Sean Bonner (via Doc), after getting e-insults for posting links to factual information on America for Sale:
I would love to start a website with several bloggers from the left, and several from the right who were committed to discussing the issues at hand, rationally, with intelligent back and forth, and facts to back up their claims but I don't know if I can find people to do it. I would love to read a blog like that, but where is it?Problem is, the only people who think they can learn from a discussion with unlike-minded people are liberals.
...it's a pretty sad state of affairs that the default response to hearing something you don't agree with is to insult whoever said it, rather than talking to them to find out what makes them feel that way, and trying to explain what makes you feel the way you do.
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This lofty and self-serving observation brought to you by someone who has run a "broadcast-only", no-comments weblog for over a year now....
Hence NCFocus is bravely going where almost all other weblogs have gone before -
So -
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...I think most of the [ZZZs] have backed themselves into the same predicament: there is nothing that could ever falsify their case, nothing that would make them re-think, no event or information that would require a careful reconsideration of their arguments...
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