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[NoFenders]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/27/beck.conventions/index.html




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[yeahwho]

I watched CNN last Monday night for probably the first time all year. Then I flipped over to the other news channels to see how they are. Jon Stewart is right (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/08/25/ST2008082503384.html), these guys are incredibly inept.

I thought I would just watch the news channels and see what they had for information on the democratic convention, I was watching grown men (most with makeup on and all quaffed up) talk like teenage girls at a pajama party.

Not to single out Glenn Beck here, he's just another guy with weak arguments that really don't earn response. He's just pushing buttons and staying semi-controversial so he can keep his job. For him to cast stones is his job. Because to think a little deeper and try and effect change, that just wouldn't push any buttons.

Read the paper, internet style or ink, it is better than the TV or the TV links. They are all sucky.

[saz]

why not post articles and commentary from p.j. o'rourke? peej is a barrell of laughs, has great insight, and isn't an asshole who accuses the other side of being traitors, al qaeda sympathizers, unpatriotic etc.

[NoFenders]

PJ is my main man!!

All The Trouble In The World was my first book that I read from him, and is still one of my favs.

So since Beck wrote the piece,I guess you guys didn't read it. Oh well, I thought it was good.

And yeawho, it's from the CNN web page. Not from the TV. I don't watch much TV. Unless it's F1.



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[yeahwho]

PJ is my main man!!

All The Trouble In The World was my first book that I read from him, and is still one of my favs.

So since Beck wrote the piece,I guess you guys didn't read it. Oh well, I thought it was good.

And yeawho, it's from the CNN web page. Not from the TV. I don't watch much TV. Unless it's F1.



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I did read it, I didn't find his criticism interesting or enlightening. Not worthy of any sort of response. These are mainstream candidates, he's actually just complimenting them on their mainstream credentials.

Like I said before and I'm not singling out Beck, these snippets and shots that are being taken are lame. This is true of both sides of the political spectrum. The CNN website is like the ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, FOX, websites, short, concise, braindead.

PBS and NPR have no frills websites loaded with information and so does CSPAN. I like watching local news channels when I'm traveling, it's fun.

Some of the best in depth writing is available for free right here on the internet with very little effort. The Wall Street Journal is one of the last holdouts for free internet access, which is sad because they are really high caliber on their political news as well as their corporate news.

[DroppinScience]

I watched CNN last Monday night for probably the first time all year. Then I flipped over to the other news channels to see how they are. Jon Stewart is right (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/08/25/ST2008082503384.html), these guys are incredibly inept.


Bravo, Jon! (y)