Have liberals ever had an original thought that wasn't planted by the media?
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funny it seems no one really understands  your question based on the answers you have rec'd so far.\nThe answer to your question is "no".\nI don't even watch the news anymore because you just can't get a straight story. It's ALL liberally slanted. why ? I don't know. But people in general need to QUESTION THE SOURCE - seems oft overlooked but by far the most important thing to do when opening one's mouth before foot flies in.
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What a greta question.  The answer of course is YES but the lemmings on the left are either too biased to admit it or too ignorant to understand how it occurs.  \n\nWhen you suspect everything that the government does is a plot, void of facts supporting your position, but merely to support your own agenda, that in itself divides the country.  A country divided (or a house, as the saying goes) can't be focused on a single objective.\n\nPeople only seem to understand things that they can directly relate to.  If a husband and wife have such completely different views, beliefs, objectives on virtually every issue which they deal with, exactly how long is that relationship going to last in great times, much less times of trouble - not very long.  \n\nThe occassional disagreement, one that is based on differing, heart felt beliefs by each is actually healthy.  However, when it is based on lies, manipulations, and merely has an objective of one getting their own way, that is destructive and that is where we find ourselves at again today.\n\nA perfect example is the PC environment which comtributed heavily to 9/11.  At some point in time, common sense has to come into play.  Exactly why are little, old, white ladies subjected to searches at the airport when every single mid twenties, middle eastern male is not searched?  Because we are moving back into the PC enviornment.  Civil liberties do you no good from the grave.\n\nThis past Friday in Tampa, we had two Saadi males attending a local university who were in their mid twenties board a school bus to go to a local high school.  At the school they were arrested for tresspassing.  Now there is a brewing outrage among liberals protesting their civil rights were violated.\n\nTheir defense, which changed several times over the last few days, finally settled on the fact they could not read english and thought they were boarding a mass transit bus.  One of their earlier defenses was they were merely taking the bus to the school to check out adult education classes offered at the high school.  \n\nAn idiot can see about a million ways neither of these stories are clearly plausible - but that does not matter to the PC left.\n\nHow did they ever get half way around the world, enroll and attend classes in a State University without understanding English to the point of being able to read the word \n"school".  \n\nWhile attending classes they never noticed the differences between those bright orange buses with the only kids on board compared to multi colored buses with a variety of people, virtually all adults, on board?\n\nWhy are they interested in adult ed classes if they are already enrolled at a 4 year University.  Are we suppose to believe they are going after their GED, AFTER they get their BA?  Right.\n\nBTW - the college they attend is the University of South Florida.  It has been described as a hot bed of terrorist activities and was where Sami Al Arian was a pofessor until he was arrested by the FBI for raising and funneling money for terroist causes.  Besides teaching science technology, he also felt compelled to publicly share his vitriol regarding how Isreal should be wiped off the map at virtually every opportunity he was given.\n\nNo amount of information is apparently worthy of swaying  liberals to open their minds which they are so proud to boast about having.\n\nHey, now that I recall, isn't that EACTLY how we lost 6 million Jews.  I suppose since their dead bodies weren't showing up on the door step of congressional liberals with tattoos across their forehead reading "I was killed by a Nazi in a German concentration camp with  gas" it wasn't really happening was it liberals?  Nice job.\n\nKeep up the mindless rhetoric and let's see if we can break the record you set for the number of deaths after we left Vietnam.  In that one, you "peace niks" only cost 2.2 million defensless, innocent men, woman, and children their lives.  An
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What an EXCELLENT\n\n\nINTELLIGENT\n\nPOINT!\n\nThat was a great thought. One that a Liberal could never get.\n\nKEEP up the GOOD fight...FIGHT THEM!!!\n\nWE WILL WIN!!!!\n\nLiberals hate us!!! I LOVE that!!!\n\nPLEASE keep posting...never let them get you down!!
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Wow, very few answers to your question and they obviously have no idea who I am, or what I stand for or where I come from. But man have they an opinion.\n\n Is it not funny that some admit never hearing of me but have are willing to make a judgment.\n\nSounds like most of your liberal party to me, Never listen to the facts, never study the facts, never live the moments, but come out with opinions and views and ready to move on with regulation and legislation based on a total uneducated source. \n\nWOW!
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Now there is a truly original thought!  How refreshing.  I will make that my question to ponder as I go to sleep tonight.\n\nThank you.
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you bring up a very good point. thanks to years and years of deliberate misinformation and demonization of liberals by the right-wing media, most of what republicans believe about liberals bears little resemblance to reality. they believe a bunch of myths and stereotypes that are repeated over and over until in the conservative mind they become "fact" - i.e. there's a liberal bias in the mainstream media, liberal bogeymen want to come and take away all your guns, republicans are more fiscally conservative (see current administration), liberals are anti-family, liberals don't support the troops, liberals are pro-abortion, liberals are elitist snobs, liberals in reality hate america, and as stated in the post before mine, liberals have no ideas... etc., etc., etc...\nWHY do they choose to believe silly myths and hateful stereotypes? because they're easily manipulated & have an innate need for some "other" that they can feel superior to.
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Do you believe everything liberals tell you?
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Did the Liberals think that when Clinton would bomb places after a new Monica headline came out, that we would forget his crapola?\n\nThe garbage we don't buy is this liberal hate propaganda we hear non-freaking-stop
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Well, I agree with what you have said. \n\nI look forward to a response from someone who considers themselves Liberal to address each of your points, not just one. Two responders never addressed any. Unfortunately that is what tends to happen most of the time when you ask them direct questions.  \n\nThis is the perfect opportunity for them to explain their viewpoints.
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of course they were.\nbut they were "liberals" over any other thing.\nand that was a very good thing.
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Hah! That's funny...whew independent thinking. \n\nWell, that is really the meaning and idea of being a conservative. Adopting set ideas that don't change and are not open for debate. It comes natural to them.\n\nAny intellectual capacity they do have is not used for discovery and introspection but to establish an arguable defense for their staid ideas.
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Some of the original neo-conservatives, like Irving Kristol, can actually formulate intellectual arguments. Among the newer neo-conservatives, very rarely, David Frum and Charles Krauthammer make some sense.\n\nBut by and large, no. The mainstream neo-conservative pundits of the press rely almost solely on sarcasm, snide belittling, red herrings, and straw men. Some of the worst offenders are Jonah Goldberg and Mark Steyn, who are basically just mean.
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not,in the mass media,but try the Rush radio show,thats where i heard it.also the hannity radio show.
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doesnt surprise me one bit.Liberals have no substance to their arguements..all they do is make statements to pander to emotions,they dont discuss logic because they lose those debates
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Actually, it has.  Logic and reason have enhanced perspective.  When I was younger, I was supposed to accept the views of adults and peers at school because our teachers were trusted purveyors of information.  I'm glad I questioned authority.  I shed that democratic crap after personally finding each tenet wrong and empty of reason in a thorough examination of my life.  Liberal ideology supports egos, not real living.
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I don't think so!!!! Just like the media, many schools are turning liberal and are teaching opinions and not history!!!
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here's one example of conservative bias:  cnn's wolf blitzer was interviewing Pres. Musharaff of Pakistan.  Musharaff said the war in iraq was  a mistake.  Blitzer said - you don't mean the whole war is a mistake, do you?  Musharaff said YES.  Blitzer said - we'll be back after this commercial.  When he returned, Musharaff was gone and Blitzer said he was going to read a statement from the Pakistani Embassy - a statement which said 'musharaff wasn't categorically calling the war a mistake.'\n\nunbelievable.\n\nalso, all the lies told about Gore that were never fact-checked were evidence of the conservative bias.  how about the media ignoring that bush was wired during his debates in 2004?  \n\nstrong conservative bias in the media.