Rachel kicking BUCHANAN ass over the POW card & the crowd is cheering HER!1 n/t

[UTUSN]

[arthritisR_US]

1. it was absolutely wonderful to watch!!! n/t

[stevebreeze]

2. I do think Rachel was kicking his but..but it is a partisan crowd

[UTUSN]

3. Even a partisan crowd knows quality when it smacks them in the face!1 n/t

[stevebreeze]

4. there is no doubt of the quality of Ms Madow's argument

I was just pointing out we need to keep the crowd reaction in perspective.I happen to one of the many people around here who like to stick strictly to facts,much as I am sure you do.

[UTUSN]

5. Since this old thread got kicked up, I'll answer (again)

A widely held (& wrong) belief is that most of what goes on here is about "facts".
Actually, (I'm pulling the number out of the air: ) upwards of 90% of the posts (as opposed to the o.p.(s) with links) are feelings, impressions, likes, dislikes, opinions, dicta, imperatives, emotional erruptions, and the like.


"keeping the crowd reaction in perspective" was missing the point. The hardened fans of MSRNC here *know* that the scene on screen was taking place at the Dem convention and that the people gathering behind the on-air deal consisted of Dem partisans. My (*implied*) point was that the message going out to the t.v. audience (as small as THAT is, since you want more precision) was that MADDOW was kicking BUCHANAN's ass and a crowd of people were cheering. The partisanship was almost irrelevant in the IMPRESSION coming across the airwaves.


Your remaining two clauses --- about "many people around here...stick strictly to facts" and that YOU are "sure" that *I* do --- are refuted by my first paragraph here.

So things had been said definitively by the time you resurrected this thread.


That said, even opinions can be shown to be demonstrably valid or invalid, stimulating or vapid, informed or uninformed. But this discussion board does not deal mostly with "facts."