Has Doctor Deb Frisch, Poltergeist of the Internet©, really gone doggo?
Gerbils yapping about fish, music and Denny Crane! doing his level best to so serious harm to himself. All that and over 24 hours without a Frisching.
Life is indeed good for the Gerbil Nation.
I am at this time ready to declare total victory over Miss Debbie©! AutoMock™ has done its job very well and I think she has finally gotten it through her thick skull that:
Pajama Power Pinggggggggggg
PATTERICO REPORTS that Oklahoma Attorney Stephen Jones is trying to silence a blogger.
That never seems to work out for people, and often backfires. Before proceeding, maybe Jones should read this article. And this one. http://www.instapundit.com/
Baron Bodissey forwarded this email today; is the US Department of the Interior following the lead of Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, and blocking American anti-jihad sites?
I’m a long-time reader, without ever actually commenting on anything. Yesterday the U.S. Department of the Interior (I work for the Mineral Management Service) installed blocking software on their entire network. Gates of Vienna is now blocked, as are all sites with a .blogspot URL. Also blocked are other conservative blogs, such as Wizbang. More than half the sites I check on a daily basis are now completely blocked. As of today, Little Green Footballs is not blocked, but that’s about the only one I’ve seen that isn’t. There’s not much that can be done, but I just thought I’d let you know. I’ll check later today when I get in to see if the liberal blogs are blocked. Take care, and thanks for the good stuff you folks post.
Update: As of now, Little Green Footballs is also being blocked, but DailyKos is not... Can we try to get the word out? Blocking conservative blogs and not liberal ones is BS.
UPDATE at 10/11/06 10:46:36 am:
More info from Gates of Vienna:
Here’s a quick runthrough of what I’ve found so far at work. You’ll see that its pretty one-sided.
Blocked Blogs:
Captain’s Quarters
Cox and Forkum
Gates of Vienna
Little Green Footballs
Michael J. Totten
Michelle Malkin
Power Line
Protein Wisdom
Rantings of a Sandmonkey
Roger L. Simon
The Adventures of Chester
The American Thinker
The Belmont Club
The Doctor is In
WizbangBlogs not blocked:
DailyKos
Democrat Underground
America blog
Atrios.blogspot.com
JuanCole.com
The Huffington Post
Talkingpointsmemo.comIn fact, every blog linked to off of DailyKos seems to work.
UPDATE at 10/11/06 10:53:43 am:
Here’s the DOI’s policy on internet blocking. (Hat tip: MJ.)
Michael Rubin thinks it's time for a "passive voice watch"; Also at the Corner, military historian Victor Davis Hanson notes another curious development in journalism; Posted by Kate at 10:09 AM | Comments (24) "Yes, the passive voice is a neat tactic, as is the 'anonymous source' and the unverified poll of 'a majority of Canadians say that'...The tactics are used to present a purely fictional opinion; they present a conclusions AS IF it was based on hard data, on expert sources, on a random majority, when in fact, the opinion is unsubstantiated and invalid."--quite brilliant -- I'd never spotted the connection between the passive voice and incomplete journalism, and I work in the media.
There's a really excellent article entitled "Identifying Biased News Coverage" at the blog Honest Reporting Canada.
http://www.honestreporting.ca/English/Identifying-Biased-News-Coverage.html
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Loading ...LC & IB Dan Riehl has a great post about the alleged GOPblog/DNCblog divide and the assumption that every single blog out there falls into either category.
You’re shilling for one or the other but, no matter what, you’re a bought and paid for hack and can be counted upon to defend “your side” no matter what, or so the theory goes.
Dan finds that hilarious (in the sense that abject stupidity and failure to grasp even the simplest of concepts are hilarious), and I wholeheartedly agree.
Oh, there are exceptions out there, but, by and large, blogging is a very simple idea to grok: It’s all about the blogger and his community. If we wanted to become mindless, blindly loyal party drones, we’d get a job with either one of them. Pretty much anything they’d be willing to offer would be better than the big fat nothing we get paid to blog.
What some people still don’t seem to get is that we’re doing this because we want to, because we have opinions that we want to publish and because we have decided that the time and money we invest in it is worth it. We couldn’t care less about the fat idiots in Washington and the letters next to their names.
It’s as if they’ve utterly forgotten the concept of doing something simply because you want to.
That’s why we call them “Idiotarians” and that’s why I’m an Anti-Idiotarian above all else. I don’t like idiots. I despise them. They’re a waste of perfectly good skin, and I’d be ever so pleased if they’d just saunter off quietly to a remote corner of the planet and kill themselves off, saving the rest of us a lot of trouble in the process. And party loyalty is completely irrelevant. To be sure, idiots tend to congregate on the left side of the political divide, but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t any to be found on the right, and I will happily tear into either kind, as I have done in the past on too many occasions to count.
Yet still we have the occasional Idiotarian showing up, claiming that this site is blindly supportive of the Republican party, which invariably leads to the reply “go read the fucking archives before you choke on your foot, you imbecile.” Sometimes I’m even lucky enough to beat you, dear readers, to the punch and say so before you have the chance, but you’re a truly hard act to keep up with, for which I’m grateful.
I suppose that I could become a mindless party shill if they paid me enough, but I don’t imagine that anybody, no matter what their affiliation, would be rich or stupid enough to come up with the asking price. Here’s a hint: You probably can’t afford it and, even if you could, it wouldn’t be worth it.
Yes, I’m currently stumping heavily for the Republicans on November 7th, but if they or anybody else are daft enough to think that it’s because I have the slightest respect for them, they really need to seek professional help before they kill themselves with a Q-tip while getting up in the morning. I’m doing so for the very simple reason that the alternative is worse. If there was a viable third option, I’d be abandoning the RINO ninkompoops so fast I’d redshift.
I’m not supporting the Republican ticket in ‘06 because they’re worth a shit, because they aren’t, I’m supporting them because the alternative is worth even less. In other words, I’m being entirely pragmatic in my approach. No party loyalty there whatsoever. Why the fuck would I be loyal to somebody who wouldn’t know the meaning of the word “loyalty” if it jumped in their lap and ate their shriveled, poppyseed testicles off?
There’ll be a reckoning, alright, but it’ll be in ‘08, in the primaries. The primary train of ‘06 has left the station and we are, sadly, left with the choice between cholera and the Plague. So I’ll go for cholera, knowing that it is, at the very least, potentially survivable until the next go-round.
That’s my party loyalty for you. That’s the extent of my mindless shilling for the Republican party for you.
I’m left with no good choices, so I choose the one that is less repugnant to me, keeping in mind that there’ll be another round in the future and that I can’t wait to drive the knife into the backs of the opportunistic, lying swine that forced me to vote for them this time.
Oh, I would dearly love to shove the blade in between the ribs of the Party of Stoopid right now, revenge is a powerful urge, but it’s also a dish best served cold. Driving a bayonet into the empty, soulless hearts of the RINOs in November would feel so very, very good, but the following two years of liberal malfeasance would not. I’d rather save up my wrath for the right moment so that I can enjoy the kill as well as the aftermath.
And I will have my revenge, you can count on it, unless I happen to die first.
Until then, I cannot justify condemning our brave fighting men and women who have sacrificed so much for us for the last six years to another Viet Nam, another defeat caused, not by the prowess of the enemy, but by the fecklessness of the home front, just because I want to “teach the RINOs a lesson”. I cannot subject all of the good, hardworking citizens of our great nation to at least two years of increasing taxes and loss of liberties, all because it’ll feel good temporarily to stick it to the useless swine RINOs in Washington.
Think about it.
When the newly elected Democrat majority in Congress defunds the war and condemns our troops to an ignominious retreat and defeat in the face of an enemy no worthy of licking their most shit-encrusted pair of boots, when yet another “defeat” is entered into the history books, just how good will it feel to you that you showed your “principles” on November 7th by staying at home?
How will you ever, EVER again be able to look a soldier in the eyes and say “thank you for your service”, much less “I support what you did” if you were complicit in stealing the laurels of victory from his head?
How much will your cherished principles be worth to you then? How sweet will the transient glory of kicking the RINOs in the ass on some obscure date, soon to be forgotten, back in 2006 feel to you then?
Think about it, because that’s what you’ll be facing if you stay at home in November.
Those of you who have been around this site for a while know just how bright my hatred for the RINOs on the ballot burns. You know how deep my disgust for them runs, and you know that I will never forgive and never forget. There WILL be a payback, but the time isn’t now.
Right now, we’re cursed with leaders whose only virtue is that they’ll hold the line. So we’ll hold the line, hanging on to the gains we’ve made, planning for the long view, planning to swap them for people worthy of being called leaders at some point in the future. Or we can punch them in the face and let bastards who will throw it all away take over.
Instant gratification versus planning for the long run.
Choose wisely.
But, then again, I’m just a partisan shill according to the “bright” minds of our nation, so what do I know?
What I DO know is that, whatever we choose on November 7th, we’ll have to deal with the consequences.
We will OWN the consequences.
You’d better be willing to live with that, because in less than three weeks, it’ll be what we’ll all have to deal with, and the ones refusing to vote will be as culpable as the ones who voted for the winning side.
Are YOU up to that?
You’d better be, because time is running out.
Larry Elder’s not the only talk show host giving a shout out to the lizardoid army; Rush Limbaugh gave us a very nice plug yesterday: I’m Not at War with Conservative Bloggers. link: 129 comments " Rush was alternative media before there was alternative media. We all owe him."
John Hawkins has an interesting interview with talk show host Larry Elder, and I’m not just sayin’ that because Larry reads LGF: An Interview With Larry Elder. link: 25 comments
"Larry's take and Rush's take on why Air American failed are similar, I'm going to take it as true since they definitely know what they are doing in Radio.
If the left would listen, maybe they would get somewhere. "
Reporter(Pincus): Media should help set national agenda --This brilliant observation was made in the WSJ's review of My Name is Rachel Corrie "a scrappy, one-sided monologue consisting of nothing but the fugitive observations of a young woman who, like so many idealists, treated her emotions as facts."
by DJ Allyn, ITW
(9 votes, average: 4.11 out of 5) Loading ...If anyone was following the 655,000 thread today, you might have noticed a couple of comments with a dunce cap that looks like this:
I decided to modify and install a plugin that would let the admins here identify those comments they deemed to be trollish in nature. There is now a button in the admin area ironically labeled “troll” for that purpose.
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That's the title of this provocative post on the Power Line Forum
--An article in the American Thinker states: “The New Media have not yet beaten the Old. They are making a difference, but the Old Liberal Media have protected their power, at the cost of major alienation from millions of America. Over time, the Old Media will continue to move to the Net, but the political debate will continue. The New Media have a voice, but not as powerful as ABCCBSNBCPBSNPR.” ***
Not only is the old media still more powerful, but they are – in my opinion – doing an effective job at marginalizing the new media. Conventional wisdoms created by the old media include: Fox News is a right wing news service, Talk radio consist of a bunch of mean spirited right wing nut-jobs, and the blogosphere is comprised of a bunch of pajama wearing wannabes that don’t have any more credibility than any other source on the internet. I had once found hope in the belief that the new media would be able to make a breakthrough in reaching the masses. These days however, I fear that the new media is being relegated to preaching to the choir (as Rush has been doing for many years in my opinion – his audience hasn’t seen change in composition or size for some time). Permalink
Here 's this sunday's Media Nuggets
###### Hearings, Pelosi? NBC Robs New York taxpayers to eliminate 700 jobs. And worse, NBC got a whopping $133 million in tax subsidies.
###### News Corp. might acquire Newsday.
###### Major Shareholder Steps Up Fight With NY Times. Morgan Stanley investment fund urges the NYTimes Co. board to "reform" its corporate governance practices. At the same time, warns shareholders to Dump their shares of the NYTimes.
###### Philadelphia Inquirer May Lose 150 Jobs.
###### Chicago Sun-Times reports big losses!
###### LA Times editor FIRED!
###### While Pelosi talks about minimum wage rise, Big Wage Cuts at her own backyard.
###### While all media ad.sales shrink, WSJ October Ad Sales Rise!
###### For Brit Hume, the clock's ticking. Fox's veteran politics anchor sees retirement down the road.
###### Rupert Murdoch says he has no regrets about supporting the US-led invasion of Iraq and argues the US death toll in the conflict is "minute" from a historical perspective.(If only Fox people followed their boss.....)
###### You too, Brian Kilmeade?
###### While David Gregory was arguing about death penalty for Saddam Hussain, his NBC cmera crew delivers death to a person while shooting for dateline.
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Someone in Chicago sent this well-reasoned message last night. I’m going to take a wild guess and suggest that it may have come from a member of the Religion of Peace.
Little Green F-ckballs,
America has woken up. They have pulled back the curtain and turned a spotlight on the wretched creatures who are engineering the hate. They see the real provocateurs who are intentionally inciting more Middle Easterners and Muslims to hate America. They know Israel is not a blameless victim and see what the neocon journalist F-ckballs and politicians are doing. They know that the invasion of Iraq was not for altruistic reasons, and they see the billions being extracted from their Treasury and lining the pockets of corrupt Halliburton and Bechtel profiteers. They see how the “war on terror” has been corrupted by the Executive branch to seize unconstitutional powers and to justify torture. Torture? Are you kidding me? Did you really believe good, Christian Americans would agree to use their tax money to torture people—some of whom were innocent of any crime? They’re finding out their tax dollars paid for the extradition and torture of an innocent Canadian citizen for several months, and very likely others. How twisted and vile do you think this country is, that they would allow this horrific act to be justified in the name of their national security?
They also see they need to repair the damage their government and the Little Green F-ckball cheerleaders have wrought. They have booted the Party of Fearmongers from both houses of Congress and elected the first Muslim-American in history. Your obsessed F-ckball rants and baseless accusations about Ellison are backfiring, just as they backfired for his opponent Fine. They know this small gesture is a step in the right direction to repair the shattered relations with the world’s 1.2 billion Muslims. They know these relations are critical to fighting the REAL war on terror.
A good percentage of Republicans see these things as well. They see how their party of small government and conservative values has been twisted into an ideological ghoul. A possessed specter of fear more terrifying than the terrorists they claim to be fighting given the immense power they wield. They want their party back. The one hijacked by the Little Green F-ckball deviants who have defiled it with their depraved, ideological schemes.
God bless this great Republic,
J. Bailey
Someone needs to hold a celebrity conference on what is, and is not, censorship.“Welcome ladies and gentlemen. If you’ll look to your left, you will see that we’ve provided large plastic bins for your egos.
First, let me inform you that the only censorship addressed in the Constitution is government censorship. It is not censorship for a potential employer to refuse to hire you because you make statements that may damage his business.
You are celebrities. Your ‘product’ is the public’s perception of you and desire to see you in an entertainment venue. If you do something, or say something that makes the public’s perception of you less positive, or reduces the public’s desire to pay money to see you, then don’t be surprised if producers don’t want you in their movies. Don’t be surprised if people tell you to “shut up and sing.”
Once again, that is not censorship. It’s the right of the public to determine what they will spend their disposable income on and the right of a company or employer to reduce their business risks. Who wants to make a movie staring someone who advocates a position that automatically alienates 50% of the potential paying audience?
As an aside, you might want to do some studying before you open your mouths. After all, most of you never graduated from college. Quite a few of you never graduated from high school. You are paid exhorbitant amounts of money because you’re superficially attractive and have the ability to fake emotions. Some of you are paid a great deal of money because you have the kind of voice that’s easily digitized into something worth listening to, and you’re blonde and look good in a tube top.
Please note that none of the above “skills and talents” make you qualified to comment on foreign policy, political platforms, economic and ecological issues or even the price of a gallon of milk. Also, please note that when you berate the average American for driving an eight cylinder car, while you jet back and forth to a movie set in Alberta every week in a Gulfstream V, the average American is going to roll his eyes and think you’re an idiot.
So, you might want to discuss an issue with someone who is A: an expert, B: doesn’t have their own personal ax to grind, before making idiotic public statements. And finally, since your ‘product’ is your popularity, don’t you think you might take steps to maintain that popularity? Like keeping your mouth shut.
Thank you for your attention and your eight cylinder, gas guzzling, booze filled, professionally driven limos are idling for you outside.