Eric Alterman is some sort of sub-human life form. Jeff Jarvis put him in his place yesterday, but I doubt Alterman noticed. If it’s responsible to add fuel to the speculative fire about CIA-sponsored bloggers, it must be OK to speculate on Alterman’s possible connnection to Al Qaeda, Saddam’s people, or the Iranian mullahs, I … Continue reading “Scumbag Alert”
Eric Alterman is some sort of sub-human life form. Jeff Jarvis put him in his place yesterday, but I doubt Alterman noticed.
If it’s responsible to add fuel to the speculative fire about CIA-sponsored bloggers, it must be OK to speculate on Alterman’s possible connnection to Al Qaeda, Saddam’s people, or the Iranian mullahs, I suppose.
Max Boot on Seymour Hersh: Hersh, on the other hand, is the journalistic equivalent of Oliver Stone: a hard-left zealot who subscribes to the old counterculture conceit that a deep, dark conspiracy is running the U.S. government. In the 1960s the boogeyman was the “military- industrial complex.” Now it’s the “neoconservatives.” Hersh is the Chomsky … Continue reading “Another quote of the week”
Hersh, on the other hand, is the journalistic equivalent of Oliver Stone: a hard-left zealot who subscribes to the old counterculture conceit that a deep, dark conspiracy is running the U.S. government. In the 1960s the boogeyman was the “military- industrial complex.” Now it’s the “neoconservatives.”
Hersh is the Chomsky of journalism.
This business that Howie Kurtz is manufacturing about Maggie Gallagher seriously pisses me off because I’ve met Gallagher, I like her, and I know that nobody had to give her a writing contract to say good things about marriage. My first contact with her was at a joint hearing of the Judiciary Committees of the … Continue reading “Howie Kurtz is an idiot”
This business that Howie Kurtz is manufacturing about Maggie Gallagher seriously pisses me off because I’ve met Gallagher, I like her, and I know that nobody had to give her a writing contract to say good things about marriage.
My first contact with her was at a joint hearing of the Judiciary Committees of the California Assembly and Senate in the 90s, where she was a featured witness alongside Gloria Allred. She probably cashed a check from the Democrats who ran the legislature for her appearance, but I don’t recall any whining.
She was invited because she’s been one of America’s foremost marriage advocates since the 80s, as you can see from the list of books Amazon.com has from her. So if she only writes in praise of marriage because of a token contract with HHS last year, she must be pretty damn prescient, not to mention determined. Can we imagine the dedication it took for her to embark, back in the 80s, on a course of writing a half-dozen books on marriage just to get a $21,500 check 20 years in the future?
Amazing.
Numerous critics point to Kurtz’ conflicts of interest, but that doesn’t matter to me because he’s obviously a moron with not enough on his alleged mind. His mother must have dropped him on his head.
UPDATE: This is absolutely hilarious: David Brock, of Troopergate fame, says Gallagher has irrevocably damaged her integrity and should be fired by her syndicator. Yes, the David Brock who’s been an attack dog for both Richard Mellon Scaife and George Soros.
What an odd world this is.
Creationists who believe the earth and everything in it was created by the Christian god some 6,000 years ago are called “young earth” creationists. One of them is also a young blogosphere believer: And the political bloggers have been there for four years. We were the first ones to get there. But now business is … Continue reading “The young blogosphere theory”
Creationists who believe the earth and everything in it was created by the Christian god some 6,000 years ago are called “young earth” creationists. One of them is also a young blogosphere believer:
And the political bloggers have been there for four years. We were the first ones to get there. But now business is rushing.
Actually, political blogging has been going on for close to ten years; here’s an entry of mine from 1998 via the Wayback Machine, and one of Mickey Kaus’ from 1999.
One of the most amusing up-and-coming left-wing blogs is Notes in Samsara, the recipient of Christian charity. It’s ranked 7000 and something in the Ecosystem, and its most authoritative inbound link is from Evangelical Outpost, a creationist site. The editor is one Mumon, who’s been described as Joe Carter’s own leftist quasi-troll. We know him … Continue reading “Notes in Samsara”
One of the most amusing up-and-coming left-wing blogs is Notes in Samsara, the recipient of Christian charity. It’s ranked 7000 and something in the Ecosystem, and its most authoritative inbound link is from Evangelical Outpost, a creationist site. The editor is one Mumon, who’s been described as Joe Carter’s own leftist quasi-troll. We know him as John K.
It hasn’t been widely reported, but Instapundit Glenn Reynolds is one of the contestants on the Donald Trump Apprentice show this season. He’s competing under the name “Danny” but as these side-by-side pictures show, Danny is none other than the famous right wing blogger who has had an abortion which he frequently talks about on … Continue reading “Instapundit on Apprentice”
It hasn’t been widely reported, but Instapundit Glenn Reynolds is one of the contestants on the Donald Trump Apprentice show this season. He’s competing under the name “Danny” but as these side-by-side pictures show, Danny is none other than the famous right wing blogger who has had an abortion which he frequently talks about on Hugh Hewitt’s Creationist Hour radio show.
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This shit is a perfect example of why people trust blogs more than the Blessed Main Stream Media.
This shit is a perfect example of why people trust blogs more than the Blessed Main Stream Media.
Re: the Kos flap, Chris Suellentrop points out that bloggers like Kos inhabit a bit of a netherland between journalism and activism: Moulitsas is a different case. He’s never pretended to be a journalist – this past October, he told National Journal, “I am part of the media. But a journalist? No. If I had … Continue reading “Kos wants it both ways”
Re: the Kos flap, Chris Suellentrop points out that bloggers like Kos inhabit a bit of a netherland between journalism and activism:
Moulitsas is a different case. He’s never pretended to be a journalist – this past October, he told National Journal, “I am part of the media. But a journalist? No. If I had put a label on it, I would say I am an activist.” – but in the year since he stopped cashing Dean’s checks, he’s gained a reputation as “the liberal Instapundit” and the most popular left-wing blogger.
Suellentrop doesn’t quite appreciate how ambiguous Kos’ position really is. He started a bi-partisan blog in 2003 called Political State Report to cover politics at the state level leading up to the 2004 election. One of the purposes of this blog (to which I contributed for a while; see this entry commenting on one of my articles) was to obtain press credentials to cover political events such as the conventions. When this was announced, I quit and asked for my postings to be removed because it was obvious that the press role was in conflict with the activist role. I was an activist, and had been for a while, and didn’t want to try and pass myself off as anything else.
So Kos has pretty consistently leveraged his activism with consulting and journalism of a sort, no matter what he’s saying now. So regardless of how you feel about Zephyr Teachout and Jerome Armstrong, Markos Moulitsas Zuniga is a study in conflicts of interest and limited credibility.
Via Jarvis.
UPDATE: Temple Stark, current editor of Political State Report, is insistent that I mention Kos is no longer associated with Polstate, other than providing hosting for it. He doesn’t want this efforts damaged by association with Kos, and I can appreciate that.
It’s hard for me to comment on this story about Iraq the Model that Jeff Jarvis writes about today without using lots of profanity to describe this Sarah Boxer character who wrote it. Suffice to say the story is factually wrong on several counts, not to mention hateful. Iraq the Model is not hosted on … Continue reading “Shady journalism”
It’s hard for me to comment on this story about Iraq the Model that Jeff Jarvis writes about today without using lots of profanity to describe this Sarah Boxer character who wrote it. Suffice to say the story is factually wrong on several counts, not to mention hateful. Iraq the Model is not hosted on a server belonging to CIA Tech Solutions and it never has been. It’s on Blogspot and always has been. Some guy associated with CIA Tech took it on himself to register some alternate domain names for a number of Iraqi blogs, including ITM and Riverbend’s, but he did so on his own and never hosted these blogs. This is explained in the comments to the Martini Republic posting that was apparently the sole source for Boxer’s article.
Sarah Boxer has just put the lives of the ITM bloggers in jeopardy on the basis of a lie. There is a special place in hell for people like her, and the sooner she finds it* the better this world will be.
(*not that I intend to send her there, mind you.)
UPDATE: Now some may argue that Boxer simply doesn’t understand the difference between a web host and a name service. If that’s the case, why did the New York Times assign her a story about a blog?
Mr. Sharkansky of Sound Politics will be on Brit Hume’s show tonight discussing this:.
Mr. Sharkansky of Sound Politics will be on Brit Hume’s show tonight discussing this:
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