Screamin Scott wrote:
As usual, quoting a left wing Liberal source...I guess that means it's true ?....Hardly, all it is is an opinion piece with no supporting facts...
The Screamer has detected yet another liberal left wing source, and of course, dismissed it as unreliable. What he means by liberal left wing is that the publication tends not to favor his beloved Republican candidates and politics. Ariana Huffington, editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post Media Group, claims neutrality in political ideology, if not in political electioneering.
If Screamin _ _ _ _ wants to discredit the source to the extent that he can wave away anything it writes as untrue, that would require a fairly scholarly and thorough thesis, as many have conducted on his favorite, Fixed News. Short of that, he should dispute the actual article in question with some support, which he has not offered.
Unrelated to its reliability, The Huffington Post was ranked number 1 of 15 most popular political sites by eBizMBA, which tallies global and US volume of use.
Perhaps the Screamer should tell us what he considers left wing and liberal? Has the Huffington Post called for conversion to communism? One hundred percent socialism? Anarco-syndicalism?
Since the assault by Ronald Reagan on anything that is not far right, "liberal" and "left wing" have been redefined as anything that offers to pass even a few bones under the table to the masses. Thus, with the shift of the language itself, the right has managed to alter the debate about public policy so that it is actually between the right and the far right. Leftist agendas are kept off the table entirely, or the US would long ago would have instituted socialized medicine, as have all other advanced industrialized nations, and sent students to college at tax payers' expense.
Well then, what is a reliable source? Of course, Fixed News, anything put out by the Heritage Foundation, or any media on a Koch addiction. That's where one can learn that
* toxic sludge is good for you.
* the higher minimum wage is, the more it hurts the lowest wage earners.
* taxing the rich will result in a plethora of new jobs for the rest of us.
* all industries must be deregulated so that they can serve us better, like the savings and loan industry, and major finance.
* the bankruptcy of the entire major finance and mortgage industries was not due to deregulation, but to clever minimum wage earners who duped the bankers into giving them sub-prime loans, and to the Community Reinvestment Program, even though it had been extant policy since 1977, and all its revisions in the eight years before the collapse actually restricted, rather than expanded it.
* the dynamics of free market competition, not corporate ownership of national politicians is what caused the huge inflation of corporate managerial compensation.
* free market competition also forces corporations not to pay any workers decent wages. Never mind about the enormous amount of money they spend on suppressing wages and busting unions.
* an unborn embryo is a human being who has the right to life; any third world native whose country we attack to steal their resources does not. Nor does a convicted felon, or an unindicted "enemy combatant."
* global warming is a sinister plot on the part of over 90% of the scientists studying it. Their purpose is to enrich Al Gore, and to obstruct business, just for the hell of it.
* freedom of religion means placing social pressure on atheists, agnostics, Muslims, and Jews to participate in Christian liturgy.
* the only way the government can protect our rights against terrorist groups is to revoke our rights.