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Ebert commenting on "blue" vs. "red" states
Roger Ebert's Journal ^
| December 17 or 18, 2009
| Roger Ebert
Posted on 12/18/2009 1:34:24 PM PST by ctdonath2
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Found buried in a thread about Avatar. Wondering how FReepers will react to it.
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posted on
12/18/2009 1:34:27 PM PST
by
ctdonath2
To: ctdonath2
None of that is probably even true.
Does anyone think big cities have less crime than the country?
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posted on
12/18/2009 1:41:03 PM PST
by
GeronL
To: ctdonath2
This is why you assess not state by state but county by county. There are some very Right areas in the Northeast and some very LEFT areas in the South and West.
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posted on
12/18/2009 1:41:39 PM PST
by
MSF BU
(++)
To: ctdonath2
I find this very hard to believe.
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posted on
12/18/2009 1:42:51 PM PST
by
Nea Wood
(Silly liberal . . . paychecks are for workers!)
To: ctdonath2
I would not presume that he is not lying about most of this, but what does it matter if it is true in every case? Is he suggesting that we surrender our freedom for a little money, slightly safer roads and abortion on demand?
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posted on
12/18/2009 1:43:29 PM PST
by
Haiku Guy
("I don't give them Hell / I tell the truth about them / And they think it's Hell" -- Harry Truman)
To: GeronL
It's absolutely untrue: Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law, St. Paul , Minnesota , points out some interesting facts concerning last November's Presidential election: Number of States won by: Obama: 19 McCain: 29 Square miles of land won by: Obama: 580,000 McCain: 2,427,000 Population of counties won by: Obama: 127 million McCain: 143 million Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by:Obama: 13.2 McCain: 2.1 Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory McCain won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of the country. Obama territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in low income tenements and living off various forms of government welfare...." Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase.
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posted on
12/18/2009 1:43:35 PM PST
by
jyoders19
To: jyoders19
I posted my source, lets see if Ebert will do the same for his...
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posted on
12/18/2009 1:44:33 PM PST
by
jyoders19
To: ctdonath2
“Blue states have substantially less infant mortality “
No source references to any of his claims. But if there is a reference the the above claim, I’m sure it neglects to include children that are murdered in blue state wombs...
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posted on
12/18/2009 1:44:36 PM PST
by
Craigon
To: jyoders19
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posted on
12/18/2009 1:46:59 PM PST
by
GeronL
To: jyoders19
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posted on
12/18/2009 1:47:14 PM PST
by
avacado
To: ctdonath2
*Roger Ebert*???
BWWWWWWWHAAAAAAA!!!
Only way his partner could escape the boor was to
die.
Hell's bells why not ask Bruce Springbrain? LOL
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posted on
12/18/2009 1:47:46 PM PST
by
Landru
(Forget the pebble Grasshopper, just leave.)
To: jyoders19
Of course he wont, Libs love to make up their own sources.
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posted on
12/18/2009 1:48:37 PM PST
by
Snurple
(VEGETARIAN, OLD INDIAN WORD FOR BAD HUNTER.)
To: ctdonath2
figures lie, liars figure.
Pct of incidents per 100,000 sounds great but what relevance does it have when comparing let’s say Illinois population approx. 13,000,000 vs. Nevada population approx 2,700,000.
Hell, let’s compare like populations. Nevada = 2,700,000 and the City of Chicago = 2,800,000 and see what happens.
To: ctdonath2
According to Gallup, Mr. Ebert, conservatives outnumber liberals in all fifty states, and that would include your example of Massachusetts.
So before you go disparaging my state, please realize that not everyone here voted for Teddy K., not everyone thinks Senator Horseface is a war hero, etc. etc.
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posted on
12/18/2009 1:50:36 PM PST
by
turfmann
To: ctdonath2
This is all especially true in Roger’s city and mine, the true-blue city of Chicago. They just make up all that stuff about crime and gangs and poverty so people from the outside won’t want to move here.
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posted on
12/18/2009 1:53:44 PM PST
by
Southside_Chicago_Republican
("During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." --Orwell)
To: jyoders19
FWIW, that information you posted has been run through snopes.com.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/ballot/athenian.asp
I do take issue with the snopes.com reading of the tax redistribution as the comparative unit of measure under discussion(county land) was changed away from county/people back to just state.
Now this snopes.com page may be BS?
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posted on
12/18/2009 1:57:37 PM PST
by
loungeSerf
(Truth-In-Legislation Amendment)
To: ctdonath2
I’d say Ebert gets 2 thumbs-up for being a gullible, dumb-ass.
To: ctdonath2
He’s got the causation reversed. The reason Red States are red is that they have had it with crime and have adopted measures to combat it. States with low crime rates can get away with being tolerant of criminals.
To: loungeSerf
In anything political, if Snopes told me the sky was blue, I’d go out and check it for myself.
To: GeronL
You mean like that peaceful haven known as Detroit???? or Washington D.C.
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