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Atticus

(15,124 posts)
Tue Jul 27, 2021, 01:20 PM Jul 2021

So, having just watched 4 hours of riveting sworn testimony from 4 uniformed police

officers before the House Select Committee, I have to wonder: are we REALLY going go have to listen to the usual "conservatives" on this evening's cable shows telling us "the other side's opinion" as to what REALLY happened on January 6th?

My TV may not survive.

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So, having just watched 4 hours of riveting sworn testimony from 4 uniformed police (Original Post) Atticus Jul 2021 OP
I won't be listening... PortTack Jul 2021 #1
Elise Stefanik will go on Fox and blame Nancy Pelosi. madaboutharry Jul 2021 #2
We probably will. But at least we didn't have to watch Gym Jordon & Co. throwing feces today. dameatball Jul 2021 #3
Maybe Goodwill has an old B&W TV that you can Elvis when the need arises. Girard442 Jul 2021 #4
was something said bluedevil4 Jul 2021 #5
def was said. mopinko Jul 2021 #8
Going to see the Gear Daddies tonite. ProudMNDemocrat Jul 2021 #6
Aaron Rupar provides clips of all the highlights on his Twitter: atrupar/twitter tblue37 Jul 2021 #12
Canceled our going out tonite ProudMNDemocrat Jul 2021 #14
Turning off any channel JustAnotherGen Jul 2021 #7
Yes - MSNBC (Chuckie) just let DURHAM D Jul 2021 #9
:) These days MSNBC and CNN only airs them to expose and shoot them down. Hortensis Jul 2021 #10
It occurs to me ... frazzled Jul 2021 #13
Well, yes too many do. But let's remember that, Hortensis Jul 2021 #15
Chuck Todd should be all over it stillcool Jul 2021 #11
I'm just so amazed at the adulation du is giving to police officers, which they well deserve. Treefrog Jul 2021 #16

madaboutharry

(40,185 posts)
2. Elise Stefanik will go on Fox and blame Nancy Pelosi.
Tue Jul 27, 2021, 01:24 PM
Jul 2021

I don’t expect anything decent coming from “conservatives.”

dameatball

(7,393 posts)
3. We probably will. But at least we didn't have to watch Gym Jordon & Co. throwing feces today.
Tue Jul 27, 2021, 01:27 PM
Jul 2021

It's a good beginning.

 

bluedevil4

(305 posts)
5. was something said
Tue Jul 27, 2021, 01:28 PM
Jul 2021

about IRAQ? I'm already reading jokes about Jan 6 being worse than IRAQ, this is on facebook so I don't take much precedent in it

ProudMNDemocrat

(16,722 posts)
14. Canceled our going out tonite
Tue Jul 27, 2021, 04:27 PM
Jul 2021

Between 6 to 8 tonite, storms coming through. Lightning, strong winds, possible hail.

JustAnotherGen

(31,780 posts)
7. Turning off any channel
Tue Jul 27, 2021, 01:34 PM
Jul 2021

That runs it. They have something to say as elected officials - they can testify.

Nothing they say will change my perception - so I'm not giving them the time of day.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
10. :) These days MSNBC and CNN only airs them to expose and shoot them down.
Tue Jul 27, 2021, 02:11 PM
Jul 2021

Anyway, if it's like mine, your TV's a weary and resigned draft horse that gave up any hope of rescue long since.

frazzled

(18,402 posts)
13. It occurs to me ...
Tue Jul 27, 2021, 03:56 PM
Jul 2021

That when Republicans are in power, we all moan and wish that the Fairness Doctrine could be put back in place, so that Democrats could get a chance to speak and correct the record.

And then when the Democrats are in power, we bemoan that any Republicans are given a chance to speak.

I can't figure this one out. Except to say that the Republicans of today in general do nothing but distort and lie, so they should just stay to their corner of the mediaverse. (And I guess, by extension, we to ours). But this isn't a happy situation either: it's why we're so divided.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
15. Well, yes too many do. But let's remember that,
Tue Jul 27, 2021, 09:24 PM
Jul 2021

even if The Fairness Doctrine's mouldering in its grave, there are still people, liberal and conservative, who want honest, accurate and adequate information.

And that truth is neither liberal nor conservative. In spite of all the toxic attempts to obscure it, truth is still bringing honest people together in big areas of overlap and agreement, in spite of different ideological orientations.

As for separate mediaverses (there's a term! ), the crazy right insisted on poisoning themselves with their own long ago.

But lies by definition are not truth and aren't presented as valid by any honest information source. What the right are thinking and doing is important information. though, that we need to know, and understand. Yet like you, I've noticed that dicussing them offends some. That's part of an even worse development, that some now righteously expect the political shows they watch to be loyal players on their partisan "team." Like Fox, but theirs. Big fat no to encouraging that?!

stillcool

(32,626 posts)
11. Chuck Todd should be all over it
Tue Jul 27, 2021, 02:30 PM
Jul 2021

it's recycled information anyway, so he just needs to plug and play old episodes.

 

Treefrog

(4,170 posts)
16. I'm just so amazed at the adulation du is giving to police officers, which they well deserve.
Tue Jul 27, 2021, 09:27 PM
Jul 2021

Not sure where all the ACAB folks have scuttled off to during these hearings.

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