I think you are enjoying these comments to the fullest xD honestly seeing some good rants past the initial rage goggles are really nice :3

It's like youtube opinion videos, just go straight to the comments section and enjoy a nice, big, hot cup of LOL. Maybe poke at a few on either side by putting up facts and such that don't fit into or prove one side or both sides agendas as wrong just to see who bites and what hilarity ensues. My favorite is leading them on in a back and forth “I want the last word” type of posting and then throw in the facts and watch them either stop responding or go full retard.

It's kind of sad the way this country has gotten so divided actually. I lost friends on the left I wasn't in lock-step over gun control, and I lost friends on the right because I couldn't take anything seriously from a news site that considered essays on the piety of Glorious Leader Reagan to be newsworthy.

Yup, pretty much the same here with me. I've been burned by republicans and democrats... So to that I said, "Screw em' both, I'm making up my own mind from now on. " Things turn out very interesting when you, the person, do research into things instead of just sheepishly following the talking heads.

Like with the federal gun control background check thing, I was all for basic background checks to purchase a gun, till I read into the bill they proposed and found that if you so much as handed your gun or touched someone else's gun without passing said background check it was an automatic 5 years in federal prison for both parties. Or if your gun was stolen and you didn't report it within 48 hours you would be then be charged as a criminal. Or if you left your guns at home while being away for more than 7 days without anyone to watch them, you would be charged as a criminal. There was even a back door in the law that said something along the lines of "If senator Feinstein or x amount of other named politicians want, at any time, can change this law to how they see fit." So if I wanted to teach my mother, or boyfriend, or best friend to shoot with my guns, they would have to pass a background check even if it was at the range and I was standing there with them and it was only for a few minutes or hours. Or if said boyfriend, mother, or best friend used one of my guns to take down or defend against a violent criminal. It would have made certain people into victims twice.

Whenever a supposedly simple law has hundreds of pages of legal text, there is something else going on. They could have made a one page bill that said, "Anyone that sells or tranfers ownership, for more than x amount of time, of a gun to a new owner, that new owner must pass an instant NICS background check or else we will drone strike you." bam done.

What I love is the jumping to conclusions thing both sides do, it is all: Blame, blame, blame, bicker, bicker, insult, like a bunch of little school kids... If you don't agree with the lefties you are all of a sudden a bible thumping republican, if you don't agree with the conservatives then you are all of a sudden a leftist liberal democrat. These people have no idea there can be or has been a middle ground or more than two parties; it is always, "My team is better than your team because this is the team I have always blindly been on." Needless to say, it gets very entertaining in the comments section, like chimps throwing poo at eachother.

Most the time to get the real news I have to read or watch the same story from multiple sources and then put together all the little bits that average out or match up to see any truth. Usually RT, Reuters, AP, sometimes the Guardian, are the best for old school, unbiased reporting with reporters and journalists of integrity… Most of the time.

I've been using those sources too. I find if you go direct to the AP or Reuters for news you get the straight story without the spin added by middle-man media outlets. RT is a bit heavy on its focus on corruption in the US but the stories it runs are sadly usually on the level.

All the major media outlets seem to offer is "exclusives" that are non-events, like the Fox News "exclusive" on WMDs supposedly found in Iraq that turned out to be a minor munitions dump from the Gulf War of expired chemical weapons. Or sometimes the networks are just full of mindspam, like authors hawking their latest books, or morning shows with annoying hosts, or op-ed that takes up more than 60% of air time, or time-wasting on human interest stories when there are more relevant stories to talk about.

I like RT purely for the fact they report on things "Western" media refuses to or will not. SOme times you need to see your country from outside your country.

I remember one of their WMD stories, reuters found out it was actually just an old truck trailier drug lab that had been abandoned and got burried under sand drifts.

Oh gawds yes... All the freaking fluff pieces... For every little bit of important news there are hundreds of more fluff peices than even horny Tribbles could pop out. But I guess they need something to keep the ignorant masses, well, ignorant... What better way then telling them about some pregnant famous person, or the newest famous person going into or out of rehab for the 50th time.

We also cannot forget the sudden splurge in miss-reporting... The minute a story happens they already got opinions involved and pointing fingers before even the authorities can figure out what happened... Then other media companies will run off with their own tangent on the previous story, usually while whatever happened may still be going on.

They should call it Huffington Polls, with all the stories they do about biased polls of less than 1000 people somehow representing ALL Americans.

Huffing Fox is what happens when I'm done pounding a fox from behind, giggity!