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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts) Thu Oct 11, 2012, 11:17 PM Oct 2012

CNN Has A Slavish Devotion To Some Sort Of Phony Moral Equivalency

If they covered the Lincoln-Douglas debates they would have said Stephen A. Douglas made some good points.

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CNN Has A Slavish Devotion To Some Sort Of Phony Moral Equivalency (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Oct 2012 OP

That's why I don't watch them skeewee08 Oct 2012 #1

Is their insta poll out yet or are they still rounding up southern white men? BeyondGeography Oct 2012 #2

Rachel Maddow Just Said AldebTX Oct 2012 #3

That's the biggest problem with CNN SpartanDem Oct 2012 #4

skeewee08

(1,983 posts)

1. That's why I don't watch them

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Thu Oct 11, 2012, 11:20 PM

Oct 2012

BeyondGeography

(39,377 posts)

2. Is their insta poll out yet or are they still rounding up southern white men?

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Thu Oct 11, 2012, 11:20 PM

Oct 2012

AldebTX

(787 posts)

3. Rachel Maddow Just Said

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Thu Oct 11, 2012, 11:27 PM

Oct 2012

That the CNN snap poll gave the edge to Ryan by 5%.

I don't believe that for a second.

SpartanDem

(4,533 posts)

4. That's the biggest problem with CNN

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Thu Oct 11, 2012, 11:29 PM

Oct 2012

they do an OK amount of good work calling out the right, but out of an misguided desire to seem "objective" they often pull this false equivalency bullishit

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