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Originally Posted by Xantar
Wait...didn't he just criticize Happy Feet for its gay [url=http://michaelmedved.townhall.com/blog/g/5094f586-fed7-4cf4-872c-d20b94c78024acceptance agenda[/url]?
Admittedly, I don't read much of Medved's work, but when he spends a significant part of his time blasting a cartoon penguin movie for its "anti-religious bias" and gay subtext or praising March of the Penguins because it affirms family values or criticizing Million Dollar Baby because of its pro-euthanasia agenda, I find it a little hard to take him seriously.
I like to get all my thought provoking conservative opinion from Charles Krauthammer.
Oh, and don't sell Ann Coulter short. She may be a complete gasbag, but she knows exactly what she's doing.
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I tend to disregard Medved's family values schtick for his insanely informed poltical and international views. I've never listened to a commentator who has had more command of facts and information than he does. AS for the movie reviews, you have to remember that Medved started out as a movie reviewer for PBS as well as print, and he still does review movies for a living, but he does so with a concern for his values. By the way, Medved's major complaint about Happy Feet was that he felt it sold a false bill of goods to the consumer in its commecials, showing it as a penguin dance movie when it contained heavy handed social and political commentary. Oh, and I also don;t agree with a lot of Medved's views when it comes to economics. He's a 100% free-marketer, while I believe in a market that is basically free, but with certain controls to keep corporations from gaining too much control. You know, like all the controls that have slowly been repealed over the last 4-8 years. I like Medved, but that doesn't mean I agree with everything he says. He makes good, substantiated and well executed points, but that doesn't mean I always agree with those points.
As for Krauthhammer, I like him, but I think he can get tunnel-vision sometimes.
Coulter does know exactly what she's doing, and that makes it worse. Political idealism should be done from the heart, and not for JUST the wallet. She only cares about sensationaism, publicity and book sales, not finding answers.
My favorite is Glenn Beck. He has one of the best bull**** detectors I've ever seen or heard, and he'll rip apart a conservative just as quickly as a liberal if he feels that conservative is not up to snuff.