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I was just wondering who folks on either end of the spectrum listen to and respect. I consider myself left of center and I enjoy these folks:
David Brooks
David Frum
Kathleen Parker
Andrew Sullivan
George Will (unless he's talking about global warming)
Anyone else enjoy reading the thoughts of "the other side"?
Listening to or reading any of the pundits rots your brain and renders you permanently incapable of thought. CD should be all the proof anyone ought to need.
Listening to or reading any of the pundits rots your brain and renders you permanently incapable of thought. CD should be all the proof anyone ought to need.
I think if you only listen to... I mean really listen to... one side, that's true... but you need to be exposed to different ideas. The caveat is that those ideas need to be thoughtful.
I think if you only listen to... I mean really listen to... one side, that's true... but you need to be exposed to different ideas. The caveat is that those ideas need to be thoughtful.
It's not hard to see what they're up to if you follow the news in the areas where you have expertise. If you do this in more than one area it doesn't take long to get the picture of what somebody's politics are without having to have somebody to tell you what it is. That's the way most people did it before we had these professional opinion generators. Whether its a profession or vocation, or an industry or just an interest, they usually will report on the legislation and legal cases that affect it. I subscribe to some scientific and technical journals that do that. I listen to the Farm Reports daily. For any real news junkie, a short wave radio is that way to go. It's interesting to see how different countires report on a story. You'd be surprised how many stories that are headline news in every other country are not reported at all in the United States. I don't think these guardians of the First Amendment do their viewers/listeners any service they just make it seem so.
Buckley is well missed... I think he would have been pretty aghast at the rise of Palin.
I agree, but then again, he was always aghast.
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