When People Get News from Talk Shows

July 21st, 2009

The View is a very popular daytime talk show. While it doesn’t appeal to me, I can appreciate that some people find it entertaining. The hosts of the show often take on current events in the form of political discussion, which is ultimately, usually, a good thing. They run into trouble when the discussion degrades into ideological, emotional blather. They go off the rails when they let demonstrably false information get put forth with minimal (if any) counter argument. My lament isn’t that they exist, but that Barbara Walters lets this happen and is still taken seriously.

Mildly whacky is Whoopi Goldberg saying that the moon landing was faked:

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The Basis of Assumption

July 7th, 2009

I spend a great deal of time thinking about both the “vast right-wing conspiracy” and its oft-overlooked sibling the “vast left-wing conspiracy”.   As we currently have a left-wing President and left-wing supermajority in the house (kinda’), it is the vast left-wing conspiracy that occupies my thoughts most these days.

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