re: #5 Skip Intro

The reason the hosts of these shows are so squishy is because they know they won’t get any guests if they ask “hard” questions.

Like most bad things in the news business, I blame Fox News for this. Back when I was RW (but not NJ) I would watch Hannity and Colmes. I noticed immediately that RW guests would only talk to Hannity while non rightwingers would only go on alone with Colmes. I thought at the time that this is absolutely chickenshit. I didn’t realize then that it would spread to all of the purported “news” shows on the other networks, including the moderators of the alleged presidential debates who feel no obligation to step in when one of the performers makes a totally outlandish or just flat out false statement.

So, I no longer watch any tv news, news type shows, or debates. If I just want to hear pure propaganda I’ll go to the source: the RNC and DNC websites.

Good summation Skip. So, if you don’t mind me asking, where do you get your news?

For me, I try to sweep through as much reporting as I can, weight it, average it out and see if I can find the truth in it by comparison of it all.

Sometimes I try to use the “if this side said this” and the “other side said that” then the truth or facts must be somewhere in between. Or the relative to that…if they say this, then the opposite must be looked at to see if they are lying or misleading me.

One good thing about Little Green Footballs…the methods I’ve mentioned above sort of happen by the nature of the way Charles has it set up with the side bar pages and the main topics and how they go through the wash of the members comments.