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Last night I watched CNN, which many posters here call "fake news." Kellyanne Conway was interviewed for a long time by Jake Tapper. He asked her if CNN was fake news and she said "No it is not." He listed several lies by President Trump just in the past week and she said "Agreed" and went on to ask why the media isn't a little softer on Trump and why they won't simply focus on the good things he's done, blah, blah. There wasn't a single lie she could defend.
She said she's spoken millions of words and appeared on TV over 1,000 times, and asked why they don't concentrate on all the positive things she's said. After being caught in lie after lie, she asked Tapper why the media won't focus on the good things Trump has done for our country, but all the spin in the world couldn't save her.
I wonder if this excuse would fly if someone were arrested for vehicular homicide? "But think of all the years I've driven without an accident, your honor. I must have driven a million miles and never killed someone. Why can't you look at that instead of this one incident?"
I wonder if this excuse would be accepted if someone was caught shoplifting. "But I'm 50 years old and have always paid for my purchases. So this one time I took a computer without paying for it. Why can't you just look at all the things I didn't steal?"
So, to me, my idea of someone who is low information is a person who says "I don't watch this network or that network because it's fake news," even when the President's own counselor says it is not. If there's a debate, an interview or a documentary, why not evaluate the information and make up your own mind? But people who have a block against anyone who has a different point of view will deny something even if it's right in front of them. To me that's a low information voter.
Most sources are biased in one way or another. To me, a high information voter is a person who understands this, watches and listens carefully to different sources and draws her own conclusions based on facts, not soundbites or tweets. Sometimes it's very simple. The Weather Channel just reported it is 64 degrees and party sunny. I have a thermometer on my porch that reads 58 and it's very cloudy. Which source of info should I use?
Last night I watched CNN, which many posters here call "fake news." Kellyanne Conway was interviewed for a long time by Jake Tapper. He asked her if CNN was fake news and she said "No it is not." He listed several lies by President Trump just in the past week and she said "Agreed" and went on to ask why the media isn't a little softer on Trump and why they won't simply focus on the good things he's done, blah, blah. There wasn't a single lie she could defend.
She said she's spoken millions of words and appeared on TV over 1,000 times, and asked why they don't concentrate on all the positive things she's said. After being caught in lie after lie, she asked Tapper why the media won't focus on the good things Trump has done for our country, but all the spin in the world couldn't save her.
I wonder if this excuse would fly if someone were arrested for vehicular homicide? "But think of all the years I've driven without an accident, your honor. I must have driven a million miles and never killed someone. Why can't you look at that instead of this one incident?"
I wonder if this excuse would be accepted if someone was caught shoplifting. "But I'm 50 years old and have always paid for my purchases. So this one time I took a computer without paying for it. Why can't you just look at all the things I didn't steal?"
So, to me, my idea of someone who is low information is a person who says "I don't watch this network or that network because it's fake news," even when the President's own counselor says it is not. If there's a debate, an interview or a documentary, why not evaluate the information and make up your own mind? But people who have a block against anyone who has a different point of view will deny something even if it's right in front of them. To me that's a low information voter.
Most sources are biased in one way or another. To me, a high information voter is a person who understands this, watches and listens carefully to different sources and draws her own conclusions based on facts, not soundbites or tweets. Sometimes it's very simple. The Weather Channel just reported it is 64 degrees and party sunny. I have a thermometer on my porch that reads 58 and it's very cloudy. Which source of info should I use?
I can agree only if we hold everybody to the same standard. Does CNN even hold itself to the same standard? Do you hold CNN to the same standard that you hold Conway to? Nope, not at all.
No, it would be the Democrats who chant (or chanted) "Hope and change," and "Yes, we can."
I think many Democrats (especially the under 35 crowd) look at the rest of the world and see how far the US has fallen behind, especially western Europe like the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden etc.
Many of the younger Democrats see many Republicans as a group that's trying to hold onto a 1950's or 1960's America rather than the reality of us being almost in the 2020's.
I'd say it's anyone who doesn't bother to think for themselves. They read a Breitbart or Huffpo article, or really any article at all, and just take it as an absolute without taking a moment to think critically about it.
Also, anyone on this thread who only blames one party.
Someone who can name all the Kardashians, but has no idea who the VP is, or who won the Civil War, or why we celebrate July 4th.
1. Khloe, Kourtney, Kim
2. Mike Pence
3. Statists won the Civil War...just like all wars.
4. July 4th: The transitioning from being ruled over from one set of megalomaniacs to another.
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