Scary Stuff

[rsteinmetz70112]

This thread was started with a political statement, which was then directly followed by a second political statement from Fox News (an obvious 24/7 anti-democratic reporting "news" channel) masquerading as a faux source of legitimate moral outrage regarding a possible imagined loss of personal liberties.

While the second post may in fact have been intended as simply a statement of concern for a man in trouble, it's still somewhat disingenuous given what most know about Fox News. So rather than be a source for future debate, maybe it'd be best to simply view this instance as an illustration of the importance of choosing sources for backing up a persons' own personal sentiments?

Since I was the one who posted the second statement. It was intended to correct what I thought was an biased version of the story. I chose the Fox story from among several very similar stores on multiple outlets, precisely because I felt the Fox was likely to be perceived as more sympathetic to his views, not because of any views I hold. In fact I think the Fox story was either based on an AP story or was picked up by AP because so many of the other reports are so similar.

In any event yesterday a judge ordered the Brandon J Raub to be released immediately, so I assume he is home or with family by now.

I wish him well.

[Y33TREKker]

Since I was the one who posted the second statement. It was intended to correct what I thought was an biased version of the story.

I chose the Fox story from among several very similar stores on multiple outlets, precisely because I felt the Fox was likely to be perceived as more sympathetic to his views, not because of any views I hold.

That was the catch though, you say your comment was intended to correct "what you thought was a biased version of the story".....But like the rest of us, you also didn't know what the actual story even was, and was the reason I suggested that a person choosing their sources wisely may serve to nip these debates in the bud from getting off topic in the first place...not to mention the fact that the source you chose would have by proven nature been saying the exact same thing as what was being implied in the first post you say you were trying to correct.

In any event yesterday a judge ordered the Brandon J Raub to be released immediately, so I assume he is home or with family by now.

I wish him well.

If that was simply a statement of support, an not an effort to spin the judges order into an implication that the guy was being held by the "government" for no legitimate reason, I'm sure we would all agree.