Look man , I understand that President Bush has policies that don't agree with the left . That's a given . Same goes if a democrat were to be in the whitehouse - us folks on the right wouldn't agree with that President very often .
But judging by what I hear on CNN and MSNBC one would expect that the president would not only be impeached by now , but maybe even imprisoned . And that ain't happenin' folks . .. . . . . now why would that be ? Hmmm , could it be that what MSNBC and CNN tell you isn't quite the whole truth ? I mean really folks . I see others call you all kinds of names on here all the time . And much of it is due to this very point I'm making . Only two weeks ago MSNBC's president admitted to being liberal biased . And said it would continue!
CNN just got caught red-handed last week for fixing the debate questions with known Democrat Loyalists but listed them as 'Undecided Voters' !
Does this not affect you in any way?
Or are the people who think you're goofy right ?
2007-12-04 05:20:25 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
John - I guess you're too afraid or not smart enough to answer the question .
2007-12-04 05:25:42 · update #1
Caldude - Sorry man but that happens to be one of the most inane answers I've ever seen .
2007-12-04 05:28:30 · update #2
Caldude - Don't worry you're not alone . Many of these answers are inane.
2007-12-04 05:30:46 · update #3
It's sad , but the Left is not interested in the truth. Fox news may not be perfect, but they are the closest thing to truthful news out there, and that's why their ratings are so high. The politicians in Washington D.C. and elsewhere figured out a long time ago, tell the democrats what they want to hear, and they will follow you like puppy dogs.
2007-12-04 05:30:14 · answer #1 · answered by Johnny Reb 5 · 4⤊ 2⤋
I am a liberal and active in the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (our state's branch of the Democratic Party). As you might assume from the name, the DFL is if anything a bit to the left of the national party.
At a meeting of the party governing committee for our Congressional District (probably to the left of the rest of the state), we were presented an opportunity to take a position favoring the movement to impeach President Bush. From the discussion, it sounded as though there might be enough support to pass it. When it came to a vote, though, there was not sufficient support to even consider the matter seriously.
I believe that the notion you are getting, that a lot of the left would really support impeachment, is due to the well-known fact that it takes only a small minority to make a great deal of noise. Most of us regard any serious attempt at impeachment as nothing more than a guarantee that a Democratic majority in Congress will accomplish nothing (not that managing to get any measure past closure and veto is easy anyway).
Personally, I observe that only two Presidents have been impeached, and in both cases it was a bit of purely political theater in which a Republican Congress impeached the President for not being Republican. So far, the Democrats have not succumbed to the temptation to do the same, and I see no reason to start.
As to the leanings of the press, there are certainly a very large number of columnists, commentators, and bloggers on the right. They run one major TV news network as a pure propaganda shop, after all.
2007-12-04 06:31:16 · answer #2 · answered by Samwise 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I along with other conservatives I know do not just take the news from Fox or Hannity and Rush, we look at other sources to find the news on the Internet and through contacts in government. The far left though fully believes the lies coming out of the CNN, New York Times and MSNBC game players who fabricate the news to match their liberal biases. That is why there is so much more hate on the left than from the right in similar issues such as President Bush or Clinton.
2007-12-04 05:30:22 · answer #3 · answered by ALASPADA 6 · 5⤊ 2⤋
What you are talking about isn't new. I am beginning to think that the words liberal and conservative only have meaning to the voters and carry no weight with the politicians.
FDR ran as a conservative in the 1932 elections. That's right folks, he claimed to be the conservative. FDR successfully labeled Hoover as a socialists.
Politics is a power game. Politicians used words to sway poblic opinion their way. In the real world, dirty politics was invented by the Democratic party. Now it's the norm on both sides.
2007-12-04 05:45:08 · answer #4 · answered by Perplexed Bob 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I consider myself to be pretty far left-leaning. I also don't watch these channels like, MSNBC, Fixed, er. . FOX NEWS or CNN for news. I watch them purely for entertainment, especially Fox. I won't deny that NBC and CNN is left leaning, but you can't argue that FOX is just as far, if not more so, to the right. Sean Hannity says something to the tune of, if Hillary Clinton is elected she will destroy America, not his exact words, but something close to this. Just because they have Alan Colmes does not make them "fair and balanced".
Fixing a debate, although wrong, is nothing like fixing an election, by telling thousands of people, who were elgible to vote, that they couldn't.
I don't think anyone should get their news from just one source, because all the channels lean one way or the other.
2007-12-04 05:43:34 · answer #5 · answered by triplezero19 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
What you need to realize that our media is left wing Liberal Democrats and not afraid to spew their lies. Amazingly, they are baffled as to why the ratings are down for CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN, and MSNBC. Why would any self-respecting Republican or Libertarian watch or listen to them? They constantly refer to President Bush as Mr. Bush and Bill Clinton as President Clinton. How more blatant can it get? They will also do their best to provide Hillary with the weakest Republican candidate so she has a better chance to win. Remember that. It's important. Can you imagine any of them speaking nicely about Mike Huckabee? He is a minister. And you know they hate anything to do with Christians!
2007-12-04 05:57:38 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
You mean Fox is not biased to the right?
You mean the intelligent report provided by all the Spy agencies saying that Iran is not a Nuclear Threat makes Bush a liar is a liberal media bia?
You mean people who disagree with you only give you inane answers while only those who agree with you give the best answers?
2007-12-04 05:30:06 · answer #7 · answered by The Sidewalkinator 6 · 3⤊ 5⤋
Over $25 billion US taxpayer dollars were spent on GOP congressional pork barrel projects between 2002-2006 (eg: Sen. Ted Stevens "Bridge to Nowhere")
Bush bought the Republicans in Congress by approving and signing these bills.
They won't turn on him now and the Democrats lack the number of votes to see the impeachment process through.
edit: I won't debate the fact that the news is biased one way or another. But the fact that the Republicans in Congress continue to march lock step with the President on every issue before him, is not even debatable. We see it every day. Thus Nancy and Harry don't have the votes for impeachment.
And unless Bush murders somone on Pennsylvania Avenue in broad daylight in front of 100 Republican witnesses (Democrats won't count), the Republicans in Congress are not going to budge on impeachment.
2007-12-04 05:25:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 6⤋
It's simpler than you think.
Congress was controlled by the corrupt Republican party of Tom Delay & Bill Frist until 2006. They didn't hold the president accountable and do their duty as the People's branch.
Now, the Democrats think it's more productive to just let the lame duck lie.
(I personally think President Bush should be tried for treason)
2007-12-04 05:27:51 · answer #9 · answered by ideogenetic 7 · 7⤊ 5⤋
CNN has Lou Dobbs and Glenn Black. MSNBC has Joe Scarborough and Tucker Carlson.
These guys are right-wingers with their own shows.
Does Fox News have a liberal with his own show?
2007-12-04 05:26:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 3⤋