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Even by politics standards, this article is pretty bad. It's completely disingenuous. Ebert starts with "I do not like you, John McCain. My feeling has nothing to do with issues..." and then goes on to complain about some irrelevant body-language point. Are we really supposed to believe that Roger Ebert, after (presumably) months of supporting Obama and (I'm guessing here) years of supporting Democrats, would suddenl…
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Actually, the two points made by the article (body language and agreeing with opponent) have been gone over hundreds of times in dozens of blogs starting about a minute after the debate. I love Ebert - he's a treasure - but in this case he's saying nothing new, and the post isn't "evidence of [any] interesting new phenomenon".
Ehh... once again someone going on about "hackernews worthiness" of some article. When it comes to politics, humor, or anything that doesn't scream Tech. from or relating to the media, I would take their remarks with a grain salt. Most telling is how so often these individuals remain silent when various other more respected members of the hackernews community post similar supposedly off-topic posts as well. So what i…
I would take their remarks with a grain salt [...] Give shoving your ideologies down various posters' throats a rest.
Is that what you call "a grain salt"? I'm glad you don't go for a pound!