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Does the GOP Pay Friendly Bloggers?
jamie writes "According to the conservative political journalism site Daily Caller: '"It's standard operating procedure" to pay bloggers for favorable coverage, says one Republican campaign operative. A GOP blogger-for-hire estimates that "at least half the bloggers that are out there" on the Republican side "are getting remuneration in some way beyond ad sales." Or in some cases, it's the ads themselves: ads at ten times the going rate are one of the ways conservative bloggers apparently get paid by the politicians they write about. In usual he-said she-said fashion, Daily Caller finds a couple of obscure liberal bloggers to mention too, but they fully disclosed payment and one of them even shut down his blog while doing consulting work, unlike Robert Stacy McCain and Dan Riehl."
Wow. Amazing what wanting something to be true so badly makes you willing to believe the flimsiest unsupported lies.
Here's the TRUTH.
Now stop being so gullible.
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Do you mean the the majority of GOP members who simultaneously believe that Obama is a Muslim, and that the preacher from his long-time Christian church is anti-American. Or the majority of the GOP representatives who believe the health care bill included mass euthanasia?
At one time, the GOP was sane. It started going off the rails in 1994 and it keeps getting worse. I miss having a sane opposition.
Here's the TRUTH.
Now stop being so gullible.
Wow... if you believe the truth is to be found on some half crazy person's blog full of liberal conspiracy theories on the internet, I feel sorry for you.
fact #1: all news is biased. it is impossible to scrub the bias out of any news story ever published, or ever will be published, as long as the news is reported by human beings
fact #2: a blatant piece of propaganda is ENORMOUSLY biased. in comparison to trying to hew to neutrality as much as possible. that will get you close to actual neutrality, that anyone with sufficient brainpower will understand the truth and the facts as they are. this is in obvious contrast to propaganda news sources which actually as their goal is to distort and tell half-truths and lie
therefore, the THEORETICAL limits of impartiality in no way means reputable fact-based is journalism is anything remotely comparable to the proudly and openly lying propaganda that some assholes try to pass off as news today, and others actually believe to be equally valid to reputable news sources, for lack of sufficient brain wattage
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
To make up for the state run left-wing media.
Right wing bury brigade. Alright, I won't dispute that they exist. But, I see a hell of a lot more lefties with shovels than I have ever seen righties.
Go to ANY liberal news site, and leave comments that are contrary to any of the party lines. You'll be deleted, censored, and hidden.
Now, go to Faux Noise or any other conservative site and do the same. You get flamed, you get called stupid, retarded, unAmerican, communist, gay, and dozens of other names - but you don't get censored like you do at the Leftist sites.
I despise Fox, but they win in the censorship department. Lefties are goddamned Nazis, or worse, Stalinists.
"Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it." - Charlie Br
I would suggest that "honest open minded intelligent conservative" persons gave up trying to have intelligent conversations here. I would say the same about "honest open minded intelligent liberals". Nor would I limit that to slashdot. Im horrified by what the GOP has become, but slightly less so than by what the DNC has become, and in both cases because the intelligent moderate centrists have been utterly drowned out by the sheer noise of the mobs. There are many moderate Democrats I would choose over Republicans, but many of these are targeted by their own party. The right is no different. I briefly had hope that the Tea Party was going to evolve into a bipartisan centrist movement but that clearly didnt happen.
/. comments look like if people had to sign their names on their posts. Probably smaller, and probably better. It's certainly 99% crap now.
I blame the Internet. With virtually unlimited access to information, both good and bad, and no reliable separation of fact from opinion or fiction, virtually any belief framework can be reinforced with a few clicks. And, unfortunately, it doesnt seem to be in our nature to expend the effort to question our beliefs or collaborate with un-like-minded people. Those who do, those that listen and think, tend to not post. Anyone that listens a lot, and realizes the world is pretty damned complicated, tends to not proselytize. I predict that trend will continue to get worse, that there is no end to it, and that we are collectively screwed.
Maybe the continued erosion of anonymity will help; people might stop saying such stupid shit if doing so had even the slightest consequences. What would
'Fair and balanced' means looking at the work first, only then passing judgement on (preferrably to) the person who did it.
'Unfair and biased' means rooting for (or against) a team, no matter what it does, in adopting a judgement based on cherrypicked facts (or inventions).
Death panels, secret muslims, communist and nazi comparisons, anyone? (Looking astonished) Why, look at the (our) facts! Thanks to Fox News, the term 'fair and balanced' makes me cringe today.
No, no sig. Really.
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It is SO telling that this spew of wannabe-intellectual vitriol is modded insightful. What is sad is what is being told by this. It's pretty obvious to even my low-brow self that this site is overwhelmingly populated by people who believe that it is a bright sunny day (Obama's stimulus and helath care changes are making private sector jobs, and saving lives), when it is actually raining dog piss (ever increasing unemployment, insecure borders, trillions added to the deficit, states going into default, Obama Care being amended so if adds to the deficit.....etc), and they are standing out in it praising the bringer of the warm yellow sunshine.
The only thing I see is that Bush fucked up, followed by Obama promising transparency, jobs, a recession recovery, reduced deficit, Guantanamo closing, and Health care for all at a net profit to the government budget.
None of the promises are kept. NONE. Automakers are now part owned by the government AND the unions. States are going into default. We are going to give amnesty to illegal immigrants. We don't get 3 days to review bills and amendments as promised..... Fuck the list gets bigger almost daily. Liberals wanted to lynch the Executive over the BUSINESS aspects of BP oil for going on vacation mid-crisis, while our African(Kenya born, I maintain) overlord goes on multiple grand vacations while the bulk of us are mired in the deepest recession since Reagan entered office.
Left, Right, Center. I don't give a fuck. In fact, I am third-gen Irish don't give a fuck, and even I can see that the ENTIRETY of our government is self-serving and forever growing in scope and control.
If I were an intellectual, would I somehow suddenly like another person telling me that I HAVE to wear a seat belt, and that I must help pay for entitlements for lazy people as well as legitimately forced into poverty? Would I somehow become ignorant of the fact that Social Security is failing due to all of those government written IOUs over the past 2 decades?
God, please make me smart enough to become oblivious to the obvious.
FYI, he was either fired from Slashdot (good riddance!)
I don't know why they would fire him before the fact. I have seen him saying he is no longer working with them after September 30; why would they keep him on the payroll for almost two months? On the other hand, he certainly isn't saying anything about it...
or quit without another job lined up two weeks ago
He may be a lot of things that I wouldn't consider to be complimentary, but I don't think he is genuinely stupid. I suspect that like most homo sapien sapiens, he is interested deeply in self-preservation. So I don't see him jumping ship voluntarily without an immediate plan for a follow-up. And he is well aware that the economy is in the toilet right now (even if he thinks the fault for it belongs exclusively to Obama) so he isn't likely arrogant enough to expect that job offers will beat a path to his door.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
I think you should check his blog.
I don't make a habit of reading his blog, since it generally has the exact same stuff he posts here in his journal at slashdot - and I have no interest in setting up an account to post replies there.
That said, I checked the relevant post to see if I had mis-read it. On there, he starts by saying:
I am no longer working for Slashdot/Geeknet as of September 30. I am actively seeking new employment.
So apparently he is still working for them in some capacity through the end of next month. He didn't give any other insight into what happened. I also see that he still has the slashdot logo on his profile, I would think they would fix that once his time is up.
I guess we now know why a "how do we see if a terminated employee left logic bombs or gaping backdoors" article made the front page :)
I would think that their overlords would have been wise enough to restrict programmers' access to the most critical servers. But then again, they don't seem to distinguish between "development" and "production", so who knows.
And he is well aware that the economy is in the toilet right now (even if he thinks the fault for it belongs exclusively to Obama) so he isn't likely arrogant enough to expect that job offers will beat a path to his door.
Which is why I think he may have gotten shitcanned
I could see it as a layoff; slashdot doing some downsizing and trying to figure out WTF they are going to do in attempt to find some degree of relevance on the modern internet. But I rather doubt he was fired outright. Besides, having terms like that for termination sounds more like a layoff, or the firing of a protected union member. And we know which Pudge would prefer to be...
Or, since the election season is heating up, he's going into politics full-time.
I don't know why he wouldn't have done that in the previous cycle when we were electing a new POTUS. Unless he is so dedicated to stopping Obama (from not doing anything) that he wants to invest all his time, effort, and resources into unseating incumbent democrats. But I think he could have accomplished that better by investing more effort into preventing Obama from being elected in the first place.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.