If you remember that Science article I posted a few days ago, that's typical of center and left/progressive -cerebral and data oriented, while right of center typically use anecdotes and emotion and one sided presentation.
I suspect that it may be a thoroughly different cognitive style typified by the extremes rather than moderates. On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Eric Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > > I find that they are fair in that they will invite the opposition in...yeah, > they will give them a grilling, but they also give them the opportunity to > state their case. I find that the left is more researched and thus less > inclined to falsehoods and mistruths. Listen to folks like Beck, Limbaugh > or the fascists at Faux News and you find lots of instances of outright > lies, mistruths, and statements that are very misleading. > > Someone commented before about 1\2 of Becks audience being liberal and > viewing his comments as satire...well he would be funny, I guess (if he > doesn't make you vomit first) if there weren't so many halfwits out there > that believe that he is telling the gospel truth. > > Eric > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kris Sisk [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 9:47 AM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: Is America wising up and getting fedup of Glenn Beck? > > >>Ok...What half truths? I do watch them and haven't seen anything like > that. >>When they do state something, I do tend to check other sources as well for >>info on it and have found them to be quite honest. There have even been >>several occasions where a few of them misstated things and the next day put >>in a retraction on their show and stated the correct information, much in >>the way a newspaper would when they posted something incorrect. >> >>Eric > > I'll have to take your word for it. I got fed up with political commentators > in general a long time ago and haven't listened to any of them when I've had > a choice since. > > Incidently pointing out a newspaper as support is kinda ironic. I don't > trust the AP when it comes to politics either. > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:318935 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
