said by ieolus :

In fact, him being a Republican, the benefit of the doubt must be waived.

said by operagost :

Too bad this wasn't the first line of your post. I could have simply not bothered to read the rest.

said by ieolus :

You have got to be joking. Constant left wing drum beat on BBR? LOL

said by john262 :

Come on, give me a break. I wish that BBR could be non political and just stick to tech issues. This constant left wing drum beat in this forum is getting tiresome.

said by veloslave :

YOU have got to be kidding. Most of the Internet leans (far) left and DSLR's is no exception.

I would have to agree that the Guvernator is not out to score like most politicians... and he is WAY MORE wealthy than you average pol to begin with. He has done a good job here in leftyland... not perfect but I will certainly give him my vote again.

said by KrK :

Joseph Goebbels said "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it." It seems common practice these days for right to constantly attack everything as "left-wing" in order to cover up the fact that really there's mostly far right spin on everything. Luckily most postings on BBR news seem pretty fair and balanced; but the replies, oh man. They jam the rudder at hard-to-starboard and increase speed to flank.

No wonder it just goes around in circles.

said by NormanS :

The media of this country, and the entertainment industry as well, has a very definite leftward slant.

said by broadbander :

Explain to me how CNN is "far right."

said by KrK :

Spin. Far-right spin. How does a network like CNN contribute to this? Easy. The Administration issues a statement. CNN repeats it back as fact. End of story. No digging into it, no verification, just parrots it back as news. Since the Administration was spinning it in the first place you basically have CNN reporting the spin as fact.

You see examples of this type of "News Reporting" all the time. Corporation XYZ announces a new factory in China, while closing factories here. Corporation XYZ says issues a statement saying they must do this to remain competitive, and the Talking Head just parrots it back as if it was fact. There's not even really any attempt to dig into such statements to find the truth. It's just blindly reported as fact.

When AOL bought Time-Warner CNN went downhill fast.

As Chomsky notes, it is true that both parties and the corporate controlled media are further right of where the general public stands (humanist). There's simply plenty of noise, lying, and propaganda that makes things appear otherwise.

said by Karl Bode :

The reality is that via the use of propaganda, both parties pretend to cater to the humanist will of the people, but really serve one master at this point: corporate dollars.

"Right" and "Left" at this point are meaningless tags. Issues like abortion and gay marriage are brought up to play on fears and then dropped so that the real course can be followed.

The right to make money is now a national security issue. It's a paradigm that dominates both parties. Any threat to that (and humanism is a threat to that) is a position you won't see espoused frequently on the nightly news.

I don't understand how Democrats have cornered the market on "rugged individualism"; sounds like more divisive rhetoric.