Comments on: Too Funny

By: Frank_D

Frank_D — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 19:10:14 +0000

The reporters who are not editorialists in disguise, and certainly not columnists. I very often read local newspapers (online) from around the country and the world, and they don’t insert their opinion into a story.

If I’m reading Frank Rich or Maureen Dowd, or Robert Novack, or George Will, I know what to expect.

But when the Associated Press starts spinning stories by piling up damning adjectives — the Associated Press! — I start to worry.

And Leo: To say that “objectivity is a relative term” is contradictory. To say it is impossible, when it was evident for all of my lifetime until the early Seventies (I was 24 by then), is ridiculous.

Of course it’s possible — it’s not just possible — it’s necessary!.

By: buma

buma — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 13:10:45 +0000

OK, I’ll bite. Name a reporter who reports the news objectively, Frank. You know, a card-carrying one.

By: Semanticleo

Semanticleo — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 13:10:43 +0000

Objectivity is a relative tierm; impossible in the absolute when humans involved.

By: Frank_D

Frank_D — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 13:10:33 +0000

Leo: Not all journalists are from the “speak truth to power” schhol of journalism, as serendipitously founded by Woodward and Bernstein (Thank God!).

Some journalists are just card – carrying reporters; i.e, they report the news. It takes real integrity to keep your ideology to yourself, and report the news objectively, which is fast becoming a lost art.

By: Semanticleo

Semanticleo — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 05:10:41 +0000

Yes, they do tend to follow the critical mass. But that is quite different from a disposition towards iconoclasm They are mainstream, and such, have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo. Fortunately, a few with genuine job integrity persist through the periods where their collegues languish in their comfortable lives, sated and fat.

By: Frank_D

Frank_D — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 05:10:39 +0000

Leo: From the post:

With so many forces at play, it is easy to lose perspective and context while plowing through the tons of information on this case

So much for the bogus “press standing by mute” theory…

By: Wilbur

Wilbur — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 04:10:22 +0000

Are you a Nazi? Truth, please.

Interesting that Frank would think that asking someone if he works for RNC is somehow similar to asking someone if he’s an Nazi. Freudian slip? Ja wohl!

By: Frank_D

Frank_D — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 04:10:21 +0000

Wilbur: Actually, it’s interesting that you would “think that asking someone if he works for RNC is somehow similar to asking someone if he s a Nazi.”

Because they’re not similar, and I had no idea they were.

By: Frank_D

Frank_D — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 03:10:30 +0000

JK: No, I don’t.

Are you a Nazi? Truth, please.

By: Semanticleo

Semanticleo — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 02:10:34 +0000

I say it’s crazy (the idea that Bush could pull a giant Nixon boner and fire the prosecutor) but this former CIA guy says it’s probable.

ttp://noquarter.typepad.com/

By: Semanticleo

Semanticleo — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 02:10:25 +0000

sorry http://noquarter.typepad.com/

By: Semanticleo

Semanticleo — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 02:10:22 +0000

try again.

ttp://noquarter.typepad.com/

By: JK

JK — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 01:10:21 +0000

Frank. I have a serious question.

Do you work for the RNC? Truth, please.

By: Frank_D

Frank_D — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 22:10:28 +0000

danelectro: She may have trouble getting the black vote — the liberal machine is too firmly entrenched — but once she’s in, she could be a healer.

I happen to think she’s squeaky clean in this Plame affair. Her name hasn’t come up — yet. I hate to sound conspiratorial, but that might change if she were to announce too soon.

Which might be why she’s waiting to announce – besides which she’s not going to leave her job too early — she’s not the type.

By: danelectro

danelectro — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 16:10:16 +0000

but frank_d, i think condi as a real political force would be a great thing the the country. forcing racists out of the gop, and bringing in more african-americans would be a positive re-alignment, regardless of which party ends up winning at the ballot box.

(personally i think condi is too caught up in this to be a viable candidate. but if her role turns out to be minor i would be willing to overlook it)

By: BabyHazel

BabyHazel — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 14:10:23 +0000

I like this one too... http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/10/02/124446.php

By: Semanticleo

Semanticleo — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 12:10:04 +0000

Yeah, crazy.

But there is crazy, and there is insane.

Rat Fucking performed by Nixon’s USC mafia (Ron Ziegler et al) on political opponents was sophomoric compared to this crew.

By: Frank_D

Frank_D — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 11:10:53 +0000

Right the first time…

That’s plain crazy.

But Night Stalker is looking for writers…

By: buma

buma — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 11:10:19 +0000

Cheney’s legal problems couldn’t happen to a more deserving fellow. The myth of Republican competence is a house of cads.

By: Semanticleo

Semanticleo — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 11:10:18 +0000

Semanticleo Says:
October 18th, 2005 at 12:45 am

Could this whole thing be a CIA operation to pay back Cheney for all his arm twisting at the agency? I mean, as long as there is gonna be speculation about this rumor and that. It all sounds too fishy to me. Could be another planted story like the one Rather fell for. Could be a plan to make Cheney look like he s gonna do a perp walk; then Surprise!!!! See Cheney didn t do nothin !

The bad ol liberal media set him up for a fall, but it didn t happen. Did it?

Then Rove and Libby garner some sympathy on the coattails of Cheney, and Bush rebounds in the polls.

Nah! That s plain crazy. Or& & & .?