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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo, having just watched 4 hours of riveting sworn testimony from 4 uniformed police
officers before the House Select Committee, I have to wonder: are we REALLY going go have to listen to the usual "conservatives" on this evening's cable shows telling us "the other side's opinion" as to what REALLY happened on January 6th?
My TV may not survive.
PortTack
(32,754 posts)madaboutharry
(40,205 posts)I dont expect anything decent coming from conservatives.
dameatball
(7,396 posts)It's a good beginning.
Girard442
(6,069 posts)bluedevil4
(305 posts)about IRAQ? I'm already reading jokes about Jan 6 being worse than IRAQ, this is on facebook so I don't take much precedent in it
mopinko
(70,077 posts)ProudMNDemocrat
(16,783 posts)I will catch the highlights later.
tblue37
(65,318 posts)ProudMNDemocrat
(16,783 posts)Between 6 to 8 tonite, storms coming through. Lightning, strong winds, possible hail.
JustAnotherGen
(31,810 posts)That runs it. They have something to say as elected officials - they can testify.
Nothing they say will change my perception - so I'm not giving them the time of day.
DURHAM D
(32,609 posts)Cong. Armstrong (R - ND) ramble on talking shit for several minutes.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Anyway, if it's like mine, your TV's a weary and resigned draft horse that gave up any hope of rescue long since.
frazzled
(18,402 posts)That when Republicans are in power, we all moan and wish that the Fairness Doctrine could be put back in place, so that Democrats could get a chance to speak and correct the record.
And then when the Democrats are in power, we bemoan that any Republicans are given a chance to speak.
I can't figure this one out. Except to say that the Republicans of today in general do nothing but distort and lie, so they should just stay to their corner of the mediaverse. (And I guess, by extension, we to ours). But this isn't a happy situation either: it's why we're so divided.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)even if The Fairness Doctrine's mouldering in its grave, there are still people, liberal and conservative, who want honest, accurate and adequate information.
And that truth is neither liberal nor conservative. In spite of all the toxic attempts to obscure it, truth is still bringing honest people together in big areas of overlap and agreement, in spite of different ideological orientations.
As for separate mediaverses (there's a term! ), the crazy right insisted on poisoning themselves with their own long ago.
But lies by definition are not truth and aren't presented as valid by any honest information source. What the right are thinking and doing is important information. though, that we need to know, and understand. Yet like you, I've noticed that dicussing them offends some. That's part of an even worse development, that some now righteously expect the political shows they watch to be loyal players on their partisan "team." Like Fox, but theirs. Big fat no to encouraging that?!
stillcool
(32,626 posts)it's recycled information anyway, so he just needs to plug and play old episodes.
Treefrog
(4,170 posts)Not sure where all the ACAB folks have scuttled off to during these hearings.