tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12507451.post116921688552741346..comments2024-03-25T04:46:46.000-04:00Comments on Casting Pearls Before Swine: The Fairness Doctrine. Why Is It Needed?Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15633208787250567256noreply@blogger.comBlogger47125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12507451.post-70769061418003884752008-12-15T09:30:00.000-05:002008-12-15T09:30:00.000-05:00May I just say that it's people like you that make...May I just say that it's people like you that make America stuck in its rut. Can we let go of the victim complex we all see much too often from both sides of the fence (Liberal and Conservative?) The hatred and vileness that spews from right wing talk radio is shameful and embarrassing, perhaps limiting some of it and opening up people to other viewpoints would be nice for a change? Talk radio in this decade has merely given more foolish, angry people a place to congregate and split America in two even more. We need to come together and rid ourselves of silly partisanship, or at least act civil about it in this century or America is on its way out, sorry.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12507451.post-47804603374087212442007-01-31T02:52:00.000-05:002007-01-31T02:52:00.000-05:00Here's a movie for Africanvoice. Just in time for...Here's <a href="http://www.amazinggracemovie.com/">a movie</a> for Africanvoice. Just in time for black history month. Go see it. It'll round out your education from all the race-blame.The WordSmith from Nantuckethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15937868119894243815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12507451.post-37411824523405937512007-01-31T01:45:00.000-05:002007-01-31T01:45:00.000-05:00No doubt about it. Africanvoice is a racist. He'...No doubt about it. Africanvoice is a racist. He's a racist AND a victim. That's a two-fer. Not easy to do. He must be proud. <br /><br />But what's this crap about not having the power to be a racist? I answered my own question it seems. It's crap. Racism has nothing to do with power or wealth. It's all about blaming one's troubles on the color of others. "Life is hard because of the white man." "I can't get a job because they're giving them all to the black guys." Tell ya what, AV. You need to start up a black KKK. Why fart around? You WANT racial disharmony. Don't deny it. Why else would you crap on Freeman except that he refuses to buy into the black victimhood nonsense? It's really pathetic.Marshal Arthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01054268632726520871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12507451.post-30531587252992121492007-01-28T13:57:00.000-05:002007-01-28T13:57:00.000-05:00Amazing. Your last comment just proved my point: ...Amazing. Your last comment just proved my point: You, my friend, are racist.<br /><br />It is unfortunate that you cannot even see it.The WordSmith from Nantuckethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15937868119894243815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12507451.post-85954124610401018982007-01-27T23:32:00.000-05:002007-01-27T23:32:00.000-05:00"You, my friend are exactly what you refuse to see..."You, my friend are exactly what you refuse to see in yourself, but impart unto others. A racist." <br /><br />I have no power to be racist. I may sound like one because you want me to be, but I can't act upon any racist notions like white folks who make the laws and control the resources! I'm sure your can comprehend this simple fact. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />"You perpetuate racism."<br /><br />Nope, I speak my mind and it upsets real racist who like to hide behind their hypocrisy. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />If you want a colorblind world, quit obsessing over it. <br /><br />Then the only color will be white! Speak for yourself, I want color in my world!<br /><br />As Morgan Freeman said on 60 Minutes, "stop talking about it."<br /><br />Fluck that negro facsimile<br /><br />And you can ask Mark as to my ethnicity. <br /><br />If you are not white then you are a facsimile (see morgan freeman)..they count as white too you know...<br /><br />How funny that you should assume that I am a "privileged white man". <br /><br />Then woman..(ref: see the transfer of affirmative action to white women from blacks, especially black men) it makes no difference.<br /><br />You only got one word in that phrase, right.<br /><br />nantucket person, you are socialized in a white world whether you or skinned white or not and your level or acceptance education (and maybe white skin) gives you priviledge and your rank in the peckin order. <br /><br />You have no clue or care to understand people of color's fight for liberation from your colony. This doesn't include negros, coconuts, bannanas, oreos, and the rest of the "assimilated" bunch. <br /><br />Maybe I missed the gender...AFRICANVOICE.COMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08142503299421884227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12507451.post-84510732876143354192007-01-27T01:26:00.000-05:002007-01-27T01:26:00.000-05:00Look you are a racist albeit probably a covert one...<i>Look you are a racist albeit probably a covert one. Racist always try to justify their historical evilness and their aberrant behavior.<br /><br />We'll never agree because we have two different agendas. You want to remain a privilege white man and I want parity. See ya!</i><br /><br />You, my friend are exactly what you refuse to see in yourself, but impart unto others. A racist. You perpetuate racism. If you want a colorblind world, quit obsessing over it. As Morgan Freeman said on 60 Minutes, "stop talking about it."<br /><br />And you can ask Mark as to my ethnicity. How funny that you should assume that I am a "privileged white man". You only got one word in that phrase, right.The WordSmith from Nantuckethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15937868119894243815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12507451.post-36565774595397650622007-01-25T18:05:00.000-05:002007-01-25T18:05:00.000-05:00AFRICANVOICE.COM has left a new comment on your po...AFRICANVOICE.COM has left a new comment on your post "The Fairness Doctrine. Why Is It Needed?": <br /><br />"blacks were the only ones who have suffered gravely from the injustice of slavery"<br /><br />I didn't say that blacks were the ONLY ones. What I did say is that the type of injustice is unique to the European when it comes to black enslavement. Find another group that "decultured" a whole race of people in history for me will ya? <br /><br />Slavery in other lands and times ran across the "racial" board, but the european white CHRISTIAN man enslaved the black exclusively based on his "blackness." He tried with the indian but it didn't work.<br /><br />"Keith Richburg in his book"<br /><br />So this negro speaks for all black people? Look just because he feels "god" (read white man) has been good to him doesn't mean that the white man is good or that there's a god. It means that keith has been "decultured" to the point where he has abandoned his own ancestral African-ness. <br /><br />"By criticizing "white Christians", you fail to acknowledge the fact that it was white Christians who began the world's first abolitionist movement"<br /><br />This is how european culture has survived so long by presenting to the world the "good cop, bad cop" dichotomy. Look a cop is a cop!<br /><br />Did white xtians benefit from black enslavement? Did blacks benefit (other than keiths view) from their enslavment? What socio economic position do blacks hold worldwide?<br /><br />Look you are a racist albeit probably a covert one. Racist always try to justify their historical evilness and their aberrant behavior. <br /><br />We'll never agree because we have two different agendas. You want to remain a privilege white man and I want parity. See ya!Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15633208787250567256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12507451.post-1169759151702972922007-01-25T16:05:00.000-05:002007-01-25T16:05:00.000-05:00"blacks were the only ones who have suffered grave..."blacks were the only ones who have suffered gravely from the injustice of slavery"<BR/><BR/>I didn't say that blacks were the ONLY ones. What I did say is that the type of injustice is unique to the European when it comes to black enslavement. Find another group that "decultured" a whole race of people in history for me will ya? <BR/><BR/>Slavery in other lands and times ran across the "racial" board, but the european white CHRISTIAN man enslaved the black exclusively based on his "blackness." He tried with the indian but it didn't work.<BR/><BR/>"Keith Richburg in his book"<BR/><BR/>So this negro speaks for all black people? Look just because he feels "god" (read white man) has been good to him doesn't mean that the white man is good or that there's a god. It means that keith has been "decultured" to the point where he has abandoned his own ancestral African-ness. <BR/><BR/>"By criticizing "white Christians", you fail to acknowledge the fact that it was white Christians who began the world's first abolitionist movement"<BR/><BR/>This is how european culture has survived so long by presenting to the world the "good cop, bad cop" dichotomy. Look a cop is a cop!<BR/><BR/>Did white xtians benefit from black enslavement? Did blacks benefit (other than keiths view) from their enslavment? What socio economic position do blacks hold worldwide?<BR/><BR/>Look you are a racist albeit probably a covert one. Racist always try to justify their historical evilness and their aberrant behavior. <BR/><BR/>We'll never agree because we have two different agendas. You want to remain a privilege white man and I want parity. See ya!AFRICANVOICE.COMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08142503299421884227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12507451.post-1169664862201795782007-01-24T13:54:00.000-05:002007-01-24T13:54:00.000-05:00in all your examples, only the whites practiced th...<I>in all your examples, only the whites practiced the type of enslavement that removed the person from their "humanbeingness." By that I mean I have NO idea of my ancestral name, culture, ancestry, place of origin, etc. And this was done by "white xtians."<BR/><BR/>Geez! </I><BR/><BR/>"Geez" is right! It is narcissism to think that blacks were the only ones who have suffered gravely from the injustice of slavery (in the terms you've used: having their cultural identity stripped away from them). White Christians have no more committed atrocities than any other group of people. Every culture in the world has not had their hands clean from brutalizing those outside of their own tribe/society. <BR/><BR/>Keith Richburg in his book, "Out of America" is one man who recognizes that the America of today is not the America of his ancestors; that he lives in a good land, and is grateful for being an American, with an American identity. Given the suffering going on in many parts of Africa, he feels blessed to be where he is today. <BR/><BR/>By criticizing "white Christians", you fail to acknowledge the fact that it was white Christians who began the world's first abolitionist movement to condemn slavery. To end its practice. This was begun in the west; and the British government, motivated not by personal gain and profit, went out of its way to pressure other governments to also end slavery, as well as physically stopping the slave trade through force of arms.The WordSmith from Nantuckethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15937868119894243815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12507451.post-1169556796787056832007-01-23T07:53:00.000-05:002007-01-23T07:53:00.000-05:00"AFRICANVOICE.COM: Just stop the neocons from bein..."AFRICANVOICE.COM: Just stop the neocons from being so "unenlightened" and in your face.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Of course this is an opinion! <BR/><BR/>Sometimes opinions don't need to be singled out as fact by the writer if one reads. And this is the crux of a lot of disagreements. People can't discern opinion from fact in the written word.AFRICANVOICE.COMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08142503299421884227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12507451.post-1169556555387122582007-01-23T07:49:00.000-05:002007-01-23T07:49:00.000-05:00"It doesn't matter whether you believe you "have" ..."It doesn't matter whether you believe you "have" a God or not. He still exists. "<BR/><BR/>January 22, 2007 11:16 AM<BR/>-----------------------------------<BR/><BR/>What this about not needing a "fairness" doctirne? Here's an example. 90% of the Nation feels like him so we don't need the view of the opposing 10% huh? Just shut up and think as I think.AFRICANVOICE.COMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08142503299421884227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12507451.post-1169555945633925552007-01-23T07:39:00.000-05:002007-01-23T07:39:00.000-05:00"It doesn't matter whether you believe you "have" ..."It doesn't matter whether you believe you "have" a God or not. He still exists."<BR/><BR/>OK if YOU say so! Too bad if I can't say differently. <BR/><BR/><BR/>Racism and oppression of "the other", is not exclusively a "white thing". Blacks enslaved blacks...Arabs enslaved all...Mayans were destroying each other long before Spanish Conquistadores...the Chinese looked at the rest of the world outside of China as barbarians...white Christians were the ones who began the first real anti-slavery movement in the world. <BR/><BR/>January 22, 2007 1:14 PM<BR/><BR/>I can't speak for the Mayans because a lot of that is speculation. However in all your examples, only the whites practiced the type of enslavement that removed the person from their "humanbeingness." By that I mean I have NO idea of my ancestral name, culture, ancestry, place of origin, etc. And this was done by "white xtians." <BR/><BR/>Geez!AFRICANVOICE.COMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08142503299421884227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12507451.post-1169489641317982432007-01-22T13:14:00.000-05:002007-01-22T13:14:00.000-05:00Blacks are treated differently in a white colony a...<I>Blacks are treated differently in a white colony and that is fact no matter how ugly or "insane" it may seem to you.</I><BR/><BR/>Racism and oppression of "the other", is not exclusively a "white thing". Blacks enslaved blacks...Arabs enslaved all...Mayans were destroying each other long before Spanish Conquistadores...the Chinese looked at the rest of the world outside of China as barbarians...white Christians were the ones who began the first real anti-slavery movement in the world.The WordSmith from Nantuckethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15937868119894243815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12507451.post-1169482608558724422007-01-22T11:16:00.000-05:002007-01-22T11:16:00.000-05:00African says, "That's "religionism". What if I do...African says, "That's "religionism". What if I don't have a god? See that's how racism works, you had NO idea you were being a "religionist"<BR/><BR/>It doesn't matter whether you believe you "have" a God or not. He still exists.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15633208787250567256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12507451.post-1169482448744824292007-01-22T11:14:00.000-05:002007-01-22T11:14:00.000-05:00For some reason, Blogger.com is not allowing mne t...For some reason, Blogger.com is not allowing mne to allow a comment sent in by Rustyshackelford, so I am copying and pasting his comment for you all now. Here it is, in it's entirety:<BR/><BR/>rusty shakelford has left a new comment on your post "The Fairness Doctrine. Why Is It Needed?": <BR/><BR/>Dan: you have no life.<BR/><BR/>Liam: it’s you that’s the crazy right-wing extremist…? that makes no sense since that phrase is nowhere in the post ;o)<BR/><BR/>AFRICANVOICE.COM: Just stop the neocons from being so "unenlightened" and in your face. <BR/><BR/>Jim:I believe you haven't the faintest clue what you are talking about. <BR/><BR/>The above are typical liberal arguments. Now I only took one debate class in college but I do remember them saying something about backing up a statement with a list of facts, or logical thought used to draw a conclusion. The above are closed ended statements that have no place in debate but have a happy home in liberal thought. Liberal play book reads: If someone disagrees with you fist label them then condem them as closed minded, repete steps one and two as necessary. <BR/><BR/>Jason, good arguments and supporting arguments.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15633208787250567256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12507451.post-1169479157144886712007-01-22T10:19:00.000-05:002007-01-22T10:19:00.000-05:00"will repeat I am not a racist."Let white folks te..."will repeat I am not a racist."<BR/><BR/>Let white folks tell it, none of them are racist unless they get caught with their hand in the cookie jar. If you are white in America, socialized on this planent, you have some degree of racist tendencies. It's just that some whites are more cerebral about it. <BR/><BR/><BR/>"I believe you and I are equal in the sight of God." <BR/><BR/>That's "religionism". What if I don't have a god? See that's how racism works, you had NO idea you were being a "religionist."<BR/><BR/><BR/>"Neither of us are superior to the other in any way." <BR/><BR/>I disgree with this statement. We all have strengths and weaknesses.<BR/><BR/>But as far as this government you despise is concerned, <BR/><BR/>Hey I don't "despise" this government. It's the only one I got. I just don't agree with it most of the time and I think history would tell anyone with a clear head I'd be crazy to do so. Blacks are treated differently in a white colony and that is fact no matter how ugly or "insane" it may seem to you. America is a white colony from the start and still is.<BR/><BR/>"blacks are vastly superior to whites and have proved that fact over and over." <BR/><BR/>WTF? are you serious? Black are no where near as technologically savy as whites in developing weapons and things non spirutal, although we could learn. Whites are no where near as spiritual as Blacks although I think (since I'm not white) that they could learn. <BR/><BR/>Do you think a black man could invent a symphony? (albeit we could learn to write them) Do you think a white man could "instinctively" play the drums without written music? (albeit he could learn)<BR/><BR/>I don't want to carry this further because i think we could never agree.AFRICANVOICE.COMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08142503299421884227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12507451.post-1169472712557022202007-01-22T08:31:00.000-05:002007-01-22T08:31:00.000-05:00Jim, you said, ""This would account for the preval...Jim, you said, ""This would account for the prevalence of Liberals in "Man-on-the-street" interviews who cannot answer simple questions like, "Who is the Vice President?", or "Who is the Secretary of State?"<BR/><BR/>Who says these are liberals? They are ignorant. There is no evidence that liberals are any worse at these questions than anybody else and I would submit that liberals are better educated and more likely to answer these questions correctly. Prove me wrong."<BR/><BR/>First of all, Jim, I can't prove you wrong. <BR/><BR/>But what I said was based simply on what I have observed. I know Leno does man-on-the street interviews with his "Jaywalk" feature, and they don't say whether they are liberals or not. However, they are in California, which is an overwhelmingly Liberal state. Odds are they are Liberal. <BR/><BR/>Hannity does them too and he does ask. They are usually Liberal.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15633208787250567256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12507451.post-1169441202683402222007-01-21T23:46:00.000-05:002007-01-21T23:46:00.000-05:00I was going to post a lengthy essay here, but it w...I was going to post a lengthy essay here, but it would be a waste of time. How do you reason with people (liberals) who are incapable of rational thought? As the old saying goes, garbage in, garbage out. <BR/><BR/>Ahh, what the heck, I'll give it a try.<BR/><BR/>I find it VERY difficult to believe this so-called fairness doctrine would be fairly enforced. Can you imagine a liberal nutcase like Keith Olbermann devoting half his show to the conservative viewpoint? He'd jump off a ledge first -- as long as he could land on a Republican. O'Reilly is up against Olbermann in the prime time lineup. Nobody is to blame for O'Reilly's ratings being 300% that of Olbermann. Nobody is paying people to watch Fox News. It is the marketplace of ideas at work. It is not the conservatives' fault that people find the liberals' ideas to be repugnant. Instead of forcing their ideas on others, maybe liberals should be working to refine them.Lone Rangerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13278448546799358207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12507451.post-1169430475574700932007-01-21T20:47:00.000-05:002007-01-21T20:47:00.000-05:00I'm, sorry, African. But it really ticks me off wh...I'm, sorry, African. But it really ticks me off when I hear some black person complaining how bad they are treated in this country. Blacks have it way better than whites do nowadays. <BR/><BR/>And even if they do get treated unfairly, or even if they only say they are being treated unfairly, all they have to do is scream "Racism" and everybody bends over backwards to hand them anything they ask for and more.<BR/><BR/>I will repeat I am not a racist. I believe you and I are equal in the sight of God. Neither of us are superior to the other in any way. But as far as this government you despise is concerned, blacks are vastly superior to whites and have proved that fact over and over. <BR/><BR/>It is all about color. I wish you could wake up white and try to find a job for just one week so you could see for yourself.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15633208787250567256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12507451.post-1169430060919659852007-01-21T20:41:00.000-05:002007-01-21T20:41:00.000-05:00African, "government shouldn't be trusted especial...African, "government shouldn't be trusted especially if you are a non white."??<BR/><BR/>Now you got my dander up. No race in this country get's more handed to them than the black race. Blacks have surpassed equality with the white man and have become the superior race.<BR/><BR/>I am a big believer that God created all men(and women) equal. But I have seen the black people get all the breaks over and over. I have been job hunting lately and I have seen first hand how blacks are treated vs how whites are treated. <BR/><BR/>Blacks get first choice of every job, and every scholarship, and every opening for college enrollment. <BR/><BR/>Why? Because they are smarter than whites? Well, yes, sometimes they are. I have no problem if a black person gets preferential treatment over me for a job if he/she is more qualified than me, but when the only criteria is what color they are, it is discrimination. Not reverse discrimination. Just plain discrimination.<BR/><BR/>Don't come into my place whining about how badly the non whites are treated in this country. Just go back to my blog post entitled "The Pendulum Swings" and read for yourself. <BR/><BR/>You don't know how good you've got it. Or you do but you've let the likes of those racists Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and Louis Farrakhan convince you that you are still being held down. Well, you're not, buddy. Now it's the middle aged white man on the bottom rung of the ladder. <BR/><BR/>Wake up and smell the coffee, man.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15633208787250567256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12507451.post-1169425356022312972007-01-21T19:22:00.000-05:002007-01-21T19:22:00.000-05:00Wordsmith. In no way should Moyers be lumped in wi...<I>Wordsmith. In no way should Moyers be lumped in with Jane Fonda or Danny Glover. You have obviously never read or listened Bill Moyers.</I><BR/><BR/>Lol..."obviously" you haven't been listening to Bill Moyers these past few years. What did you make of him at the National Conference for Media Reform? No, my friend...he belongs in the current company he keeps. <BR/><BR/>Where do you stand on the Fairness Doctrine, Jim?<BR/><BR/>Was there even one conservative voice who spoke at the Conference? Can it be any more obvious that all this is designed to do, is shut down conservative voices. <BR/><BR/><I>If you look at the history (a realistic look) you'll see that government shouldn't be trusted especially if you are a non white.</I><BR/><BR/>So then, Africanvoice, where do you stand on the Fairness Doctrine issue? To endorse it, is to bring in government control over how information is being disseminated.The WordSmith from Nantuckethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15937868119894243815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12507451.post-1169416040247303932007-01-21T16:47:00.000-05:002007-01-21T16:47:00.000-05:00africanvoice.com--Remember that the Republican par...africanvoice.com--<BR/><BR/>Remember that the Republican party itself was founded on the premise of eradicating slavery. And this tradition didn't die. Eisenhower sent federal troops to Little Rock in 1957 to enforce desegregation. And George W. Bush's administration has greater ethnic diversity than any other administration in human history.<BR/><BR/>Government intervention into the economy is not to be trusted, not because it is an authority, but because of the bad <B>results</B> it creates with the best of intentions. The Great Society, for example, did what centuries of slavery, racism, and segregration could not do -- destroy the black family. (Socialism creates social breakdown wherever it is tried.) In contrast, in the free market, there is only one color, and that is green. Nobody says race affairs are perfect, but if racism was as rampant as leftists say it is -- Arab families, who should have faced the most discrimination after 911, wouldn't make an average of 69K a year, 20K higher than the American average. <BR/><BR/>What happened? Did all of these white racists suddenly cut other races some slack? What gives?jhbowdenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12377271992125388319noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12507451.post-1169407796538139252007-01-21T14:29:00.000-05:002007-01-21T14:29:00.000-05:00"Being Enlightened with the free love, government ..."Being Enlightened with the free love, government giving what you want now, and being suspicious of all authority that comes with it is now a commonplace thing" -jason<BR/><BR/>Question is being "enlightened" with any kind of love, free or brought a bad thing? Should we embrace free hate?<BR/><BR/>If you look at the history (a realistic look) you'll see that government shouldn't be trusted especially if you are a non white. (if you are any type of scholar, look at the supreme court decisions as regard to parity in the U.S. hell just look at the history of the U.S. toward its non white pop.)<BR/><BR/>Please, government giving you what you want? you must have selective memory. What do you call government grants to institutions, corporations, etc? What do you call government support of corporate failures? This amounts to the BILLIONS of dollars,(99.9% to already wealthy or well to do white gentile and jewish folk) but they don't get the play social welfare does IN THE CORPORATE MEDIA. <BR/><BR/><BR/>"and those who dissent are now target of jokes,"-jason <BR/><BR/>Of course they are jokes with their racist, sexist, xenophobia mind set.<BR/><BR/><BR/>"as if they were archaic, confused individuals who hold on to old myths like freedom, liberty, happiness, and self-government."-jason<BR/><BR/>Freedom? In the past freedom meant freedom to do with less powerful people any way those with power chose. Get real and maybe America will get better.<BR/><BR/>But it's folk like you jason who think they are correct and they know what's best. If you want America to remain white, European run colony, then I can see your dissatisfaction. <BR/><BR/>Yes Hitlery is fine with me because she is the other side of your coin!AFRICANVOICE.COMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08142503299421884227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12507451.post-1169402960031233502007-01-21T13:09:00.000-05:002007-01-21T13:09:00.000-05:00"It just seems to me that there are a lot more Con..."It just seems to me that there are a lot more Conservatives that take the time and make the effort to familiarize themselves with the issues than Liberals."<BR/>---------------------------------------<BR/>This will tick many liberals off but I totally agree with this statement. IMHO liberal women are too busy watching Oprah or Dr. Phil or The View instead of paying attention to current events and politics.<BR/><BR/>But on the Fairness Doctrine not being a bad idea I TOTALLY disagree with you. #1--I don't want the government telling me what I can or can't listen to on the radio and #2--Like you point out if there was an audience out there for liberal talk radio they'd have it. Its not a matter of unfairness, its called there is no audience for it.Dionnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05013166054883351020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12507451.post-1169390663789783062007-01-21T09:44:00.000-05:002007-01-21T09:44:00.000-05:00Jim--The academic culture of repudiation I describ...Jim--<BR/><BR/>The academic culture of repudiation I described has a common unity — the Western tradition is logocentric, phallocentric, hegomonic, reactionary, elitist, sexist, racist — and needs to be replaced. Nothing is understood until it is exposed as corrupt, duplicitous, or hypocritical. Behind the deliberate obscurity is the notion that the value of something is not determined by instrinic qualities but by how well it sticks to the party line. This means slave narratives and forgettable Navaho stories are good, and Shakespeare and Dante are bad, unless they can be used to attack bourgeois society.<BR/><BR/>Youth culture, which arrived in full force in the 1960s, is the same deal-- lose your inhibitions, whether they be aggressive or sexual. Instead of the singer presenting a song, the songs now present singers, as if they were sexual totems. Anything handed down by tradition is held with suspicion.<BR/><BR/>These are general cultural trends; some people have had literally decades of the media, hollywood, and academics bombarding them with this stuff from all corners. As a result, the left doesn't want to sit down and think. Being Enlightened with the free love, government giving what you want now, and being suspicious of all authority that comes with it is now a commonplace thing, and those who dissent are now target of jokes, as if they were archaic, confused individuals who hold on to old myths like freedom, liberty, happiness, and self-government.<BR/><BR/>Or should I say, "freedom," "liberty," "happiness," and "self-government." <BR/><BR/>There's a reason why conservatives from Bush to Ford to Reagan to Eisenhower have been portrayed, well, as doofuses. Liberals, if criticized through humor, usually get a different stereotype, and I think marshall is generally correct in that conservatives look at people like Cindy Sheehan and Michael Moore in a mood of horror first, not amusement. Conservative humor regarding liberals has a mood of contempt, not rebellion, and that brings all of the "hate" and "meanspirited" charges against them. That's why Bush can be called a fascist routinely, but calling Hillary 'Hitlery' is out of bounds.jhbowdenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12377271992125388319noreply@blogger.com