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To: Alighieri who wrote (596542)	12/28/2010 5:51:51 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578206

A Video Fisking of that “Fox Viewers Are Stooopid” Study Filed under: General — Aaron Worthing @ 12:23 pm [Guest post by Aaron Worthing; please send any tips here.] Via The Blaze we get this high quality take down of the study allegedly showing that Fox Viewers are the most uninformed. I did my own fisking of it, here, but bluntly Lee Doren has completely outclassed me. There isn’t much I said that he didn’t, but there is a ton he said that I didn’t. Nice show: Meanwhile in related news, the Washington Post is now “misinforming” readers the exact same way Fox has by explaining that Obamacare is increasing costs, but not increasing coverage by very much. Update: By the way, liberals, isn’t the crass politicization of this kind of social “science”–where liberals put out bogus study after bogus study claiming that liberals are smart, normal, well educated and well-endowed, but conservatives are dumb, psychologically screwed up, ignorant and so on–fatally undermining your argument when you get to global warming? I mean you say, “The Science! tells us that there will be no more winters. And the Science! also says that you are an idiot. Don’t you dare question the Science!” It’s a dumb argument. First, there are plenty of conservatives who know they are not any of the things this supposed social science claims all or most conservatives are, so after hearing the science! lying to insult them, how receptive do you think they will be to the Science! on another topic? And second, you would tend to think the Science! might teach you that “listen to me, you moron!” is not the most persuasive argument even when it is true (and it obviously isn’t, here). patterico.com

To: Alighieri who wrote (596542)	12/28/2010 6:53:50 PM
From: i-node	2 Recommendations Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1578206

Bush is a great man. Obama is Jimmy Carter all over again.

To: Alighieri who wrote (596542)	12/28/2010 7:38:01 PM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578206

I guess you mean bush...anyway, the list is laugh-able. After 8 full years in office bush had managed to pass Med drug bill, but he didn't pay for it, and wage two wars, one of which was unnecessary and the other he left in a tail spin....and he left office in the midst of the worst economic and financial crisis in nearly a century. The man was a failure... It is interesting that your only defense of Obama is an attack on Bush. After his failed economic "stimulus", the man has accomplished NOTHING. The health care legislation, if we're lucky, will be thrown out by the Supremes, but at the very best it is clear that it is nothing short of a disaster if it stands. It will add trillions to our debt, leave huge numbers of patients reliant on a malfunctioning government system for health care, and result in lousier coverage for all. There is nothing positive, at all, in the legislation, yet it is considered his key agenda accomplishment. Since then, he has managed to extend the Bush tax cuts for two years which I'm sure you're proud of, and to allow gays who were already in the military to now speak it outloud. These are the marks of accomplishment in a REAL presidency? Hardly. Not to mention his having massively increased the national debt and unemployment rates. WTF exactly has the man done? Nothing. Nothing on par with Bush's huge achievements. I remain hopeful that Obama can get his shit together and do something. But it has become more and more apparent he just doesn't have the intellect or the skill that GWB possesses and the failure of the Obama presidency makes that fact clear.