Comments on: Suggestions? http://www.callingallwingnuts.com/2006/03/25/suggestions/ Kickin' ass on the lyin' side: A never-ending battle against stupid, ugly, deceitful and corrupt right-wing water carriers... Tue, 6 Jan 2009 04:45:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Anonymous http://www.callingallwingnuts.com/2006/03/25/suggestions/#comment-1183 Anonymous Wed, 29 Mar 2006 21:25:22 +0000 http://www.callingallwingnuts.com/2006/03/25/suggestions/#comment-1183 http://blogoland.blogspot.com/2006/03/hugh-hewitt-terror-warrior.html http://blogoland.blogspot.com/2006/03/hugh-hewitt-terror-warrior.html

]]> By: Hieronymous Cowherd http://www.callingallwingnuts.com/2006/03/25/suggestions/#comment-1118 Hieronymous Cowherd Mon, 27 Mar 2006 18:16:02 +0000 http://www.callingallwingnuts.com/2006/03/25/suggestions/#comment-1118 Jim Brady is a godsend. Let him hire another Red blogger. We'll do the background vetting and destroy the next new hire, too. Lather, rinse, and repeat. Seems like as good a way as any to refute the neo-con talking points. Jim Brady is a godsend.

Let him hire another Red blogger. We’ll do the background vetting and destroy the next new hire, too. Lather, rinse, and repeat. Seems like as good a way as any to refute the neo-con talking points.

]]> By: I Ron Iee http://www.callingallwingnuts.com/2006/03/25/suggestions/#comment-1108 I Ron Iee Sat, 25 Mar 2006 18:46:17 +0000 http://www.callingallwingnuts.com/2006/03/25/suggestions/#comment-1108 How could I forget Jane Hamsher? She writes: I’m guessing this all started when the White House didn't like the magnifying glass being applied to it by Dan Froomkin at the WPNI, and since they have no ability to differentiate between valid criticism and partisan hackery their two-pronged approach was to a) silence Froomkin and b) try to get their own partisan hack in there. <a HREF="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-hamsher/to-jim-brady-the-wapo-s_b_17854.html " rel="nofollow"> (link) </A> How could I forget Jane Hamsher? She writes:

I’m guessing this all started when the White House didn’t like the magnifying glass being applied to it by Dan Froomkin at the WPNI, and since they have no ability to differentiate between valid criticism and partisan hackery their two-pronged approach was to a) silence Froomkin and b) try to get their own partisan hack in there.

(link)

]]> By: Flounder http://www.callingallwingnuts.com/2006/03/25/suggestions/#comment-1107 Flounder Sat, 25 Mar 2006 18:43:21 +0000 http://www.callingallwingnuts.com/2006/03/25/suggestions/#comment-1107 I left a comment on a Dkos thread where I said if they truly want a conservative blogger, who could be more conservative, christian, and heterosexual than Gen. JC Christian? We should start a grassroots movement to get the General hired by the WaPo. I left a comment on a Dkos thread where I said if they truly want a conservative blogger, who could be more conservative, christian, and heterosexual than Gen. JC Christian? We should start a grassroots movement to get the General hired by the WaPo.

]]> By: I Ron Iee http://www.callingallwingnuts.com/2006/03/25/suggestions/#comment-1105 I Ron Iee Sat, 25 Mar 2006 17:35:43 +0000 http://www.callingallwingnuts.com/2006/03/25/suggestions/#comment-1105 “second of all, even liberal columnists (what - all three of them?) like Krugman, Ivins and uhmm… help me out here… “</b> others include Maureen Dowd, Frank Rich, Tom Oliphant, David Corn, Dan Froomkin. = = = = This isn't about "balancing" the alleged closet liberalism on the part of Froomkin, or any other Washington Post figure. Conservatives don't give a damn how many of their fellow conservatives are on your site -- so long as your paper continues to report facts they don't like, or media critics like Froomkin factcheck the more mindnumbing elements of political spin, those conservatives are still going to attack the paper itself as being hopelessly "liberal." <a HREF="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/3/24/183323/642" rel="nofollow"> (more) by Kos: on Brady at WaPo </A> = = = = “As the Bush administration's Iraq fiasco spirals further out of control, a new phase of the war has begun: an all-out assault on the American media for simply reporting the news. The scope and audacity of this attack is breathtaking: on cue, a bevy of administration officials and rightwing talking heads has begun taking direct aim at the press… Democrats can learn a lesson from this new rightwing anti-media salvo. Despite a half-decade of "Bush stands firm" and "Democrats muddled" narratives that have mangled public perceptions beyond repair, Dems tiptoe around media issues, afraid to alienate the media establishment. Meanwhile, Bush and his minions launch a full-scale offensive, no hesitation, no shame. This is a new and repugnant twist in the Iraq misadventure, a coordinated assault against the free press by a desperate administration, and it is a dangerous and shameful tactic. And for an administration that created this mess, it is the mother of all political cop-outs. <a HREF="http://daoureport.salon.com/synopsis.aspx?synopsisId=0c901c16-cbac-454b-9b3f-edbacee6855a" rel="nofollow"> Daou: War of the Media</A> “second of all, even liberal columnists (what - all three of them?) like Krugman, Ivins and uhmm… help me out here… “

others include Maureen Dowd, Frank Rich, Tom Oliphant, David Corn, Dan Froomkin.

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This isn’t about “balancing” the alleged closet liberalism on the part of Froomkin, or any other Washington Post figure. Conservatives don’t give a damn how many of their fellow conservatives are on your site — so long as your paper continues to report facts they don’t like, or media critics like Froomkin factcheck the more mindnumbing elements of political spin, those conservatives are still going to attack the paper itself as being hopelessly “liberal.”

(more) by Kos: on Brady at WaPo
= = = =

“As the Bush administration’s Iraq fiasco spirals further out of control, a new phase of the war has begun: an all-out assault on the American media for simply reporting the news. The scope and audacity of this attack is breathtaking: on cue, a bevy of administration officials and rightwing talking heads has begun taking direct aim at the press…

Democrats can learn a lesson from this new rightwing anti-media salvo. Despite a half-decade of “Bush stands firm” and “Democrats muddled” narratives that have mangled public perceptions beyond repair, Dems tiptoe around media issues, afraid to alienate the media establishment. Meanwhile, Bush and his minions launch a full-scale offensive, no hesitation, no shame. This is a new and repugnant twist in the Iraq misadventure, a coordinated assault against the free press by a desperate administration, and it is a dangerous and shameful tactic. And for an administration that created this mess, it is the mother of all political cop-outs.

Daou: War of the Media

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