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Damn those facts and their liberal bias
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âHis schtick, which he perfected at the Post, is to present political arguments as data-driven wonkery, and himself as a pragmatist who follows the data wherever it leadsâ
Sometimes, reality has a liberal bias. But if York is accusing Ezra and Vox of making the data fit the argument, rather than the other way around, letâs roll up our sleeves and see his numbers, too.
Every good argument can be made better in the crucible of honest, critical analysis.
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This has been the spiel for a long time. Try to intimidate anyone who is pointing out that the facts do seem to have a liberal bias.
When I saw that Sebelius was resigning, my first thought was that the right wing meme would be, âSee, Obamacare is collapsing! Sheâs getting out before everything comes crashing down.â The epistemic closure is absolutely hermetically sealed. I keep wondering how long a political movement that depends on such a radical divorce from reality can persist. I keep thinking that it canât sustain itself for very long. But then the right-wing propaganda engine just keeps churning out the kind of tweets you see appended to this story. And people keep voting for politicians who live within the epistemic bubble.
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Sustaining it is easy as long as their audience keeps sticking their fingers in their ears going; la lalalalala I canât hear you, when you have an argument that goes against what they think they know
Mean âHeathersâ mostly provoke laughter, Iâve found.
Yesterdayâs expected NYPost attempted take-down of Colbertâs comedy caused unintended laughter to erupt from this reader.
The Postâs writer should have advised that failed FOX âcomedyâ show.
I think the technical aspects of the site need some work. I like the content. Took a bit of work to get the video with Susan Crawford to play. But, then againâŚwe all know about technical issues now, dont we
Must be TOO âFair and Balancedâ.