lolgaxe wrote:
gbaji wrote:
But if you actually read the freaking thread,
gbaji wrote:
He was clearly asking where I got my opinion and/or analysis from, not what news sources I watch or read.
Jophiel wrote:
I'll ask again: Where are you getting your news from that you keep getting the facts wrong?
Jophiel wrote:
Hey, I noticed you're still trying your best to avoid answering where it is you get your news from.
/shrug. Read the whole long exchange, starting a couple pages back. He wasn't actually asking me for numbers and data. He was asking me why I thought that the public would view the Dems worse than the GOP and I gave him my opinion as to why. And when I did this, he kept demanding that I tell him where I "got my news" from. So yeah, I assumed he was just using "news" as short hand for "opinion" and went with it. That's far from the most strange thing I've seen around here.
What's stunningly funny is that I was right with my "opinion". The Dems suffered terribly as a result of that shutdown. The public did perceive the Dems as the party making unrealistic demands with shutdown as the threatened consequence, and the GOP as the party trying to find a reasonable compromise. So while Obama did indeed still manage to win the 2012 election, the Dems as a whole lost big time from this conflict. So apparently, my absence of sources for my opinion trumps all of Joph's "facts".
Edited, Jan 16th 2015 9:33pm by gbaji