[Valin]

He also told me that he often listens to the socialist radio station, National Public Radio (NPR), but he doesn’t think of it as left-wing, he just considers it normal. Moreover, he thinks that conservative programs are just out there bashing anyone who doesn’t agree with their way of thinking. He’s heard the Boston area conservative radio host Jay Severin do this, and he has never listened to Rush Limbaugh, but he has “heard of him.”


Something I'm sure you have noticed over the years is that those on the left really do live in a very small world. They would never be caught dead with a copy of National Review, or listening to "rightwing" talk radio. It's like they think they'll get contaminated and suddenly become a carding member of the KKK or something.
OTOH many on the right have a much more wide-rangeing in their reading.

[hopespringseternal]

Something I'm sure you have noticed over the years is that those on the left really do live in a very small world. They would never be caught dead with a copy of National Review, or listening to "rightwing" talk radio. It's like they think they'll get contaminated and suddenly become a carding member of the KKK or something.

OTOH many on the right have a much more wide-rangeing in their reading. That is because the left encourages its recruits to adopt a certain set of convictions and guard those convictions above all else. To preserve their convictions, they abstain from that which is most dangerous to them: knowledge that the world is not and can never be what they want it to be.

Conservatives OTOH, derive their convictions from knowledge and know truth from lies. We can read a leftist screed, look for the truth and discard the lies.

One who clothes himself with a tissue lies must be ever vigilant lest the flame of truth consume those lies and reveal his nakedness.