Mine arrive Friday. I'll send another pic after Permablue does its trick. Psyops can be fun.
Posted on 09/20/2004 9:21:31 PM PDT by HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
Freerepublic was just called "radical" by a guest on MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann. Buckhead was mentioned again. They are also discussing conspiracy theories, blogs, and the usual chatter on Dan Rather's nosedive into silliness.
To the Liberals, anything not as Left-wing as MoveOn.org is "radical".
Yeah, and old time 'journalists' use forgeries too!
I'm fixating on the use of the word "old". hehe. Seems someone has finally picked up on the fact we are refering to them as the Old Media, and ourselves as the New Media. Seems that cut deep. LOL
So I'm a radical? Cool. Guess "right-winger" just doesn't have the same zest it used to.
I videotaped the interview.
They talked about "Buckhead" while Olberman mentioned "Free Republic" and showed his picture with his real name under it - explaining that he had been "outed" by the L.A. Times.
In the last minute of the interview, while Olberman showed Free Republic.com on the TV screen, O'Brien said, "Free Republic is a radical web site."
She said that when the Dan Rather memo thing first broke she had made certain comments about it on her web blog, but eventually had to shut it down because some people were coming there and posting obscenities on it. She said, "Thats the way people who don't like George Bush are being treated these days."
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Barbara O'Brien
Monday, September 20, 2004
Media Star
What a strange experience. I didn't actuallly meet Keith Olbermann, because I was in a little studio in Midtown Manhattan and the main MSNBC studio is in New Jersey. And I didn't get to say any of what I had hoped to say. Olbermann was going on about how blogs are possibly being used by political parties to put out rumors and spin, and I couldn't think of much to say except "yeah, could be." But I was able to sit in the chair and get words out of my mouth. Also I got picked up by a limo (whoo-hoo!) and got a little gift bag with a coffee cup and coffee and some chocolate-covered macadamia nuts.
They're repeating the show at midnight, eastern time, so you can still catch my television debute! I'm on early and very briefly.
Tomorrow -- back to earth. I've got a plumber coming to fix my shower.
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Maha on MSNBC
Barring a change of programming (for which I am praying fervently), I'm going to be talking about blogs on Countdown with Keith Olberman tonight. Wish me luck.
Watch for the replay of Deborah Norville show at 2am edt on MessNBC, she and the guests were HAMMERING CBS/Rather!
Abrams report guest DeGenova was hitting hard too, only saw part of it, but he said CBS news rating were cratering and "deservedly so"!
Sounds liberated to me! Definitely is not oppression or slavery.
"Submit yourselves one unto another..."
At a presentation of the physician's portion of the abstinence program, "Worth the Wait," I was surprised by the questions I was asked by the 6th graders. One girl, after I had told them that the best and only safe sex was one partner for life, asked me, "How do you know he's the one."
After acknowledging that she had asked the toughest question of all, I told them that the other person would make you feel better about yourself -as though you are a better person when you're around him or her - and that each should feel like he or she was lucky to have the other - that probably each should feel that he or she is more lucky than the other!
"Just in case Barb wants the true facts on the culture of the unfolding blogocalypse"
That's why I publish The Blogspirator!
http://blogspirator.blogspot.com/
Tinfoil not included. Do not fold, spindle, or mutilate.
I guess conservatives are the ones who are "hip" now. And liberals? They're still stuck in 1967.
Will try! If I can stay awake. :)
The ad hominem attacks and slurs on bloggers, Buckhead, and Freerepublic reveal the very condescending, smarmy, and elitist mentality of these mediaoids. Some of them still don't get it. Bizarre. They are that out of touch with reality and American culture.
That's lame. Buckhead and the doubters that followed him were right. Mary Mapes and Dan Rather, whose name is on the bottom of the screen all the time, were wrong, and now they have enough egg on their faces to make a week's worth of omelettes.
Besides, we wouldn't ever have known Bill Burkett's identity if the memos had been authentic. Sell that schtuff somewhere else.
Mine arrive Friday. I'll send another pic after Permablue does its trick. Psyops can be fun.
This is a compliment, we should send our thanks.
Well, I know a real, live, actual Travis McGee, so as far as I'm concerned, you're covered, hoss!
I am sure Norville -- who was slammed relentlessly as not being serious enough to sit on the same Today set with Jane Pauley, much less replacing her -- is getting a little chuckle as one of the heavy hitters of "hard" news is exposed as having lower journalistic standards than those of Norville's Inside Edition, the lone survivor of the tabloid TV trend that began with Maury Povich's A Current Affair.
Oh, by the way -- it was Inside Edition that first made Bill O'Reilly a household word.
When I was in high school they taught us in civics that far-left was "radical" and far-right was "reactionary." Do these attributions still apply? Granted my high school was situated in the shadow of Berkeley, CA but I had no reason at the time to doubt my teacher. It's one of those reactions one learns early in life that seems like a reflex - I notice when someone uses "radical" to describe a conservative.
Am I off the mark here?
Does the political spectrum still exist?
The goofier liberals seem to be having a hard time coming to terms with the fact that conservatives are better bloggers. And better with handling the internet in general. Now...THERE's a story for them to work on.
I am not a radical.........lot's of people bury bodies under their house.
I prefer the term "bodacious."
Cool for the guys but I prefer to think of we ladies as "Victoria's Secret Service"....:)
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