The name Michael Moore keeps springing to mind. I don't know that he's the 'darling' of the media (which he certainly could be) but he was of the Democrats in this past election cycle.
neue regel -Funny that you should bring up Moore. The problem with him, was that he tried to pass off editorializing as documentary. I have no problem with editorials, if a person is honest about what he is presenting. Moore wasn't, and yet he was lionized by the media.
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Thu 9 Dec, 2004 08:06 am
The media being a business operates on the principle of give them what they want. Pat Robertson as loony as we may consider him represents a sizable percentage of the listening audience. And is indeed a spokesman for them. As for being creditable one mans creditability is another's lunacy
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Thu 9 Dec, 2004 08:11 am
CoastalRat wrote:
And BPB, please stop dissing us rats. It's bad enough being a rat and having to overcome everyone's fears of things small that go squeak, much less to have someone here using us in a denigrating way.
I was speaking merely of the genus ratas shithousas not it's more evolved coastal cousin :wink:
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Thu 9 Dec, 2004 08:19 am
I liked the point Phoenix made about the remote.
I didn't see the "interview", and I'm still wondering what the big deal is. I could see it, if CNN had made him a "regular" on one of their programs, but why is anything he says particularly scary?
Michael Moore has extreme opinions that I don't agree with, but he doesn't scare me in the least. If I find him annoying, relief is just a "click" away
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Thu 9 Dec, 2004 08:24 am
Phoenix32890 wrote:
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The name Michael Moore keeps springing to mind. I don't know that he's the 'darling' of the media (which he certainly could be) but he was of the Democrats in this past election cycle.
neue regel -Funny that you should bring up Moore. The problem with him, was that he tried to pass off editorializing as documentary. I have no problem with editorials, if a person is honest about what he is presenting. Moore wasn't, and yet he was lionized by the media.
that's your opinion.....others found it documentary in nature....
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CoastalRat
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Thu 9 Dec, 2004 08:25 am
Now I feel so much better BPB. My self image has been restored to the previously high level I am accustomed to. Thanks.
Although my distant cousins may not be too pleased and may be forced to send my uncle Willard and his friends to pay you a visit.
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nimh
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Thu 9 Dec, 2004 08:54 am
Phoenix32890 wrote:
For years, the left, including the radical left, has been the darlings of television.
Really? I can't remember hearing much about any socialist, socialdemocrat, communist, anarchist or any such sort being interviewed or covered in any serious way by the US media this last decade ... and the antiglobalists were just treated as rioters ... Go to the left of Howard Dean, and you're all but ignored.
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Thu 9 Dec, 2004 09:07 am
speaking of the radical left, I have not been interviewed in over 30 years. actually, the only interview I have ever given was to myself when I was a D.J and had my own talk show( it was the Bob and Rea and Tom show and I was both Bob and Rea-Tom now manages a golf course and doesn't do interviews either). I was however and remain to be a "nut case"
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blueveinedthrobber
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Thu 9 Dec, 2004 09:17 am
dyslexia wrote:
speaking of the radical left, I have not been interviewed in over 30 years. actually, the only interview I have ever given was to myself when I was a D.J and had my own talk show( it was the Bob and Rea and Tom show and I was both Bob and Rea-Tom now manages a golf course and doesn't do interviews either). I was however and remain to be a "nut case"
perhaps you would be intersted in an interview on my "Anarchy in the |USA" show...I could get you on on the day I also have lesbian nuns with strap ons coming in......
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Thu 9 Dec, 2004 02:37 pm
nimh wrote:
Phoenix32890 wrote:
For years, the left, including the radical left, has been the darlings of television.
Really? I can't remember hearing much about any socialist, socialdemocrat, communist, anarchist or any such sort being interviewed or covered in any serious way by the US media this last decade ... and the antiglobalists were just treated as rioters ... Go to the left of Howard Dean, and you're all but ignored.
