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2 Things (none / 1)
1)-Why did you have to pick the name "Cheryl"?

2)-Why don't you have a profile? And why haven't you posted here before? And why did you link to a right wing website (not right of center, right wing)?

I clicked on a random article on the homepage and the author wrote this "...On a recent broadcast, Savage, whose views I most often agree with..."

Sorry, but anyone who most often agrees with the views of Michael Savage is not someone I'm going to take seriously. And it speaks volumes about the credibility of that website.

If you're honestly undecided and concerned, we'll have a discussion. But if you picked a website to troll and plant misinformation and fear mongering about a Obama I have to inform you that you picked the wrong one.

by Tom Hanc on 07/30/2008 05:04:15 PM EST

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Technically that's an "answer" (none / 0)
But it's a terrible answer.

For example, if I ask what 2+2 is and you say "purple" you *technically* answered the question.

But it's a terrible answer.

by Tom Hanc on 07/30/2008 05:52:45 PM EST

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speech (none / 0)
We have a real problem when most of the news is presented as talking points for one side or the other. News needs to be news. Opinion needs to be opinion. Referring to an agenda driven web site is not presenting facts. Just some twisted slant. People who spread the slant as facts should not be given national platforms to operate from. It is called propaganda.

by sisco66 on 07/30/2008 06:00:00 PM EST

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why not use my name? (none / 0)
It happens to be my name? I just joined yesterday, and I thought this was a forum for free speech. Am I supposed to have some pithy name to post by? Sorry, I didnt read that in the rules anywhere.

by cheryl on 07/31/2008 10:44:06 PM EST

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All right (none / 0)
I'm willing to apologize for jumping to conclusions.
 
But 9 times out of 10 it's a conservative troll that comes to a progressive site for a first time post with no profile (and puts up something ripping Obama with a linking to a laughably bad and biased right-wing website).

Do you understand why I and others might be, at the very least, skeptical?

As for your name, I like it. My girlfriend's name is Cheryl and I have another friend named Cheryl. My comment about the name was over taking offense that someone I perceived to be a conservative troll had picked that name instead of a 'pithy' one.


So again, if I misread you and you aren't here to just find ways to spread anti-Obama propaganda while pretending to be moderate, I sincerely apologize.  Of course you're free to say whatever you want, but by the same token I and others are free to call people out on perceived BS and questionable potential motives they may have.


I'd be very happy to be proven wrong. Then we'll have another great addition to TYT and I'll look like a fool.  Welcome to TYT Cheryl. :)


by Tom Hanc on 08/01/2008 10:44:43 AM EST

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