Comments on: The Conspiracy Against The Right Continues http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/09/22/the-conspiracy-against-the-right-continues/ Like Kryptonite To Stupid Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:30:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: SpiderJ http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/09/22/the-conspiracy-against-the-right-continues/#comment-61933 SpiderJ Mon, 24 Sep 2007 04:49:44 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=5188#comment-61933 Not that this snark deserves this kind of effort, but for the record: <i>Media</i>: one of the means or channels of general communication, information, or entertainment in society, as newspapers, radio, or television. Amazon sells books. Books are a means of general communication. A Book is a medium of delivering said general information. Taken as a plural, books are media. Not that this snark deserves this kind of effort, but for the record:

Media: one of the means or channels of general communication, information, or entertainment in society, as newspapers, radio, or television.

Amazon sells books. Books are a means of general communication. A Book is a medium of delivering said general information. Taken as a plural, books are media.

]]> By: Quaker in a Basement http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/09/22/the-conspiracy-against-the-right-continues/#comment-61932 Quaker in a Basement Sun, 23 Sep 2007 23:16:38 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=5188#comment-61932 Amazon.com is promoting a book? Oh. My. God. Next you'll tell me that Coca-Cola wants people to drink sugar water. Amazon.com is promoting a book?

Oh. My. God. Next you’ll tell me that Coca-Cola wants people to drink sugar water.

]]> By: daniel rotter http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/09/22/the-conspiracy-against-the-right-continues/#comment-61931 daniel rotter Sun, 23 Sep 2007 04:51:04 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=5188#comment-61931 Even if one agrees that this promotion shows a left-wing bias on amazon.com's part, why would a group called the Media Research Center care? What I mean by this is that amazon.com is not a media outlet. Even if one agrees that this promotion shows a left-wing bias on amazon.com’s part, why would a group called the Media Research Center care? What I mean by this is that amazon.com is not a media outlet.

]]> By: Enlightened Liberal http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/09/22/the-conspiracy-against-the-right-continues/#comment-61930 Enlightened Liberal Sun, 23 Sep 2007 01:29:37 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=5188#comment-61930 Being a wingnut is kind of like being an Amway salesman. No matter what other people tell you and no matter what lack of success you have in Amway, Amway tells you that they are all losers, that YOU will win in the end. If there is an article against Amway, they are dismissed as being anti-Amway. Amway people are told to get rid of all their non-Amway friends and to confide only in Amway people. Wingnuttery is the same thing. Amazon, CNN, and Jack Cafferty are "liberal" because they sometimes present a viewpoint that is in conflict with the wingnut worldview. It's not even an opinion issue, if ANYTHING at Amazon disagrees with the narrative "liberals suck, conservatives rule" than they are painted as libs against America. Even for a news agency to say how many soldiers have died in Iraq paints them as liberals. Check out "Confessions of a Dittohead" sometime. It's a short read, and chronicles how wingnuts process information contradicting their viewpoint. And see it on display at newsbusters and anywhere wingnuts congregate. Being a wingnut is kind of like being an Amway salesman. No matter what other people tell you and no matter what lack of success you have in Amway, Amway tells you that they are all losers, that YOU will win in the end. If there is an article against Amway, they are dismissed as being anti-Amway. Amway people are told to get rid of all their non-Amway friends and to confide only in Amway people.

Wingnuttery is the same thing. Amazon, CNN, and Jack Cafferty are “liberal” because they sometimes present a viewpoint that is in conflict with the wingnut worldview. It’s not even an opinion issue, if ANYTHING at Amazon disagrees with the narrative “liberals suck, conservatives rule” than they are painted as libs against America. Even for a news agency to say how many soldiers have died in Iraq paints them as liberals.

Check out “Confessions of a Dittohead” sometime. It’s a short read, and chronicles how wingnuts process information contradicting their viewpoint. And see it on display at newsbusters and anywhere wingnuts congregate.

]]> By: Michael Sheridan http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/09/22/the-conspiracy-against-the-right-continues/#comment-61929 Michael Sheridan Sun, 23 Sep 2007 01:22:10 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=5188#comment-61929 Forgive me if I don't bother reading MRC's lunacy - I don't give a constipated crap what they think about anything. That said, it was more than a little unseemly for CNN to let Puppy Blitzer to "interview" Cafferty about his book during the Situation Room show where Cafferty is the resident analyst/curmudgeon. If CNN wants to promote Cafferty's book, let him pimp it on Larry King like everybody else. Forgive me if I don’t bother reading MRC’s lunacy – I don’t give a constipated crap what they think about anything. That said, it was more than a little unseemly for CNN to let Puppy Blitzer to “interview” Cafferty about his book during the Situation Room show where Cafferty is the resident analyst/curmudgeon.

If CNN wants to promote Cafferty’s book, let him pimp it on Larry King like everybody else.

]]> By: OxyCon http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/09/22/the-conspiracy-against-the-right-continues/#comment-61928 OxyCon Sun, 23 Sep 2007 00:19:04 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=5188#comment-61928 Brent Bozoll? LMFAO! Brent Bozoll?
LMFAO!

]]> By: megamoze http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/09/22/the-conspiracy-against-the-right-continues/#comment-61927 megamoze Sat, 22 Sep 2007 21:20:48 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=5188#comment-61927 I was going to say the same thing. That "article" is preposterous on many levels. It assumes that Amazon is liberal, that CNN is liberal, and that Cafferty himself is liberal. Amazon actually favors Red candidates by 60% according to Buy Blue, while Barnes and Nobel actually donates nearly 100% to Blue. CNN is trying to out fox Fox News in salacious and empty headlines. And Cafferty was one of the wars biggest supporters in the lead up in 2002. I was going to say the same thing. That “article” is preposterous on many levels. It assumes that Amazon is liberal, that CNN is liberal, and that Cafferty himself is liberal. Amazon actually favors Red candidates by 60% according to Buy Blue, while Barnes and Nobel actually donates nearly 100% to Blue. CNN is trying to out fox Fox News in salacious and empty headlines. And Cafferty was one of the wars biggest supporters in the lead up in 2002.

]]> By: durablend http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/09/22/the-conspiracy-against-the-right-continues/#comment-61926 durablend Sat, 22 Sep 2007 20:54:58 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=5188#comment-61926 Jack Cafferty a LIBERAL?!? When the heck did this happen?!? Jack Cafferty a LIBERAL?!? When the heck did this happen?!?

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