08-30-2012, 08:39 PM
Lemon Drop wrote:
[quote=Mac-A-Matic]
If you desire actual discussion and moderate thinking then you will need to foster that environment. So far, you've cultivated an environment as toxic and narrow-minded as the republicans in Congress.
Look at the last two threads you started, "You didn't bake that," and something about something related to guns not being on CNN, when in fact it was.
How are those threads representative of the types of conversations you say you'd like to see here, and how are they different from the types of threads you say others are starting that don't foster "moderate" conversation?
Well Lemon...
If you recall (because it seems that you don't), the "You didn't bake that" thread was a look at how the "You didn't build that" fiasco still remains as a thorn in Obama's side. If you want to read more into that, you're welcome to (as many did - underscoring my thoughts above).
In the opening post of that thread, I wrote:
"A month later and it's still in the news:" then providing a link to the video (that was also carried by CNN).
The CNN Gun thing you're asking about was my asking to see if CNN had actually carried a story about a gun video. I had asked that because I know many here are vehement liberals (blindly so, in many cases) and because my own search on CNN came up empty. It was a query, much like any query I might pose to the group on the other side - but because some of the people here are paranoid to the point of hostility, they wanted to make it into something more than it was about.
Here's what I wrote in the opening post in that thread:
I've been wondering more about the video of the 71 year old man in Florida who shot at robbers trying to stick up an Internet Cafe there. Sure there's lots of internet coverage from right wing websites and media but I cannot seem to find anything about it on CNN.com.
Does anyone have a CNN.com link to this story?
Note that I asked specifically for the CNN report and acknowledged that there was "lots of coverage from right wing websites". I was looking for a CNN liberal report because I already know how right wing sources will spin the story and wanted to find a semblance of balance in the reporting (had it been on Al Jazeera, I'd probably prefer that over the rest).
What I do find curious about your query here is that I must presume you did a search of the threads I started and you skipped over the most recent (which destroys your "two most recent" statement) titled "This is some dumb shoot" in which I found the Texas judge warning of a civil war caused by a re-election of Obama to be "Unbelievably dumb". Perhaps you agree with this evaluation that doesn't support your theory?
My opening statements for all these threads (with the exception of the "This is some dumb shoot" thread) have been fairly neutral and open for discussion. I don't typically come on grandstanding about any hot topic, I'm interested in information, and information from all sides of the spectrum.