Cheney proved he can’t be trusted with a weapon. He didn’t identify his target before pulling the trigger.
]]>For what it’s worth, I just sold my late father’s rifle to the same neighbor who is buying the trailer. It will presumably join the four rifles he already owns in the rack on his wall. AFAIK, he hasn’t criminally assaulted anyone with them, and I’ve long since stated that I do not oppose hunting for food, even if I don’t do it myself. There actually is a middle ground on this issue.
I do understand that you’re using this as an issue on which liberals sometimes publicly disagree, and I agree with you that utter unanimity on all issues, in the manner of the freepers, is far from a good thing.
]]>I can’t imagine living in the ocean of fear that much of the Right inhabits.
]]>Hang in there. The longer you’re out of it the more you can say.
]]>I would venture to say that the total number of bloggers who have appeared in television as a blogger is extremely small, and on Fox even smaller. Other than local articles, like the one that ran in the Pensacola News Journal, most of the MSM ignore the existence of bloggers. My local, Northwest Florida Daily News, has their content behind a subscription wall, so I can’t cite them.
The majority of liberal bloggers are on their own sites, not on diary sites like My Left Wing or Kos, and are using one of the free services.
I doubt either of you guys would appreciate my views on the Second Amendment, although if things keep going the way they are, you may come to see the Founders’ reasons.
We agree to disagree on a lot of things, other than the base fact that the current crew in charge have taken the country in the wrong direction and something needs to change.
The Post is attacking critics: it’s really that simple. I’m waiting to see if they decide to offer Maryscott the position of the official left-wing blogger.
]]>What I object to is the false and misleading notion that any one blogger can be singled out and held up as representative of what we do here.
Word. We’re not institutions or a grand collective; we’re individuals. David Finkel pretends otherwise, admits having never read a blog before writing his hit piece, and also confesses to conceiving a title having something to do with the “angry Left” before he began. The depth of his intellectual dishonesty is breathtaking.
When the WaPo got into a dispute with firedoglake about the comments on Deborah Howell’s refusal to accept correction of her errors, someone got in and archived the thread before the WaPo scrubbed the comments. The overwhelming majority of comments removed by WaPo were not profane or obscene, but they were quite negative about Ms. Howell’s determination to stick with GOP talking points even in the face of known facts. In other words, the WaPo censored the thread and then lied about it.
It’s a pattern with the Post. Finkel’s new piece is offensive but unsurprising.
]]>I’m gratified someone in Florida addressed this issue, because what the Post did was so very blatant, as Billmon says, it can be understood only as ‘payback’. Which is pathetic, given the Post’s recent scrwball moves, from the Howell mess to last Sunday’s editorial failure. Much as I love Billmon, I think Glenn Greenwald has it nailed in his latest —
http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2006/04/mistaking-caricature-and.html
“The tactics in the article are as intellectually lazy and empty as they are transparently deceitful and trite.”
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