Republican National Committee has some backbone after all

[Value Buy]

The RNC has announced they are taking the next Presidential debate away from NBC due to a history of offensive questions.
They have given it to CNN.


www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/republican-national-committee-cuts-ties-with-nbc-over-upcoming-gop-debate/ar-BBopb0R?li=BBnb7Kz

Anyone remember the day CBS was the FAR leftwing of the media empire? 

[djAdvocate]

did you mean CNN?

[dondub]

Anyone remember the day CBS was the FAR leftwing of the media empire?

No, because they never were.

[gregintenn]

Jan 19, 2016 11:44:49 GMT -5 dondub said:

Anyone remember the day CBS was the FAR leftwing of the media empire?

No, because they never were.

Got proof of this one Dub?

[dondub]

Sure Greg, easy. The FAR left media in America would be along the lines of the Socialist Worker or Worker's Daily and not a mainstream capitalist business conglomerate such as CBS. There is an interesting chart here: www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2014/10/21/lets-rank-the-media-from-liberal-to-conservative-based-on-their-audiences/

None of the FAR left media outlets are even listed as they really don't have enough impact to register. Glad I could help.

[gregintenn]

I don't believe your examples would constitute part of "the media empire"

The point I'm trying to make is that a person can have an opinion without linking to some article in a commie news source as proof.

[dondub]

Please provide proof of any commie news source that has been linked. TYIA.

In the meantime, CBS has never been FAR left except to an extremist fringe on the right that thinks there are commie's everywhere.

[gregintenn]

You've illustrated my point brilliantly. Someone has an opinion that differs from yours, and you start with the proof garbage.

Do you not have any logical arguments to support your beliefs?

If I told you the sky was blue, why couldn't you look out the window to confirm or disprove that without asking for proof?

[dondub]

My post responses are simply my opinions, Greg. I don't seek permission from you on how to design them so you can understand that.

The opinion that CBS was ever a FAR left media outlet is completely ludicrous.

[gregintenn]

Jan 19, 2016 13:17:55 GMT -5 dondub said:

My post responses are simply my opinions, Greg. I don't seek permission from you on how to design them so you can understand that.

The opinion that CBS was ever a FAR left media outlet is completely ludicrous.

I respect your opinions as well as others, even if I don't always agree with them.

I do wish you'd reconsider asking for proof with nearly every post.

[dondub]

I can't help it that you don't get it.

[billisonboard]

Here is the proof that CBS was FAR left wing with Comrade Cronkite:

[Value Buy]

Jan 19, 2016 12:37:38 GMT -5 gregintenn said:

Jan 19, 2016 11:44:49 GMT -5 dondub said:

Anyone remember the day CBS was the FAR leftwing of the media empire?

No, because they never were.

Got proof of this one Dub?

Dondub probably was not around back then. This goes back to the sixties and seventies and Walter Cronkite and the Vietnam war and the Democratic party.

[Value Buy]

I know Bills posted a statement by Cronkite, but the man in the sixties and seventies was off the wall leftwing.

[djAdvocate]

walter concrete

[billisonboard]

Jan 19, 2016 17:26:39 GMT -5 Value Buy said:

I know Bills posted a statement by Cronkite, but the man in the sixties and seventies was off the wall leftwing.

Hey, when he told the truth about Vietnam instead of just reading Pentagon press releases it did move him to the left in some people's mind. Others just considered it journalism.

[Value Buy]

Jan 19, 2016 17:35:53 GMT -5 billisonboard said:

Jan 19, 2016 17:26:39 GMT -5 Value Buy said:

I know Bills posted a statement by Cronkite, but the man in the sixties and seventies was off the wall leftwing.

Hey, when he told the truth about Vietnam instead of just reading Pentagon press releases it did move him to the left in some people's mind. Others just considered it journalism.

Yes, he was the first to publicly come out against policy, but then, he was supposed to report the news, not make it.
The 1968 Democratic Presidential convention in Chicago was the actual turning point for him and CBS.

[billisonboard]

Jan 19, 2016 17:39:34 GMT -5 Value Buy said:

Jan 19, 2016 17:35:53 GMT -5 billisonboard said:

Hey, when he told the truth about Vietnam instead of just reading Pentagon press releases it did move him to the left in some people's mind. Others just considered it journalism.

Yes, he was the first to publicly come out against policy, but then, he was supposed to report the news, not make it.
The 1968 Democratic Presidential convention in Chicago was the actual turning point for him and CBS.

Going beyond reading press releases is not making news. Coverage of the police riots in Chicago was another great opportunity for those on the right to freak out.

[Value Buy]

Jan 19, 2016 18:03:45 GMT -5 billisonboard said:

Jan 19, 2016 17:39:34 GMT -5 Value Buy said:

Yes, he was the first to publicly come out against policy, but then, he was supposed to report the news, not make it.
The 1968 Democratic Presidential convention in Chicago was the actual turning point for him and CBS.

Going beyond reading press releases is not making news. Coverage of the police riots in Chicago was another great opportunity for those on the right to freak out.

The way I remember it, Republicans were dancing in the street after watching the meltdown.
It was the Democrats across the country that were freaking out.

[billisonboard]

Jan 19, 2016 18:13:39 GMT -5 Value Buy said:

Jan 19, 2016 18:03:45 GMT -5 billisonboard said:

Going beyond reading press releases is not making news. Coverage of the police riots in Chicago was another great opportunity for those on the right to freak out.

The way I remember it, Republicans were dancing in the street after watching the meltdown.
It was the Democrats across the country that were freaking out.

Politically, but we are talking about media.

[dondub]

Dondub probably was not around back then. This goes back to the sixties and seventies and Walter Cronkite and the Vietnam war and the Democratic party.




Of course I was around back then and quite eligible for the Vietnam draft. The fascists didn't get me.

CBS as FAR left...love the caps...what a laugher that is.

[Gardening Grandma]

What's the deal with wanting only softball questions.  They think a President isn't going to get hard questions?

Personally I think we'd all be better served if Rachel Maddow and John Stewart were asking the questions of the Republican candidates.  And I'd be just fine watching Bill O'Reilly etal asking questions of the Dems.  That'd be a lot more interesting.

What a bunch of whinning pussies!

[Value Buy]

Jan 19, 2016 18:42:20 GMT -5 Gardening Grandma said:

What's the deal with wanting only softball questions.  They think a President isn't going to get hard questions?

Personally I think we'd all be better served if Rachel Maddow and John Stewart were asking the questions of the Republican candidates.  And I'd be just fine watching Bill O'Reilly etal asking questions of the Dems.  That'd be a lot more interesting.

What a bunch of whinning pussies!

Had nothing to do with softball questions
had to do with making them personally look bad, and asking questions to one candidate, of other candidates on the stage, rather then discussing issues.
Very similar to the first debate on Fox when the moderators were the instigators of bickering.

[tallguy]

And I'd be just fine watching Bill O'Reilly etal asking questions of the Dems.

Can't have O'Reilly.  He'd be talking over all of the answers. 

[dondub]

During the Vietnam War period the FAR left in America was best represented by the Weathermen/Weather Underground. There were also numerous communist and socialist organizations, but the WU, an offshoot of the SDS, was by far the most dangerous and active. Try as I might a I just can't seem to find Cronkite anywhere near the FAR left, nor was CBS in any way a FAR left capitalist business during this tragic period in our history.

[gregintenn]

Jan 19, 2016 19:16:57 GMT -5 dondub said:

During the Vietnam War period the FAR left in America was best represented by the Weathermen/Weather Underground. There were also numerous communist and socialist organizations, but the WU, an offshoot of the SDS, was by far the most dangerous and active. Try as I might a I just can't seem to find Cronkite anywhere near the FAR left, nor was CBS in any way a FAR left capitalist business during this tragic period in our history.

Perhaps you don't realize how far left you are.

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And its comments like that which lead me to... hey, you know what, why not give Bernie a shot. If we can't tell the difference, might as well go where they say we are...

[gregintenn]

Jan 19, 2016 20:35:00 GMT -5 oped said:

And its comments like that which lead me to... hey, you know what, why not give Bernie a shot. If we can't tell the difference, might as well go where they say we are...

I'll give the old fart this, he's honest about his intentions. That's a rare trait in D.C.

[djAdvocate]

Jan 19, 2016 18:42:20 GMT -5 Gardening Grandma said:

What's the deal with wanting only softball questions.  They think a President isn't going to get hard questions?

Personally I think we'd all be better served if Rachel Maddow and John Stewart were asking the questions of the Republican candidates.  And I'd be just fine watching Bill O'Reilly etal asking questions of the Dems.  That'd be a lot more interesting.

What a bunch of whinning pussies!

no candidate wants to be taken outside of his carefully primped up script.  sickening, really.

[djAdvocate]

Jan 19, 2016 20:31:10 GMT -5 gregintenn said:

Jan 19, 2016 19:16:57 GMT -5 dondub said:

During the Vietnam War period the FAR left in America was best represented by the Weathermen/Weather Underground. There were also numerous communist and socialist organizations, but the WU, an offshoot of the SDS, was by far the most dangerous and active. Try as I might a I just can't seem to find Cronkite anywhere near the FAR left, nor was CBS in any way a FAR left capitalist business during this tragic period in our history.

Perhaps you don't realize how far left you are.

remember what i said about perspective?