Comments on: What did we learn today?

By: X Stryker

X Stryker — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:42:47 +0000

The PR disaster that was Palin and not-Joe the not-Plumber was wholly the fault of John McCain. McCain just has a tendency to latch on to ideas without really considering them. If he’d thought it over, he might have floated Palin as a trial balloon so that she could have done some interviews and proven her mettle or lack thereof. While the media was out wasting their time getting to know Pawlenty (who easily survived the process), they could have been talking to Palin as well, and that would have given McCain’s people more to work with as far as seeing if she could hold up her end of the bargain (answer: No). And making “Joe the Plumber” the centerpiece of the entire third debate was not only an idiotic idea that put the nail in the coffin of his campaign, but it was obviously going to turn Joe the Plumber into an overnight celebrity. When you turn someone into a celebrity, that person is going to have as much privacy as Lindsey Lohan. Fox News stood right along side the rest of the media to feed that hunger.

By: Von Cracker

Von Cracker — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:26:47 +0000

Joe the Plum soiled his own name with obvious contradictions and proving a total lack of knowledge of political and economic systems.

This is easily applied to the crap Palin’s been spewing…

In other words “Character Suicide”, not assassination fool.

By: cassandra_m

cassandra_m — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:19:00 +0000

Ugh, Gharmon, is that true? How did you hear this?

By: Gharmon

Gharmon — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:35:15 +0000

Jason knows what he is talking about, for example, KWS has named Tom Gordon to her transition team…..

By: Unstable Isotope

Unstable Isotope — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:48:20 +0000

Perhaps we should investigate Howell’s countertops. Oh wait, that was the Malkinites.

By: Miscreant

Miscreant — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:31:37 +0000

“I don’t mind the so-called objectivity as much as I mind the lack of effort to give any of the he say she say crap some context or basic fact-checking.”

You mean like *fact checking* this statement?

“Deborah Howell is a known bad excuse for a newspaper ombudsman…”

I’m a bit surprised the left hasn’t thoroughly investigated her background and launched a smear campaign (like Joe the Plumber and S. Palin), simply because she stated the obvious in a very objective report.

By: cassandra_m

cassandra_m — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:15:19 +0000

Hi Xstryker!

Deborah Howell is a known bad excuse for a newspaper ombudsman, but I can’t imagine what hiring based upon political ideology will do for the Post — if you are a regular reader, they already have a fairly conservative editorial board and a quick look at their regular columnists shows a definite lean to the right. All accusations of bias towards McCain — by a media that was hugely friendly to him — was mostly due to the horrific campaign he waged. That campaign gave lots of media people lots of fodder to discuss the disorder of the campaign, to factcheck the barrage of character assassination pieces and rhetoric from the campaign, offer to compare the two campaigns and find the McCain effort wanting. And it took the media a very long time to get there. But Al Gore can tell you something about that, I think.

I don’t mind the so-called objectivity as much as I mind the lack of effort to give any of the he say she say crap some context or basic fact-checking.

By: Miscreant

Miscreant — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:36:56 +0000

“So I guess you could say I’m something of a known quantity with a good track record. ”

No, just another discordant voice in the partisan Greek Chorus that is Delaware Liberal. So much for diversity. Wait, that was the Washington Post.

Never mind.

By: X Stryker

X Stryker — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:22:43 +0000

Heh, well, I filled in for Jason wayyy back in January 2007, plus my work on the primaries over at Election Inspection was pretty spot-on. So I guess you could say I’m something of a known quantity with a good track record. Of course, it’s up to me to bring my “A” game now that I’m a regular at the Delaware-blog-of-record.

By: pandora

pandora — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:51:33 +0000

Ah… if only all decisions were as easy as X!

By: Joanne Christian

Joanne Christian — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:18:34 +0000

Insurance Commissioner

By: xstryker

xstryker — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:15:08 +0000

Jason is right – I’d rather the media drop all pretense of objectivity, because it’s a sham. The media often ignores stories because they are afraid of seeming too liberal or too conservative. That does not advance the cause of truth and often promotes false moral equivalency. They already have conservative columnists on the opinion pages of liberal newspapers to go along with the liberal ones. Reporters should not be required to declare their politics to get hired, period.

Joanne – what’s an “IC”?

By: Joanne Christian

Joanne Christian — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:29:10 +0000

Hey Delaware Liberal–What is this? The Christmas help? Everyone else is laying off–wow that is HOPE!
Just kidding…welcome XStryker–you must be something–DL couldn’t decide on an IC, so you must’ve really overwhelmed ‘em.

By: Unstable Isotope

Unstable Isotope — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:38:43 +0000

Welcome X!

Yep, conservatives are against affirmative action for people other than themselves.

By: nemski

nemski — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:27:50 +0000

X, I see that miscreant has welcomed you.