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Originally Posted by Stephen Maturin
I see your point, CH. I dare say no one here wants to make you like material such as that contained in my OP or material that you consider "backslapping 'aren't we superior' bullshit." If by "skewed to the left" you mean anti-Bush, your assessment of FF's general leaning is certainly correct.
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That's cool, and thanks for taking the time to respond to me. My assessment of the prevailing political culture at FF isn't the result of reading your OP alone. It is primarily grounded in my feelings and impressions left over from the intensity of discussions immediately preceding and immediately following last November's elections.
"Anti-Bush" is charitable. Rabid, Bush-hating and wishing dismemberment and disemboweling upon anyone who has ever failed to boo and hiss when they saw the President's face on TV was closer to it back then. I haven't really kept up with the forum's political culture much since, as I found it so distasteful then.
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But while calling Karen Hughes a bed-wetting idiot, etc. is undeniably vitriolic, I fail to see how it qualfies as "vitriol . . . towards anyone associated with the right."
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I wasn't very clear. I didn't mean to imply that you insulted me or anyone in the center or on the right in general by insulting Hughes. I wasn't insulted or offended personally at all. I can still find the brand of ferocity and rabidness of insult I too often see here to be distasteful nonetheless, and I do.
My point was that in discussions of political matters at FF, I see such intensity directed only at conservatives or Republicans. I cannot recall seeing any of it on FF directed at any persons of any other political stripe or persuasion. Please feel free to provide counterexamples. They would be a welcome change.
CH