Texsox

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Sep 13, 2008 -> 10:22 PM) Tex, I asked you two pretty direct questions. Care to answer them? No it was not accurate. Based on the transcript (is the transcript accurate? Was it from an unbiased source) Yes I think it is entirely fair to report partial questions and answers, it's what reporters do. Space is limited. The choice is simple, report less questions in their entirety (and have you claim bias in which questions were omitted) or report more answers, but abridged. Tens of thousands of newspaper articles are printed every day. Some are by reporters who are not very good at their craft and some articles are very good. If finding a few examples, out of those tens of thousands of articles, that are poorly written confirms the GOP party line of media bias, fine, you believe and the GOP loves you. I prefer to keep faith in the watchdogs. But you have to love the Grand Old Party's strategy, it is brilliant. As soon as a negative article comes out, find flaws in the article and start screaming. There doesn't even have to be flaws, just find something. And if a positive article comes out about an opponent, start screaming about where's my coverage? Then everybody starts discussing media bias and ignores the story. I love it, I wish my candidates thought of it first. I'll only ask one direct question from you. Since our system sucks so bad and has such terrible bias, care to point me to a better one?

And if I look I will find a poor reporting job that makes a Dem look bad. There are errors. But they all even out, and that is all we can ask from a free press. You want transcripts and no editing. But then the complaint will be why some transcript wasn't added. Last year someone died from drinking too much water in a radio promotion. Hundreds of people drowned last year. See, that proves that water is dangerous and we need to get rid of it. But keep believing that the world is out to get Reps and you need to circle the wagons. That bunker mentality is what they want. You and them against the world. /back to lurking.

My traveling room mate on the cross country team in college would sleep walk. We made certain to put everything away in the room so he would not trip or fall. He only did it once or twice but I could tell he was really stressed out about it.

QUOTE (shipps @ Sep 13, 2008 -> 04:41 PM) I mostly wax my turtle You kids always have the best euphemisms

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 13, 2008 -> 07:29 PM) Then again we could stop imports entirely by not buying them... Exactly. That is about the same thing I say when term limits come up, just don't vote for an incumbent, we don't need another law.

I was flipping coins between him and Fisk for my #1 spot. If there ever was an athlete that could curse his luck, it would be Baines. If his knees stayed healthy, he's a first ballot HoF. Guys like Payton, Banks, and Baines are much too rare in sports today. Maybe it's the money, maybe it's society, I don't know. But I do know it's a damn shame we don't have more heroes in sports.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Sep 13, 2008 -> 05:52 PM) It's not too hard to convince someone it's raining during a downpour. The only thing that will go down in history is how the media completely imploded and totally abandoned objectivity. As far as the millionaire candidates....uh the Democrats run millionaires all the time (just about every election). I am glad that the majority of citizens in our fine country understand that the MSM is sloppy and pro-Democrat. Even conservative Democrats are beginning to tune out the MSM. Honestly, there are so many new media sources, the MSM is rapidly becoming less and less valuable to the Democrats. As far as I'm concerned to more the media shows a blatant bias the more other sources of information will thrive. I certainly will go with the all wet analogy And THE WSJ and Fox easily balance MSM in the bias department. I never have watched MSM, so I honestly cannot comment on their coverage. But keep paying attention to the messager and not the message. The GOP likes that.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Sep 13, 2008 -> 05:14 PM) Texsox, this thread was created with the sole purpose of discussing media bias and giving critiques. If you don't like to read about media bias, as you seem to only respond with sarcasm and usually don't lend much to the argument, why do you even read our posts? This thread can easily be avoided. Just like I try to stay out of the Democrat thread, as me posting sarcastic, smart alecky posts really doesn't ad to the debate. I love to read about the perception of media bias. I have a great deal of respect for the GOP for coming up with this strategy. It will go down in history as perhaps the greatest political coup of all time. They have wiped out their biggest watchdogs. Brilliant. Those poor disenfranchised millionaire conservative candidates that can't get a break from the mean, rotten, BIASED!!, media. Thank GOD they have multiple channels of 24/7 media talk radio to tell you how misleading all that negative news is. Don't read the article just look at how they didn't mention D or R!! Don't read the article, look at the placement of the headline. Attack the messenger!! TASS didn't have it this good.

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That's what reporters do. They take big, long events, and pare them down. When you see the TV news, you are not getting the entire event. So you can look at every newspaper story and find stuff like this. And yes, thousands of newspapers and tens of thousands of television and radio stations are all against conservatives. So do NOT believe anything they tell you. They have secret meetings and everything. I don't even think they are Americans, why else would they forget little R and D? /popping corn, watching the show

I'm with Shipps on this one. I believe waxing should be between two consenting adults with a possibility of sex tossed in.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Sep 13, 2008 -> 02:00 PM) what a bunch of hacks. no integrity. We should stop newspapers and just read transcripts. f***ing lazy people. And no more TV news or talk radio programs, just watch news conferences and get the whole story.

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Sep 12, 2008 -> 02:23 PM) People find things sometimes that make me laugh. -John McCain, Fox News Presidential Debate, Oct 21, 2007 I've stopped even worrying about these sorts of things. Clinton v. Bush: GOP No Military service = bad. Dems No military service = no problem Bush v. Kerry: Dems No Military service = bad. GOP Questionable military service = no problem McCain He's got no experience Obama Who needs experience McCain picks Palin = almost no experience Obama picks Biden for ta da experience

This is really going to suck. A banged up team doesn't need a bunch of doubleheaders.

I'm predicting . . . #5 Robin Ventura #4 Harold Baines #3 Carlton Fisk #2 Frank Thomas #1 Mark Buehrle Wow, no Thome. I'm a little surprised. I had 1-6 Fisk, Baines, Wood, Buerhle, AJ, Ventura.

Glad to see Bobby here. I had him in my top 20.

Stone is the bridge to the future, a future without Hawk.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Sep 13, 2008 -> 01:54 PM) Galveston and Houston got frickin' nailed. So did Port Arthur/Beaumont. There's a lot of skyskrapers in Houston with glass blown out. So here, right now, the winds are blowing about 30 mph steady, we're getting some squally rain, but the center's still coming this way but we're really on the fringe of the worst. So all in all, we're not in bad shape. It's kind of amazing how large these things are.

Yep. Less painful. It was a long time ago, I was a crazy kid at the time. Eyebrows. She was naked. We were very careful with the wax.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Sep 13, 2008 -> 08:41 AM) If you were to start doing phone interviews with a potential new employer and taking days and weeks off at a time to go interview and audition for a new job, while still working at your present job, you would probably be fired. I can understand not having them quit or resign, but there has to be a way to have them not get paid. I know that its a tiny drop in the bucket compared to everything else they spend, but its the principle. There are some states where you are not allowed to run for office if you are currently in one (except for reelection to your current office). Even if they are not being paid, they are still not representing their district. Companies offer sabbaticals all the time. But hey, if you are not wealthy enough to take two years off without pay, why would anyone want to elect you President? Of course since there are 50 Senators and only one Governor, you are most upset about Palin.

Donated to both candidates. Push for truth by replying to every b.s. loaded email that gets forwarded to me.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Sep 12, 2008 -> 10:54 PM) It might be one thing if a small business of 25 employees had one illegal working for them, but for a plant with 1100 employees to be 40% illegal, someone dropped the ball. plants like that have people whose only job is HR, these are things they need to find out. Bank Tellers have been fooled by counterfeits, Museums by forgeries. But taking that 1100 person plant. Should 600 legals lose their jobs because an HR person did something wrong? And again I ask, is it worth crippling our Agriculture Industry to send millions of able, trained, and willing workers away so we can hire people who have been unwilling to take those jobs? Do we want to see gas price like increases in our food bills and the ripple effect throughout the economy?

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Sep 12, 2008 -> 10:53 PM) "Working on both campaigns"? How about Obama the #3 beneficiary over the last decade. Kerry even more so than Obama, and Hillary right behind him. http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2008/07/to...s-of-fanni.html Yet it's Bush leading the way. Interesting.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Sep 12, 2008 -> 11:47 PM) I don't like the fact that any of the 4 of them are getting paid for jobs that they are not doing. Why can't they take an UNPAID leave while they run? Or at least refund portions of their pay for the campaigning they do. Voters In Illinois and Arizona elected their respective Senators to represent them in the Senate. If they are not there representing, they are not doing their jobs. It shouldn't matter if their vote 'would have made a difference' or not. In fact, all this non-voting is what hurts each guy, by "McCain voting with Bush 90% of the time" because he has only made like 10 votes all year, and Obama toeing the Dem party line 100% of the time because he has probably made just as few votes, if not less. I want the best candidates running, the process is that important to me. It seems reasonable to me to allow them time off to run for President, and we're already funding the elections at 100sX their salaries, it's just not a big deal to me.

QUOTE (knightni @ Sep 12, 2008 -> 10:40 PM) That has to be one of the best Guillen stories ever. I don't really remember if we won or lost, I just remember Oz must have stranded runners at every at bat. That last one almost took off the pitchers jock but there was a hit and run on, and with the infielder moving he was right there to rob Ozzie. I also wish I knew who the player was that said it, he cracked up the entire section. And yes, I have stolen that line when one of my friends who does not speak great English lets loose with a tirade of profanity. The other thing I remember was telling my Ops Manager that there was no way those were Bud's personal seats. Why the hell would the owner have seats on the visitor side?