someone who makes a stupid comment about my username? If there was a rolling eyes emoticon, it would be 100% appropriate here.
Yes, he *now* favors Obama, but you seem to think he was *always* that way, that he *went into* that way as opposed to going into it with a clean slate and trying to break down each candidate based on a variety of factors.
If you recall (you've listened since 2005, right?), he didn't start off supporting Obama. Over the months he leaned toward a variety of different candidates, and after a good deal of time reviewing the available information, he concluded that Obama was the best choice.
That is NOT the same thing as if Cenk had been pro-Obama, anti-Hillary from Day One, and went on to only or mostly provide negative information and opinion on Hillary (when positive info was also available) and or mostly provide positive information and opinion on Obama (when negative info was also available). *If* that had been the case, then yes, I'd say he's clearly biased in favor of Obama.
But it wasn't and he isn't.
It's insulting to suggest I don't know what bias is and that I equate it with hate BTW. Some people have both. I am simply pointing out that Cenk's level of bias (again, acknowledging that *everyone* has some degree of bias to some extent or another) in this case is not noteworthy, at least in my opinion based on what he's said and presented on both candidates.
Again I refer you to those two clips. If you want *zero* bias, build a robot and program it to observe and report on its observations. Otherwise I don't see the relevance unless the bias reaches a certain threshold, at which point it clearly taints a perspective and calls an individual's credibility into question overall or on a specific issue or set of issues.
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Tom Hanc on
02/20/2008 07:28:26 PM EST
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