Reply #26: Having Rhetorical views the same does not make both sides "wrong" [View All]

Indeed that is the TRUTH of the Big Lie's ability to sway

The big lie is spoken, and because we all want to be fair we say the truth must be somewhere in between.

Meanwhile the big lie remains the big lie.

The ability to use the same vocabulary does indeed lessen the impact of the words and make it seem the TRUTH must be in some middle ground.

The "rhetorical deadlock" is broken not by trying to find a "middle", but rather demanding the media start to think that the TRUTH is an important part of any broadcast or writing. And indeed to run from the truth, either by spin or by just story selection to do on a given day, is not the proper response to someone yelling "bias".

A bully will push you around using whatever words that work. It is time for the media to put its brain cells together and bless a view as truth, and note the other view is wrong, but to be fair, if fairness requires it, to note that if "these unlikely events occurred" perhaps the rejected view might become correct.

Today the media is a tool of the right due to the media's predictable response to being called biased. This has got to change. It is not the job of the folks on the correct side of an issue to tone down the rhetoric just so we feel better about our quality of conversation, because this becomes tear down the rhetoric of the left, not tone down, as the RW runs over the TRUTH. Tone down implies truth on both sides - and until there really is a better likelihood that this is the case - until the RW stops going for extreme RW trophies like only ins co health care, drilling in ANWR, no taxes on the main part of a rich person's income (investments and dividends), killing the social safety net, destroying the power of workers to resist management exploitation via unions and court protected rights, there can be no reason for the left to back off because of a " rhetorical deadlock " :-)