CNN- We Don’t Know What the F**K We’re Doing:
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
CNN Hires Erick Erickson | ||||
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Meanwhile, we are going on nine months since Marcy Wheeler was blacklisted for saying “blow job.“
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CNN- We Don’t Know What the F**K We’re Doing:
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
CNN Hires Erick Erickson | ||||
www.thedailyshow.com | ||||
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Meanwhile, we are going on nine months since Marcy Wheeler was blacklisted for saying “blow job.“
by John Cole| 46 Comments
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It is well past time to send David Broder to pasture, where he can spend his days dribbling tapioca on his sweater vest while waxing eloquent about the good old days when Tip O’Neill and Ronald Reagan exchanged pleasantries after passing bills:
But the partisanship on both sides was a turnoff to independents. They were the people who had taken Obama seriously when he said he wanted to move Washington beyond the recriminations of the George W. Bush years. Regardless of their views on health care — or the economy or education or anything else — they are turned off by the inability of both parties to overcome their parochial concerns and agree on steps to curb the joblessness and debt that are consuming the country.
I’m just coming to the conclusion that David Broder and the independents he represent are either so hopped up on lithium and anti-depressants that they just have no clue what is going on around them or they are just completely politically unaware idiots who shouldn’t be allowed to vote. Or both.
It is particularly galling to me that anyone could watch the last two years and have a “pox on both houses” mentality. One side of this debate has been deceitful, disgusting, and downright disingenuous about everything. Hell, this Broder piece is published the day after Obama foolishly (in my mind) extended an olive branch to Republicans about coastal drilling, and… they rejected it.
Bipartisanship, Broder’s Rosebud, is dead, and it is pretty clear which side is to blame- the ones wielding the signs screaming Don’t Tread On Me from the Capitol Hill Balcony might be the place to start.
by John Cole| 96 Comments
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I’m sure the media and right wing blogs will give this the same amount of attention they gave the climate change denialists will ignore this completely:
The UK scientist at the center of the “Climategate” controversy over leaked e-mails has been cleared of hiding or manipulating data by a parliamentary committee.
But lawmakers who had been investigating the row over global warming science said in a report published Wednesday that climate scientists must publish all their raw data and methods to ensure the research is “irreproachable.”
***The Commons report said the leaked emails suggested a “blunt refusal” by Jones to share scientific data but its chairman Phil Willis said there was no evidence that Jones hid or manipulated data to back up his own science.
If the NY Times behavior in the ACORN case is any example, I’m pretty sure they will get around to clarifying their part in the climate change denialist binge around the time Manhattan is submerged by ten feet of sea water. And, in fairness, if they continue to employ Douthat, Brooks, and Friedman, I’m ok with that outcome.
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by $8 blue check mistermix| 16 Comments
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Following up on AK DougJ’s post about the noble search for readers at Politico, I thought John Gruber at Daring Fireball got it about right:
[…] Pageviews, as a metric used for directly billing advertisers, are a scam. Publishers game it with sensational link-bait articles and bullshit tricks like breaking articles into multiple “pages”. Advertisers get stuck paying for valueless impressions. Readers get stuck with the sensational bullshit articles, the tricks (like breaking single articles into multiple “pages”), and suffer through too many annoying ads surrounding actual content.It is, as Jim Coudal and I argued at SXSW, a race to the bottom. Be careful of the “everyones” who say pageviews are imperfect but the best we can do. They’re the ones who are happy with the web as a market for bullshit.
Politico, of course, splits their stories. As for sensational bullshit articles, it’s been known to happen.
by John Cole| 44 Comments
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It looks like the wingnut scientific method looks a lot like the underpants gnomes helped them out:
The paper begins by talking about the ENSO, better known as El Niño. It’s a periodic shift in ocean currents and surface winds associated with wide reaching changes that no climate scientist doubts. But the authors then pivot off that fact in a manner familiar to any science cartoon fans, “And then a miracle occurs”. The miracle step being they’ve extrapolated from the completely unremarkable, well known finding that El Niño governs much of the short-term oscillations from one year to the next in global temperature, to the completely bogus claim that it explains the long-term trend. If the scientific intricacies sound daunting, think of it as the Dr. Frankenstein approach: they sewed the lifeless head of an ideological claim onto the stump of a cold, hard fact, pronounced the monster alive, and now hope to parade the mangled corpse around on the media stage calling it science.
It doesn’t matter that the paper is now going to get ripped apart, and no one with any credibility will ever use it to support or advance their research. They have what they want- every climate denialist from the glibertarians at Reason to the troglodytes at NRO to James Inhofe will now point to “peer-reviewed science” that says it is a hoax. And we know how this will play in the media- John King will have renowned climatologists with reams of evidence and data discussing the issue, and they will be “balanced” by Erick Erickson and some flat-earther from the Discovery Institute who will cite this piece and then call Al Gore fat.
Mission accomplished.
by $8 blue check mistermix| 78 Comments
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Rupert Murdoch has just announced that he’ll be charging $1.50 a day, $3 a week ($155/year) for the privilege of reading the London Times and Sunday Times over the Internets.
In further craziness, he’s decided that an iPad subscription to the Wall Street Journal is worth $18/month, while one delivered by the regular Internet is around $8/month. I’d assume this means that the Journal is building a special iPad app that will do something other than deliver words to the screen of the iPad. Perhaps it will cause ice-cold beer to flow from the docking connector.
Maybe Rupert isn’t aware that the iPad will have a web browser and Internet connection that Journal subscribers can use if they want to save a sawbuck. Or, more likely, his iPad pricing is just another example of the SkyMall syndrome: the belief that one’s product is so special, and one’s audience is so captive, that a ridiculous surcharge will be tolerated.
I have no explanation for the Times pricing, other than the onset of senility.
by $8 blue check mistermix| 48 Comments
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If you read today’s New York Times opinion page, you’ll never have to read another Moustache or MoDo column ever again, because the Grey Lady has published the immutable, eternal archetype of each of their standard emissions:
That is why I want my own Tea Party. I want a Tea Party of the radical center.
Dowd, in a column headlined Hail the Conquering Professor:
The Democrats were walking around in a state of shock.
Holy cow, they were saying to themselves. We’re not total wimps!
Did Pinch or Punch or Biff or whatever inbreed runs that place outsource the opinion page to the Onion while we weren’t looking?