Comments on: The joke’s on . . . who? http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/11/22/the-jokes-on-who/ Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:23:07 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Deana http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/11/22/the-jokes-on-who/comment-page-1/#comment-37014 Deana Wed, 26 Nov 2008 02:32:51 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=4778#comment-37014 Mike - I'd break my news consumption down to the following: 40% - Fox News 40% - Internet 20% - NPR Other than Fox News, which does manage to get on my nerves at times, I don't watch any other TV news. I've tried and I just can't. They don't seem to go into depth on much and I can't bear to hear them insinuate how objective they are when they so clearly aren't. Fox News (NOT the Hannity and Colmes part - ick - but the Britt Hume show, the Cavuto Report, etc.) is by far the most objective newsource on TV. Commentators on all sides are provided the opportunity not just to make their points but delve into details and I appreciate that. Plus, even though I don't agree with the leftists on there, I enjoy listening to their viewpoints and I respect them. (For example: Juan Williams, Dr. LaMont Hill, etc.) The only "major" newspaper I ever purchase is The Washington Times. The Washington Post is a disgrace. Birds shouldn't be forced to relieve themselves on such garbage! If I watch any TV other than news, it is almost always the travel or the food channels. I haven't watched more than 1/2 hour of a TV show in months and months. My mind can't take it. It feels like mental cotton candy - light, fluffy, interesting in small bites once a year. Deana Mike –

I’d break my news consumption down to the following:

40% – Fox News
40% – Internet
20% – NPR

Other than Fox News, which does manage to get on my nerves at times, I don’t watch any other TV news. I’ve tried and I just can’t. They don’t seem to go into depth on much and I can’t bear to hear them insinuate how objective they are when they so clearly aren’t.

Fox News (NOT the Hannity and Colmes part – ick – but the Britt Hume show, the Cavuto Report, etc.) is by far the most objective newsource on TV. Commentators on all sides are provided the opportunity not just to make their points but delve into details and I appreciate that.

Plus, even though I don’t agree with the leftists on there, I enjoy listening to their viewpoints and I respect them. (For example: Juan Williams, Dr. LaMont Hill, etc.)

The only “major” newspaper I ever purchase is The Washington Times. The Washington Post is a disgrace. Birds shouldn’t be forced to relieve themselves on such garbage!

If I watch any TV other than news, it is almost always the travel or the food channels. I haven’t watched more than 1/2 hour of a TV show in months and months. My mind can’t take it. It feels like mental cotton candy – light, fluffy, interesting in small bites once a year.

Deana

]]> By: Ellie2 http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/11/22/the-jokes-on-who/comment-page-1/#comment-37009 Ellie2 Wed, 26 Nov 2008 02:06:05 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=4778#comment-37009 Y, Trees, good. People, bad. Environmentalists, demented. NYT, compost. Y,

Trees, good. People, bad. Environmentalists, demented. NYT, compost.

]]> By: Ymarsakar http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/11/22/the-jokes-on-who/comment-page-1/#comment-37004 Ymarsakar Wed, 26 Nov 2008 01:44:53 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=4778#comment-37004 There's a reason why environmental terrorists put spikes in trees so that lumber men get injured but don't protest the New York Times printing giag jillions of paper crap. There’s a reason why environmental terrorists put spikes in trees so that lumber men get injured but don’t protest the New York Times printing giag jillions of paper crap.

]]> By: Ymarsakar http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/11/22/the-jokes-on-who/comment-page-1/#comment-37002 Ymarsakar Wed, 26 Nov 2008 01:28:17 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=4778#comment-37002 We are environmentalists, Mike. We help save the planet by not paying for the destruction of trees. We should feel good about ourselves, right Ellie? We are environmentalists, Mike. We help save the planet by not paying for the destruction of trees. We should feel good about ourselves, right Ellie?

]]> By: Ellie2 http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/11/22/the-jokes-on-who/comment-page-1/#comment-36997 Ellie2 Wed, 26 Nov 2008 01:06:30 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=4778#comment-36997 I took a semester off in college in 1968 and worked for a major metro newspaper. Moved to New York in 1970 and read the Sunday Times cover to cover. I moved to Chicago in 1978 and read three newspapers daily on my lunch hour. Now? Read Drudge and selected Blogs. Watch some Fox Cable, not much. If I really want to know what's happening I pick up the National Enquirer at the grocery store. I took a semester off in college in 1968 and worked for a major metro newspaper. Moved to New York in 1970 and read the Sunday Times cover to cover. I moved to Chicago in 1978 and read three newspapers daily on my lunch hour.

Now? Read Drudge and selected Blogs. Watch some Fox Cable, not much. If I really want to know what’s happening I pick up the National Enquirer at the grocery store.

]]> By: Mike Devx http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/11/22/the-jokes-on-who/comment-page-1/#comment-36989 Mike Devx Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:30:00 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=4778#comment-36989 I've been staying completely away from mainstream news and all of TV for about five months now - except for football. I now find commercial TV to be almost completely unwatchable. I turn it off out of disgust or boredom, whichever rises first. And as Y said about the New York Times, the newspapers have become worthless to me as well. Anyone finding similar things happening to them? I’ve been staying completely away from mainstream news and all of TV for about five months now – except for football.

I now find commercial TV to be almost completely unwatchable. I turn it off out of disgust or boredom, whichever rises first.

And as Y said about the New York Times, the newspapers have become worthless to me as well.

Anyone finding similar things happening to them?

]]> By: Ymarsakar http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/11/22/the-jokes-on-who/comment-page-1/#comment-36902 Ymarsakar Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:56:42 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=4778#comment-36902 You have got to stop reading the New York Times, Book. There's so much hate there that it is starting to affect me. And you don't want that to happen. Bad things could happen then. You have got to stop reading the New York Times, Book. There’s so much hate there that it is starting to affect me. And you don’t want that to happen. Bad things could happen then.

]]> By: Charles Martel http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/11/22/the-jokes-on-who/comment-page-1/#comment-36593 Charles Martel Mon, 24 Nov 2008 01:24:44 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=4778#comment-36593 Ellie: True. In which case I hope that Obama becomes the most successful president in history! :) Ellie:

True. In which case I hope that Obama becomes the most successful president in history! :)

]]> By: Ellie2 http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/11/22/the-jokes-on-who/comment-page-1/#comment-36584 Ellie2 Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:20:06 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=4778#comment-36584 Charles, Charles, Charles, I am quite certain that somewhere along the the line a parent, a teacher, or clergy made mention of the fact that being a success doesn't always mean getting what you want. ;-) Charles, Charles, Charles, I am quite certain that somewhere along the the line a parent, a teacher, or clergy made mention of the fact that being a success doesn’t always mean getting what you want. ;-)

]]> By: Charles Martel http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/11/22/the-jokes-on-who/comment-page-1/#comment-36579 Charles Martel Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:07:06 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=4778#comment-36579 Oz: Nice to see you back. Speaking as a man, it is embarrassing to see another man have a "man crush" on a politician. Not only because politicians by nature are two-faced (Lincoln excepted after he said, "My opponent calls me two-faced. I ask you, if I had two faces, why would I wear this one?"), but also because such crushes are unseemly. It's like the 12-year-old girl who writes the name of the boy she has a crush on on her notebook, then adds his last name to hers: "Chris Matthews Obama" "Chrissy M. OBAMA" "C. M. Obama" Yuck. Oz:

Nice to see you back.

Speaking as a man, it is embarrassing to see another man have a “man crush” on a politician.

Not only because politicians by nature are two-faced (Lincoln excepted after he said, “My opponent calls me two-faced. I ask you, if I had two faces, why would I wear this one?”), but also because such crushes are unseemly.

It’s like the 12-year-old girl who writes the name of the boy she has a crush on on her notebook, then adds his last name to hers:

“Chris Matthews Obama”

“Chrissy M. OBAMA”

“C. M. Obama”

Yuck.

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