[Janice D. Soderling]

I ran across this today, thought it was interesting. Is it reliable? Just asking
http://artsandpalaver.blogspot.com/2...e-of-most.html

[Laura Heidy-Halberstein]

Originally posted by Janice D. Soderling:
I ran across this today, thought it was interesting. Is it reliable?

Hard to tell - it's a blogspot blog so it could be anything written by anyone. Blogspot is sponsored by Google and it's free - and easy. All you need is to register for a google account and you've got yourself a small website and an address.

edited due to faulty leg work I thought he had no previous posts, but I was wrong. They're on the sidebar. He's done a lot of decent work setting up links on the side bar but other than that, it's hard to tell.

Virtually any blog is going to be biased. The good ones back up their bias with factual links. The bad ones simply rant. Some of them are interesting. Most of them, sadly, are not.




[This message has been edited by Laura Heidy-Halberstein (edited September 13, 2008).]

[Jerry Glenn Hartwig]

What Laura said.

Generally I form an opinion of a writer based on the writing itself: biases are fairly easy to spot. Everyone has biases, some permit their biases to override their brains, however.

A writer may quote reliable sources to back up a viewpoint, or they may just rant their own opinions.

I can't pull up the video on this site on my work computer, so I can't form an opinion.


Reading her 'About Me' section, leaves me inclined to believe she thinks her opinions are fact and that she has more insight / wisdom / Truth / etc. than other people and she's going to enlighten us all.

That attitude doesn't bolster my expectations...



[This message has been edited by Jerry Glenn Hartwig (edited September 13, 2008).]

[Anne Bryant-Hamon]

It is a fact that McCain's campaign made the ridiculous political ad claiming that Obama was for "teaching sex education to kindergarten children". His ad, as most of them are, was intentionally misleading. What Obama voted yes for, was a bill (not that he introduced) to approve of teaching children of that young age to "tell an adult if someone touches your body inappropriately". Parents could also opt out if they did not want their children to be talked to about this. But due to the rampant problem in our society with pedophilia, I certainly agree with Obama that children need to know that they SHOULD tell someone they trust if an adult is molesting them! But John McCain has become such a slime bag that in order to win an election with smear ads, he will even stoop to throwing the children under the bus to pedophiles and then turn the story up-side-down to make is APPEAR as if it is OBAMA is the one harming children. This is the most wicked political stuff I have ever seen. If McCain/Palin get in the White House (which they probably will), I hope you are prepared for more war - war with all of the Middle East, China, and Russia kicking our ass and burning us to the ground.

[Katy Evans-Bush]

Hi Janice, well the YouTube is good - it's polemical but at least it attempts to use facts to redress the balance. It's slick, but then, it has to be slick to convince its target audience, the doubters. But it doesn't originate on this blog. She's just pasted it in.

Did you read the rest of this blog?

Bold, italics, underlines, different-coloured fonts, witch-hunts, unreadably dense text - they all tell you something... The top few posts include three pictures of people ranting - mouths open and fingers pointing - an open accusation of fraud, and a hysterical blather about something or other over at Ms Magazine.

Even in the post you linked, Janice, the word "despicable" in the headline is a little giveaway! Not exactly impartial, is she? For all her flag-waving "FactCheck.org" logo at the top, she's more into ranting - and, at least in terms of UK law, libellous remarks.

Not much more into the facts than McCain is, then!

As to the video, it was easy to get more information about it it, to decide whether to believe it or not. I Googled Robert Greenwald, who made it. Here he is . Then, because it says "BraveNew PAC," I Googled bravenew. Here they are.

I think they're a lot more reliable than the blog they've been pasted into.



[This message has been edited by Katy Evans-Bush (edited September 14, 2008).]

[Janice D. Soderling]

Thank you Katy.

I followed the links you provided. Thank you.