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You are so right, Blanche, with your one book/idea argument. Hell, I read

Newsmax, watch Hannity and Colmes, the O'Reilly Factor, the Beltway Boys, several MSNBC shows, Lou Dobbs, Anderson Cooper, the Situation Room, the nightly news (usually NBC). I only condemn the reports that get a little too out of hand. I can't stand Hannity but I like Colmes. I can't stand Barnes but I like Kondracke. Oh, and I watch Glenn Beck. I like him, he's conservative and has a sense of humor. I listen to Michael Savage on occasion, as well as Al Franken. I read all their books (or at least excerpts). I read the Washington Post and the New York Times and any and all news releases, regardless of affiliation, if a story catches my eye. I like to think that I can hold a decent conversation with either side of the political fence, but have little patience for the extremist nuts, both left and right. And I detest revisionists who revise on ideological grounds without factual or proper theoretical grounds.

And thank you, Blanche, for being so kind as to put me in the middle of it all. I like it there, but it is a bit lonely in these days of increasing polarization...

posted by saul_relative on December 1, 2006 at 10:50 AM | link to this | reply

Grrr...I like your variation, Saul, "Beware the neocon who's read one type

of book" or beware the man or woman who only cites Newsmax or any source that also features Intelligent Design and Armageddon as a viable intellectual idea.

posted by Blanche. on December 1, 2006 at 8:36 AM | link to this | reply

Gee, where have I seen that before, Saul? Oh, right here in River City

Since the elections have swung the wind, the neocons are even more toothless, paper tigers than before, all growl and no bite. And yet, here, only you and Blogflogger have sort of held down the middle-ground with any semblance of rationality and little things like, oh, I don't know CITING SOURCES, and not mocking others sources as being leftwing commie pinko organizations.

That's a lame excuse for an argument, when someone has no argument, attack the source, without providing a credible reason, just mockery, derision and contempt, it's all they've got and it's gotten WAY old.

posted by Blanche. on December 1, 2006 at 8:34 AM | link to this | reply

Oh, and Blanch, Professor Peabody, have you noticed that you never see

or hear an add on a conservative author's book that begins, "Add this book to your list..." No, it's usually "If there's one book you should read, it's..." Kind of brings home Blanche's admonition.

posted by saul_relative on December 1, 2006 at 8:32 AM | link to this | reply

Now, where have I heard that slogan "fair and balanced" before? LOL.

You know, when someone or some entity reiterates again and again with words like "fair" and "true" and "hones" and "unbiased", you know that something's amiss. To paraphrase the bard, they doth proclaim too much. What scares me most about the neocons and the ultracons and the religious right nutcases that currently have far more power than their demographic base should allow is that they tend to preach all the traditional and humanitarian rights of man while denying that dissenters and liberals should enjoy those same rights. And then we have those revisionist nuts who frame the Constitution and American history with the cross instead of the seeing the Constitution and American history as the framework wherein Christian principles has flourished...

posted by saul_relative on December 1, 2006 at 8:29 AM | link to this | reply

I missed my boyfriend's comment earlier, Saul, that was sweet.

And yeah, reading a variety of sources to get a "fair and balanced" perspective, what a concept, huh, Saul?

posted by Blanche. on December 1, 2006 at 8:08 AM | link to this | reply

That is pretty scary, Professor. And Blanche is correct. I wonder if the

Cheney story is true. A man as intelligent as Cheney should know better. I watch them all, read all the newspapers, uncaring about their political slant, unless it leans too far to one side or the other. Yet, I still give it it's voice. What does it say about the type of mentality that it takes to base everything on yes-men spin and a monorail ideology?

posted by saul_relative on December 1, 2006 at 8:04 AM | link to this | reply

My honey's best insight...

Blanche's most pithy (pithiest?) insight is this:

"Beware the man who's read ONE book."

I say, beware the man or woman who only reads one TYPE of book (or Radio or TV Show). The funniest and yet most disturbing thing I've read is that VP Cheney has a "rider" in his travel accommodations that require that ALL tv's be tuned to Fox News, lest he should hear even a few seconds of dissenting opinions.

posted by Professor_Peabody on November 30, 2006 at 3:12 AM | link to this | reply

Calling these guys a bit conservative is like calling George Clooney and

George Soros a bit liberal...

posted by saul_relative on November 29, 2006 at 9:07 PM | link to this | reply

I admit I'm not up on all the hot writers...

But I think I'm catching a whiff of something...maybe a bit conservative. Guess I'll check Google and find out who these guys are.

posted by Pat_B on November 29, 2006 at 6:39 AM | link to this | reply

That's because you have a mind that works, ladychardonnay. Coulter only

has a mind that reacts and attacks...

posted by saul_relative on November 28, 2006 at 9:22 PM | link to this | reply

Yeah, TAPS, and I already know what the neocons and ultracons will say

as a defense: "This is America! We don't read Japanese!"

posted by saul_relative on November 28, 2006 at 9:20 PM | link to this | reply

Those same people send you all those online hoaxes and new urban myths,

Parnell? I have a few friends like those, including my father...

posted by saul_relative on November 28, 2006 at 9:14 PM | link to this | reply

I DESPISE ANN COULTER!!!!!

posted by ladychardonnay on November 28, 2006 at 6:29 PM | link to this | reply

HAHAHA, That's good, saul_relative.

posted by TAPS. on November 28, 2006 at 6:10 PM | link to this | reply

Saul

I have friends that refuse to believe anything in a history book, but will swallow whole each and every conspiracy theory that comes their way...