How cute. In yesterday's thread Ray created a bogus "rose colored glasses" argument, now he sees fit to expand on it. My response in the thread down below is appropriate here:
Ray Medhurst said {in a previous post}:
In {Jim's} rose colored world, every thing is happy happy joy joy. The men who run government and the media who don't report all the news to us are obviously gods - they ALL have the definition of gods in that they are infallible and make no mistakes.
WHAT A CROCK!
To anyone who may care at this point and I doubt there are many of you,

what I posted below to elicit this response from Ray was:
"We live in the real world though. To the extent that the reporting of Watergate was delayed at all, the delay was the direct result of government stonewalling! Any delay was not because the "The media mirror who owns them and who pays for their services, or flak" or any other of Herman's factors
The above is precisely the first point I ever made in response to your first Herman parroting "The Free Press Is Not So Free" thread so long ago! Guilty parties and wrongdoers cover their tracks and lie. This basic fact may delay proper reporting. I am sure much government malfeasance goes unreported because of the basic dishonesty of guilty parties." JLB 2/3/04
If Ray thinks the above means I see the world through rose colored glasses, no logical response can help him.
The difference between my style and Ray's style is simple. When he challenged my "leftist nonsense" characterization of his arguments I posted several quotes which are iron clad
and unrebutted examples of his leftist nonsense. In my opinion of course, but I don't think I was taking any risks.
Since I was not persuaded by Ray's arguments, he fallaciously fabricated the straw argument that I see the world through rose colored glasses. His straw argument is obviously contrary to what I quoted above. Perhaps he missed the part about guilty parties, wrongdoing and lies? Mine is a grim and realistic assessment of political reality.
I am sorry that I wasted everyone's time yesterday. Russell was gracious enough to say it was OK. Don't worry, there will be no repeat performance.
- Jim -