[quote]Would you really consider a finely crafted letter to the editor evidence of your claims or even supportive info?
Would you take claims from Rush Limbaugh at face value? The info you passed on came from such, self-described ultra-liberal sources, that they lambasted the mainstream media as dim-witted and slow to take up their cause. The very same media that has been, I think, fairly portrayed as liberal biased. How far to the left can you go to try and find info that attempts to corroborate your hypothesis/opinion, based on a very suspect memo?[/quote]
Of course not. It is something for people to read and form an opinion on, the letter to the editor that is.
I know you believe that the media has a liberal bias, but again, that is not commonly believed by all – so you can’t realistically present it as a conclusion and expect consensus. Neither should you based further statements on that conclusion if you want to have a constructive conversation.
I’m not making any claims at all with respect to the material I found, identified as liberally biased, and put on the site.
I don’t have a hypothesis, per se, but I am waiting to see, as I’ve said before, to see if anything does come out. However, I will suggest this, that if everyone dismissed things and never looked again, in the early stages, we’d never uncover scandals.
Clinton would never have been brought out if everyone would have said, but there is no proof, so stop looking into it. There is allegation. The allegations are serious. There is something that might possibly be seen as supportive evidence.
That, I’m afraid, no matter your opinion on the matter, is what gets people motivated enough to keep poking and prying into things to see whether or not there is something there.
Of course, conspiracy theorists may actually believe everything that comes down the pipeline, whether or not there is ever credible evidence to back it. I’m not saying that doesn’t happen, or that those same people aren’t involved in this. Of course they are. They always will be – on both sides of the aisle.
Anyhow, all that being said, the Boston Globe is at least a mainstream publication. You can probably read their story, ignore any slant you don’t like, and pull some facts out of the exercise. Just because something is slanted doesn’t mean you can’t extract useful details from it – assuming of course it actually includes such details.
So, I’m not making any claims. Read the material. Criticise it. Ignore it. Throwing it out without saying anything other than it is clearly biased shows absolutely nothing to anyone, except that you believe it is biased. Fair enough, but some type of analysis or crtiticism of the material would give your statement more weight – because, and this isn’t an insult, you too are biased.
Why should anyone believe your opinion? Why should anyone believe mine?