Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
The FARK folks are weighing in on the Axelrod comments about Fox News. It’s shaping up about how you’d expect.
And then Scannit offers this(2009-10-19 06:55:44 PM)…
I have an IMHO observation on how liberals and conservatives deal with people or organizations that differ with their views.
A conservative will invite a liberal/moderate to listen to someones’ opinion on the radio, watch a news segment or read a particular author. A conservative welcomes opposing points of view as part of the vetting process. Call it ‘competition’.
A Liberal seems to want to silence [or] put out of business any opinion or competition that differs from their view. They will mock, belittle and try to chastise someone that would actually listen, read or watch someone with THAT point of view.
Case in point. My father-in-law is a BIG liberal. At 83, he’d probably put a lot of liberals here to shame with his views and debating skills. He actually told me (while I was dating his daughter) that he felt the government should do Everything. Gov’t was the End-All, Be-All.
Now I differ greatly with [his] views, but he has the right to say and think anything he wants, he’s earned everything he’s got and he’s well read in his views. He just feels that others don’t deserve things they’ve earned.
So when I tell him a quote from Glenn Beck or something from Mark Levin, his response was to scoff at me and say “You gotta stop listening to them”… He will not even consider an opposing viewpoint. Just get in line and stop your griping, its the only fair thing to do. What I would call a typical liberal.
Reminds me of this.
With liberals these days, everything has to be centralized. We can’t have news to prepare us for debate about things; we have to have debates about news, and once the debate is concluded we have to keep the news “clean” and “pure” so there are no dissenting opinions about anything.
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Well, Scannit, you’re not going to change his mind, just as I’m not going to change my relative’s mind — but as an exercise in pushback … like I did, to expose to them the weakness in their positions … I’d ask why I should stop listening to them and see if they have any specific examples or if it’s just generalizations they’ve heard from other people who don’t want anybody listening to “them”.
Or at the very least ask them if they are saying that the quote is wrong, and challenge them to back it up. Offer to help them research.
This is the only way to win with these people. Their whole schtick is based on public ignorance. They heard something somewhere about how Glenn Beck is a hater and a liar and a racist, and other people who have never listened to him who’ve probably heard the same thing get that re-enforced in their little noggins and will never listen to him for fear of being ridiculed.
And that’s the entire point.
Challenge them to back up their claim, and they got nothin’. They don’t like it, either. Don’t rub it in. Just leave them to struggle with the internal conflict.
- philmon | 10/19/2009 @ 19:33