@blatham,
blatham wrote:
Once again. Bias isn't the key problem. Bias is universal and it is a feature of the mental life of all of us. It is not avoidable. But it does not follow from this fact that therefore any commentary is equal to any other commentary or that any opinion is equal to another opinion.
Your link goes to Tim Kane writing at the Atlantic. He notes that disaffection with the military leadership pre-dates Obama's tenure.
Your quotes all come from Fox broadcasts except one from the NY Post. Bias itself is not the problem with either outlet. Something far more egregious is their failing. You won't accept that because it's the world you live in and because your media studies are paltry and your critical skills untutored.
That there are military people who despise Obama or who despise liberalism or would like to go punch a hippy or whatever is not news. And that they are parroting a RW story is not news either.
I wonder if McGentrix is aware that Blatham has found him to be so "untutored". Unfortunately Blatham has never revealed his own credentials or the experience on which he bases his insights. Just what experience, education or training constitute his credentials as a tutor, other than extensive reading of mostly liberal opinion pieces and some 'studies of education theory' or something like that. It appears clear that he really does see himself as such a tutor. If so just what the hell are his credentials ?
Blatham grandly notes the universality of bias but reserves judgment to himself alone on just what sources are more reliable than others. It's generally not hard to guess those he prefers.
He is also sure that those who "despise liberalism" are merely "parroting a RW news story". Unfortunately he makes no such judgment on LW news stories, and I can't count the number of LW "news stories" Blatham has posted here, all, according to him, incisive and accurate assessments of facts. It seems to me that his "parroting" is a good deal more frequent and intense than that of those he so blithely accuses.
It appears Blatham imagines himself to sit in judgment of us all here; distinguishing between fact and opinion and the sole judge of which (an whose) opinions merit serious attention.
The truth is he in no tutor, and no judge, notwithstanding all his pretense, and all the LW propaganda he reads and pastes here so assiduously. He is just another poster among many, though he is far more prolific than most and devotes far more time to this than any of us.