@Blackberry As with any single-minded, driven individual, Job’s life story is a mixed bag. But I want to focus on what he said, not the personality flaws of the person saying it. Thanks for answering the question about the accuracy of his statement. And I completely agree with your answer to @wundayatta regarding the power he wields with the many media outlets he owns.
@Foolaholic Good point. I don’t think even the Fox propaganda push is going to get the American people behind 10 more years and another trillion dollars spent to accomplish nothing in Iraq. Staying on when the nascent democratically elected government there asks us to leave would only make a dunderheaded move by Bush/Cheney still worse.
@XD, ”If you’re entertaining Jobs’ semantic distinction, then why are you lumping your laundry list of ills under the common semantic meaning? It leads me to believe you are shooting from the hip on this question.” Are you trying to say that today’s conservative movement has not supported the laundry list I provided? Your own semantics are a bit unclear, so please enlighten me in language I can understand just what it is you mean. Because if you are trying to deny conservative Republican support of that laundry list, I will be more than willing to provide proof they are.
”It’s difficult to know what Jobs means…” Really? Fox News is, ”...an incredibly destructive force in our society.” What part of that quote are you having difficulty understanding? I seriously doubt, given your writing skills, that such language is over your head. I think it’s far more likely that you are trying to spin this into an ad hominem attack on me and on Jobs instead of dealing with the question.
It is quite true that the dictionary definition of “conservative” is no sort of pejorative. It is equally clear that the dictionary definition of “liberal” is positive as well, and that the right has worked tirelessly for decades to turn it into a pejorative. I have both liberal and conservative opinions, but the con men who have taken over the Republican party of today are not classical conservatives in the dictinary sense. And they most certailly are pushing for the laundry list of policies I enumerated; all of which are aimed at making billionaires like Rupert Murdoch far richer while further deconstructing the middle class and punishing the poor, from whom the wealth must come.
The claim that you lack information enough to even evaluate the question is perhaps your most puzzling argument. Fox news is on 24/7. Murdoch owns a long list of other News Media properties. If you are unable to gather evidence on a news channel that is on 24 hours a day 7 days a week, just what would it take for you to be able to get enough “evidence”?
@Mamradpivo I’m pretty sure he was. He had a standing policy of not accepting speaking invitations at other corporations’ retreats. He broke his silence in this one case because he really had something he felt was important to say.