[OT] Nation bashing

[rextorres]

Originally posted by rextorres:
crud. Rex, I accidentally hit edit instead of quote on your post. And since I am a moderator it let me do it. Can you edit it again and put what you said again. Sorry.

Geo

It doesn't matter I was just ranting and raving!

[rextorres]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
The good ole Democratic state legislature of California forced the power companies to sell off most of their power plants to third parties, who were then able to jack up the prices and create false shortages to make huge profits.

Pete Wilson, a Republican, was governor of california and considered the architect of deregulation.

[ February 14, 2003, 02:08: Message edited by: rextorres ]

[Fyron]

It happened under Davis.

[rextorres]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
It happened under Davis.

Actually Davis INHERITED the problem. Deregulation occurred in 1996. It was signed by Wilson who was the architect. A fact that Republicans conveniently forget.

Here's a website that details all the problems - http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/power.crisis/comp.html (i purposely chose CNN so that you wouldn't accuse me of getting my information from a extremely liberal source). This website BTW was created before it was discovered that the power companies were gouging the state. It has only recently been disovered that the out of state power generators were colluding to drive up prices at the expense of consumers.

Also the City of Los Angeles was not part of the deregulation plan because it was generating its own power and did not have any problems (because it was regulated).

[Greybeard]

[quote]Originally posted by rextorres:
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(i purposely chose CNN so that you wouldn't accuse me of getting my information from a extremely liberal source). QB]

I can't believe that anyone thinks that CNN isn't an extremely liberal source, except maybe an extreme liberal...Greybeard

[rextorres]

[quote]Originally posted by Greybeard:

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Originally posted by rextorres:
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(i purposely chose CNN so that you wouldn't accuse me of getting my information from a extremely liberal source). QB]

I can't believe that anyone thinks that CNN isn't an extremely liberal source, except maybe an extreme liberal...Greybeard

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. . .and Fox News whose editorial head worked in the Nixon, Reagan, and Bush Sr. white houses under various guises is "Fair and Balanced" - at least CNN makes a pretention of being unbiased.

[Krsqk]

(i purposely chose CNN so that you wouldn't accuse me of getting my information from a extremely liberal source)

ROFLOL!!!!

That's great! I think I'll print this and post it on the bulletin board at work!

Seriously, though, bringing up Fox doesn't make CNN unbiased any more than bringing up Ari Fleischer makes George Stephanopolous unbiased. Everyone has a bias. Denying that the (vast) majority of mainstream journalists, editors, and reporters hold liberal viewpoints contradicts their own statements. Denying that one's viewpoints color one's reporting is overly optimistic. Overlooking liberal bias in the media while jumping all over Fox News for conservative bias is...umm...*searches for non-inflammatory words*...inconsistent.

(Wow! I think it's an entire post without a single inflammatory remark! Do I get a prize? )

[ February 14, 2003, 04:09: Message edited by: Krsqk ]