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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSums up Bill Oreilly
"Beleive it or not an extreme right wing blogger in New Zealand uses this term to describe Oreilly"
The term epistemic closure has emerged as a descriptor of the process by which adherents of a political ideology cut themselves off from other views and create closed systems of deduction, relying only on evidence within their own social network and which systems cannot be affected by empirical evidence derived from outside the social network.
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Sums up Bill Oreilly (Original Post)
brettdale
Dec 2012
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Still Sensible
(2,870 posts)1. And most of the GOP n/t
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)2. Every Conservative in the country is more like it.
UTUSN
(70,729 posts)3. "Piece of shit" sums him up for me!1
Besides: "1950s repressed, hung up, denying, abusive, blustering..."
Laochtine
(394 posts)5. Loofa and
Tea M Efers, what a total class act.