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Author Topic:   Black Rednecks and White Liberals (by Thomas Sowell)
docpotato
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Message 40 of 130 (377644)
01-17-2007 7:04 PM
Reply to: Message 38 by Hyroglyphx
01-17-2007 2:18 PM


Re: Tom Sowell
Its not about the rims, its about how a mentality that compels people to make a bad choice.
Yeesh, have you ever been in a shopping mall around Christmas time? Simply living in America compels people to make bad economic choices.

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docpotato
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Message 66 of 130 (378080)
01-19-2007 1:55 PM
Reply to: Message 65 by crashfrog
01-19-2007 1:21 PM


Re: Tom Sowell
They weren't rednecks, and any person of that class you referred to as a redneck would be greatly offended. (And they settled such matters at dawn, with pistols.)
Don't forget the glove-slapping!
abe: And the demand for satisfaction.
Edited by docpotato, : No reason given.

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Message 124 of 130 (378897)
01-22-2007 10:50 AM
Reply to: Message 119 by kuresu
01-22-2007 12:00 AM


Re: Sowell's wrong
a conservative station (which Fox is) play the Simpsons and Family Guy.
I could be wrong, but I think it's important to maintain the distinction between the Fox Network and Fox News. While it's true that both are owned and thereby controlled by the same person, AFAIK they operate under entirely different conditions (different heads of programming and etc.)
Both are driven by one thing: advertising dollars. Both try to bring in more advertising dollars by appealing to a niche demographic. Fox News clearly panders to the conservatives of the country (to see this, one only needs to see the anchors speak about Reagan...they practically have hearts appearing around their heads, they're so in love with him). Fox News hit on the fact that conservatives had heard the myth that the liberal media was perpetrating lies and bias so many times that they felt they were being underserved. Bada-bing, there's an audience waiting to be snatched up.
Meanwhile Fox TV generally aims for a significantly larger demographic that is (more-or-less) politically agnostic, skews younger, and is interested in more edgy entertainment than the folks who would watch CBS. As an entertainment company, Fox TV is politically anarchic, bending to the will of whatever it is people will watch. The politics of say, 24 are quite different than those of The Simpsons.

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