[Industrialblog,
December 13, 2004]
'Hate Balboa? Hell no ... I pity the fool'
Dean notices a tendency.
My guess:
1. Lefties like to get pissed off when someone on the right says something outrageous. It reinforces their worldview. And especially with Savage, who says stupid things, they can point out errors and say to themselves, "See, they're nuts."
2. Rights listen to NPR because it's relaxing in the morning and, like the New York Times, it's not all propaganda. Also, they like to get pissed off, and they like to point out errors and say, "See, they're nuts."
I've noticed it in the blogosphere. The Leftists go make fun of the freepers, and the moderate/right go make fun of the Democratic Underground. It's a form of reductio ad absurdum, where you seek out places where the other side's argument has already been reduced to absurdity for you, like a boxing champion carefully selecting his opponents.
Why is it that almost all of my non-lefty friends listen to NPR, while nearly all my lefty friends listen to Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, or Michael Savage?
My guess:
1. Lefties like to get pissed off when someone on the right says something outrageous. It reinforces their worldview. And especially with Savage, who says stupid things, they can point out errors and say to themselves, "See, they're nuts."
2. Rights listen to NPR because it's relaxing in the morning and, like the New York Times, it's not all propaganda. Also, they like to get pissed off, and they like to point out errors and say, "See, they're nuts."
I've noticed it in the blogosphere. The Leftists go make fun of the freepers, and the moderate/right go make fun of the Democratic Underground. It's a form of reductio ad absurdum, where you seek out places where the other side's argument has already been reduced to absurdity for you, like a boxing champion carefully selecting his opponents.
Most of them aren't so bad — a little soap can get rid of the pretension covering your car after listening to NPR for 20-25 minutes. But if you happen to hear Teri Gross say, "this is freeshshsh AIR, there's little that you can do besides burn your car.
On the other hand, it makes for a really great joke in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (never played myself, but watched someone for a while). When the main character steals a car, he can turn on the radio. One of the stations is Vice City Public Radio. It's prettymuch one 15 minute long begging break, where they plead for money so that they can protect us from the barbarians. It was hilariously on-target.
Which is a pity, because if they had people who weren't so full of their sense of their own importance, NPR would be great.
Terry Gross showed Bill O'Reilly for the pussy that he is. For that she has earned a spot in Valhalla.
Chris: LOL.
So, yes, for taking on the great and powerful OZ and showing that he was just a little man behind a curtain, yes, I salute her courage.
I'd like to see how fast tough-talking Zell Miller would run away. Didn't you say that Chris Matthews was a pussy for not taking him up on his challenge of a duel?
Nonetheless, not Valhalla material. Sorry.
Miller run away from whom?
I'm wondering if Zell Miller would run away from Terry Gross. It doesn't seem likely, but neither did O'Reilly running away.
I don't know about O'Reilly, but from I've heard he's a control freak who loves to kill the mike of people who disagree with him.
That in some venue where he can't kill the other guy's mike he himself ran away doesn't impress me.
Besides, if Teri Gross wasn't intimidated by O'Reilly it's probably because she's so certain of her own grandeur that her ego couldn't fit out the single-space doorway in the recording studio, so she couldn't run away and so didn't bother. Bill O'Reilly might be infuriating, but Teri Gross is nauseating.
On the plus side, we might just get to see his head explode with rage on national TV.