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The false consensus march

09/22/10

vivresavie:

 I don’t see the difference between the person who gets the entirety of their news from Jon Stewart, swallowing everything he says wholesale, and the person who does the same with Glenn Beck.  

Responding to Jon Stewart’s call for reasonable centrism by positioning yourself as the reasonable center between reasonableness and craziness is impressively meta.

(Source: barthel)

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    I’ve thought about this a lot. And I think that he basically just framed it incorrectly in his announcement and somewhat...
  4. fake-it-real reblogged this from agrammar and added:
    more behind Jon Stewart’s Rally...Restore Sanity than I am. There are things I like about...
  5. summerstaycation reblogged this from barthel and added:
    You guyzzzz…television...ironic detachment! Seriously...this...
  6. rogueish reblogged this from vivresavie and added:
    Responding to Jon Stewart’s call for reasonable centrism by positioning yourself as the reasonable center between...
  7. watchmejumpstart reblogged this from barthel and added:
    Hell of a post. More on this later.
  8. vivresavie reblogged this from fatmanatee and added:
    You know how Tori Amos makes pretty music, but her superfans are totally obnoxious? This thing is like that thing. As...
  9. fatmanatee reblogged this from barthel and added:
    This whole conversation is great.
  10. grantimatter reblogged this from agrammar and added:
    I’m intrigued by the critiques of Jon Stewart’s rally made by agrammar and barthel, because I think they’re half right,...
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    Abebe both have really good...(as usual) refreshingly self-aware takes on
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  14. agrammar reblogged this from barthel and added:
    Reasonable.” The idea bummed...severe extent. It sounded