On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Vivec <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> @Scott :
>
> "In this alternate reality version of the past, the 20th century's
> heroic battles over equal rights for racial and ethnic minorities,
> women and homosexuals are recast as a march toward socialism and away
> from the Founding Fathers. Meanwhile, flawed progressive Woodrow
> Wilson and even Teddy Roosevelt become America's Lenin and Trotsky
> while it is the pre-Depression-era Calvin Coolidge who belongs on
> Mount Rushmore."
>
> That's one thing he said.
That text, as you quoted it, is fromm the author, not Beck, He is not
quoting Beck, he is summarizing what Beck said, and most likely,
putting some spin on it..
>
> "Barton's machine-gun-paced spewing of 18th-century God references and
> black-robed revolutionary preachers gives less than short shrift to
> the real achievement of the Founders in separating church and state.
> In April, Barton told Beck's 3 million TV viewers that "we use the Ten
> Commandments as basis of civil law and the Western world [and it] has
> been for 2,000 years.""
>
> Here's another.
Again, most of this is the author's own words, summarizing what Beck
said, or what he interpreted from what Beck said - the only real quote
in this paragraph is a snippet and not likely the full text fo what
was said.
>
> Both are blatantly untrue and completely incorrect.
I agree, if that is what was indeed said, however, as I pointed out,
there is very little real 'quotes' from people in this article - its
all the author's opinion - which is fine in an Op/Ed piece. I think we
can all agree that an Op/Ed piece, regardless of who publishes it,
would not really be 'news' or maybe not even 'fact' - it is opinion.
If I was trying to interpret what was said by Beck in an article on a
high profile news web site, I would include what Beck actually said in
that article. Without it it leaves to to believe he does not want his
reader's to really know what was actually said. Why? Who knows. But it
sure seems to me like this guy wants his readers to blindly follow
his lead.
>
> Yet they are being supported by the GOP, by the "Tea-Party -That -Is -Not -A
> -Party -But Several Groups -So -Don't -Blame -The -Tea -Party"
> Oh and of course FOX continues to give Beck all the airtime he could
> possibly want.
I love the fact that when ever someone who claims to be a Republican
says something it gets turned into 'The GOP supports {enter ridiculous
ideas here}'
Funny how it only seems to work for the GOP, though.
--
Scott Stroz
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wonder what the f*&k happened. - Cpt. Phil Harris
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