Posted on 02/11/2011 10:01:05 AM PST by decimon
We should all be a lot meaner considering what’s happening to America!
Ah ... Tufts University. IGNORE
Another study whose purpose was to find the results it came up with.
Exactly...if they used Richard Dreyfuss’ definition, of course conservatives use more hate speech. The fallacy here is that they don’t say how they defined being “mean”.
Quit lol’ing, meanie.
“...social scientists at Tufts University’s School of Arts and Sciences have found that outrage talk is endemic among commentators of all political stripes, but measurably worse on the political right, and is more prevalent than it was even during the turmoil of the war in Viet Nam and the Watergate scandal.”
I have no doubt that the social scientists found this but the finding is complete and utter bull crap.
HERE IS ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THIS STUDY
Look at this quote by the authors:
“Whether it’s MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann spitting out his coffee because of some conservative transgression or radio host Michael Savage venomously impugning the character of immigrants, cable television, talk radio and blogs overflow with outrage rhetoric, and even mainstream newspaper columns are not above the fray,” they said.”
HYPOCRISY.
The quote in itself is outrageous. It implies that Keith Olbermann is only reacting to a conservative transgression, but Michael Savage is “venomously impugning the character of immigrants.”
To paraphrase an old aphorism: "Meanness is when MY ox is getting gored."
If someone held me at gunpoint and ordered me to guess the political leanings of the people who conducted this “study,” I’m pretty sure I’d walk away from that encounter with my brains still safely in my skull...
Why the left views conservatism as ‘mean’:
1) Conservative are MEAN because they do not believe in equal economic outcomes
2) Conservatives are MEAN because they do not believe that the government knows best regarding our nations problems
3) Conservatives are MEAN because they do not believe that it takes a village to raise a child.
4) Conservatives are mean because they do not believe in protecting ‘reproductive rights’ of women.
5) Conservatives are MEAN because they do not believe this nation is the root of all world problems.
6) Conservatives are MEAN because they think they need a gun for self protection.
7) Conservatives are MEAN because they do not support higher taxes.
8) Conservatives are MEAN because they lack white guilt
9) Conservatives are MEAN because they do not adhere to Multiculturalism.
10 Conservatives are MEAN because they refused to vote for Obama.
Another POS BS article.
If they were to look only at internet blogs and other places where the content is not censored, they would see who is really mean and vitriolic.
Libs think the right is mean anytime they do not agree with them.
Conservatives have a sense of moral outrage, and usually have some facts to back it up.
AHHHH! The glib perterberations of my alma mater. The research did not, of course, take account of the Marxist bias of the researchers. More balderdash.
Right wing truth telling is outrageous. Left wing outrage is truth telling. Such are the vagaries of leftist research.
My email to the professors:
Subject: All I need to know about your study...
..I learned from this quote in the press release:
“Whether it’s MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann spitting out his coffee because of some conservative transgression or radio host Michael Savage venomously impugning the character of immigrants, cable television, talk radio and blogs overflow with outrage rhetoric, and even mainstream newspaper columns are not above the fray,” they said.
This single quote is a fine example of “outrage talk” and demonstrates your clear bias.
Keith Olbermann is only reacting to conservative TRANSGRESSIONS (a very loaded term that implies conservatives are GUILTY). Meanwhile, Michael Savage “venomously impugns” the character of immigrants - a statement that implies the conservative is not reacting to anything, but is simply GUILTY.
Couldn’t you even have said “some /alleged/ conservative transgression?” Just to give the *appearance* of impartiality?
Can’t you see your own bias?
Seriously, folks.
Bunch of biased Leftwingtards ~
Silly little liberals...it is ok for their side to talk about silencing people or outright killing them but when the rgth confront them with truth it is hateful.We need a “make a liberal wet his pants day” then we could really show them angry!
Fake research from a Junk Science department at Tufts.
I guarantee you that this social “science” department staff is 90%+ registered democrat, probably 100% registered democrat.
These type of Boston characters literally do not personally know a Republican.
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