Oz and Walker

[Dill]

(10-28-2022, 05:23 PM)BengalYankee Wrote: 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.

Um, I'll bet you find a LOT of people at Republican gatherings insisting on how balanced and non-partisan they are because there is this or
that one or two "leftist" causes like pro-choice or tax corporations a little more that they have "always supported."  ANy MAGA types there will give you a high five for hating a Bush--especially if you hate all of them.

But my real question is, what makes a position "hard-left" for you, especially if you think Fox has become more balanced since the loss of Shepherd Smith and Wallace and the increasing visibility of Hannity and Carlson? Some prominent Repubs, like McConnell and McCarthy and Graham, were actually ready to hold Trump accountable after 1/6--until Fox commentators recognized that would give Dems more power. Owing to Fox, the number of people who believe that the election was stolen and Trump bears no responsibility for the Capitol riots has increased. 
George Will gone from Fox too. 

I don't think this is a far left forum either, at least by traditional conceptions of the political spectrum. What criteria are you deploying here? 

Also I'm curious as to why you think people have to be "lock step" in the Dem party? Sure they are not going to like you if you say Biden
weaponized the DoJ, but Dem candidates are not scrambling to get Biden's endorsement based on acceptance of a lie. They aren't demoting people for wanting to uphold the law.  How can you tell when people have to be in "lock step" in a party, or not?