Preferred NB Topics

General Bush/GOP bashing
19% (304 votes)
Environmentalist nonsense
19% (297 votes)
Anti-religious bias
8% (132 votes)
Apologizing for radical Islam
14% (220 votes)
Immigration
11% (170 votes)
Military reporting
5% (83 votes)
Fake news
19% (300 votes)
Blogosphere/technology/campaigning
1% (14 votes)
Other (leave comment)
4% (68 votes)
Total votes: 1588

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There should be an "all of the above" choice

 

"Our people have shed more blood for the liberty and freedom of other peoples...than all the other countries put together. And I don't feel any need to apologize for the United States of America" - Fred Thompson

Or multiple

If not "all of the above", then at least allow multiple selections. That's easy to do.

Who sets up these "votes" anyway? I recommend you set them up and then have someone on your staff review them before presenting them. This, and several recent votes have really been off base in terms of the choices. You're not getting a real good feel from us by using your current approach. Maybe that was your intent -- but it's frustrating to try to vote using choices that don't make sense.

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If you can read this, thank a teacher. If it is in English, thank a Soldier. - My barber

At least we had "other" as a choice...

This time. My "other" is, obviously, my entire thesis around these parts. Antilibertarian media bias.
JMR

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but you've got that covered

but you've got that covered so Matt doesn't have to

 Support our Troops 

One would think...

I'd get at least a little help from the masthead, like, say, when Hannity & Colmes both blatantly attempt a biased-lie & "Sportpolitics" & I both bust 'em for it, but thanks.
JMR

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Z z z z . . .

*** yawn *** 

Rally online Paul/Kucinich '09

Is that Dr. Strangepaul and

Is that Dr. Strangepaul and General Jack D. Kucinich?

Check out my latest YouTube...but only if you support the troops and their mission: Better Men Than Me/The Battle For Fallujah

Or how I stopped worrying and loved the bomb..

Quit making fun of Libertarians! 

Rally online Paul/Kucinich '09

I agree

I couldn't pick "just one" - you all do a great job!!

All the above, but I really

All the above, but I really enjoy the forums, especially around the Presidential Debate and the war on terror.

Judging by my informal poll

Judging by my informal poll of which topics garner the most comments, it's definitely between general GOP bias, global warming fanaticism, and religion. Coincidentally, those are the topics that bring out the highest proportion of trolls as well (do I smell a new poll).

You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. - Abraham Lincoln

I concur with the above post...

There really should be an "All of the above". It's kind of a tease to only be able to vote for one of so many obvious choices...

"I used to be disgusted, but now, I try to be amused..."- E. Costello

Enviro nonsense, because my brain is filled with science data.

 Noel always has the best stuff on the Junk science kooks, keep up the GREAT work.

As my Dad once said:

"Facts never lie, But liers can figure".

Entitlement over infrastructure every SINGLE time.

 

i voted Fake News

since it is equivalent to 'all of the above'

 Support our Troops 

Honestly

 ALL OF THE ABOVE!

"When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat"         R. Reagan

We'd love that too actually

but it's a question of resources.

Islam and Foreign Policy

 

Foreign policy for the next 50+ years will be based on our
views of Islam. Did Bush overreact invading Iraq? That depends on if you
believe terrorism is cause by a few law breakers unhappy with the US policies
in the Middle East as the left believes, or is it because Islam is easy to hijack
by a few malcontents as the right believes, or is it a global jihad that
endangers life as we know it?

So I chose “Apologizing for radical Islam”

 

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Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum

 General Bush/GOP

 General Bush/GOP Bashing

 I had to read the first topic twice before I realized President Bush hadn't become a general. :)

All the above. Save a

All the above.

Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!

Fake News, of course

When they PhotoShop pics, it's fake news.

When they present only one side of the story, it's fake news.

When they use the phrase(s), 'some say', 'many say', 'sources say', 'informed sources say', it's fake news.

When they call one side 'rightwing', 'conservative', or just use an 'R', and they call the other side 'just plain folk', its fake news.

So I selected 'Fake News'.

D

Keep the ILLEGALS out, join NumbersUSA to send free faxes to your reps.

 other,          

 other,                                        

I thought this website was around to point out liberal bais in the news? If that is the case then would not most of the above plus more be the correct answer? Did I miss something?Blogosphere/technology/campaigning, Military reporting. Is this the future for newsbusters?  Just another news outlet to be taking over by the  liberals?

ooramp

i think Matt is looking for input into which particular aspects of the bias are most appealling to the users so he can allocate a limited resource better.  Classical econ supply and demand (how do you gauge demand)

 Support our Troops 

Exactly right bot

 

that's bot-g

not to be confused with bot-f   : )

 Support our Troops 

You already have this data

But Matt, you can get a real good idea by simply going back and harvesting statistics from all previous posts. The easiest stat is the number of comments on each thread. For example, I notice that Global Warming posts usually have a lot of comments. Islam and CARE, in general, have fewer, as do the topics regarding things like healthcare. Bill Maher, Keith Obberman and such generate a large number of comments. And, any topic that gets the trolls started cause comments to multiply like rabbits.

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If you can read this, thank a teacher. If it is in English, thank a Soldier. - My barber

Other, all of the above, as

Other, all of the above, as the MSM misinforms the public. I enjoy the variety, and do not want to focus on just one aspect of the MSM's constant deceitful activites, I want to see them all.

(though it does get a little overwhelming, there is so damn much of it...)

this isn't based on a news topic more if a site suggestion

i'm thinking that NB is already doing a great job in covering everything so far, but i would recommend improving on the member email and chat portion of the site to be a lil better user friendly.

lunaticcringeradio

   I had to choose

 

 I had to choose “Fake News” because all of the titles listed can be miss-construed at will by any individual right or left. History does not need to be bent into a political view; it needs to remain “History”, as it was!

"Too bad Ignorance isn't painful..."

other

I clicked other because IMHO, it is all too important that all of these subjects be covered here.

I prefer Newsbusters Fluid to the Driving Events

Newsbusters can not be locked into stories as stories are not what drives Newsbusters, but the nuts, lies and propaganda of the moment.

Focusing on anti Christian stories looses punch when carriers are bombing Iran as much as a smoldering Iran looses importance when Janet Reno is dispatching memos naming all people who believe in Jesus second coming as terrorists.

Newsbusters must never be locked in to stories, but instead lock into the stories God by His Wisdom guides you to find and gives you wonderful insight into exposing the lies in them.

You are a driven site and not a driving site. You can not please the bloggers and survive, but can only survive by feeding new information which will please bloggers and the audience always lurking here to make the site grow.

 

*HIC IACET ARTORIVS REX QVONDAM REXQVE FVTVRVS

rb topics

hmmm, lots of great topics on this site. I notice the one that gets really vicious about is global warming. It is a topic I know nilch about, so I tend not to comment on those threads.

The topic that gets the most down and dirty is the Iraq war. Seems some people that have spouses or relatives in the armed forces get very passionate about. I have met many that are really cool on this site especially for Amber, whose husband is on leave from Iraq right now.

I thank all of you for your bravory and sacrifice during this hard time for the United States. I realize some think I am insensitive to your situation regarding the Iraq war. I have tried not to talk about politics lately because It seems I have rubbed people the wrong way.

The topic I would like to see is to at least acknowledge how hard things are for the Iraq people right now. They are on the road to democracy, but lets look at the sacrfices they have made. Lets talk about how hard it is for the Iraqi people right now. I hope I have not overstepped my boundries

I'm trying, desperately, not to start a flamewar, but...

Do you truly think there's one Iraqi people, or do you suspect -- as I obviously do -- there's instead one "Iraq" nation made up of at least three distinct peoples -- Kurds, Sunnis, & Shiites -- which actually should be 3 nations?? This is an important question. It makes a difference strategically, because it makes a difference politically, which means like it or not it also makes a difference militarily. People don't seem to want to discuss it much, because discussing the reality of this implies our Iraq strategy is all wrong, as long as we continue to bet on a single capital city controlling a vast & diverse nation, as it did under Saddam's Tito-style dictatorship.
JMR

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sarc

I'm just saying, I realize we are winning, and I want us to continue winning, I just want people to at pay attention to how some Iraqis are suffering right now.

I agree.

And I'd say our best strategy at this point -- not that they'd ever listen to the likes of me -- is to tell moveon.org to just STFU. In between those idiots and Cindy Sheehan, I truly believe this idiotic war has been prolonged by those socialist morons, and I know that saying this is likely to get me flames from both sides of the aisle. Have at it, all of you, I've been a bad boy tonight so I deserve it, anyway. :)
JMR

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"tell moveon.org to just

"tell moveon.org to just STFU. In between those idiots and Cindy
Sheehan, I truly believe this idiotic war has been prolonged by those
socialist morons"

on that we agree...this war would of been wrapped up if it weren't for the underminding forces of code traitor.

Well, I didn't say all THAT

The war is, as you know, unlikely to end IMO until people grok the reality of Iraq being three-not-one countries, and despite the opinions of strange bedfellows Biden & Brownback, we're not even close to that.
JMR

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Is it boring when you're not attacked ?

The last 15 posts I've read from you sarc always contain you claiming someone here, or either side of the aisle, or both sides of the aisle, are going to be irked or pissed off because you posted something.

 Frankly it's not the issue angles or the pointed content matter (usually a link you claim is some explosive anger machine certainty) that is irking, it's your attitude that seems to be a bloated gasbag of self-assessment that you claim is effective if you dream up in your head that you're pissing someone off. 

 I'm pretty sick of seeing every post you make claim you're going to piss someone here off. Now you've claimed that putting down Sheehan and the left for prolonging the war is going to piss off conservatives or republicans ?

 Ok, I think it's time to stop the game of pretending you're pissing someone off, and just waiting and seeing if anyone actually does get pissed off by something (at Reason).

 You could always go back to claiming your "cloak" is working.

 Hey, if you actually say something that people are interested in, wether they agree or not they respond. How about letting that work all that magic ?

 Oh, and , I just know you're going to be so pissed off reading this, and you should be, because I can be very irritating to those who have certain ideas. You're fuming no matter what you say. I guess that makes me right and correct.  Just like it makes you when... "someone is gonna be awful pissed off reading this, but, I, sarc just have to say it... blah blah blah..."

 I'll do it this way from now on. If you have to screed about ticking or pissing someone off in your posts, I'll just let the cloak rule. Now be certain you do it, because you'll be sure to piss me off then, right, and I won't even see it.

 Hey, we've got a deal. No need to answer just let it all boil inside of you.

Nah, I feel like answering...

You're unintentionally-amusing again, because as you flail and deny, you make my case. I think you might also be annoyed that I shared credit with you for the Hannity & Colmes lie-bust, but you deserved it. :) Thanks. I think we may have prevented them both from lying-again the NEXT time Fox News does a text message poll, and not-lying is important for the media, even if they dislike my ways of getting 'em to tell the truth for once. I wish being nicer had worked, but I tried that the first time, and they lied to America again, so I had to do what I did & smack 'em both down hard, frankly. "Tough love works," isn't that what you drug warriors say??

Again, my sincere thanks for the assist on Colmes, and if you'd like to see an example of the cloak workin' on the lefties (it's a bipartisan cloak) check this thread.
JMR

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Teeny boppers and Ru Paul sarc ...

Teeny boppers "text message poll" with their cell phones got RonPee a win. LOL Oh boy that's it. The "I don't want to be drafted" chicka lib teeners. rofl- Oh ma'yn - that's too bad, the underage vote.

Noone over 25 in the general public does "texting" with their cellphone (except dateless pervs watching TV- 'text 555 to Cindy') rofl - what a constituency. Thanks for bringing that up - it's finally crystal clear. Next time Sean can say to Alan " You must be stoned again", because - well - look at him. 

I suspect "the stupid immature ad" worked with the same anti-draft teeners crowd, probably lowered Paul's following and made more kossack dems, after mommy and daddy choked down the "republican RP child" texter issue (oh, that's not so bad dear he is a republican)- they can now rebel - and break away again - for dem dhimmyville.

I have very little idea what you mean by this...

But I would assume that most people, even those who loudly claimed not to care on our fun Hannity & Colmes duo-bust, would say that it's important not to lie. Do more teenagers have and use text messaging, just like you said? Yes. That's the truth, young people do just that, it's a fact.

Is that fact evidence of Sean's BS accusation of "Ron Paul spammers repeatedly texting Fox 'News' text message polls" despite the by now well-known fact that doing so is close to technically-impossible (and, if actually done, would be easily-detected) because of the nature of text messages and cellphones? No. And that was Sean's lie which, as you correctly-noted when I busted him, Colmes aided & abetted, but I continue to have no idea what -- if anything -- Colmes is smoking. From past experience, I suspect you have no idea either. But the point is not weed-hysteria. The point is the lying bias we busted, and whether or not we've curbed those lies in the future, which I hope we have. The truth out of Hannity & Colmes would be nice for a change.

Still, as you see, I'm keepin' up the "tough love" on this issue, because as Binxley kindly pointed-out, this was a massive lying political bias bust I made & you completed, whether or not the bias was against Dr. Paul and by Fox News -- which apparently matters more for some people here than I'd hoped. :) Principles mean you sometimes have to cheer for the other team to stay honest, you know...
JMR

PS You'll just love this. I'm sure the other Presidential candidates have this same kind of offshore excitement from fans, just like all their internet excitement. NOT!!! :)


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Why we have plenty of

Why we have plenty of people here who have problems, we dont want to focus on other countries problems.  All you want is to blame teh USA

 

Nuke em til they glow then shoot em in the dark.

dan the man

I have no idea how you came to the conclusion i blamed he USA for anything. Just like your tagline suggest, you have little regard for people sufferring. Just Nuke em until they glow huh? Who are you suggesting we should nuke?

Blacks have had hard times in the past and what they have accomplished is remarkable, but part of our history books looks at the hard times they had to endure to get freedom.

There are good things happenning right now and I believe we can win this war, but I find nothing wrong with focusing a little bit on how hard things must be for the Iraqi people. Kind of hard not to focus on them, when they are the reason we are still there isn't it?

How about just generic left-wing insanity?

Like the wining that not enough people are on food stamps. Or the idiotic idea that Planned Parenthood's programs prevent STDs and unplanned pregnancy. Or their moronic ideas of what constitutes "education". 

The parade of folly is endless.

Other

Equal time\evenhandedness

I think the topics listed are great, but I want to add these two.

Equal time is NB's specific reporting of the time allocated to one side or the other, as was done with the morning shows.  (very well done!)

Also, I think NB should try to award those in the MSM long-term that report the news in a fair and honest manner.  To affect change, we should reward those who report with integrity.  (they have a great deal of pressure to do otherwise...as Laura Ingraham's book suggests)

All of em

There are some things that sound like a Great idea to me, until I find out things like "the rest of the story" or "take it to it's conclusion".

Then I see how I've been snookered.  Like when they use "For the Children" like the terrorists used our planes.

Those are the things I like the most. The "Slippery Slope" explinations along with the corrections to historical revision... like "need to go back to Judicial Review".  Explain why historically we're way off target and this is why we have this and this is how it could/should be...

I know this isn't a history course, but I really appreciate all the info's, backstories, rest of the stories, little known factoids, etc...

"This is what Planned Parenthood started saying...."

But whatever... a HUGE thanks to you guys just for being here.

 

Other

I chose other.  My favorite topic consists of liberal reporters and journalists being challenged on their liberal questions and premises by whomever it is being interviewed. For example, I loved seeing  Tony Snow smack down that reporter woman from CNN last week.  I loved seeing Tom Delay smack down Matt Louer a couple weeks back.  I 

would love to see more of it!

Liberals seeing Big Government as the "solution" to problems.

IOW, attack the assumption that the federal government actually solves problems, when what it really does is to create bureaucracies, favor well-connected elites, create more problems that need a government solution and feed unending squabble over who gets to control the pork spigots.

And don't forget to bust so-called "conservatives" who act just like the liberals.

"the faith is true and adorable which leads a soldier to throw away his life in obedience to a blindly accepted duty, in a cause which he little understands, in a plan of campaign of which he has little notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

I voted for "immigration" because NB does little on the subject

All the categories are important, but NB seems to mostly ignore the subject of Illegal Immigration. 

That's a shame, because the forces trying to shove it down our throats haven't gone away. 

They're trying to achieve, piecemeal, the identical "comprehensive immigration reform" program.

NB, can we see more about this extremely important subject?  As it is now, I get more on the this from Lou Dobbs, of all people, than all other sources combined.