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Ed Right Wing Watch

RWW has been repeatedly sued and DMCA'd for accurately quoting, and providing audio/video clips of, various right-wingnuts. They always lose. Too bad they're so embarrassed about what they said. Robertson, of course, is too dumb to be embarrassed.
 
RWW has been repeatedly sued and DMCA'd for accurately quoting, and providing audio/video clips of, various right-wingnuts. They always lose. Too bad they're so embarrassed about what they said. Robertson, of course, is too dumb to be embarrassed.

Source?
 
Why don't you just post the details of this so called right wing watch?

We don't need a website to tell us what to watch, its happening right now before our eyes!

Democrats are raising taxes and destroying the economy

Companies are leaving and the middle class is being destroyed

Does anyone care?
 
Why don't you just post the details of this so called right wing watch?

We don't need a website to tell us what to watch, its happening right now before our eyes!

Democrats are raising taxes and destroying the economy

Companies are leaving and the middle class is being destroyed

Does anyone care?

Wow, just wow. All those words and nothing with truth or functional meaning anywhere in reality.
 
I "liked" Right Wing Watch on Facebook and promptly got depressed. The sheer level of lunacy among people who were either close to government or actually in government was pretty alarming.

However, after reading the thing for awhile, I realized that the cadre of right-wing loons was actually pretty small; they seem to be quoting the same individuals frequently so perhaps they are not as prevalent as I suspected.
Then again, Cruz has decided to run for president.... A scary type; the smart, educated extremist.
 
Why don't you just post the details of this so called right wing watch?

We don't need a website to tell us what to watch, its happening right now before our eyes!

Democrats are raising taxes and destroying the economy

Companies are leaving and the middle class is being destroyed

Does anyone care?

Our world is on fire!


(Only in a figurative manner. Climate change is of course a liberal hoax and not worth worrying about).
 
People read Right Wing Watch for the same reason people watch Little Booboo and Duck Dynasty

Trainwrecks have an entertainment value all their own. Also I think here on a skeptic's board, we all know a little bit of the enjoyment of mocking the "kook", and the far-right is nothing if not kooky, and the machine they've built themselves churning out their propaganda is wonderful at giving us a constant stream of new "kook nuggets" to enjoy and share with our friends.

Also I think to the extent they uncover shameful behaviour, there's also a bit of the (very appropriate) shaming ritual going on (when Right Wing Watch uncovers abject racism or boorish behaviour).

So take your pick, as always, there's a confluence of motivations.
 
well, as I have pointed out, there is a cadre of left leaning propaganda sites like RIGHT WING WATCH, mediamatters, PoliticusUSA, ThinkProgress, etc, posing as news websites.

Slate calls them "the liberal attack machine." Hillary Clinton bragged about starting and supporting some of them, and they return the favor in spades.

Media matters has recently abandoned any pretense of independence and has openly defended Hillary Clinton in connection with the email scandal.

Are there right wing attack sites? Of course. My perception is however that people much more frequently cite to the left leaning sites as if they legitimate news sources. I point out, not infrequently, that these sites are filled with over heated rhetoric, poisoning the well, etc. People respond that the sites "cite their sources!" Well it seems to me that a person should cite the source, rather than give it a spin through the liberal attack machine.

I endeavor as much as possible to cite main stream media sources whenever possible. In fact i have repeatedly held off on updating avid readers in the Benghazi thread because stories were only available on on such sites. In fact, I try to avoid such sites unless it is impossible (example: judicial watch which I cite to because they are the only site that has actual government records discovered through their FOIA requests)

I find it hard to take a thread seriously that starts off with outrage from a propaganda site like RIGHT WING WATCH, which seems to have no place on a skeptics site.

Thus endeth the Sermon.
 
I find it hard to take a thread seriously that starts off with outrage from a propaganda site like RIGHT WING WATCH, which seems to have no place on a skeptics site.
The sentence I quoted is both ironic and telling. You really don't seem to have a handle on the meaning of the work "skeptic".
 
The sentence I quoted is both ironic and telling. You really don't seem to have a handle on the meaning of the work "skeptic".

Anything other than a vague personal attack, David James?

Kindly keep to the subject of the thread.

THANKS!
 
If right-wingers don't like people quoting them when they say stupid things, maybe they should stop saying stupid things instead of blaming the people that quote them.
 
Are there right wing attack sites? Of course. My perception is however that people much more frequently cite to the left leaning sites as if they legitimate news sources. a skeptics site.

What, exactly, are your preferred "legitimate" news sources? I ask because it seems (it seems) like everytime any news source puts out an article or story critical of the right, it's quickly labeled "mainstream liberal media".

So, who's your trusted source of fair and balanced news?

Thus endeth the Sermon.

You promise?
 
Drudge and Breightbart are the true political skeptic sites...

sarcasm is not truly an effective argument, but I would consider Breightbart a fairly close approximation to one of the liberal attack sites.

It may be helpful if i point out that the disdain you feel for those sites is equal to the disdain I feel for the liberal attack sites.
 
Can you expand on that? Do some issues get treated with more legitimacy than others at certain sources?

Funny, because the NYT is often cited as a <gasp!> liberal-biased source!

:jaw-dropp

Oh noes!

I am not sure I follow. I frequently cite the New York Times lately because they are at the forefront of breaking the Hillary Clinton emails scandal, for example.

If they are a liberal biased source, discussing the malfeasance of liberals, it would seem to make sense to cite them, no?
 
The fact that neither of the 2 posters disagreeing about this stuff knows how to spell Breitbart is itself a form of parody.
 
The fact that neither of the 2 posters disagreeing about this stuff knows how to spell Breitbart is itself a form of parody.

1. I think we are actually agreeing.

2. I cut and pasted that from his post. I don't actually go to either Drudge or "breitbart" intentionally
 
If they are a liberal biased source, discussing the malfeasance of liberals, it would seem to make sense to cite them, no?

Maybe, maybe not. I'd hope you'd cite the source most accurate; after reading various sources, finding the descrepancies, checking their facts against other sources, etc. It's time-consuming, as I'm sure you know.

That seems to be the disagreement with the "Phil's Fantasy" issue. Did RWW report Phil's comments accuratey? Would (did) Breitbart? Drudge? Fox? Prison Planet? Insert any source here _______?

Gotta seperate the wheat from the chaff. Me personally, all things being equal, I'll cite the source that looks the most neutral. That way, I avoid the appearances of bias (which we all have to some degree anyway). Not saying you do that, just a general guideline I follow.

YMMV.
 

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