Fox "News" is Crap

#102
#102
I occasionally watch Bill O'Reilly's program. He seems to be his homework and spends enough time preparing to do a good interview or a good segment. Not many others come to mind.
 
#103
#103
lawgator1 said:
Last night, I heard Hannity say that Gore's home used 200,000 kw hours of electricity last year, and that it was enough to power 240 traditional sized homes .... and then he mutter under his breath "for a month."

Rather than compare the numbers meaningfully, i.e. Gore uses the equivalent of 20 people's home's worth of electricity over the course of a year, he changes the measuring stick from a year to a month just so that he can use the much starker number of 240 households.

Now, Gore using the equivalent of 20 average homes, that's bad. But Hannity intentionally manipulated the number so that he could make it sound worse.

Just painfully obvious what he is doing. I wonder how many of his listeners caught the difference -- maybe 5 %?
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Well, you can can get bent out of shape if you want to about the number crunching or spend your time splitting hairs and distinguishing between the nuances of what Hannity said. But the fact is that Gore is a hypocrite when it comes to being green. That is the point that you should be coming away with, not focusing on determining whether Gore uses enough energy for 200 homes or 24 homes in any given time period. :crazy:
 
#104
#104
lawgator1 said:
In fact, in social circles, I shy away from what I do for a living because so many lawyers have done so many ignorant and stupid things, and yet acted so above everyone else, that I think the profession has a really bad reputation right now.

If it were up to me, we'd close all law schools in the country for 3-5 years and thin things out a little bit. Too many lawyers is just adding to transaction costs and they are falling all over themselves trying to justify it.
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Maybe we should have Bush "purge" the country of lawyers on his way out. Then he can really live up to that evil reputation that the left wing media has created.

Or, you can have the media stop making shows that glorify the law profession and instead create shows that glorify other careers. How many lawyer/doctor shows do we see on tv? Take away the prestige of being a lawyer, and you will thin the herds that way (that would take decades to do though)...
 
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#105
jamesd1628 said:
Then it becomes the job of the person hearing this statistic quoted to educate him/herself to the truth. Anyone who just believes anything someone tells them is a moron. You don't think leftists engage in this type of thing all the time? I know from experience to be very skeptical of the crap my liberal friends try to sell to me. They are almost always bending the truth or outright mis-stating reality, usually becuase they are quoting something they have learned from some far left outfit.
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Leftists do that all the time. They will come out and make a claim like "2 million people in this country are afflicted with xxxxx" or whatever the hot button social issue is at that moment. But when you step away and look at 2 million, you realize that you are talking about less than 1% of the population. They will intentionally throw out this huge number just to get the shock value, rather than looking at the big picture and saying, "wow, less than 1% isn't bad"...
 
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#106
Rasputin_Vol said:
Leftists do that all the time. They will come out and make a claim like "2 million people in this country are afflicted with xxxxx" or whatever the hot button social issue is at that moment. But when you step away and look at 2 million, you realize that you are talking about less than 1% of the population. They will intentionally throw out this huge number just to get the shock value, rather than looking at the big picture and saying, "wow, less than 1% isn't bad"...
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All you guys spew nothing but negatives about democrats and it gets silly.
 
#112
#112
Well FV. if I didn't make good $$$ like I do, I would have to say yes. Really, the gas prices don't bother me man, I mean I can tell that im paying more for gas but if I want to drive then I have to pay the price.
 
#113
#113
myrobbins7 said:
Well FV. if I didn't make good $$$ like I do, I would have to say yes. Really, the gas prices don't bother me man, I mean I can tell that im paying more for gas but if I want to drive then I have to pay the price.
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What do you do If I may?
 
#114
#114
Hey FV. when is your buddy Nancy Pelosi going to lower these gas pricces like she said she was going to do? :whistling:
 
#121
#121
Fine Vol said:
sweet I once had Putnam new opertunitys for a while. I have a CD but thats about it.
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Well atleast you have something FV. there's a lot of folks that have nothing. That's ok FV. when your buddy Obama gets into office he will take my $$$ and give it to you, because he thinks I have to much $$$. I can't wait for that. :)
 
#122
#122
myrobbins7 said:
Well atleast you have something FV. there's a lot of folks that have nothing. That's ok FV. when your buddy Obama gets into office he will take my $$$ and give it to you, because he thinks I have to much $$$. I can't wait for that. :)
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:yahoo::tease2:
 
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