Reply #69: I think you and I have a lot of middle ground in common. [View All]

[Admiral Loinpresser]

As to your first paragraph, I agree with it in general. The only thing I would take issue with is this:

You seem to assume that the MSM's war on Gore was a right wing bias.... my take is that it was much more bigtime a DLC vs DNC war.

I don't think the War on Gore was due to a right-wing bias. But your conclusion was reasonable based on the way I expressed myself on the issue upthread. I didn't express myself well.

What I really meant was that the MSM attacked Gore in a way that heavily favored Bush. I don't believe Ceci Connoly at WaPo or Kit Seelye at NYT, etc., were doing it out of right-wing political bias at all. They simply hated Gore for nonpolitical, petty reasons. I believe the evidence for that is overwhelming. The press actually booed Gore at the second Gore Bradley debate in NH in October, 1999. This is the only time in my life (maybe American history) that a major candidate was booed by the press.

Here's one of many articles on the subject:

http://archives.cjr.org/year/00/3/hall.asp

As to nuclear winter I wasn't aware anybody had applied it to global warming. Apparently you saw somebody do it, but I never did.

As to your last paragraph, I admit there is BS on this site, but I try not to add to it. ;-) Also as to the term "politicize," we probably have a different view of the term. If you mean using BS, then yeah, it's a bad thing. But to me the term means trying to get political action. For example, US healthcare needs to be "politicized" because we have almost 50 million uninsured.

I agree with the "with us or against us" sentiment you expressed. It's simplistic thinking which does nobody any good. BTW, I believe most Americans are "progressive" under my definition, meaning, wanting universal healthcare, access to higher education and out of Iraq. The shame is that the majority of them don't vote at all. Here's where I think "they" do need to be smarter. If everyone voted, this country would be a lot better off.

PS I am having a good weekend. Same to you!