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maidheather -> RE: Gop trying to break science education again (9/8/2014 3:39:09 PM)
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ORIGINAL: subrosaDom
I suggest you provide a QUOTE where I say "Fox news is left-leaning." What I actually said was that if you include ALL journalists, including those at Fox News, you get 95% who vote Democrat. That's a fact. You can'tn back up what you claim I said. Because you made it up. Retract that please. My comment on UCLA was, uh, SARCASM. In your face sarcasm. How that could be missed -- hmmm, perhaps you skipped those classes on critical thinking? ... of wait, there are no critical thinking classes in most schools, because it's more important to take "Gender identity in zombies and sexist memes: The semiotics of sex in The Walking Dead" -- hint: that's sarcasm, too, but there are plenty of courses very similar to that). Jesus, Lord, Almighty! UCLA is a left-wing paradise, like most of academia. Alternet is a left-wing, crazy-theory site.
While I won't retract any of my statements, I will apologize for the misunderstanding on my part. I forgot that Fox News doesn't hire journalists (or if they do, not many). Same for the varied talking heads on the radio. So of course, they wouldn't skew a count of how journalists vote (which any reasonable journalistic ethics would tell you that it should have no bearing on their reporting capabilities). I will also apologize for misinterpreting your sarcasm as perceived fact. I have run into enough far right wing people that would make the exact same statements you did and mean them as fact, so I did miss that you were, in fact, being sarcastic. In regards to my post being from Alternet, I actually did see that claim coming when I made the post. The original article I read was much more centered, shared the same facts and more, but unfortunately I don't remember where I was sent the original site from, and even if it had still been in my browser history, my operating system hard drive failed recently, costing me over 100 GB in data (mostly porn and a few funny cat videos). So at this point, the only people who could find that site readily would be the NSA.
And just throwing this out there, so I'm not painted as a pure liberalist, I'm actually left leaning centrist, an independent voter, raised in a very conservative family, served in the military during almost the entirety of Bush Jr's presidency, and by somewhat of a trade a statistician. I know that any statistics are bullshit, that any survey, study, anywhere, anytime, will have some form of bias. It's literally impossible to remove all bias from an experiment, social or otherwise. The trick is to take as much out as possible.
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