Originally Posted by djplong

Let me quote the original post:



It mentioned Beck by name. The post says that the poster IS WAITING FOR a post on the subject. So I provided one.

Now, a fair question from you might be "Why Beck?" Simple answer - he's the subject of a lot of conversation. He's gotten a lot of press. Right, wrong or indifferent, his name IS out there a LOT.

To be honest, I'd barely even HEARD of Glenn Beck until Obama got elected. Olberman and Maddow? Don't know too much about them because I don't go to news channels looking for opinion - so when the opinion talk shows start, I'm tuned somewhere else.

Recently I've tried watching the news channels again. Over the past several years, I've taken to getting most of my news on the internet from a variety of wire sources and newspaper websites that are liberal (Boston Globe, NY Times), more middle-of-the-road (USA Today, depending on the section), and VERY right-wing (Boston Herald, Manchester Union-Leader). Newspapers still have the room to print NEWS as opposed to TV stations that only have a couple of moments to scare you into watching ("Is your kitchen pantry poisoning you - we'll tell you at 11!") Seeing the parodies of "news" that CNN, Fox and their ilk have become is indeed depressing. Heck, I can't get a good 24/7 news channel on radio I *PAY* for (XM) with the possible exception of POTUS, which was a channel dedicated to campaign coverage every election cycle.

I used to be a Democrat until I started working.

I used to be a Republican until they abandoned their principles (especially things like the Patriot Act)

I used to be Catholic until (among other things) we discovered that, although I was supposedly going to hell for eating a hot dog on Friday, priests conveniently missed the memo on not raping little boys.

There are a lot of things in life I "used to be" but experience has had me move away from them. I like to think that is part of the definition of an open mind.

I'm 47. I'm sure than when I'm 57 I'll have had some opinions changed. Same holds true for 67 if I make it that far.