I have recently heard it said that by removing a leftist from my sources of information that I was limiting the flow of information I was getting.
Upon reflection, that may be right, but given that the leftist arguments are invariably the same and come from so many sources I don’t care for any more leftist nonsense.
Leftist “thinkers” tend to assume that right leaning folks simply haven’t heard their message or that we are too stupid to understand their message. The truth is quite the reverse, we have heard the message (emotional, moralistic arguments with little logical or long term analysis embedded therein) and found it unpersuasive.
The truth is the leftist who cuts off a right leaning source of information is truly cutting down their information flow, since there are very few right leaning sources of information. Talk radio, some on twitter is about it. Fox News may have a few conservative opinion leaders, but they have just as many left leaning reporters. David Shuster of MSNBC got his start there, Greta VanSusternen, Geraldo and Sheppard Smith are so left leaning they cause my TV set to list in that direction.
In truth, cutting off a liberal or leftist stream is akin to cutting back unneccessarily cumulative chatter, I don’t need to hear 10,000 times to know that the left hates George W. Bush and that they think Barack Obama is better when just hearing it once or twice will tell me what I need to know.
So, NY Times, ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN and pretty much all the local and national newspapers and TV station news will advocate the same party line, conservative bad, leftist good or normal.
If there is a political scandal and no name is given to the perp, you can bet the entire estate on the fact that when the politician perp is research the result will indicate a D by his name.
If it’s a republican scandal, Republican R will be right up there in the headline.
So, cutting off one leftist ninny out of my informational input really doesn’t much diminish the shrill leftist screaming in my ears. But I guess it’s a start.
