Pajamahadeen Rule... rise of the New Media

various FR links | 09-17-04 | The Heavy Equipment Guy

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  The Manifesto of Pukin Dog

 

 The Dawn of New Media

 

 A New Era of Credibility

 

 

A revolution in news

 

 Bloggers knew!

 

 Blogs: Halting the march of the mainstream media  What is happening is that for the first time in decades, if not ever, the power of the mainstream media (MSM) in the United States is being seriously challenged by a mostly ragtag army of outsiders armed with little more than the internet. The age of the blogger is upon us.

 I think of it as a gestalt- the sum of the whole, together, is greater than the parts added separately.

 

 Post 47 and RaTHergate - The story of how CBS was caught perpetrating a hoax on the American People

 

 IUPAT issues apology ( the crying girl )

 Blows the "it was her brother" theory the idjuts  are throwing out there out of the water ... From rintense's original MONSTER thread about this

 

  The Camera Blinks A nation of fact-checkers, a network in denial.  Seen on a blog yesterday:
You can't say 'well, the sentiments were correct.'
That's like saying to the bank, 'Well, he owed me money' after forging a check.

 

  Hayek Smiled: Why Blogging Works

 

 Love Letter to the Blogosphere (Michelle Malkin)

 

 Big Media get smaller - Michael Reagan: The networks' days of dominating America's news are over ... ordinary Americans are more devoted to the facts than Dan Rather and CBS proved to be.

 

 Freepers- Pajamas Up! Stop Congress looting/ price gouging Hurricane Victims!

 

 HELP!!! I need some info on the History of Free Republic!

 

 

Woman wearing 'President Bush You Killed My Son' T-Shirt disrupts first lady's rally  This woman, Sue Niederer, is the same person who confronted Rr. Raoul on one of his Freeps.
Check it out:
http://www.trentonian.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=11197951&BRD=1697&PAG=461&dept_id=44551&rfi=8 Niederer is supposedly a friend of Code Pink, the virulent anti-American group who promotes socialist-communist causes.

 http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=Sue+Niederer+&btnG=Google+Search

 Interviews with her via mega LW groups
http://www.indcjournal.com/archives/000585.php

http://pittsburgh.indymedia.org/news/2004/08/15399.php

http://www.notinourname.net/troops/nothing-12feb04.htm

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0314-02.htm

 

  ***ALERT*** Inconsistencies in Marian Carr Knox's Story ***Bloggers Take Note***

 

  MORE RE: MRS. KNOX [Jed Babbin] Tell us about your SON. Who got special treatment, Mrs. Knox?

 This CBS story has become a soap opera

 

 Burkett Admits in February Weblog that He Saw Killian Documents in the Trash

 

 A Media Watershed

 

 Blogs: Halting the march of the mainstream media

 

 

Blessing or Curse? Top Newspaper Editors Examine Blogs' Role in the '60 Minutes' Uproar  Top Newspaper Editors Examine Blogs' Role in the '60 Minutes' Uproar

Its sort of like a mammoth examining the tar in the pit.

 

 BLOGGERS SCORE CBS VICTORY - Hillary's 1998 Take on Internet Bloggers (Future Free Speech Alert)

 

 

 The collapse of America's media elite. What qualifications exactly, to be a journalist? -- even non-lawyer bloggers with superior research skills – think Captain Ed, Tom McGuire and Polipundit – are going to run rings around "pros" who aren't in a hurry to bring down their favored candidate.

 Who are the real journalists? Hugh Hewitt on L.A. Times editor's comments vs. CBS, Rather mess

 

 

The Fall Of The Big Media (Joseph Farah's Better Than Dan Rather, Folks)

 Big media's fall began with the Clinton Regime. Here was the most corrupt liar ever to occupy the office and the Redstream media attacked the truth tellers instead of the crooks. After watching the nightly news most of my life I stopped watching soon after Clinton was elected.

 

 Smart guys ‘in pajamas’ give CBS a black eye

 

 "Men in PJs" CARTOON... protecting America from the scum of the media

 

 "Pajama People" 3 CARTOON graphics.

 

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http://michellemalkin.com/archives/005245.htm

THE FABLES OF JESSE/JESSIE MACBETH

By Michelle Malkin   ·   May 23, 2006 11:14 AM

***scroll for updates...Just Citizens blog reports that Army has no record of service from Jesse/Jessie MacBeth...more below...(hat tip: LGF )...12noon update: I just talked to the Army spokesman as well. Paul Boyce told me: "At a minimum, this appears to have been concocted" and "some sort of hoax."

"Jesse MacBeth" is currently the Number 2 search term at Technorati.

He's the moonbat and purported Army Ranger featured here at "Peace Films" sliming the troops and weaving tales of Iraq war atrocities.

 Don't. Believe. The. Hype.

Q&O's Dale Franks and The American Thinker's Clarice Feldman note the speed of the info superhighway's correction mechanisms.

***

Smash on Winter Soldiers, Revisited.

Peter Wehner debunks more anti-war lies.

***

Flashbacks:

Unmasking Micah Wright
Jimmy Massey: The media and the unhinged Marine

US Army: Jessie Macbeth Has No Service Record

Just Citizens has a statement from a US Army spokesperson about Jessie Macbeth and his vile allegations of war crimes by the US military. (Hat tip: The Neoconservative Madrassa.)  link: 245 comments  "It's interesting and telling that the left (not just the barking moondog left) was so willing to accept this fraud's accounts of our "atrocities"."

He's been busy in anti-war circles for some time now, having spoken at the World Cant Wait BDS rally in WA on 2/4/06.

And one should really look at Randy Rowland, who apparently was behind the production of the video.

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Fatal  5/23/2006 08:34AM PDT

 

From Mudville Gazette apparently the LLL's have alread started with the "fake but accurate" meme. Apparently a commenter from the MacBeth Video named "Truthwatch" posted the following:

If Jesse MacBeth is or isn't who he claims to be, so what? Does being a fake change the fact that this war is grossly illegal, corrupt and immoral? Does it change the fact that the U.S. admin lies, condones and practices torture, illegal captivity, kidnapping, rape, use of napalm ... uses depleted uranium on its own troops as well as on foreign soil?

 

http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/004019.html

Google News Delisting Conservative Blogs

Newsbusters; "Something frighteningly ominous has been happening on the Internet lately: Google, without any prior explanation or notice, has been terminating its News relationship with conservative e-zines and web journals."

Dr.James Joyner at Outside The Beltway - a mostly hard news/opinion site where it cannot be said anything resembling "hate speech" exists; Comments (14)

cheats for frustrated Canadians to bypass automated phones

 

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The Obsessions of the Nutroots

It’s got it all. Deranged Bush hatred, Karl Rove being frog marched, smears against the military, 9/11 conspiracies, and blog names lettered on military hardware. It’s the Yearly Kos Kook Konvention promo, and all the Kidz think it’s a Really Kewl Video.

This is why we call them “nutroots.”Allahpundit has more stills from this whacked out video: Yearly Kos: the promo video.  link: 43 comments

http://cjunk.blogspot.com/2006/05/pathologic-hate-continues.html

The Pathologic Hate Continues

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Take Your Meds!

I’ve often said on these pages that Bush-hate has reached the level of a mental illness.  Even the best and brightest of Bush detractors offer little more than Betty; they just dress it up in puffy political jargon which upon analysis amounts to about as much as “he looks like a monkey!” The Pasadena Star takes a shot at the Bush-hate phenomenon, and makes a strong argument that Bush-hate has now gone far enough to actually endanger American national security. Update: Thanks to reader nomdenet; you can continue your reading HERE. Warning; it's more deadly than the Bird Flu, or even SARS! Discussion (7)

"Been there. They’ll say Bush is dangerous. After awhile I’ll say it’s the world that’s dangerous, Bush is just confronting the danger instead of hiding. Mouths will drop as if a spy had entered the room.
I think we have to confront them just like Bush has to confront “it”. Otherwise we’re doing what people must have done in 1938 when Chamberlain convinced people they would have peace."

 

http://www.stevejanke.com/archives/178217.php

Paying top dollar for death and misery

Steve Janke at 11:55 PM

Related articles: Technorati Cosmos :: CanConv :: Blogging Tories

In one of the biggest scandals to hit our oh-so-untouchable health-care system, Ontario and federal taxpayers lost millions funding a nursing home that was run by serial fraud artists.

The bankruptcy of the Royal Crest Lifecare chain and the horror stories of life in these publicly-funded tortue chambers prompted a forensic audit. There's more... "Paying top dollar for death and misery"

http://www.instapundit.com/

WITH MEMBERS OF CONGRESS CLAIMING that they're exempt from searches in bribery cases, it's probably worth noting this new Zogby poll, which shows that the American public holds all its leaders -- but especially Congress -- in low esteem.

No doubt Congress will want to respond by putting criticism off limits, too.

UPDATE: Hastert is creating more anger from the base: "I no longer wish to be counted as a Republican. The Speaker has been a weak voice for cutting spending and for immigration reform but a loud voice when his own privilege is at stake."

Hastert tells President Bush FBI raid was unconstitutional--They ALL make me sick. Pitchforks, anyone? ;)

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http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2006/05/ap_follows_wapo.html

AP Follows WaPO and Mugs the Blogs

Oh great, first Pali stringers, now Pali jihad  blogs. Bruce over at the Democracy project reports here.

Danny Glover’s Beltway Blogroll buzz column, “Old Media and New Media Converge,” tips us to the linked PR Newswire and the AP’s Technology Writer pieces.

Oh puhleeze, this is their way of pushing the LLL voices. This is their way of co-opting the blogs as more people find their way to the blogosphere. Ignoring us to death didn't work so now they will define what and which blogs are legit. I think not.I am sure LGF, Infidel Bloggers Alliance or  No Pasaran won't be on the top of their feed. More diversionary tactics to steer news consumers away from the truth tellers. Posted by Pamela aka "Atlas" on Thursday, May 25, 2006 at 11:22 AM in Blogosphere: The New Power, How the Left Destroys the Nation, LLL Media Bias | Permalink | Comments (3)

 

http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/007059.php

Post: Congress Hysterical (Update: Someone's Listening)

The Washington Post scolds Congressional leaders for their hysterical overreaction to the execution of a duly authorized search warrant on the offices of William Jefferson, and underscores the point by noting that the subpoena hardly came as a surprise to anyone on Capitol Hill:

UPDATE: Voices of sanity have now surfaced, finally, in Congress:

UPDATE II: Andrew McCarthy is as incensed at GOP foolishness on this issue as I am.  Comments (39)

Standing Up to the Press

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I can't believe the leftarded networks are not running this. It is an important event. They can't even determine what is news anymore.

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2006/05/bush_blair_pres.html

Bush Blair Press Conference 7:30 pm

Press Conference VIDEO HERE

UPDATE:Poster boy for the left, George Galloway supports Blair assassination;  Galloway says murder of Blair would be 'justified'

Live blogging...

Comments (7)

We Got Mail from Reuters (Bumped)

Early this morning at about 3:00 am on the West Coast, someone in Sweden Britain connected to the Internet and browsed over to this article at the Guardian by Inayat Bunglawala, media secretary of the Muslim Council of Britain: This code could open doors.

BunglawalaÂ’s piece (about the Da Vinci Code) is in the section of the Guardian site where readers can comment, and someone posted a link to LGF as a rebuttal to Bunglawala. Our Swedish British visitor clicked that link, leading him/her/it to this post: Swedish Muslims Demand ShariÂ’a.

At 3:23 am, this creature used our contact form to send the following email with the obviously phony Hotmail address ‘zionistpig@hotmail.com’ and the subject line, “You bunch of wankers.”

I look forward to the day when you pigs get your throats cut....

Well, isnÂ’t that tolerant.

But this particular death threat is a bit different from the run of the mill hate mail we get around here, because an IP lookup on the sender reveals that he/she/it was using an account at none other than Reuters News: RIPE Whois Database: 192.165.213.18. (Please note: the name and address below are those of ReutersÂ’ technical contact, not the name of the freak responsible for our hate mail. Please do not send him email.) NOTE: things just got much more interesting with this post from Inayat Bunglawala himself, shortly after the post containing the link to LGF: Comment is free: This code could open doors. Show 488 comments for this entry

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/011559.php

Is a prominent British moderate Muslim sending death threats?

Charles Johnson at LGF got an email saying, "I look forward to the day when you pigs get your throats cut...." Nothing much unusual in that, but the more he investigates the sender, the more it points to...Inayat Bunglawala, a leading British moderate Muslim (although one who has already been established to be a slightly immoderate moderate). Of course, maybe the unhinged hired help is using Bunglawala's personal computer after hours. Here is Charles' account of the unfolding tale. "We Got Mail from Reuters (Bumped)": Inayat Bunglawala was selected as one of seven “conveners” for a Home Office task force with responsibilities for tackling extremism among young Muslims—despite a history of extremist statements. UPDATE 6:22AM Friday: Inayat Bunglawala has denied involvement in this in a colorful way over at Comment Is Free: "Hey, that was not me! Let the police deal with it. Methinks some Zionists are up to mischief." Comments (26)  "If you let them, the muslims always embarrass themselves. They sound like 5 year old children “I canÂ’t find fault in your argument so IÂ’ll hurt you. “"

http://nordish.net/blog/?p=96

How I got Inayat Bunglawala busted (maybe)

Posted on May 26th, 2006 in Politics, Islam, Inayat Bunglawala.

Read all about it here. Commenting on the Guardian blog “Comment is free” (as user “Nick223″), I referred Inayat Bunglawala of the Muslim Council of Britain to a little green footballs article on ShariÂ’ah in Sweden. Now, Charles of LGF suspects that it was indeed Inayat who sent him this hate mail:

 

http://www.instapundit.com/

A FRESH WARNING ABOUT REGULATING BLOGS: "Former Federal Election Commissioner Brad Smith said the threat of campaign regulations for blogs is still very much alive, despite the FEC largely exempting blogs earlier this year."

JIM GERAGHTY:   UPDATE: Ed Morrissey thinks that this is just a case of Bush allowing for a face-saving climbdown on Hastert's part. Hastert may climb down, but I think it's too late for him to save face.

And there's this observation: "Instapundit wonders, 'Could Al Qaeda have slipped mind-altering drugs into the DC water supply?

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Reuters Death Threat Update 5

The Reuters IP address 192.165.213.18 has visited LGF 20 times since midnight Pacific, going to either our post about the death threat, or to the front page. Once again, this is not random activity; whoever is using this IP is watching our posts about the threat very carefully. Some of the hits are referrals from pages where there are articles about this incident containing links to LGF, such as this Ynet News article: Reuters employee issues ‘Zionist pig’ death threat. (Note: the article has been updated with some comments from me.)  For the full story: A Death Threat from Reuters (Bumped).  link: 105 comments

Backspin has also picked up the article:

http://backspin.typepad.com/backspin/

 See here for how Johnson traced the comments to Reuters and why Inayat Bunglawala, Media Secretary of the Muslim Council of Britain is linked to the controversy.

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How much time and effort has been put into all of this is simply amazing.

Keep up the great work.

Who has time to scan all these bloggers? Who wants to even come near the evil of the haters and twisted thinking of the liars and character assassins in the liberal world? It is a cesspool of contaminated thinking and evil curses they put upon those outside their agenda.

AVOID AVOID AVOID ... POISONOUS GASES IN THE AIR WILL CAUSE DEATH. EXTREME DANGER!

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Thanks for looking.

I make a habit of checking powerline, captain's quarters, small dead animals, jihad watch, michelle malkin, instapundit, and little green footballs, to get up to speed.

The blogs with comments enabled often have more related links ( and cutting commentary ) and there's always the blogroll in their sidebars. Lots to follow.

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Reuters Death Threat Update 6

The Reuters IP address 192.165.213.18 has hit our site 110 times since midnight, and once again every single hit is going either directly to the page about the death threat from “zionistpig-at-hotmail.com,” or to our home page. There are four or five different user agent strings, meaning several different browsers are being used. And many of the hits continue to be referrals from the Guardian page where Inayat Bunglawala wrote: Methinks some Zionists are up to mischief. For the full story: A Death Threat from Reuters (Bumped). link: 350 comments "What a bizarre scenario. Surely, by this point, even the most unsophisticated computer users (such as myself) understand that their IP address can be tracked any time they click on a website. Why the heck would someone KEEP CLICKING to a site where it is plain as day that the proprietor is on his trail?"

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Noam Sayin'  5/30/2006 06:27PM PDT

 

To all Reuters employes currently lurking on this site. Welcome to littlegreenfootballs.com. When registration is open, we encourage you to register and become a lizard minion. In the meantime, feel free to look around. I'd like to draw your attention to rathergate, slideshows, never forget and resources, located on the left-hand side of the page. I'm sure you'll find this information quite useful, particularly The Smoking Memo - It's why Dan Rather no longer has a job.

When you do decide to start contributing with your own comments - and you will - know that there are many very bright and knowledgeable people here who can spot BS from a mile away.

"This is just wierd. I suppose they have round-the-clock shifts at a news outfit like that, but what's so fascinating at this site? Do they think that somehow they're intimidating us by doing this. Are we all heading for the hills? Hey Reuters: FOAD. And yo' mama, too."

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realwest  5/30/2006 06:00PM PDT

 

#4 ctrlL - Charles has forgotten more about programming than anyone who works for Bill Gates will ever know.
IIRC, Charles and his brother put together the first Atari "Pong" game - that's how long he's been a programner - not to mention putting together LGF which is a truly unique webblog in every respect.

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http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2006/05/death_threat_fr.html

Death Threat from Reuters

Can someone tell me why the newswires aren't all over this story? And where are the news networks? A Death Threat from Reuters (Bumped) and Reuters Death Threat Update 7

Reuters Death Threat Update 7

In our secret base deep underground, our Zionist lizardoid ultrasuperpowers tell us that the Reuters IP address 192.165.213.18 has hit our site 134 times since midnight, and it looks like there may even be one or two Reuters people online right now.  link: 192 comments

Read this: http://www.mpacuk.org/content/view/2187/34/

"Zionists Move In On Inayat Bunglawala"

Raging Paranoia at Muslim Public Affairs Committee UK

I think I should be flattered by British Muslim advocacy group MPACUK’s completely insane article about the LGF Reuters death threat incident, because they’ve decided there’s no way LGF could possibly be the work of just one superhuman Zionist madman: MPACUK - Breaking News: Calls From Around The World Demand MCB Inayat Be Sacked! Mosques & I-Socs Silent?  Apparently I’m jacked into the central nervous system of the worldwide Zionist machine. Heh™.

All you can do is laugh at these clowns, but in truth they’re not very funny at all. Here’s an lgf search for “MPACUK,” bringing up a history of sick antisemitism and hate speech.  link: 216 comments

"Zionist Blogs too, are too well researched and co-ordinated to be the work of individuals. No part time nut could watch every minute for any slip by a Muslim group as vigilantly as they do. Most probably they are part of a well funded central network. They are another weapon in the growing armoury of the Zionist machine that is deployed against the Muslims."

Yes, you idiots, we are part of a network: a self-organizing network of "coordinated intelligence" known as the Internet.

I guess every LGF reader and poster should feel proud they are now viewed as part of the 'Zionist Machine' that is fighting the Muslim aggression...

Zionist "well-oiled machine" = a bunch of people who come from all walks of life, all different countries, mostly non-Jewish, but who share in common the following perspective: The heart of the problem is Islamic aggression, not those who seek to resist such aggression.

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Bunga, Bunga, Bunga!

And FYI, it was established on DT thread #7 that Bungholio's name is to be abbreviated:

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Reuters Death Threat Update 8

Over at MPACUK, they’ve updated their paranoid rant—with an open admission that my suspicions were at least partly correct: MPACUK - Masajid and ISOCs Silent As Zionists Move In On Inayat Bunglawala!    link: 276 comments

" Cool. LGF is now the "the central nervous system of the Zionist machine"."  I need a coffee mug with that on it...

 "the most powerful enemies in a thousand years" quite a compliment, even if it comes from complete morons.

Words fail me at the idiocy of the Muslim Civil Liberties group.

What really gets to me more than anything is that they constantly like to call themselves the "religion of peace," and yet this "moderate" website speaks of jihad right there on the front page! How exactly is there such a thing as a "peaceful" Jihad? And why the hell aren't more people in the mainstream media picking up on this story that a major civil liberties group is backing death threats against a website simply because it advocates something the civil liberties group disagrees with?

We are more than likely enraging the seething hordes more by laughing at them, then anything we might do in battle.

http://powerlineblog.com/archives/014253.php

Someone's scratching at the window

Charles Johnson continues his efforts to detect and identify the author of the terrorist threat he received via Reuters last week. His most recent posts are "Watching the watchers" and "Reuters death threat update 8."  UPDATE: See also today's "Reuters death threat update 9."

Reuters Death Threat Update 9

Writer Tom Gross has been following the saga of the death threat we received from a Reuters employee, and he has independently confirmed that Inayat Bunglawala, media secretary of the Muslim Council of Britain, works for Reuters as a senior systems engineer at their Docklands offices in East London.

Reuters “Zionist pig” death threat update.  link: 519 comments |

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bweep  6/1/2006 11:07AM PDT

 

I really think there is enough here now for a major news outlet to publish this. This Bungawala is a regular on British television and is part of the governments program to be inclusive with muslims. The fact that he isn't being keel hauled through the tabloids is a disgrace.

Wow, I just found this incredible video.

true muslims

Watching the Watchers

Now featured in the “Visitors Online” section of our left sidebar: a count of today’s and yesterday’s visits from the Reuters IP address 192.165.213.18.  link: 537 comments

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Thanks so much. Good stuff!

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I appreciate your looking- thank you.

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Bunga, Bunga, Bunga!

It was established on Death Threat thread #7 that Bungholio's name is to be abbreviated:

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Reuters Death Threat Update 10

Our Zionist-funded Reuters visitor counter suddenly quieted down today. The pattern of today’s visits, sliced and diced by Occam’s Razor, suggests one of two possibilities:

1) our Reuters visitors from the Canary Wharf offices in East London’s Docklands area realized we were watching them watching us (not too difficult, since we’ve been posting about it nearly every day; I’m only surprised it took them so long), or...

2) Reuters told their employees to knock it off, either with an imperial directive from on high or by installing a high-tech LGF block in their firewall.

Interestingly, today’s most recent hit from that IP address was a click on a link in our RSS feed (through Firefox), after almost 6 hours of no hits. And there’s been nothing since that hit, at 2:58:41 pm. Someone trying to avoid the spotlight?

For the full story: A Death Threat from Reuters (Bumped).

06:23 PM PDT | link: 127 comments

 

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http://www.instapundit.com/

June 02, 2006

JOE TRIPPI:  America's two political parties may not realise it yet, but in their current form they are nearing obsolescence. As technological advancements continue to bring more and better tools for communication, citizens are increasingly empowered to come together in common purpose and reject the current political system that seems designed by the two parties to keep us apart.

DAVE PRICE WONDERS if people are getting ahead of the news cycle on Haditha. It wouldn't be the first time that the media and antiwar folks were suckered -- somewhat willingly -- by the insurgents. But I think it's best just to wait and see what the investigation shows. Not that that's stopping the usual suspects, of course.

UPDATE: Related thoughts from Ed Morrissey and Daniel Henninger. More here, too.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Mark Steyn talked about this and related topics. Transcript and audio here.

Read this post on Ishaqi, too.

Canadian Liberal Candidate Strongarms the Internet

Stephen Taylor has an almost unbelievable story of censorship and abuse of power in Canada, where Joe Volpe, candidate for leadership of the Liberal party (and eventual candidate for Prime Minister), apparently called his cronies at the Canadian Registrar Authority and had them delete the domain name of a parody web site: Joe Volpe strongarms the Internet and erodes freedom of speech in Canada.

The Globe and Mail reports:  link: 91 comments

Studies in Demopathy

A great post at Augean Stables on the Reuters employee’s threat to LGF: Inayat Bunglawala and the Western Press: Studies in Demopathy.

-- check this out:

Over 400 blogs have picked up on the story.

More stories about it can be found here:

NewsBusters: Reuters Employee Sends Death Threat

Judeoscope: Reuters employee issues ’Zionist pig’ death threat

Powerline: A Reuters Employee Threatens the Wrong Guy

 link: 22 comments

Reuters Death Threat Update 11

According to the Reuters counter, we’re still being visited by the Reuters IP address that was used to send us this message:

I look forward to the day when you pigs get your throats cut....

The fact that this IP is still hitting our site means Reuters has not set up a block in their Canary Wharf office firewall after all, as we speculated yesterday.

And again, this isn’t random activity; almost all of the hits we’ve received today went directly to the mega-post about the incident.

Since a lot of readers have asked: yes, I have reported the threat to Scotland Yard.

For the full story: A Death Threat from Reuters (Bumped). link: 62 comments

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http://www.melaniephillips.com/diary/archives/001728.html

Little green death-posters

Those who haven’t yet caught up with this should read in full the attempt by Charles Johnson, who runs the Little Green Footballs website which campaigns against Islamist fascism, to discover who used the Reuters email account to post up on his site a threat which ran: ‘I look forward to the day when you pigs get your throats cut...’. The latest post in this saga can be found here (scroll down to 'Reuters death threat update 11'). It’s worth following every link from the beginning to note just who is in the frame here, and the extent of the truly demented ‘Zionist conspiracy’ theory emanating from Londonistan (Charles isn’t even a Jew).

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Inside the Cult of Kos --Funny, I don't remember adoring pieces in Time, Newsweek or the Washington Post about Free Republic. Even when we were framing the debate on the impeachment of Clinton, or unmasking Dan Rather.

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You Wanna Be a Pundit? - A liberal think tank offers a training course. --Of course, that’s the reason they were there in the first place. At YearlyKos, passion and speaking out are what it’s all about. Even if there are no names allowed.

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Drive by Media

The astonishingly low quality of reportage by the Drive-By Media continues to amaze, and depress me.

Journalism, particularly the television variety, has become a bizzare amalgam of Max Headroom and Mad Max...
 
they are never at a loss for words, but their words hardly ever mean anything useful or informative.

It's all memes, talking points and chatter used to fit a template.

The astonishingly low quality of reportage by the Drive-By Media continues to amaze, and depress me.

Journalism, particularly the television variety, has become a bizzare amalgam of Max Headroom and Mad Max...
 
they are never at a loss for words, but their words hardly ever mean anything useful or informative.

It's all memes, talking points and chatter used to fit a template.

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The NY Times gets it wrong, again

The Times is intoxicated with the Democrats appearing before the moonbats in Vegas, ushering in the age of the blog. The power. The fury, The future. The agent for change. The New York _{waste of}   Times did a glowing, kiss ass piece on the Kos Konvention here;

If there is an emerging consensus among much of the Democratic Party establishment, it is that blogs are an important, potentially crucial emerging power in American politics, as reflected by the turnout of Democratic leaders here this weekend. What is less clear is how mainstream politicians like Mr. Warner — or the Senate minority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, who gave an address Saturday night — will grapple with an audience that has defined itself in part by its dissatisfaction with mainstream politicians.

Wait a minute fellas. Far be it from me to rain on anyone's parade but you've assigned all of the qualities of the Right side of the sphere to the wrong side of the sphere. The right  blogs  broke Rathergate, the Swift Boat veterans, CNN's Eason Jordan resignation, Kerry's impossible lies, the Danish cartoons, yads yada yada. It was the right side of the blogosphere that changed the course of history in the last Presidential election. All of the real action is happening over here guys.

The dinosaur media is owned lock, stock and barrel by the left. What's left for the liberal blogsphere is the fringiest, craziest, radicalized, far, far left. The Times really have it wrong. The left doesn't need a blogosphere. They own the media elite.

The Center and Right suffered a vacuum filled by talk radio and now the net. Talk radio was not good, great in fact but not enough.

So I don't know what they are raving about over there - out and about on their weekend pass.

Indeed, there was evidence of a gulf in the way the two sides view their relationship. For the 1,000 or so bloggers at the YearlyKos Convention here, the mission is nothing short of trying to transform the way politics are done. For some of the political leaders who stopped off for a quick panel or reception, the visits seemed more along the lines of another constituent box to be checked on the campaign circuit, whose value does not extend beyond its checkbook or voter turnout operations.

Steve Soto, who writes The Left Coaster blog, said that the Democratic leaders running the campaigns to win the House and Senate "are still treating the blogs and some of the advice from them about message and focus as unwanted solicitations from crazy relatives."

They are crazy relatives. And it would be suicidal for the left to move any more left if they want to win electons, despite the Kos Konstituency threats and tantrums.

It's funny. They talk about how all powerful the Kos blog is. This is purely anecdotal but interesting, nonetheless.I got my first link from Kos, the other day.  I gotta tell you.............it brought exactly 9 hits. I have gotten tens of thousands of hits from bloggers with allegedly last traffic. Imagine that. It was a hot topic too - Coulter's truth telling on the 9/11 Jersey four - and it was a real leftarded vote getter - whose breasts were bigger. You, chum for leftards;

Atlas Shrugs:  My tits are bigger than Ann's tits ... that's why everybody ignores her when she attacks the 9/11 widows.

You know the leftist drill. Misogyny nonparallel, their favorite. And yet 9 hits. When Wolcott did his Nips Ahoy  piece it drove tens of thousands to my site. Just sayin.

I think Kos jiggers his numbers. Something is rotten in the moonbat cave.

Posted by Pamela aka "Atlas" on Sunday, June 11, 2006 at 11:07 PM in Democrats, Dhimmicrats, Democraps ........aka The Fifth Column, Fifth Column, How the Left Destroys the Nation, Simmering Civil War in America | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack (2)

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Old Media Can't Make Headway on Web

Media Ignore Nutroots Extremism

Byron York looks at media reaction to the Yearly Kos moonbat festival in Las Vegas, and notes that so far Markos Moulitsas “Screw Them” Zuniga has been getting a pass for his hateful, vindictive writing—but that’s likely to change: What Fame Will Bring to DailyKos.

At some point, coverage of the DailyKos phenomenon will move into a new cycle. In politics, no person, and no movement, can attract as much attention as DailyKos has received recently without eventually attracting scrutiny. And that will likely bring attention to what is said—and who says it—on the website.

The obvious focus will be on DailyKos founder Mark Moulitsas himself. While his writings—and the controversies they have caused—are an old topic in the blogosphere, they have remained largely unexamined in major media outlets. For example, one of Moulitsas’s most famous statements, involving the brutal murders of four American contractors in Fallujah, Iraq in 2004—“I feel nothing over the death of mercenaries. They aren’t in Iraq because of orders, or because they are there trying to help the people make Iraq a better place. They are there to wage war for profit. Screw them.”—has been the target of extensive criticism on conservative blogs and in conservative media outlets, but, according to a search of the Nexis database, has never been mentioned in the Washington Post. (It was quoted, once, in the New York Times, deep in a September 2004 feature story on bloggers.) Nor has it been reported in any major newsmagazine or been the topic of conversation on any major television program.

The same is true for other things Moulitsas has written.

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