On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Wesley McGee <[email protected]>wrote:
> > I can agree with all of you, and criticize her for all of that, but then I > think to myself, I don't think she knows better. It's easy to forget that > you can be very successful in life without getting any grounding, learning > critical thinking skills, or even knowing how to be skeptical. I've just > finished reading the New York Mag profile of Roger Ailes, and I'm partway > through the Rolling Stone. The man has turned Fox News into the most > successful news/opinion network in America, but he is frickin' crazy.He's > afraid that gay people might try to kill him. The Koch brothers are > obviously savvy businessmen and political players, but they hold an almost > cartoonish view of the Obama administration as Socialists thugs. > I can not say for sure that Oprah believes the things her guests do, but I > suspect she does. And if she does, how do you go about and tell her that the > actual science says that vaccines do not cause Autism? Jenny McCarthy is > pretty adamant that they do and if you don't understand science, she's > pretty convincing. Debates rarely change minds (especially talk show ones), > as they wind up sounding like "blah-blah-blah controversy-controversy"... > You are correct, and if Oprah was my Aunt Joan (and I have one of those) I would just give her a big hug and let her pinch my cheek and not bother getting into an argument with her. But my aunt Joan does not make hundreds of millions of dollars exploiting the gullibility, desperation and ignorance of the masses. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
