Comments on: Jill Zimon Proves Liberal Bias at CNN

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By: Jill

Jill — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:44:43 +0000

McCain – that wasn’t my caricature. That was the Ohio conservative blogger’s explanation to me as to why he will and conservatives will never see nuances – there were other parties on the phone call – I’d be happy to have you email him to confirm his conservative world view of conservatives as he explained it to me.

Personally? I can’t believe that people only see things in black and white – even if it’s true, I don’t like accepting it – which is why I’m still here conversing with you because even though you are a poster blogger for this black and whiteness of the way things work, I’m still here showing you how that’s not the case.

You can define me for yourself anyway you choose. But, as W.C. Fields said, “It ain’t what they call you, it’s what you answer to.”

By: MCCAIN

MCCAIN — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 06:18:39 +0000

Jill, your shallow caricature of the entire body of conservative thought is simply more evidence of your liberal bias. That is expected from a liberal. On the flip-side, what has anyone taught you about liberals that you would care to share?

And it is true that not everyone lives in a box. Okay, but you live in a liberal box. Why are you pretending otherwise? This thread has now become about YOU since you are inexplicably defending CNN and nobody knows why. Amazing.

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:21:45 +0000

Many in the Ohio blogosphere, including myself, once jeered Jill for being “a bit wingnutty”. Given that and your criticism of her I’d say that puts here squarely in the moderate category no?

By: Jill

Jill — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:02:45 +0000

McCain – I don’t take kindly to being called “girl” let alone “bad girl” – I’m not a pet or a possession. Which is why I had to butt in on Michael Goldfarb’s absolutely disgusting line about how it makes McCain cool to suggest he’s getting it on with a younger lobbyist.

I don’t do pretend. It’s sad that you can’t get out of your box to see that not everyone lives in one and only one box.

I learned a few months ago from an Evangelical Christian in Ohio who writes a conservative blog that conservatives look at things as black and white, that they don’t see shades of anything. There is no such thing as a fence – that everyone must commit to something. He taught me that trying to get him to see the myriad variations of how people can see the same instance was as futile as his trying to get me to come down from a fence that gives me a view into multiple facets of the same scene.

You prove his point about the black and white.

By: MCCAIN

MCCAIN — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:45:07 +0000

… because your bias has a bearing on your views, and your views were represented in your remarks. You cut down John McCain and praised Obama, just as one would expect from a lefty blogger. You did not present the views of a “moderate” middle in between leans no way person. Now of course you did it very sweetly without malice, which is why I like you, just like William F. Buckley would have done it from the right. but nobody would call him middle just because he sounded reasonable.

So Jill, time to cut it out. Even if your CNN comments did not give away your bias, which they did, what CNN did is still wrong because they knew you might present a biased view. They had knowledge in advance that you are a liberally-bias blogger and still pretended you were in the middle. And you are pretending now too. Bad girl.