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brettdale

(12,383 posts)
Sat Dec 1, 2012, 06:47 PM Dec 2012

Sums 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 OP
And most of the GOP n/t Still Sensible Dec 2012 #1
Every Conservative in the country is more like it. Motown_Johnny Dec 2012 #2
"Piece of shit" sums him up for me!1 UTUSN Dec 2012 #3
+1!!!! hrmjustin Dec 2012 #4
Loofa and Laochtine Dec 2012 #5

UTUSN

(70,729 posts)
3. "Piece of shit" sums him up for me!1
Sat Dec 1, 2012, 07:07 PM
Dec 2012

Besides: "1950s repressed, hung up, denying, abusive, blustering..."

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