California Girl
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How do you form you opinions?
I think. All by myself. I get information from both left and right - I try to source that information back to original sources, not media - because the media spin stuff - even when they don't really mean to. Generally, I don't take any media report as fact until I can prove it. You only need to study the media for a short time to understand that.
Edit: Holy Shit! I just tried giving a reasoned response to a nutter. Oops.
Nutter or not, I appreciate the response. That said, your comment about "original sources" is interesting. I suspect you do not watch Rachell Maddow, but anyone who watches Rachell and, for example Sean Hannity and/or Glen Beck, or listens to Rush Limbaugh must agree that Rachell provides original source material before she engages in commentary; that is not true with those on the right.
To be perfectly clear, Rachell provides direct quotes right from the mouth of those on the right, and, invites them (for example, Liz Cheney) to appear live on her show to debate issues. Few appear to debate her.
Thinking people, and I assume this includes you CG (at least by your own definition) must wonder why Liz Cheney spends hours on TV and on stage at events in support of the GOP, Tea Party types, etc, but never places herself in harms way with those who may ask hard questions.
I don't watch Rachel, because I can't. She's not on in the UK. I can watch Fox News.... sometimes I do, sometimes I do not. What I do do, if I see something of interest on Beck or O'Reilly etc, is to dig back to source the context. I would do likewise with Rachel. I find that both Beck and O'Reilly keep quotes in context - which is a damned sight more than I can say for a lot of the left wing media.
Example: It is generally believed by the left that Beck stated that he 'hated the victims of 9/11'. If you go back and find the actual quote from Beck himself - in context - he most certainly did not say that at all. Yet, now the left quote it as 'fact' because they are too stupid to go find out the context.