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What would you call impartial?
Oh I dunno, how about this?
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Who without an agenda would take the time to assemble the information you are requesting? I believe it is because you are too lazy to actually try and formulate your own oppinion by reading both sides of the argument and then deciding for yourself.
Have you actually read my post? Who the hell said anything about people without an agenda? We're talking about ARGUING POLITICS here for the love of bob, what would you argue for if you didn't have an agenda? I'm saying that if you're arguing a political position and are going to cite sources to support your AGENDA, you could do a lot better than second hand information from people who are also arguing the same agenda.
Let me give you an example. A scientist writes a paper arguing against evolution. His bibliography cites sources which are all well-known to be directly related to religious institutions. Regardless of the strengths of his argument, how credible would this person appear to the scientific community?
On the other hand, let's say the same scientist wrote the same paper and cited only documented studies and sources which have all undergone peer review in their respective fields. I for one would be much more inclined to trust the validity of
precisely the same argument when I can see some facts that I know are not tainted by any agenda backing it up.
Furthermore, you are correct that I will not be going to the respective political party sites (or any partisan sites) to read their propaganda. I find the arguments presented here and on a few other sites I visit to be much more interesting and frankly I don't have any interest in politics as a whole, so reading either or both party sites would be an exercise in overkill for me. If that makes me an lazy person in your eyes, so be it. I assure you I won't lose any sleep over it. Suffice it to say that when I "decide for myself" I prefer to be doing it with more information than the spin doctors care to provide.
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Very likely but you would still be too lazy to read it, or if you did understand Arabic would come up with your own Arab to English version much like all those clerics, and then you would have to actually <gasp> make a decision who or what was more right.
This would be a good analogy if I ever said I was interested in politics (your "Islam") in the first place. I'm not. But you don't have to be a political analyst to enjoy a good political debate any more than you have to be a student of Tolkein to enjoy Lord of the Rings. There are degrees to everything. I don't argue politics because I don't know enough about it to argue a position, but this has nothing to do with wanting to see reputable, unbiased sources cited when others do.
Some people get caught up in the fervor and accept something as the truth "because Limbaugh/Moyer said so." I am not one of those people. Maybe you are.
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Edited, Sat May 29 20:39:12 2004 by ValkyrieBuffinstuff