Battling R.W. Yahoo News article commenters - Financial crisis origins

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I've long noticed that right-wingers vastly numerically dominate the comments on news.yahoo.com news articles (below nearly every article is a comment section), especially on economic stories. I've been extremely very frustrated that when I do battle them, I'm almost always all alone, or if there are other liberal commentators, I'm the only one providing hard facts, e.g. GDP, unemployment rates and so on.

I'm embroiled in another one (under the name J o h n) -- on the origins of the financial crisis -- he's blaming Clinton and Janet Reno for enforcing the Community Reinvestment Act standards -- in so many words for forcing banks to lend to poor blacks -- as being the cause of the financial crisis.

I was unable to post my last comment -- it seems to accept my comment and then when I refresh the page it is gone. Anyway its at:

http://news.yahoo.com/u-regulator-said-slow-see-mortgage-servicing-risk-234155092--sector.html

Fortunately its a total of 3 commenters.

To see a more typical example, on Friday's payroll jobs report, with hundreds of comments, see for example:

http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daniel-gross/may-jobs-report-disappoints-across-board-125911006.html

Why are so few liberals commenting? There are plenty of independent and swing voters who read the comments, and find only right-wing talking points, and assume that the left can't defend their positions but can only block intersections. Isn't the main purpose of Democratic Underground to elect Democratic candidates? How can we elect diddly squat if we spend all our time in our own safe little forums (err Groups) with like-minded people?

And when are we going to set up an liberal issues Wiki with talking points to counter right-wing talking points? And don't tell me all I have to do is Google, I spend tons of time researching -- if we worked together, we could have the data- and fact- driven with sources and links rebuttals to RW talking points all in one place?

I really, really don't want a 6-3 or 7-2 conservative-centrist Supreme Court. We have a big election in less than 5 months.

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A great resource on the Financial Crisis origins through mid-2008 - Mark Zandi's "Financial Shock" book online free


http://www.scribd.com/doc/86653095/Zandi-Financial-Shock-A-360%C2%B0-Look-at-the-Subprime-Mortgage-Implosion-2009

Many comment sections don't allow the posting of URLs, so on those websites, I say Google:
scribd.com Zandi - Financial Shock

Another good resouce: Google:
wikipedia subprime crisis

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I also posted similar at the economy forum at: http://www.democraticunderground.com/111614866

And already I'm getting the "why bother" comments. And I keep explaining I'm not arguing with right-wingers or trolls -- I'm presenting the facts to independents / swing voters, and yes liberals looking for facts and talking points to wage the water cooler wars wherever the water cooler is.