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Your Favorite Political Weblogs?
worm eater would like to know: "As the mainstream media is coming under closer scrutiny from the 'blogosphere,' and is having to actually respond to these journalists in pajamas, I thought I'd ask Slashdot: what are your favorite political blogs? Lately I've been reading Talking Points Memo, a liberal weblog by Joshua Micah Marshall, and a blog by Andrew Sullivan, a conservative writer. Where do you go when you want to see the mainstream media dissected and poked at?"
Yup, that's all he has... not a grip, but just a "touch" of reality.
They monitor the political slant of FOX News.
Who monitors the political slant of CBS News?
Okay, I guess that's kind of a dumb question. Everybody is monitoring the political slant of CBS News now that they've been outed as a bunch of lying partisan fucks. But my point is, who was monitoring CBS News before they perpetrated their big lie?
Radical leftists, "activists" and other revolutionary types love to make stink about FOX News, but you don't see them being caught trying to influence the outcome of the election by passing off counterfeit documents, do you?
Makes you think.
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It's not a question of agenda versus no agenda, when 90% of newpaper journalists vote Democrat. It's a question of being upfront about one's agenda versus hiding it.
In all other occupations, conflicts of interest are routinely divulged; for some reason in mainstream journalism, they are routinely hidden. Why is this?
http://www.indcjournal.com/
That's such a sad story. I know the kid who runs that site, William Ardolino. I've had the occasion to work with him a couple of times. He embodies everything that's bad about blogs. He accuses people and newspapers of lying-- most recently the Boston Globe -- and is just generally distasteful.
Which is a damn shame, because he used to be so reasoned and thoughtful. I guess he decided he could get more site traffic by being a dick.
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Of course there is:t ic.com (when I need a good laugh)
www.republican.com
www.usa.com
www.democra
www.democraticunderground.com (when I need a belly laugh)
www.johnkerry.com - another funny site - they think Kerry is going to win!
www.ratherbiased.com
I hate politics.
And there is word that some on Bush's team want to throw CBS off the debate moderation rotation -- if Kerry was smart he'd demand they go, too!
-- @rjamestaylor on Ello
God, your ignorance is fucking blinding.
...invasive, if you know what I mean. It's not the sort of thing a person would undertake just for the hell of it. Bush has never denied skipping his physical, nor has he ever denied transferring to Alabama, nor has he ever denied dropping out of flight status for his last 18 months in the Guard. These are all matters of public record.
Do you have the foggiest idea of what these four memos alleged? First, the memos were trotted out as proof that Bush pulled strings to get his spot in the Guard, allegations that were floated and debunked in 1994, 1998 and 1999. These memos were supposed to be a smoking gun, proof--finally! --of the allegations. But the memos are fakes. So that story sinks without a trace for the fourth consecutive time.
The second thing the memos alleged was that then-Lieutenant Bush was given a direct order to take an annual flight physical, an allegation that's stupid on its face. That's not the sort of thing that's ordered. If you skip it, you lose flight status. Since Bush was moving to Alabama where he didn't have a spot on the flightline anyway, there was no need for him to keep his flight status. A flight physical is not a fun test. It's
These memos were purported to dredge up all sorts of deep, dark secrets. Problem is that they did no such thing because they are forgeries.
Got it now?
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