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Elcapinyoazz
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Joshua Tree
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Nov 23, 2011 - 01:06pm PT
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The Huffington Post is just as ridiculous as Faux News and the rest of the MSM.
You're a little slow, aren't you?
"The study, conducted by the University of Maryland..."
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Nov 23, 2011 - 01:06pm PT
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The irony is that those who watch Fox News with an open mind can see through the BS that they [Faux News] spew 27/7.
Those who eat Fox News hook, line, and sinker, will never believe that they are less informed than those who don't watch any news.
Brainwashed sheep. They say "Yeah, this coming from a source like HuffPo," when in fact it was another independent group (University of Maryland) that did the research.
Never are they able to look at something and form their own opinions--their opinions are formed for them by Faux.
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philo
Trad climber
Somewhere halfway over the rainbow
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 23, 2011 - 01:08pm PT
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^^^ Fauxpinions excellent ^^^
AGAIN for the reading comprehension impaired the Huffington Post only REPORTED this story.
It was a survey conducted at a University. But the point does keep getting to be shown true.
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philo
Trad climber
Somewhere halfway over the rainbow
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 23, 2011 - 01:11pm PT
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^^^^^ HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAH ^^^^^
I knew this would lure SkippyDippy in. He has to defend his info source now doesn't he.
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WBraun
climber
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Nov 23, 2011 - 01:13pm PT
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Elcapinyoazz
Whenever you see the line "Americans are stupid" or some such versions.
You should immediately .....
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Nov 23, 2011 - 01:13pm PT
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Skip, I can link to websites that post long lists of where Fox News lies, distorts, and cheats.
No other news service would stand up to that type of riducule.
Yet so many folks eat Fox up like gospel. Why is that?
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Nov 23, 2011 - 01:17pm PT
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Ah, now I get it
thanks
the study is flawed, biased because the University of Maryland is presumed to be "left wing"
Conclusion: The data was manipulated and the supposed study was fraud because the left wing faculty wanted so badly to brand Fox viewers as misinformed.
Now, if maybe a "right wing" school, say Oral Roberts University, had done the same study, then the results would be completely the opposite.
And therefore, "correct" because only right wing studies can be trusted to be accurate.
Now I understand
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karodrinker
Trad climber
San Jose, CA
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Nov 23, 2011 - 01:18pm PT
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Yea you are right skipt, Fox seems like a very legit news agency with very smart independent thinking viewers. Hahahahaha!
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Nov 23, 2011 - 01:19pm PT
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And the picture's inference is that Philo is the posing, or "gay", child.
Got it
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philo
Trad climber
Somewhere halfway over the rainbow
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 23, 2011 - 01:26pm PT
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Yes I was a danseur and that did involve poses.
But are you, in your homophobic insecurity, implying that you like the way my ass looks?
That's OK, I am flattered really. But I don't swing your way. Surely a little toe tappin' in public toilets will wrangle you up some action nttiawwt. Heck you may even score a Republican Congressman. Anyone who swallows sh#t as easily as you do will do well in their midst.
Weak Sauce C*#k Roach. Scurry off now the light is on.
By the way Dancer/gymnast chicks are HOT!
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gunsmoke
Mountain climber
Clackamas, Oregon
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Nov 23, 2011 - 01:34pm PT
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Norton:The University of Maryland is not a real university or something? What criteria is being used to diminish the University as the study source? Maybe Harvard would be more credible?
The problem, if there is one, certainly isn't the credibility of the school. But it may be with the nature of the survey. If you ask a random group of people, "Did a US auto bailout only occur under Obama?" (emphasis supplied), you are baiting those inclined to distrust Obama to assume the worst, which in this case would be to assume "yes". Out of the list of questions from the top of this thread, all of them are great bait for Republicans. Where are the questions like, "Did the biggest percentage tax cut in history occur under George W. Bush?"
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philo
Trad climber
Somewhere halfway over the rainbow
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 23, 2011 - 01:36pm PT
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Fabulous.
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Elcapinyoazz
Social climber
Joshua Tree
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Nov 23, 2011 - 01:37pm PT
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The University of Maryland is a well known left wing University. In fact, I
found many of the Professors much less tolerant than even those at Berkeley.
And, yeah. I have studied there.
Like most children, little Skipper has a vivid imagination. Between his time as a child prodigy trader with a benefactor extending unlimited margin, his days as Bill Gates Jr the ISP maven, and next week when he will claim to have been a speechwriter for Reagan, little Skipper was a U of M Terp...or twerp, as the case may be.
Meanwhile Jeffrey "Fife" Elfont imagines himself a rough and tumble inner city cop, facing down the worst of Compton, when in reality he was a donut fetcher ride-along boy in Malibu facing down those dangerous criminals like Mel Gibson and Nick Nolte who'd had one too many cocktails.
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Douglas Rhiner
Mountain climber
Truckee , CA
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Nov 23, 2011 - 01:47pm PT
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Just because a "University" performs a study doesn't make the study true.
That is called "appeal by authority" and it is a fallacy.
One of my best friend's mother was an Econ Professor there for like ever.
I know the University very well.
....and.....
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philo
Trad climber
Somewhere halfway over the rainbow
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 23, 2011 - 01:49pm PT
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"Because of the controls for partisanship, we know these results are not just driven by Republicans or other groups being more likely to watch Fox News. Rather, the results show us that there is something about watching Fox News that leads people to do worse on these questions than those who don’t watch any news at all."
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philo
Trad climber
Somewhere halfway over the rainbow
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 23, 2011 - 01:50pm PT
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Skipty, you are in free fall.
(good edit SkiptDipt)
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philo
Trad climber
Somewhere halfway over the rainbow
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 23, 2011 - 01:53pm PT
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And I will continue to spurn your toe tappin' advances.
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gunsmoke
Mountain climber
Clackamas, Oregon
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Nov 23, 2011 - 02:14pm PT
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Wow, Dr. F, I guess I'm one of the misinformed:
Iraq War. In 2003, a survey by ... found widespread public misperceptions about the Iraq war. For instance, many Americans believed that Saddam Hussein's Iraq had ... possessed weapons of mass destruction prior to the U.S. invasion.
HaHaHa on me. And all along I thought that Saddam had used poison gas, a universally recognized WMD, on both the Kurds he was trying to crush and in separate attacks on Iranian troops during the Iraq/Iran war.
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Time for you to find some new sources of information, as what you are citing has no credibility.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Nov 23, 2011 - 04:09pm PT
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Iraq used chemical weapons against its own people, and against Iran, in the 1980s. Just like explosives, they're not hard to produce with modern chemical factories - the problem is always delivering them. It helps if you have a fixed population, e.g. in a town (Halabja) or in trenches (World War I). And if the wind blows the right direction.
IIRC, in 1990 and perhaps also 2003, Iraq was warned by diplomatic channels that if it used chemical weapons, it faced overwhelming consequences.
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Elcapinyoazz
Social climber
Joshua Tree
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Nov 23, 2011 - 04:18pm PT
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How's the trading going????
Sidelines since the spring. No time to micro-manage volatility plays. All cash and TIPs. Still holding a few large cap dividend payers acquired at a low basis for the long haul..JNJ etc.
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