>>>Well written.
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>>Thanks Tore,
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>>>I try my best to stay away from political discussion, but I have made one observation during my many visits to USA, reading American newspapers and watching American news over many years. In USA they have no "left parties" as we have them here. Here in Europe the republicans would have been considered as an "Extreme right party" and the democrats would have been considered as a "right party". I would go so far as to say that the republicans would have been boycotted by most TV stations here, like some European "right wing" parties have been. We have a political party in Norway whose politics are very close to the Republican party in USA. When they are mentioned in the news outside Norway they are usually described in a way that make most people think that they are nazists. This should tell more about the journalists and their polarization than the actual state of things.
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>>Watch out Tore, I've been flamed and roasted more than once for saying exactly the same thing. It is unbelievable how every day life in the US has been polarised by the political left and right. Everyone is choosing the media that will tell them what they want to hear, not of picking the media that draws a fairly unbiased state of affairs and leave the thinking and drawing conclusion to the consumer. Nope, the information is predigested already, IOW fabricated.
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>>I'm sure that in Norway, like down here, you also have media that have a certain political colour, but even those would even give you the feeling it was unbiased. is is absolutely NOTHING compared to whats happening over there.
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>>When I'm at the Toronto office with my colleages, CNN or FOX is always in the back ground. I always have to laugh once or twice a day for what crap its feeding you. My canadian colleages always look with an odd face when I do that :)
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>My personal experience from discussing politics with Americans, is that I rather go pi$$ing against the wind, the net result is the same. The word ignorance is like saying that Sahara has some sand. The Americans, with very few exceptions, have absolutely NO idea what they are talking about, but they have so big mouths and too small and brainwashed heads to understand. And to make the farce complete, they say that Russians and Chinese are brainwashed. It's laughable and it's sad at the same time.
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>Now I will have a beer to celebrate the upcoming new year. Happy new year, Walter. And the same to everyone else who reads this.

Whoa! I'm glad I wore my asbestos pants today ;-)

Happy new year to you, too, Tore.