Where was my "vehement" defense of Fox News?
Quickly defending Fox News by saying they have liberal employees as well, thus defending their validity as a news network. Your counterattacks on NBC, twisting my assertation that Fox News was actually improving into an accusation that other news outlets needed to improve because they lie. Your statements of ideas espoused by Fox News personalities (offshore drilling, views of liberals). You don't need to actively use the words "Fox News" to defend them and the stances they have. Emulating those stances is enough. Even your use of the word "liberal" as an insulting label is fairly telling. If you actually had a broader understanding of political ideologies, you'd probably understand that most people in the media don't use liberal as insult.
Then again, you'd probably also realize that "Left-wing" and "fascist" are polar opposites.
So you're of the belief that, if the supply of domestic oil was tripled, it wouldn't reduce the price at the pump? And if I don't share your view that makes me a troll, right? If I agree with your point of view then does that mean I'm no longer a troll?
No, disagreeing with me doesn't make you a troll. Intent is everything with trolling, and I'm pretty sure you knew exactly what you were doing when you created this thread... and six others. All with fairly unsubtle initial posts trying to trick unwary posters with leftist philosophies into a logical trap, or send them into blind rage. You're really not as clever as you think.
If the supply of domestic oil was tripled AND it all remained in the United States AND pricing wasn't subject to OPEC regulation AND the companies that drilled it up chose to take a MASSIVE hit to their profits for selling it at a fraction of what they could get for it elsewhere, then yes it could lower gas prices. What you don't seem to understand is that the companies that drill and supply oil are not strictly American companies. They're multinational conglomerates who can afford to take their product wherever it gets them the most money. They would never, ever, ever choose to sell their product for half (or less) of what they could get for it elsewhere. Why would they? Can you give me one reason why this elaborate web of conditions that would need to be met in order for our prices at the pump to be lessened would ever come to pass?
And for the record, drilling wouldn't triple our supply of oil. You can't give me any numbers which prove otherwise because they don't exist.
Cool. Thank you too for your civility. I don't know this for a fact but I believe there are many conservatives that have no problem with gay people being married and adopting children. I know there are many that are opposed to those things too. But nobody is going to win or lose an election based on those two topics. Sorry, but there are more important issues to the majority in this country than gay rights. To me the biggest issue is how to have a productive and prosperous nation. While I'm not necessary in synch with Romney on some things, like gay rights, I do believe he will be a better president than Obama. Frankly, I don't really understand the infatuation my liberal friends have with giving our government more and more money for them to squander. I would like to have a government that is looking for ways to decrease spending as opposed to what they're doing now. For that view I'll be coined a "crazy, racist tea-bagger that hates poor people". Oh well, I've been called worse! :biggrin1:
I would prefer that we decrease government spending, make what we do spend more efficient, and spend it on more worthwhile endeavors. That said, I espouse many liberal views, and don't think we should "give government more and more money to squander". I'd like to see the government make better use of what it has, but I also don't have a problem with something like a tax raise if it helps the country as a whole. And when said tax comes down, I'll pay it rather than whining like a bitch about it. Fair is fair. I just want it to go where it would actually help.
By the way, I don't think I've ever heard a single person give a wholehearted endorsement of Romney. Not even of Fox News, and that's saying something. I have no idea how he'll even keep this election close, much less win it.