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**PareKeect** · 12-24-2009, 05:16 PM

In spite of all the far-right rhetoric over the years, mainstream American media can hardly be classified as liberal, not at least to the extent that ultra conservatives rail about it. Walter Cronkite liberal? Please. And even if he and other news anchors were personally liberal, the media platform in which they operated was middle of the road.

You are generally so extremist in your views I don't generally read your posts, but this line was particularly hilarious...Dan Rather....Peter Jennings were centrist ? Are you joking?

Look at the behavior of the supposedly liberal media leading into the Iraq war. What does this mean? Only conservatives ever press for military engagements?

Funny how I didn't see too many on the left bitching that Clinton went into a bombing campaign in Serbia - and even better, with ZERO authorization from the UN...

I guess only republican presidents need to act "mulit-laterally".

Conservatism is a very broadbased concept in America. It means something different to people who would call themselves conservative. A sizable portion of the Democratic party consider themselves conservative. When the question posed is: do you support less government, lower taxes, less welfare - for both individuals and corporations, strong anti-trust enforcement, strong enforcement of all other laws, including WRT illegal aliens, you'll get 75% of the public or more.

12-24-2009, 05:16 PM	#44
PareKeect Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 464 Senior Member	In spite of all the far-right rhetoric over the years, mainstream American media can hardly be classified as liberal, not at least to the extent that ultra conservatives rail about it. Walter Cronkite liberal? Please. And even if he and other news anchors were personally liberal, the media platform in which they operated was middle of the road. You are generally so extremist in your views I don't generally read your posts, but this line was particularly hilarious...Dan Rather....Peter Jennings were centrist ? Are you joking? Look at the behavior of the supposedly liberal media leading into the Iraq war. What does this mean? Only conservatives ever press for military engagements? Funny how I didn't see too many on the left bitching that Clinton went into a bombing campaign in Serbia - and even better, with ZERO authorization from the UN... I guess only republican presidents need to act "mulit-laterally". Conservatism is a very broadbased concept in America. It means something different to people who would call themselves conservative. A sizable portion of the Democratic party consider themselves conservative. When the question posed is: do you support less government, lower taxes, less welfare - for both individuals and corporations, strong anti-trust enforcement, strong enforcement of all other laws, including WRT illegal aliens, you'll get 75% of the public or more.
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