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That chant is SO old - and so untrue. Rupert Murdoch owns so much of the media that laws had to be changed so he could buy more. And good ol' boy Rupie isn't exactly a lefty OR a centrist. If you want freedom of speech, get in the car and just keep turning the dial. The left is on the right - the right is on the left. And you can still hear the lefties talking about what's wrong with America - and the righties talking about the "crazy leftists."

Your comment only supports my assertion. What is called the 'left' by most folks in America is a centrist position, especially as measured against a full political spectrum. So, as I said, the Left cannot even buy time on network/cable. We've tried, and been turned down.

Okay - yes, they do take things that already exist and hammer on them. But let me bring up a Kerry case. You remember the quote (hammered by EVERYbody) Where Kerry said "As a matter of fact, I was before the war before I was against it." Now, anyone with any ounce KNOWS what he was actually saying: "I was for the war at first, but after learning some additional information, I changed my mind." The left will run out a Bush quote like: "Our children is learning," as something to laugh at. It was obviously a mis-speak, but so perfectly timed (as a poor time to show horrific grammer while talking about children's advancement in education) to make it hilarious. In Kerry's case, the right didn't use it as something funny. It was run out as a 'flip-flop' - as something that showed he was an idiot who could think one thing one second, but something else the next second. You never knew when he would change his stance on an important issue, therefore unworthy as a leader. For me, I would expect my leader to always demand new information, to learn more and delve deep into the issues, and, if discovering new information made them draw a new conclusion BASED on the new information - I would want them to do it. Instead, it seemed as if the right-wing chant was that they did NOT want ANYthing to affect their leader's ideology. Now, I KNOW that isn't true - conservative or liberal - you want your leaders to think, move and change tactics with all information at their disposal. But for Coulter, Limbaugh, O'Reilly and all others of that ilk - the STATEMENT became the argument - not the spirit of what was being said. It was as if they CHOSE to lead their right-wing listeners down a path that left no thought process possible in a leader. Only a straight-march down a straight line. And if that meant we were to be lemmings going over a cliff - so be it. THAT'S my argument with them. What they were saying was wrong, and they knew it. And they didn't care. So long as people kept listening to them and buying their books, they didn't care.