CBC's Fifth Estate tonight: "Sticks and Stones" (America's 2nd Civil War)

[Bozita]

I've got this at the top of my MUST SEE list.


http://www.cbc.ca/programguide/program/index.jsp?program=the+fifth+estate&network=CBC%20Television&startDate=2005/01/26&startTime=21:00

Wednesday, January 26, 2005, 9:00 p.m.

Sticks and Stones

Forget the American melting pot. Today, the United States is like a nation of warring factions, where the political debate has become a yelling match between two extremes. Where once opposing political views were tolerated if not respected, there now exists a very un-civil state of affairs. It's right versus left, Republican versus Democrat, blue state versus red state.

Nowhere is this change more obvious than in the media. Talk radio and TV have become the new forum for the gladiators in this war; words the new weapons. The biggest mouths have become the biggest stars-Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly and Ann Coulter rail against what they call the liberal enemy. These days, when Americans say "liberal" or "conservative', they mean something far more profound-something that describes the fundamental way someone looks at the world; almost like a religion. And these days, it seems, everybody in the United States belongs to one camp or the other.

In Sticks and Stones, the fifth estate's Bob McKeown talks to some of the biggest stars on the left and the right of this great national, even continental, divide.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Ah yes the 1850 Compromise

I wonder if they will make any reference on how that also radicalized many people? And how that led to a hot shooting civil war, preceded by ten years of cold civil war?

[Inland]

2. Pubs hate, and hate those who don't hate

Respect and toleration for gays and liberals have become bigger sins than actually being gay or liberal.

The freepers not only fail to respect opposing views, but consider respect to be an alien, enemy ideology.

heard on the radio yesterday about the guy who has the bumper sticker, "God Bless Everyone, No Exceptions". He says he gets flipped off regularly by people who hate the idea that God could be asked to bless the people they hate.

[Bozita]

4. love that bumper sticker story

[bryant69]

3. Here's a fun game

When somebody starts blathering on about the "Liberal Media" ask them how many conservative commentators they can name, and then ask them how many liberal commentators they can name.

Even this article notes Limbaugh, O'Rielly and Coulter, but doesn't even mention Michael Moore.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[Bozita]

5. kicking up to broadcast time

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6. kick

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7. kick

[Bozita]

8. on now in the ET zone