10-29-2022, 02:47 AM
(10-28-2022, 05:23 PM)BengalYankee Wrote: Thank you soo much for your kind words.
I do try to level out a discussion as I see this thread is weighted to the left, which I don't mind. I only wanted to show different views that a person won't get from CNN and MSNBC.
People here tend to judge without hearing your views on topics. If I was at a Republican get together party, I would be thrown out after they discovered my views on topics.
I have been told by a member here that I am a bitter old man. Well, I should be CNN used to be my favorite news network before they went all-left. MSNBC was decent, especially with Morning Joe as it used to be a balanced show with Joe S. balancing out Mika. And before that with Imus in the Morning who would insult both parties. And if members here remembered the old Bengals website I used to attack Fox News with a vengence, because I hated George Bush, who I think was the worst president in my life. And all Fox News was put him on a pedestal.
Not naming names, but a person would have to blind and stupid to think that CNN and MSNBC and the Democratic party are the same from 10 years ago. Roger Ailes is gone from Fox News and the network I used to love to hate has become more balanced. Maybe not from anything they did, but because the other networks went hard left.
These days I can't understand how a person can be 100% for a party. I have different views that I like and dislike from each party. What I do see is that with the Democratic party, if you are not 100% lock-step then they don't want you and want to cancel you.
Sorry about the ranting my friend I just wanted to get this off my chest.
The Democratic Party has room in it for both Bernie Sanders and Joe Manchin. Neither has been censured by the Party for going against policy or for criticizing the President. They have such politically diverse members as Ed Case and Pramila Jayapal. Heck even Tulsi Gabbard was a Democrat until she took her ball and went home. Her own choice. The Dems allow for differences. All you had to do was look at all they had contending for the 2020 Presidential nomination.
The Republicans, on the other hand, have censured dozens of Party members who didn’t fall into line about the lies about a stolen election. They censured people who disagreed with Trump. Alaska’s GOP censured Mitch McConnell because he backed a different Republican for Senate than Trump. Republicans even have a name for people who don’t toe the Trump lines. They call them RINOS. My goodness, they’ve even accused conservative Mike DeWine of being a Democrat during COVID
Cancel culture is a made up right wing thing. They like to use the idea to promote their victimhood. I particularly love seeing them on social media claiming they are being silenced on the very platform they are using. Others who have been targeted by conservatives… Kuerig, Starbucks, Disney, Delta, NFL, Target all because they did or said something conservatives didn’t like.
And the only way Fox is balanced is if you have a ridiculously narrow view of that meaning. Balanced means you honestly present both sides. And both sides is not the difference between extremely right wing and very extremely right wing. They tried for 5 minutes when they correctly said Biden won Arizona. But then Trump whined and told the cult to watch Newsmax and OAN, so they veered further to the right to please their master.
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