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- CableCarrier, on 10/12/2007, -3/+70I wouldn't say it's the bloggers. It's just the over all feeling of "You're a tax-and-spend, cut-and-run, flip-flopping liberal moonbat!" "You're a short-sighted, bible-humping fundamentalist conservative nutjob!"
There's very little tolerance for the beliefs of others. - soarin, on 10/12/2007, -6/+43A large part of the blame goes to people like Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter, who spew negativity and hate as part of their everyday existence. Ann Coulter says liberals are traitors and must be hanged (and gets to say it on most networks) while Rush is spewing his stuff for 3 hours a day for the last 10 years or so.
The conservatives even have their own network, Fox News. CNN does not even come close to balancing out FOX. (What liberal counterparts are there to Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, Joe Scarborough, and the rest of the conservative talking heads?) Don't say Olbermann, because he's a very pissed-off moderate, not a liberal.
The neo-cons were all about making the word "liberal" a bad word in the '80s and '90s. The new media has nothing to do with the phenomenon. But it's the only place that liberals get to have a voice, so that's why he's saying it. - consonance, on 10/12/2007, -4/+30I hope you mean "Bible-thumping," because Bible humping is something very few Christians would endorse.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+30i hear there are rumors on the Diggs
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+27CNN does not even come close to balancing out FOX because CNN is also extremely conservative. Sorry Limbaugh fans, but being an angstrom to the left of FOX does not make CNN a "liberal" station.
- shawnfassett, on 10/12/2007, -4/+25Of course you can blame some bloggers...Drudge, Pajamas Media, Michelle Malkin, Townhall, CNSNews.com, WorldNetDaily, Newsmax, Free Republic, Weekly Standard, etc...
Plus, when have the Bushs ever been considered nice people? They have always kept the tone ugly. They just can't stand it when the light is turned on their ugliness. - jaydj, on 10/12/2007, -3/+23@consonance
Love thy bible - infopro, on 10/12/2007, -5/+21Per soarin: "The conservatives even have their own network, Fox News."
Fox isn't a conservative network, it's a neo-con one. No honest conservative would trust it for the time of day in terms of credibility. - trghpy, on 10/12/2007, -11/+27Yea, Damn you people for speaking your mind.
DAAAMNN you to hell!!
Only us true christians can damn you to hell so watch out! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19Dubya himself and the people he surrounds himself with is the reason for the present political climate. It wasn't until he took power that bipartisanship died.
- orientis, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19I don't think it's the bloggers either. For some strange reason I blame politicians for the current political climate.
- gamasutra, on 10/12/2007, -7/+22Next you know, he'll be blaming digg.
- bradym80, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18boo hoo, we didnt let you take over the world uncontested
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14"Yea, Damn you people for speaking your mind. DAAAMNN you to hell!!"
"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use." -Kierkegaard - nonpareil, on 10/12/2007, -5/+19What?! Has he been on the Internets again?
- BluePearl, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17Wow, dubya looks much older in his clip than he is used to. And his wife- wow she looks like she is 90 or something
- kettlechips, on 10/12/2007, -7/+19I doubt he even knows what a blog is.
Hell I don't even know what a blog is. - gharding, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12Honestly, I think Bush is right. I certainly pay more attention to politics now than I would if blogs and online news sites weren't around. I don't have time to sit down a read the paper. I'm sure I'm not alone in that as well. Bloggers give more open opinions about politics that journalists can't quite pull off and still remain employed, so it certainly leaves the floodgates open for higher tensions when you're not worried about offending readers.
- EmileVictor, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12I use the email too.
- ulyssesyt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10the irony of POLITICIANS blaming the PEOPLE for the current state of "political incivility" is astounding.
and, as if political partisanship were something new, or recent. - Coded1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Notice how shocked he feels about this type of 'climate' evident on the Net?
He mentions throughout about history and the peoples climate has just begun to be hostile since electronic communication. I think what he may have discovered is history is really one sided. There have been monarchies and political parties that gladly killed those contrary to their opinion. As a result only the ones educated and with power to preserve and stand behind the words would stand time.
A question to Mr. Bush Sr., "if each citizen of all the historic political regimes were able to record their opinion along with those of the people in power, would it be similar to what you see on this very page?" - ardenr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Wife? That's a MAN BAABYY!!! /powers... I would like to see her wig ripped off though.
- Hellman109, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10did you guys read and watch what I did?
He said electronic media aswell, and said they were uncivily...
The definition of that word is:
An uncivil or discourteous act.
Many bloggers are discourteous, they go off on their view (which they are allowed to have, Ive never expected them to be inpartial) and often flame and attack people over one bit of information they found.
I have to agree with him.
But that does not mean that Bloggers or Electronic media should be stopped or slowed at all. - ardenr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9from a report by factcheck.org (truly non-partisan)...
http://www.factcheck.org/article460.html
Summary
Both political parties are functioning in the 2006 House races as factories for attack ads, but the National Republican Campaign Committee's work stands out this year for the sheer volume of assaults on the personal character of Democratic House challengers. - gharding, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I'm digging you up for the sheer idiocy of your comment.
- edifus, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12Dubya is that guys son.
This is daddy Bush and his wife. - maehem, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10"There aught to be limits to freedom." - George W Bush
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Killinger:
>Media bias study:
If you want to see how retarded Killinger's fake study about "liberal bias" in media -- is, read it. Here's where various groups rank in Killinger's faked study:
# RAND Corporation, a nonprofit research organization (motto: "OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS. EFFECTIVE SOLUTIONS.") with strong ties to the Defense Department, scored a 60.4, making it a "liberal" group.
# Council on Foreign Relations, whose tagline is "A Nonpartisan Resource for Information and Analysis" (its current president is a former Bush administration official; its board includes prominent Democrats and Republicans from the foreign policy establishment) scored a 60.2, making it a "liberal" group.
# American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), bête noire of the right, scored a 49.8, putting it just on the "conservative" side of the ledger.
Debunking of Killinger's fake "media bias" study:
http://mediamatters.org/items/200512220003?offset=20&show=1
The study is so bad, so "riddled with flaws" that anyone can see for themselves that it's broken. - kingatrock, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Quick uh.. blame the internets!
- mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8It was funny when he said that his son doesn't use email because he didn't "want to worry about having to tell the truth"
- geronimo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Alcoholism throws a kink into the equation. GWB is a living example for kids everywhere to not drink alcohol.
"Don't drink that stuff, do you want to be like the president?" - NewChar, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8LMAO
- ardenr, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8A recent study of pabster's comment history reveals that he is clearly a troll.
1 - Diggs random articles, but never comments on those except to flame...
2 - 9/10 comments, usually containing the word "wacko-lib" or "sheeple", are on political posts.
3 - 1/10 comments are flames.
It's really that easy to find the wank-stains out, now block the *****-sucker who's getting paid to mess with public opinion. That's the best thing to do with the clown. - ardenr, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Nice try at looking like you're not one of the trolls killinger777, but the paper you link to takes ***** statistics to... well, not a new level, but a pretty damned low one.
Coward, as if slyly pointing to a flawed statistic makes Bush's evil crap any less crapulent. He just said that "the email" could be subpoenaed to prove his widdle boy was a ***** liar, which anyone in their right mind knows already.
Honestly, they pay you too much to spew your *****, but ya gotta make it look like there's another side to the story don't you? For fairness and balance right? Please die?
edit: my god, someone dugg him up for that. - kevinkrejci, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Free speech is such a threat to politicians. If only they had could have one channel and they could control all the press releases, and the rest of us just stick to being consumers, this kind of ugly political climate wouldn't be. They could call it the Pravda Channel, brought to us by the Ministry of Truth. Ignorance is bliss.
- afterpartyboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5LOAD OF *****!
Don't ***** go to Washington claiming to be a "uniter, not a divider" and then disregard and deride everyone who has a differing opinion than you.
YOU BROUGHT THIS ON YOURSELF, AND HAVE NO ONE ELSE TO BLAME FOR IT. - yocheo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Wow...I watched the video and was amazed at how literate former president Bush is, compared to the younger one.
...and they say each generation progresses in intelligence. - orientis, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8@pabster
A recent study has shown your mum likes donkeys. No, I have no link. Do you? - ZenMojo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Greta van Susteren's the closest thing Fox has to a liberal next to Alan Colmes. She doesn't even cover the news, so I don't see why she was singled out instead of the triumvirate of neo-broads Coulter, Malkin, and whatever crazy old chick wrote that book American Mourning and decided, literally, that Iraqi lives aren't a consideration in the Iraqi occupation and that we should have gone in and razed the place.
- ZenMojo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5The funniest thing about George Herbert Walker Bush complaining about blogs is that, when he battled Dan Rather on television and denied facts that were easily verifiable, the existence of blogs would have slaughtered that old bastard.
- bbnkstr, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6@takeda
the term, internets, is used when referring to the uber-secret internet used only by government and bush cronies, thus plural. - ardenr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Why wasn't I laughing?
Oh yeah... He hasn't been done for war crimes yet. - CandidateZero, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9On Fox News last night, Herbert Walker Bush said, quote, "It's unfair how difficult it is to control information nowadays. Why, in my day, we didn't even need to worry about these intertubes and whatnot. We'd just focus our energy on controlling the mainstream media and that was that. But now we've got any ol' person with a computer speaking their mind to the whole world and we can't POSSIBLY control them all! It ain't fair, doggonit, it ain't fair!"
- AmishRefugee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5it couldn't be due to the fact that i saw one positive commercial out of 100 in the Talent-McCaskill race here in Missouri.... oh wait, yeah it could
- clyde2801, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4This just in: clyde2801 blames Fox News for today's ugly political climate...
- Yage2006, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5It's a good thing I'm sure many officials "especially the bad ones" are quite threatened by them seeing as they cant conceal there ***** so easily and it provided a great way for people to communicate on such matters.
- vitaminbmeister, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4He has a very nice library.
- mofotronimus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I'm sure he'll find some way to pin it on the democrats (as usual): "it's all Al Gore's Fault- HE created the Internet"
- ardenr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4maehem: Unless you have a signing statement of course.
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