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Old 09-13-2011, 07:25 PM
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I never said it looked center. I think it is right of center since there are very few non-capitalists in the mainstream media. Mainstream media runs from completely unregulated capitalism on the right end to regulated capitalism on the left end, but this left end is still right of center if capitalism is right of center.
You, on the other hand, stated that it was hugely left. I asked for evidence. Nothing forthcoming so far.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxKd5lpZwLY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no9fpKVXxCc

http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/Media-Bias-Is-Real-Finds-UCLA-6664.aspx
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Nothing in that UCLA report contradicts what I was arguing. It doesn't measure bias along the complete political spectrum but according to Republican and Democratic voting issues. How many Democratic socialists are voting in Congress? Bernie Sanders is the only socialist I know of. It's only measuring right and left within capitalism.
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Nothing in that UCLA report contradicts what I was arguing. It doesn't measure bias along the complete political spectrum but according to Republican and Democratic voting issues. How many Democratic socialists are voting in Congress? Bernie Sanders is the only socialist I know of. It's only measuring right and left within capitalism.
So then what determines whether a belief is right or left is not the belief itself but the context in which that belief exists.
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So then what determines whether a belief is right or left is not the belief itself but the context in which that belief exists.

Partly correct. The context of the study is much narrower than the political options that are available to humans. For instance, one could argue there are left wing Pentecostals who are in favor of letting women speak in church and right wing Pentecostals who oppose letting women speak in church. But in the broad political spectrum, both those beliefs are right wing.
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Partly correct. The context of the study is much narrower than the political options that are available to humans. For instance, one could argue there are left wing Pentecostals who are in favor of letting women speak in church and right wing Pentecostals who oppose letting women speak in church. But in the broad political spectrum, both those beliefs are right wing.
So Lawrence Saunder sitting there telling us he's a socialist means he's really a right winger because he exists within a allegedly capitalist society.

Tell me do you indoctrinate your students in this bull$hit
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So Lawrence Saunder sitting there telling us he's a socialist means he's really a right winger because he exists within a allegedly capitalist society.

Tell me do you indoctrinate your students in this bull$hit
Did I ever write that socialists were not socialists?
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Yeah, a lot of libs loved Hitler. Henry Ford, Prescott Bush, Charles Lindbergh... All of them did business with Adolf. A lot of radical left types in that group.

Can you name the only American company to take out ads in German newspapers during the war saying it was firmly on the side of the Nazi's and was proud to be among their supporters? Hint: It was not owned by a Democrat. (To be fair the ads were placed by their German subsidiary. In that way the owner of the company could, and did, sell war materials to the US and to Germany.)

If what you say is correct then there would have been no need for the Fairness Doctrine and the US would have had television broadcasting in major cities by 1938. As it was the first public display of television in the US was at the New York Worlds Fair in 1939. There was a Patent dispute to settle in the US, but all that would have taken to clear up was money and the Germans had lots of it.

RCA (Radio Corporation of America) owned the US rights to television. RCA was run by David Sarnoff, a Russian Jew, who felt no compulsion to do business with the Nazis. This was another roadblock to the Nazis starting their television broadcasting in the US.

(By the way, the first television was really broadcast in England in 1929 but the resolution was only 30 lines so it was very hard to see. In 1935 everyone switched to the Marconi system which transmitted in 405 lines. This was the system the Germans used. They had no part in inventing any part of it. They just saw it as a great way to control the masses.)

And Nazi Fascism was a product of the left? Well, that's a new one. I guess I should pay more attention to right wing e-mails in the future.

Read up on a little movement called The German American Bund. Would you consider them a left wing movement? On second thought, perhaps you should skip reading about this group. I would hate to be the one to cause you to lose your faith since there are many parallels between the German American Bund and today's Republican Party. For one: They both hate Unions. There are other examples, but you can read about them if you wish.

Amazing historical fact.... The Bund was the first group in the US to refer to themselves as 'Real Americans'.

And don't confuse the Bund with the America First Committee which was dedicated to keeping America out of the war. They disbanded right after Dec. 7th, 1941 because America was then at war and many of their members joined the Armed Forces to defeat our enemies. Two members of this group were Gerald R. Ford and John F. Kennedy, so it was not one sided with it came to politics.
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Old 09-13-2011, 09:01 PM
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Botnst.....

I have given deep thought to your last question, and I have come to the realization that I don't know everything.
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