Deriding one wing of our laughable media (I refuse to use the word 'news' for any of it) while ignoring the absurd duplicitousness and bias of the other is, well, sad.
You believe Fox while dismissing CBS, or vise versa.
People will always choose to agree with whatever they already believe when they refuse to look at anything objectively, and base their decisions on what they 'feel' should be.
I suggest all of you get rid of your Cable television and stop getting newspapers altogether.
Get only the news it takes effort to find, and stop letting these #$%*s shove their ideologies down your goddamned throats.
Man (and woman) up, people.
listen to mlinder folks... he's 2000 years old.
i agree largely with your point but even without cable, talk radio, etc... any info taken in will be filtered through an ideology. we all carry one but some are absolutely driven by it.
i'm aware of mine and make an effort to re-evaluate my positions when a coherent point is made (minus tired insults and political parroting- good point cchopper, bbart) but i just wish more of my leftist friends (i do have them!) would be so willing.
however, i am seeing more progressives waking up to the czar-in-chief every day. just yeaterday a huge lefty neighbor who supported impeaching gw bush said of obama, "i think we've been duped."
i want to believe bo's sincere about those things (i agree with) mentioned in his speech but so much of what i've seen, read, and heard from him is... i'm sorry, a flat lie. and in the least contrary to the core principals of this country.
if you want to dismiss that as i being a right wing whacko repeating rush, beck, fox, etc... all i can say is that attitude does nothing but allow one to not have to think outside their comfort zone.