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Title: Do you watch the news on TV?
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Published: Apr 28, 2008
Author: Richard
Post Date: 2008-04-28 11:36:12 by richard9151
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Do you watch the news on TV?

I don't. In fact, there are times when I will not turn on the TV for a week. My wife will, but only, of course, to Spanish stations, and that is a real chore to listen to (for me), so I don't pay attention anyway. I read.

But Sunday morning, just for a change, I decided to do something different. With all of the news shows and Meet the Press B.S. on, OK, I will 'check it out' and see if anything has changed. After all, the reason I do not watch is the lying, so maybe....

Not!

I did not have the TV on for more than 5 minutes before I was shaking my head, dumbfounded at the stupidity. Not of the actors cum news reporters on the screen; the stupidity of the people who listen to such without throwing something through the TV!

First off, I caught a 'debate' between a rep for Hillary and another for Obama, with an actor cum newsreporter (Blitzer) mediating. All about what they 'believe' and what the future holds and who lies and who tells the truth and how good the future would be with 'their' candidate in office and and and and and...

I am sure you get the picture.

One of the 'points' they made (and agreed on) and which stuck with me was how dangerous it is now that North Korea and Syria are cooperating on Nuclear research. And, how correct Israel was to bomb 'that nuclear reactor that Syria was building' in the desert (some months ago).

As I and others have posted in 4um, that is a complete fabrication, and these people (the talking heads on the TV Sunday morning AND THESE TWO SO-CALLED CANDIDATES) know it! And if they do not, then they have no business being where they are. Another thing both candidates agreed about is the OBLIGATION of the United States to be the first line of defense for Israel. Some squabbels about details, but both agree on the main points.

What did I learn? Only a fool thinks either of these people is honest or, deserving of donations or support. And hey, if you are a supporter of Obama, or Hillary (or McCain), that means YOU ARE A FOOL!!

Naturally enough, I had trouble listening to all of the show, so I was changing the channels a lot. Found some interesting tidbits, like, now is a GOOD time to think about buying a house.

NOT!!

And how important it is for Americans to get back into the swing of things, now that most of the credit woes are behind us....

NOT!!

And not to forget the Home and Garden Show now going on... inside of an air conditioned building, and how many good buys there are on lawn furniture and other needful B.S. Got to motivate those consumers!!

And of course, a full dose of advertising went along with my news over-load, esp. about cars and NEW LOW INTEREST bait. Amazing. Not the low interest bait, that is to be expected, it is all of the advertising which someone obviously is paying for. Why? Cause it works, and just like Pavlov's dogs, people dutifully note it and react. Silly sheeple.

So what did I learn? That the more things change, the more they stay the same. In short, it will be a LONG time before I waste another beautiful morning watching the B.S. on the TV! What garbage! Subscribe to *Agriculture-Environment*

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#1. To: richard9151 (#0)

Television news is only good for keeping a pulse on the sheeple, and getting a scent of any potential wolf attacks.

robin  posted on  2008-04-28   11:51:18 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: robin (#1)

I've been watching the coverage of rev. Wright on MSNBC and CNN this morning, and not once have they mentioned Wright's claim to the NAACP last night that black children and white children have different brains and learn differently and need to be taught differently.

MUDDOG  posted on  2008-04-28   11:58:39 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: MUDDOG (#3)

I saw a bit of that and hope to see the rest of it; it looked interesting.

robin  posted on  2008-04-28   12:01:29 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: robin (#4)

That's explosive stuff to claim a racial difference between the brains of white and black children.

It's the most outrageous thing Wright has said, and yet MSNBC and CNN don't even mention it despite all their coverage of Wright this morning.

MUDDOG  posted on  2008-04-28   12:09:43 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: MUDDOG (#6) (Edited)

I'm curious to know if he meant racial or cultural. Either way it's not that outrageous, for example, Asians are known to score very low in certain test areas. This info was circulating in some circles because of all the traffic accidents in Asian neighborhoods here and in Australia.

robin  posted on  2008-04-28   12:12:18 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: robin (#7)

I couldn't find a transcript on google, but there are a lot of videos of the speech out there.

Can you imagine the firestorm if a white had said that black children and white children had different brains and needed to be taught differently?

MUDDOG  posted on  2008-04-28   12:17:04 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: MUDDOG (#8)

There has been. Although men and women have different brains and no one seems too excited about it.

robin  posted on  2008-04-28   12:25:18 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: robin (#9)

There has been.

Exactly. Yet when Wright says it, not a peep out of the MSM.

MUDDOG  posted on  2008-04-28   12:36:10 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: MUDDOG (#11)

To say that there has not been a peep on Wright from MSM is hardly accurate. On this subject perhaps, but that's the only one.

They cycled through his soundbites, taken out of context, day after day.

Boys and girls learn differently, it would not be surprising that there are cultural learning differences or even racial learning differences.

Perhaps it is in the way he discussed it. I did not hear him being negative or derogatory to anyone.

robin  posted on  2008-04-28   12:39:55 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#15. To: robin (#14)

not been a peep on Wright from MSM is hardly accurate. On this subject perhaps

Yes, on this subject. That was precisely my point. Of course there's been a lot of coverage of Wright. I was pointing out that despite all the coverage, this comment on different brains was not mentioned.

And this is not some minor subject.

MUDDOG  posted on  2008-04-28   12:47:11 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#23. To: MUDDOG, christine (#15)

I found his speech here at hiphopmusic.com ;P

www.hiphopmusic.com/2008/...t_naacp_speech_video.html

BTW, according to one source, what he says is "different is not deficient". That is not inflammatory.

robin  posted on  2008-04-28   14:11:02 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#49. To: robin (#23) (Edited)

"different is not deficient".

That's how the segregationists justified Jim Crow. Separate but equal.

The segregationists argued that segregation laws did not violate the Constitution's equal protection clause, because while the facilities for blacks and whites were "different," they were "not deficient," i.e., they were "separate but equal."

But in fact, the facilities were anything but "not deficient."

The same holds for what Wright said. His "difference" is anything but "not deficient." He's saying that white kids are deficient in creative and intuitive learning, and black kids are deficient in logical and analytical learning, because white kids are "left brained" and black kids are "right brained."

And Wright says that it's not a question of doing something to remedy this difference. Rather, he says the answer is to use different teaching methods for blacks and whites in order to accommodate this right brain/ left brain difference.

What happens if you're a white kid who is a "creative and intuitive" learner, or a black kid who is "logical and analytical"? Tough. Wright judges you by the color of your skin.

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