On Wednesday, January 23, 2013 12:03:51 PM UTC-6, Tom Del Rosso wrote:
> Bryan wrote:
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> > I bet there are right wingers on talk radio who are saying that the
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> > shooters are probably all Liberals who just did it to trick the
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> > American people into thinking guns are bad so the "jack-booted thugs"
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> > can take guns away from the *true* Amurricans.
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> Instead of guessing what they say you might listen to what they say. But
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> you'd rather hear only from one side.
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I don't listen to Progressive media any more than Conservative media. I stick to public radio, where they'll have one person on from Heritage, and another from Brookings, or one from The American Enterprise Institute, and another from Mother Jones. On the issue of gun control, they'd have someone from the NRA, and another person from Brady. In no case is there yelling, or making up stupid nicknames for the other side. They disagree, but civilly. Left wing radio (Pacifica) is batshit kooky. So is Right wing radio, and there's a lot more of it.
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> Your guess is wrong, but what they do say is that in practically every case
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> (or maybe every case, because I haven't found the exception yet) the shooter
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> is on anti-depressants. There are plenty of depressed people who don't take
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> the drugs, but it appears that they refrain from shooting sprees.
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Anyway, it was a joke. However stupid the listeners to Right wing radio are, even *they* wouldn't believe anything quite that wacky. Well, most of them wouldn't. At least I hope not.
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--Bryan

John J wrote:

> >or making up stupid nicknames for the other side. They disagree, but civilly.
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> An art you haven't mastered yet.

Can we call you John-John?

On Jan 23, 12:38*pm, George M. Middius > wrote:
> John J wrote:
> > >or making up stupid nicknames for the other side. *They disagree, but civilly.
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> > An art you haven't mastered yet.
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> Can we call you John-John?

John Boy.

On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:20:03 -0800 (PST), Bryan
> wrote:

> I don't listen to Progressive media any more than Conservative media. I
> stick to public radio, where they'll have one person on from Heritage,
> and another from Brookings, or one from The American Enterprise
> Institute, and another from Mother Jones. On the issue of gun control,
> they'd have someone from the NRA, and another person from Brady. In no
> case is there yelling, or making up stupid nicknames for the other
> side. They disagree, but civilly.

Someone from the NRA providing lies and misinformation may have been
speaking in a well-mannered way, but it wasn't "civil".

On Wednesday, January 23, 2013 4:03:17 PM UTC-6, gtr wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:20:03 -0800 (PST), Bryan
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> > wrote:
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> > I don't listen to Progressive media any more than Conservative media. I
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> > stick to public radio, where they'll have one person on from Heritage,
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> > and another from Brookings, or one from The American Enterprise
>
> > Institute, and another from Mother Jones. On the issue of gun control,
>
> > they'd have someone from the NRA, and another person from Brady. In no
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> > case is there yelling, or making up stupid nicknames for the other
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> > side. They disagree, but civilly.
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> Someone from the NRA providing lies and misinformation may have been
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> speaking in a well-mannered way, but it wasn't "civil".

A semantic disagreement. Even if I think someone's position is uncivilized,
if the person is "speaking in a well-mannered way," I call the *discussion*
itself, "civil."

--Bryan