Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SilentZ who wrote (425262)	10/13/2008 12:49:21 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574854

Z, > Why do you think CNN has a pro-Obama bias? Lots of evidence, but the latest example is their coverage of McCain's attacks on the Obama-Ayers relationship. They spent so much time portraying Ayers as a model citizen for his local community, they were absolutely perplexed as to why Republicans would even go after him. Only a brief mention of Ayers' past with Weather Underground, and absolutely no mention of Ayers being unrepentant of his terrorist past. I like CNN, but I'm not going to pretend that they give equal time to all sides of any story. > That Fox News was deliberately established to be a conservative media outlet. That's no secret, but if FOXNews is "Fix News," what does that make CBS who zealously ran "fake but true" memos from Abilene, TX? Like I said, most news is "Fix News." Even the local paper here, The OC Register, has a strong libertarian tilt, and it shows in their coverage. > Depends... is ABC being paid off by Big Oil not to broadcast a Gore-sponsored anti-global warming ad? The only "proof" the professor provided was a link to the sponsors of that ad. Here it is: wecansolveit.org And here's another oh-so-unbiased link: planetthoughts.org Tenchusatsu

To: SilentZ who wrote (425262)	10/13/2008 1:18:09 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1574854

huffingtonpost.com I was 13 when the first black child was escorted to school in Little Rock in 1954. I am white, from red-state Tennessee, but I will never forget the face of that child or the terrifying mobs screaming hatred and deadly threats at her. I saw the images of Bull Connor in Birmingham and the delight he took in sending dogs and fire hoses after civil rights protestors. I saw images of people at lunch counters in Nashville, a city I know well, being brutally physically removed from their stools for the act of ordering a sandwich. I had hoped that, as a nation, we had gotten past that and would never again witness the slaughter of people like Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobby Kennedy, among many others. I also saw George Wallace when he was running for office on the "State's Rights" platform, with the vitriol and hatred that he incited and inspired. I did not think that a major party candidate for President or Vice-President would try to stir up the same hatred again in my lifetime. Sadly, I now see the equating of Barack Obama with terrorists at every rally, particularly by Sarah Palin. The "he's not one of us" is so clear in meaning that it is unmistakable to anyone. No one who stoops to that level to win an election deserves a single vote from any real American. There is no excuse, no justification, no legitimate rationale for the frightening tenor that this campaign has taken. The lukewarm tsk-tsk of John McCain is an unacceptable response. This country is in terrible trouble -- two probably unwinnable wars, a crashing economy that will hurt all of us except the very wealthy, a health care system that no third world country would accept, global warming that threatens the very existence of our planet, an infrastructure that is falling apart -- and all I hear from John McCain and Sarah Palin is that Barack Obama knows a guy who was once a member of the really awful Weather Underground but is now a widely respected college professor. Surely we as a nation and the world that is suffering with us deserve better than that.