tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post2596784280669533760..comments2024-02-14T11:00:03.180-05:00Comments on Tom McLaughlin: Bias? What Bias?Tom McLaughlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07691546351143209227noreply@blogger.comBlogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-87673080860311038372010-01-19T18:05:30.827-05:002010-01-19T18:05:30.827-05:00To the last Anon...no to all of your questions.
...To the last Anon...no to all of your questions. <br /><br />I don't ignore anything I'm passionate about. There comes a time when enough is enough. <br /><br />But I'll go back and see what I've been "discredited" about.DAWNnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-78489888889746199792010-01-19T13:30:41.273-05:002010-01-19T13:30:41.273-05:00A mad dash to attack the truth? Are you referring...A mad dash to attack the truth? Are you referring to the attacks on evolution and climate change?<br /><br />Did you even read the great letter the lady wrote in the Sun?<br /><br />Are you avoiding the other thread and your discredited attacks on the truth about dinosaurs, scientists, and evolution?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-45567799747036829702010-01-19T13:20:00.774-05:002010-01-19T13:20:00.774-05:00"Tom certainly got lectured about integrity a..."Tom certainly got lectured about integrity and bias last week"<br /><br />Like I said before there's a mad dash to attack the truth. Everyone speaking truth will be mocked. Even Jesus got hung on a cross and John the Baptist's head was served up on a platter. <br /><br />Besides all that...who doesn't have bias? You?DAWNnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-41373897180046476732010-01-19T09:04:57.409-05:002010-01-19T09:04:57.409-05:00Hello Tom and fellow Comments section posters and ...Hello Tom and fellow Comments section posters and lurkers. I wanted to share some great news with all of you today...<br /><br />In honor of Obama's first year in Office I gave him a present today. A vote for Scott Brown!Go Scott Go!noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-71839819917686335982010-01-19T08:57:28.792-05:002010-01-19T08:57:28.792-05:00Tom certainly got lectured about integrity and bia...Tom certainly got lectured about integrity and bias last week in the Daily Sun by a wise eldery woman!!! After getting his jerkness pointed out like that in the paper has got to be humiliating. I love that he get's his chance to spout his nasty views in the paper because they always result in such great comebacks!!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-63847177693307608682010-01-14T09:15:17.149-05:002010-01-14T09:15:17.149-05:00Ha! An Anonymous poster lecturing Dawn on persona...Ha! An <i>Anonymous</i> poster lecturing Dawn on personal integrity...How noble of you.Jimnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-13856093336126766052010-01-14T08:53:22.993-05:002010-01-14T08:53:22.993-05:00Ok, Dawn...you claim to believe that he really tho...Ok, Dawn...you claim to believe that he really thought there were 57 States just so you can make a political point. Have you no sense of personal integrity at all?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-85760272854798164472010-01-13T18:43:06.634-05:002010-01-13T18:43:06.634-05:00"Wow Dawn....you really believe that Obama th..."Wow Dawn....you really believe that Obama thought there were 57 States? Of course not, nobody does. That is why it got the coverage that it did (despite the Radical Right-Wing Media attempt to blow it up), that of a slip of the tongue by an exhausted campaigner."<br /><br />There ya go! Case in point! Bias! You just proved Mr. M. right after all! Congratulations!DAWNnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-19702276677156327572010-01-13T08:28:03.822-05:002010-01-13T08:28:03.822-05:00Wow Dawn....you really believe that Obama thought ...Wow Dawn....you really believe that Obama thought there were 57 States? Of course not, nobody does. That is why it got the coverage that it did (despite the Radical Right-Wing Media attempt to blow it up), that of a slip of the tongue by an exhausted campaigner. On the other hand it was quite obvious that Quayle really did think potato had an "e" at the end, going as far as to "correct" the third=grader who had spelled the word correctly.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-17425964737390999382010-01-12T18:23:09.977-05:002010-01-12T18:23:09.977-05:00"Oh, come on Dawn...are you saying that a Vic..."Oh, come on Dawn...are you saying that a Vice-Presidential candidate, who many already perceived as not being the sharpest tool in the shed, gets outspelled by a third-grader, that the press would not jump all over it regardless of party affiliation!!??!!"<br /><br />oh puh-leeze! How much did we hear from the hysterical left-wing media about Quayle's misspelling of the word potato compared to Obama's mention that the U.S. has 57 states? There's a media comparison for you. <br /><br />Sooooo if Quayle wasn't the sharpest tool in the toolbox, just because he put an "e" at the end of potato, (honest mistake) what does that make Obama who thinks we have seven more states that the rest of us don't know about? Hmmmmm?DAWNnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-9062818211778450842010-01-12T15:23:35.767-05:002010-01-12T15:23:35.767-05:00Wow, Timmy, talk about grasping at straws! If the...Wow, Timmy, talk about grasping at straws! If the Reid comment was innocuous then there is no word for how unnewsworthy this Bubba comment was. Yes, Obama rose so incredibly fast in the political world that, yes, it does seem that he could have been getting the coffee only a few years before his campaign for president.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-88622532780130157742010-01-12T15:02:44.727-05:002010-01-12T15:02:44.727-05:00"A few years ago, this guy [Obama] would have..."A few years ago, this guy [Obama] would have been getting us coffee."<br /><br />--Bill Clinton from the book <i>Game Change</i><br /><br /><br />No doubt Bubba will get a complete pass on this from the MSMTax cheat Timmy.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-84497735957796466002010-01-12T14:37:38.919-05:002010-01-12T14:37:38.919-05:00Oh, come on Dawn...are you saying that a Vice-Pres...Oh, come on Dawn...are you saying that a Vice-Presidential candidate, who many already perceived as not being the sharpest tool in the shed, gets outspelled by a third-grader, that the press would not jump all over it regardless of party affiliation!!??!!<br /><br />Gimme a break - that incident is STILL a famous political moment, comparing it to the innocuous statement by Reid is way off base.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-19631269134956291272010-01-12T13:01:20.316-05:002010-01-12T13:01:20.316-05:00I think the Anons could at least use numbers to he...I think the Anons could at least use numbers to help us out like Anonymous 1, Anonymous 303 or Anonymous 500 etc.DAWNnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-32891104985641017392010-01-12T12:58:07.646-05:002010-01-12T12:58:07.646-05:00"Meanwhile, It may surprise you to know I agr..."Meanwhile, It may surprise you to know I agree with Ponnuru. Reid's statement is innocuous."<br /><br />And I agree with this. I didn't think what Reid said was that bad at all. I could see myself saying the same thing. I'm just saying that had he been a Republican the media would have been much nastier. <br /><br />I mean look at what they did to Dan Quayle over how he spelled potato.DAWNnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-907686543937023532010-01-12T12:53:12.643-05:002010-01-12T12:53:12.643-05:00I didn't set it up this way. Google did. I jus...I didn't set it up this way. Google did. I just chose a template to use. I can delete individual comments, but I'm not sure if I can set it up so as to prevent people from posting anonymously, and I'm not sure I want to enough.<br /><br />The trouble is, I don't know which Anonymous I'm reading or writing to. It would be easier if you adopted a pseudonym and used it consistently. Then I could at least get to know you. As it is now, you're just part of an amporphous mass of anonymous harpies.<br /><br />The only clue I get about which anonymous you are is that you use "whining" a lot.<br /><br />Was Benjamin Franklin cowardly for doing so? Maybe. Depends what he wrote. Taking pot shots anonymously as you do is wimpy. That makes you a wimp.Tom McLaughlinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07691546351143209227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-54274111226019289672010-01-12T12:46:58.663-05:002010-01-12T12:46:58.663-05:00YesYesBen Franklinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-55717833714266725622010-01-12T12:27:27.207-05:002010-01-12T12:27:27.207-05:00Why set up your blog in such a way as to allow ano...Why set up your blog in such a way as to allow anonymous contributions and then whine about it? <br /><br />Did you know Ben Franklin had a longstanding tradition of writing for papers under "anonymous" false names....funny names that he made up? Was he a coward for doing so?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-60186386140709260352010-01-12T11:27:50.992-05:002010-01-12T11:27:50.992-05:00Why don't you summon the courage to use your n...Why don't you summon the courage to use your name? I feel strange responding to a secret person. Several readers have suggested deleting comments from anonymous contributors and I'm considering it.<br /><br />Meanwhile, It may surprise you to know I agree with Ponnuru. Reid's statement is innocuous. When did the word "negro" become a pejorative? Is the United Negro College Fund a racist organization? How about "colored people" a term contemporaneous with negro? Is the NAACP suspect too? (Well it is for being in the pocket of the Democrat Party but not for using that term.)<br /><br />I'm no fan of Harry Reid, but this is not the way to attack him, and media bias isn't in play here in any way I can see.Tom McLaughlinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07691546351143209227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-24979359028613469682010-01-12T08:35:55.788-05:002010-01-12T08:35:55.788-05:00Here is what conservative pundit Ramesh Ponnuru ha...Here is what conservative pundit Ramesh Ponnuru had to say about the Harry Reid contoversy:<br /><br /><br />"Republicans and conservatives are comparing Harry Reid's comment about "Negro dialect" to Trent Lott's remark about how we would have avoided a lot of problems if Strom Thurmond had been elected. Just as Republicans turned on Lott and forced him to give up the Senate majority leadership, they say, so Democrats should turn on Reid and make him resign his post.<br />But the comparison is off the mark. Lott's comment implied that the country would have been better off keeping segregation and enforced white supremacy. What Reid said isn't within a lightyear of that."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-17832910394675444722010-01-11T09:22:08.071-05:002010-01-11T09:22:08.071-05:00We just had a perfect example of media bias over t...We just had a perfect example of media bias over the weekend with Senator Harry Reid (D) who made a not so PC remark about the color of Obama's skin and the fact that he doesn't speak negro. <br /><br />Now if Reid had an (R) after his name instead of a (D) what do you suppose the media would have been asking to happen? Can you imagine the outrage? <br /><br />I haven't heard anything about the other "R" word...resign. Have you? <br /><br />Also it's ok to say "no negro dialect" now? Or is that only if you have a (D) after your name?DAWNnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-91536979144715605502010-01-09T21:42:31.619-05:002010-01-09T21:42:31.619-05:00Sorry, wrong discussion. That was meant for the bl...Sorry, wrong discussion. That was meant for the blog posting prior to this one: "too late".Alexnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-45261746381610800722010-01-09T18:17:32.350-05:002010-01-09T18:17:32.350-05:00Thank you, Dawn. I agreed with the author (for the...Thank you, Dawn. I agreed with the author (for the most part) regarding the extents that political correctness have been driven to. I see now that the monster of "PC" is rightfully a monster, as the very meaning of the word has been changed. I guess I should say that I am instead in favor of thinking before one speaks, and considering the effects that what you say will not offend, but harm other people. Offending people is fine, that's what our Founding Fathers wanted for our country. Hurting people is different. One may say "sticks and stones..." all that they want, but it's a fact that children can be deeply affected by careless words thrown at them. For example, there is no need for a young Indian-American boy to be called a "towel head". That's just rude. <br /><br />I am not implying that anyone here has done this. <br /><br />One thing that did worry me about the article was the comments section. Since when have our teachers been "indoctrinating" us with a liberal agenda? I know that I am deeply blessed to go to Fryeburg Academy, but are other schools that drastically different??? I have teachers of multiple faiths and political views. Never have I been instructed in class to adopt any of them. It has been more common for the teachers to display their beliefs and critique them; teaching us to keep open-minds and be skeptical of everything. Mr. McLaughlin certainly didn't have a "liberal agenda" when I had him. :PAlexnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-91190708299935808492010-01-09T12:56:41.362-05:002010-01-09T12:56:41.362-05:00"There was no corresponding scrutiny of Obama..."There was no corresponding scrutiny of Obama's even greater lack of experience. He said he had "campaigned in 57 states." Did you ever hear about that? Not likely, because the MSM ignored it."<br /><br />That's it???? That's all you got??? Oh brother, you need help. BTW, I heard about this and everything else you claim was "ignored" by the mainstream media. Stop whining and being such a sore loser. Go to a tea party and get tea-bagged. That'll cheer ya up.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-90406262397672543072010-01-08T17:54:45.611-05:002010-01-08T17:54:45.611-05:00Cripes, Jim, you didn't even read my post did ...Cripes, Jim, you didn't even read my post did you? You've decided your position and any facts to the contrary will be ignored? Anyway, the piece I posted got into this in more depth, but one paragraph was this:<br /><br /><br /><br />"But such positive/negative studies are a flawed measure of media bias. Not only do they rely on researchers’ interpretations of what is positive and negative, they implicitly assume that reality is neutral, and that fair coverage will produce comparable numbers of “good news” and “bad news” stories."<br /><br /><br />Once again, OF COURSE a candidate that most see as not good will get more "negative" press. Why is that so hard to understand? Are you saying you think newspapers should be regulated to give "equal" coverage to everybody??!!??<br /><br />And why just pick one part of the media that you don't like and whine about "unfairness"? Why aren't you spending equal time bitching about the "unfairness" of Fox, Rush, etc? <br /><br />And no response to the edited McCain interview? I imagaine would have PLENTY to say about it if it were done to Obama instead?Peternoreply@blogger.com