10-15-2004, 10:05 AM | #31 | |
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Now Policies have all the impact on how the winner governs, but in the election season, NO way. Look at either side and what is said. Being a conserve I can tell you that during the 2000 election it was said that the Republican wanted to poison the air and water! Now think about that statement, truely think about it. If that was a policy, that the repubilcans wanted to poison the air and water, what would republicans breath and drink? Do not republicans breath and drink the same air and water that the Dems. do? The statment is not a policy statment it is an emotional statement meant to scare people. Lordy we do the same thing but from our point of view.
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Soorry, JD, I thought you meant policy, not policy. Erm.... you know what I mean.
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10-16-2004, 04:45 PM | #34 |
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Grojlach, you are correct in that some people did try to stop F 9/11 from airing...they did this by voting with their dollars and boycotting sponsors...Kerry however used lawyers to threaten book stores not to allow the Swift Vets book out...I see a difference between the two efforts. I counted 27 anti-bush books at Borders Book Store yesterday, and 4 Anti-Republican party books on the shelves, however there were just 3 anti-kerry books and no anti-democrat books.....I think the mass media vendors who decide wich books get put into the public book stores are demonstrably a monopoly for the left. On the internet the number of books availabe for each side seems to be pretty even. But you are right...both sides do to some degree try to stifle the other side, I just happen to think the leftists are more effective at it, guess it comes more naturally |
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Which approach is best? I don't know, but even if both were proven to be 100% consisting of lies, the damage would still have been done. Quote:
And I'm mentioning this because for a book to appear in mainstream bookstores, a certain level of quality (or reliabiliy and a good "selling name") is required - and if there are 200 books about Bush and 40 about Kerry, then it only is a matter of simple logic that more of the anti-Bush ones have those aforementioned requirements. As of right now, most of the books being written about Kerry will contain more speculation than fact (just look at the Vietnam war records ones, with him being backed by anyone who actually served with him but being contested by ex-soldiers who didn't, really), while there's probably a book written for every controversial decision made by the Bush administration (regarding the environment, taxes, "no child left behind", the war on drugs, Iraq, Afghanistan, International relationships with the UN, Ashcroft's policies altogether, you name it); these last books don't have to rely on speculation that much and have a higher chance of having mainstream appeal than yet another 100% smear-'n'-speculation novel. Quote:
* Maybe you could compare it with the situation a few years back, with the number of books on Clinton to be found in stores as opposed to any books written about the Republican candidates he and Gore went up against. There's no way you can convince me there were more books about, say, Bob Dole in stores than about Clinton. [ 10-17-2004, 03:45 AM: Message edited by: Grojlach ] |
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I agree completely that it is blantant political smear and does dredge "bad taste" to new depths. But the program is not being "forced" on anybody - so long as they have a remote control. I certainly won't be watching it, even though I don't plan to vote for Kerry. I wouldn't dignify it with my viewing time. I also disagree with the implication (made by a good friend of mine who is a hardcore liberal) that the Bush Administration has any connection to this action by Sinclair. I think they did it on their own to win some major brownie points. Anyway, that's my [img]graemlins/twocents.gif[/img] on the subject.
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And as we've been discussing dirty campaigning tricks in this topic anyway, I thought throwing in this episode of "This Modern World" for good measure would be appropriate.
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