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  • Hitchens lets his passion undermine his point

    These rants from Hitchens have entertainment value, I suppose, but as with all of today's opinion-driven media they must be taken with a grain of salt. A lot could be written, but I'll just focus on one point here: Hitchens is mistaken to think that a failure to conflate Mormonism with Christianity indicates bigotry. The teachings of Mormonism ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by ricodetroit on December 21, 2008

  • Conveniency for conveniency sakes

    It is so sad that the media influences the outcome of how public opinions and votes go. The media with their twisted view of the people's will should BUTT out of the news business or should I call it in the INFLUENCE business. Maybe that is politics as media at its best but sadly enough it is very discomforting that the POWER of the MEDIA ...
    Posted to Trailhead by valentino0214 on April 1, 2008

  • Money doesn't buy happiness or love.

    A country founded by people who were persecuted, and we still are biased, bigoted, racists, anti-Semitic, hostile, angry, arrogant and blind to the person next to us and the world, because it was believed we could buy our way out. Since I was a child, all I heard was Americans were the lowest savers in the free world! We still are, and fighting ...
    Posted to Human Nature by To Tell The Truth on January 29, 2008

  • So bigotry is now journalism?

    I am appalled that the editors of Slate chose to publish this exercise in bigotry, prejudice, and ignorance. Since when is it acceptable journalistic behavior for a public intellectual to insult and ridicule people's religion? To begin an article with a bald statement of prejudice? What happened to research, insight, explanation, ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by brent3600 on November 26, 2007