This guy needs a beating!

[cool_chick]

Originally posted by skipdup
That sounds like an attack to me.

I balanced it with the other statement so as to not be an attack.

[cowtown]

Originally posted by skipdup
That sounds like an attack to me.

edit - I just realized I already said I couldn't take any more... yet, here I am OK, NOW I can't take any more...

LOL skip. It's like a car accident, isn't it? You just can't help but watch....

[cool_chick]

Originally posted by cowtown
LOL skip. It's like a car accident, isn't it? You just can't help but watch....

Watch what? That all I said was Hannity is highly unprofessional and Fox is not fair or balanced?

Or the "fun" in others adding more and changing what was actually said?

[creaturecat]

Originally posted by cowtown
1) See your previous posts in this thread. Search on "creaturecat" "superman" "red ufo" etc. for further evidence.

2) I agree, but that wasn't my point. My point was that everyone should get their news from a bunch of different sources.

3) Thanks for the condecension. Maybe you and Supe should get together for decaf cappucinos some time.

4) Yup.

It's been fun...

Slow day in the personal insult department? Using the computer during recess?
Class act cowtown.

[cowtown]

Hey thanks creature! I try. Nice toilets!

[rcecale]

Originally posted by cool_chick
Now please quit making up stuff. Thank you.

If I cared, I'd ask you what, exactly, I was making up. But, since I don't care, I'll move on. Besides, my point was made several posts ago.

Anyhooo, how 'bout them Cubs? They having a good season this year?

Randy

[cool_chick]

Originally posted by rcecale
If I cared, I'd ask you what, exactly, I was making up. But, since I don't care, I'll move on. Besides, my point was made several posts ago.

Anyhooo, how 'bout them Cubs? They having a good season this year?

Randy

You keep saying I've never watched Fox or Hannity even though I clarified multiple times. So at this point, it seems like you're just making it up (maybe I'm interpreting wrong...shrugs).....I would think the first time would've been sufficient.

The Cubbies rock. Been to a couple games this year. So fun! And they're doing pretty well.

[skipdup]

It is now very clear I have a problem. Did I sweat while trying to resist the urge of posting again, I will never tell. But I will tell you I have been overcome with a comforting sense of calm since my fingers have started working this keyboard again. I can now truly appreciate what junkies describe as "getting a fix".

Now, on to business...

Originally posted by cool_chick
Or the "fun" in others adding more and changing what was actually said?

PLEASE, do tell what exactly was added or changed to any of your posts?

- Skip

[cool_chick]

Originally posted by skipdup
No.

Because...

Thanks for the laughs... I don't think I can take any more.

I'm talking about the post where I said this:

I'm sorry if you misunderstood me. My apologies...I HAVE watched some of these shows, including Hannity, I don't make a habit of it.

Please quit making up stuff now, I would appreciate it. Thank you.

That's the post you were referring to when you said this:

One post ago you said "Please quit making up stuff now". What was "made up"?

Number 9. How many times do I have to reprint this? What's so hard about reading what I wrote here when I clarified what I meant?

[cool_chick]

Originally posted by skipdup
It is now very clear I have a problem. Did I sweat while trying to resist the urge of posting again, I will never tell. But I will tell you I have been overcome with a comforting sense of calm since my fingers have started working this keyboard again. I can now truly appreciate what junkies describe as "getting a fix".

Now, on to business...

PLEASE, do tell what exactly was added or changed to any of your posts?

- Skip

1. Accusing me of never watching FOX or Hannity even though I've now clarified that post 9 times (this makes 10).

2. All this garbage in response to my post:

My favorite thing about Fox, though, is that it sends you guys (gals) into absolute conniption fits of pompous outrage, causing you basically to claim that Fox is mindwashing uninformed, stupid voters, and costing your obviously intellectually superior candidates elections. Rock on!

And then further garbage to "look back at my posts."

All I said is that Hannity is highly unprofessional and FOX is not fair and balanced. And I meant that I don't watch opinion shows much, which was mistakenly taken to think I never seen them which was clarified 9 TIMES NOW but you guys continue to state I haven't.

[skipdup]

But, what was CHANGED or ADDED from your posts?

edit - all that was done was to quote what you had typed. You then deny ever typing it, then accuse people of changing what you typed.

[cool_chick]

Originally posted by skipdup
But, what was CHANGED or ADDED from your posts?

Those things. I clarified same about what I meant, yet you guys are continually changing what I said and what I meant.

Added, that huge paragraph about "intellectually superior candidates"... losing the election, etc. etc. etc.

edit - all that was done was to quote what you had typed. You then deny ever typing it, then accuse people of changing what you typed.

WRONG, I don't watch those shows does NOT mean I never have watched those shows. You misinterpreted what I said, and I clarified and that's just not good enough for you!

[stuartj]

Originally posted by Dennis Kalma
I hesitate to weigh into this particular little debate, but I would raise the point that if you want a fulsome understanding of the issues, you are not likely to ever get it from a television programme which works in sound bites, sensationalistic wording and visual appeal....

If you really want to understand an issue, why not read about it in a few places (to eliminate as much editorial bias as possible).

Television is for the most part mental pollution....

Grab a copy of the Economist and READ.....

Dennis

We dont like your kind round here, stranger.

The Economist, indeed. Pinko rag.

Stuart. We report, you believe.

[M.D. Holloway]

move on folks, nothing more to see here...

[jim72911t]

Pardon me for the interruption, but wasn't the esteemed Rupert Murdoch (Fox News) the same one who started a news channel in the U.S. because he thought that Ted Turner's CNN was too liberal?

Granted, I only studied journalism for a year, but one of the first things that I learned was to not disclose any bias. The second thing that I learned was that no journalism is without bias.

But crap, people, to claim that Fox news is not biased to the right is simply asinine. I understand the difference between news shows and commentary. Sometimes the line is a bit blurred. CNN is just as guilty, Lou Dobbs comes to mind.

But, if you must get your news from the networks (actually, that doesn't work, since all they seem to talk about is American Idol or Survivor or the MJ trial) or cable, do yourselves a favor and watch Fox and CNN back to back. You'll find that the same stories are covered in completely different ways, and it's fun to try and find the truth between the two.

And, if you want some actual BALANCE, watch News Hour (as someone else has said), or listen to NPR.

But please, please, don't tell me that FOX is 'fair and balanced."

Jim

[stuartj]

Al Jazeera can provide a quite different POV, as well. BBC trained, most of their people. Always good to be cogniscent of how other people and cultures look at certain events.

Unless you enjoy examining your own navel lint.

[CamB]

Actually, I quite like the BBC's website for news, now that you mention it (news.bbc.co.uk).

Fox was, after all, the subject of a Michael Moore style documentary about it bias - Outfoxed. Not that I've seen it, although I have watched enough Fox News to know that I didn't want to do it again (smarmy presenters, even for TV standards).

[VINMAN]

Wow! My original post was just to point out what an a**hole the kid was. Not a question of which news channel he was on.
But if he was on any other network , would that make him any less of a moron??

[Christien]

Nope, he'd still be a moron, but might have had more of a chance to explain himself. The optimist in me says nobody can be that much of a loser, and he must either have some better explanations, or be putting on a pretty elaborate hoax and have a great poker face.

[Shaun @ Tru6]

Originally posted by Christien
Nope, he'd still be a moron, but might have had more of a chance to explain himself. The optimist in me says nobody can be that much of a loser, and he must either have some better explanations, or be putting on a pretty elaborate hoax and have a great poker face.

I'd like to believe that, but I think this guy was just a class A loser. He would have been just as much one on any other occasion.

In fact, I dare say that if he had the chance to explain himself, his hole would be much deeper. And I'd be one of the first to start shoveling dirt in to fill it up.