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Ted Rall's Anti-Blog Column Draws Blog Reaction
Editor and Publisher ^ | Published: February 25, 2005 3:30 PM ET | Dave Astor

Posted on 03/04/2005 3:42:29 PM PST by sully777

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To: sully777
"A 48-year-old doing a blog in the basement of his parents' house? That's fine. That's the First Amendment," he told E&P. "But it ain't journalism."

Yeah, and the crap this assclown spews is journalism? Hardly.

21 posted on 03/04/2005 4:13:01 PM PST by Toddsterpatriot (Protectionism is economic ignorance!)
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To: sully777
"Right-wing bloggers are trying to destroy the mainstream media, but they don't have a plan for the occupation."

Gee ya think Ted? We do have a plan, but like John Kerry, will tell you once we get there. I hope you like surprises!
22 posted on 03/04/2005 4:13:03 PM PST by TheForceOfOne (Social Security – I thought pyramid schemes were illegal!)
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To: sully777
"Such a development might have served as a laudable counterbalance during the 1930s, a period of liberal political hegemony."

And it served as a laudable counterbalance in the '90s, a period of leftist hegemony so powerful that the mass media never batted an eyelash when American civilians were incinerated by the federal government and US military right here on US soil. A mass media that LAUGHED at the public outrage which stemmed from a small boy in Florida kidnapped at gunpoint by jackbooted thugs who DID arrive in helicopters. A mass media that cheered as Clinton ordered Serbs shot while protecting Muslim terrorists - the consequences we will continue to reap for a VERY long time to come. A mass media which acted as the willing apologists of the Clinton administration whenever a witness turned up conveniently dead or an incriminating document was conveniently shredded...it was always an accident, a coincidence or an honest mistake, while we conservatives were told we are paranoid. The mass media never ONCE questioned why it collectively only asked softball questions of leftist politicians.

In fact, it was the mass media that had mainstream Americans convinced that our beliefs were in the minority in this country. Thank God for talk radio and the internet, which balance traditional mass media hegemony.

23 posted on 03/04/2005 4:13:41 PM PST by cake_crumb (Leftist Credo: "One Wing to Rule Them all and to the Dark Side Bind Them")
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To: vpintheak

cowing the mainstream media even further into submission to the powers that be."


Balance, Rall, it is called Balance!!


24 posted on 03/04/2005 4:17:26 PM PST by mlmr (The "Naked and the Fred"....is back!)
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To: dead

That is AWESOME! Is it yours?


25 posted on 03/04/2005 4:22:20 PM PST by cake_crumb (Leftist Credo: "One Wing to Rule Them all and to the Dark Side Bind Them")
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To: sully777

"conservative blogs mirror their mainstream counterparts by applying a far angrier and more violent tone than that of their liberal foes."

Interesting that he uses the freudian word 'mirror.' If he believes this he's on another planet.


26 posted on 03/04/2005 4:23:10 PM PST by orangelobster
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To: My2Cents
"The thing is this: if the MSM (specifically those who have come under the withering fury of the blogs for their sins) were above reproach, they wouldn't be cowed by anyone"

Isn't it amazing how much like Arab terrorists they sound? "We're so afraid, we're so OPPRESSED!"

27 posted on 03/04/2005 4:24:02 PM PST by cake_crumb (Leftist Credo: "One Wing to Rule Them all and to the Dark Side Bind Them")
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To: dead

Good one


28 posted on 03/04/2005 4:26:37 PM PST by Tench_Coxe
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To: nosofar

I don't remember Buckhead, Scott Johnson or Charles Johnson claiming to be journalists. I believe all they were doing was pointing out something the idiotarians have trouble with -- you know, FACTS!!!

Dear Ted: I understand from Mich al-Moore that there's plenty of room in the Irrelevant swimming pool. Be sure to enter by the SHALLOW end.


29 posted on 03/04/2005 4:27:52 PM PST by Right Cal Gal (Armed, Female and Southern!)
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To: orangelobster

Rall is projecting so far he probably qualifies for more than one zip code. I've never seen the daily, detailed death wishes against opposing politicians on FR that I see all the time on liberal blogs, or ANY for that matter.

I wonder if he realizes that claiming conservatives didn't answer him as violently as he hoped only to make him look like a liar makes him sound like a complete lunatic.


30 posted on 03/04/2005 4:30:56 PM PST by cake_crumb (Leftist Credo: "One Wing to Rule Them all and to the Dark Side Bind Them")
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To: My2Cents

How can people writing little diaries and putting them where people can see them threaten anyone? It's totally innocent. Buy these people some jackboots, they are everything they claim to detest.


31 posted on 03/04/2005 4:36:39 PM PST by johnb838 ("You Have Ruled, Now Let Us See You Enforce" Need some wood?)
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To: cake_crumb

"And he wondered how many bloggers are "fake independent voices" actually being funded by the right"

Where do I go to get my check.


32 posted on 03/04/2005 4:38:14 PM PST by orangelobster
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To: johnb838

Absolutely. We can add this to the story a week ago about the university prof who, in defense of Ward Churchill, said that "Bill O'Reilly should be shot" for his pestering of the left's favorite fake Indian.


33 posted on 03/04/2005 4:38:49 PM PST by My2Cents (America is divided along issues of morality, between the haves and the have-nots.)
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To: cake_crumb
Cuz you'll get the boot if you advocate violence here. I'm sure that rule doesn't apply on a lot of the independent blogs. Probably not very productive, but by golly the traitors in this country make ME that angry, so I don't condone it, but I understaaaand
34 posted on 03/04/2005 4:41:49 PM PST by johnb838 ("You Have Ruled, Now Let Us See You Enforce" Need some wood?)
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To: cake_crumb

The original artwork was an "Idiot" card for some Dungeons and Dragonish game. I just altered it to make fun of the DU types out there.


35 posted on 03/04/2005 4:44:15 PM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: orangelobster
"Where do I go to get my check."

Yeah, mine must be getting lost in the mail, too.

He sounds like the front man for the FEC's attempt to control information on the internet.

36 posted on 03/04/2005 4:45:49 PM PST by cake_crumb (Leftist Credo: "One Wing to Rule Them all and to the Dark Side Bind Them")
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To: sully777

I'm getting SICK of bloggers myself. That doesn't change the fact that Rall's a Clymer.


37 posted on 03/04/2005 4:46:22 PM PST by Clemenza (Alcohol Tobacco & Firearms: The Other Holy Trinity)
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To: Billthedrill
He has to infuriate people or he'd starve.

Same deal with Morford IMHO.

38 posted on 03/04/2005 4:47:07 PM PST by dighton
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To: dead
"I just altered it to make fun of the DU types out there."

Well, it was an excellent idea.

39 posted on 03/04/2005 4:48:34 PM PST by cake_crumb (Leftist Credo: "One Wing to Rule Them all and to the Dark Side Bind Them")
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To: My2Cents

All one has to do is take a walk down DU street to find plenty of incitement to violence. It seems to be what they are all about!


40 posted on 03/04/2005 4:50:43 PM PST by johnb838 ("You Have Ruled, Now Let Us See You Enforce" Need some wood?)
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