take them to task.

Take your own advice: Think, man, think!

What makes it an “echo – chamber”?

What makes it mindless?

Put up or shut up. Like most of the other twits that inhabit these threads, you never respond to anything. You just attack.

Look at it this way: What if I said, “‘This is the kind of mindless echo-chamber drivel that I see as little more than a lump of shit thrown at the wall of this blog to see if it will stick,’ is the kind of mindless echo-chamber drivel that I see as little more than a lump of shit thrown at the wall of this blog to see if it will stick?”

And I don’t wonder, or even care, why you think I’m a schmuck. My question to you, which is awaiting an answer is: “Why did you come on this blog, and immediately start attacking me?”

See, you’re so totally dazed by hatred of me you can’t even keep your comments straight. There must be a reason. Think, man, think!

The reason newspapers are losing popularity is because of that  imaginary left -wing bias you lefties insist doesn t exist.

Which leaves me a little puzzled – over half the country is liberal according to you, but a conservative wins the Presidency handily.

This is the kind of mindless echo-chamber drivel that I see as little more than a lump of shit thrown at the wall of this blog to see if it will stick.

And you still wonder why I think you’re a schmuck, Frank?

Oh, and I doubt that it’s coincidental that the WH press ‘holiday reception’ (i.e. the Christmas party) is this week.

DANIEL UPSET THE RULERS of the kingdom and now Froomkin finds himself among the lions. Or the hyenas. Or the high and mighty political writers at the Washington Post. The writers may be high and might be mighty sorry

And yes, a conservative won the presidency in 2004. 62 million voted for George Bush. 59 million voted for John Kerry. But based on your math (trickle down?) these 59 million people are a figment of the imagination.

For example, the NY Post. When I was in college they were well known as a liberal paper. I read the more conservative Daily News, and, of course, avoided the New York Times like the plague.

Pretty soon, the NY Post moved to the right, and the Daily News switched to the left. I switched papers accordingly.

The reason newspapers are losing popularity is because of that “imaginary” left -wing bias you lefties insist doesn’t exist.

Which leaves me a little puzzled – over half the country is liberal according to you, but a conservative wins the Presidency handily. At the same time, the dead tree press is fading away, and yet there is no “liberal bias.”

Mysterious, no?

If any paper panders to _any_ administration for the sake of maintaining access or sales it harms not only citizen accountability of government, but democracy as a whole. If the White House denied access to any reporter who dared to question its policies and the MSM decided that to remain in business they had to pander to the White House then we have lost a free press and instead have a free propagandist press. Which doesn’t help America.

This applies to all administrations whether Democrat or Republican. Clinton’s lies about Monica were harmful regardless of whether there was an legal wrong doing. Similarly [though more dramatically] the Bush administrations pre-war intelligence fiasco has be harmful as well.

The complaint isn’t that the press isn’t anti-bush enough, the problem is that it isn’t pro-facts enough. If Bush were truly improving things in America no reasonable person [Oliver included] would be foaming at the mouth for the MSM to be more anti-Bush. The complaint is that factually grave mistakes have been made and powerful people with the ability to sway opinion aren’t being honest with their readers and their bosses, their readers, and hell even the administration [if they value America long term] should be demanding better standards.

Not not demand it, is to truly harm America. I believe this was Jon Stewart’s point when he went on Crossfire. Punditry is _not_ reporting and it should not be tolerated by editors or readers, even if it is profitable.