Comments on: Journolist, Sullivan, and Breitbart

By: secularhumanizinevoluter

secularhumanizinevoluter — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:48:32 +0000

Any consequences for the lil darlins?

By: Taylor Marsh

Taylor Marsh — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:00:44 +0000

We continually run tests, Isis, and there’s nothing there. The last was done as a site attack by pissed off people. It’s all good last time we checked.

By: Isis

Isis — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 08:56:00 +0000

OT but it seems that there is another virus/spyware attack on your website. Everytime I visit my system informs me that a virus / spyware has been detected and moved to quarantine.

By: Donald from Hawaii

Donald from Hawaii — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:56:48 +0000

I have no love for Sarah Palin, but as far as I’m concerned, Trig Palin should not be treated as a political football. While it’s clear that Gov. Palin’s office probably exaggerated the circumstances as they existed in the 24 hours immediately preceding Trig’s birth, her OB-GYN confirmed that he is her son, and we have no reason to doubt otherwise.

Those aforementioned circumstances are undoubtedly far less heroic than was intimated by Palin’s media staff at the time, and if anyone was responsible for the subsequent and persistent rumors surrounding Trig’s birth, it would be those bozos for concocting a tale of the Arctic supermom.

If I were to hazard a guess, I’d say that while she was in Dallas, Gov. Palin had a passing series of false labor pains that subsided, but still understandably caused her some concern. After consultation with her doctor by phone, she decided to cut short her trip to return to Alaska, where she would be under the care of her own doctor. Once back in Wasilla, and given the fact that she had leaked some amniotic fluid, her OB-GYN decided to induce labor to prevent possible complications, and Trig was born some six hours later.

And that’s the last I’ll say on this matter.

By: BuckHill

BuckHill — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:17:19 +0000

Heh heh

By: BuckHill

BuckHill — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:16:45 +0000

It’s impossible to argue with someone who insists on being willfully ignorant. It’s a lot of the reason why democrats seem to be silent much of the time, as I’m sure you’ve no doubt noticed in your interactions with members of your family in the thralls of Beckistan. Its pointless to discuss, much less argue issues of the day with someone whose worldview is totally based on their own prejudices and fears. That’s what the right wing noise machine feeds into and its pretty powerful stuff. It’s a hell of a lot easier to be spoon-fed your beliefs from on high than to try and navigate the all-powerful and hegemonic media and find your own answers. the right wing keeps it simple, stoke your fears, gin up your resentments and slather it with God and country and then you don’t have to fill your beautiful mind with challenges to your assumptions. The right wing offers simple answers to complex solutions, albeit deceptive ones, Can’t get ahead? the government won’t let you because of affirmative action. Can’t make ends meet? The government overtaxes you. I could go on, but you get the idea.

it’s hard to be a Democrat. It asks a lot. It asks you to put aside your prejudices and resentments. It demands you follow no leader, but that you make leader’s beholden to you. It demands that you argue with fellow Democrats, or left leaning persons more than you would anyone on the right. It asks that you swallow compromise in the name of serving the greater good, even as you doubt the process and the result. It demands knowledge, and a belief in the power of government to affect positive change.

We’ve had 40 years of Republican political hegemony in this country. All that you see is a result of that. It is a nihilistic vision dedicated to the service of the self over the greater good. It has been a disaster, not only to the function of government as an entity to improve, nurture and enrich society, but to society itself. Once a society loses faith in its governing authority, all facets of it become frayed.

And the media? All the more happy to gin up anger and fear. We are ruled not by laws, but the 24 hour news cycle. There is too much media, and too little talent to fill it up. Equal time has made truth subjective, he who yells the loudest wins the argument, he who has the most cash gets the bigger megaphone. I can say honestly that I have no opinion of Andrew Sullivan, and could care less what he chooses to prattle on about. It is all noise in a vacuum. Walter Cronkite is dead, but he surely had his bias’ too, but I think he probably did his best to at least be honest with himself about what his lyin’ eyes saw, and that was good enough for me.

man, this is way too long, I apologize

By: secularhumanizinevoluter

secularhumanizinevoluter — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 01:44:51 +0000

One wonders if we wouldn’t be better off if Mr. Sullivan spent more time advertising for bare back no strings attached sex as he has in the past in spite of his positive HIV status and less time writing this dreck.
Obviously he cares as much about journalistic integrity as he does about the saftey and welfare of his faceless sex partners.

By: iampiedaddy

iampiedaddy — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 01:20:55 +0000

Concerning Joe’s quote; it also says a great deal about the laziness of the readers/watchers. While it certainly is not just those that follow the right wing media machine, it does speak volumes that Palin, Huckabee, Breitbart, Beck, etc., have such a vast following yet aren’t held to any kind of standard.

Honestly, one of my biggest battles within my vast family is trying to argue with, say, a Beck watcher, that he never has an ounce of proof to back up his outrageouness.

We now mistake entertainment for news and “journalism” as some gotcha game. All the while, we lose focus and go on to the next story.