that sound you hear is the Democratic Party being ripped to pieces as the radical left tries an uninvited takeover and scares off all the moderate democrats.
Thank you Howard Dean, Cindy Sheehan & the mob of moonbats and whackos at the Daily KOS for providing the foundation for at least four more years of GOP rule.
Its Rudi’s time a coming.
1. Shouldn’t everyone in the online community be celebrating the outcome of this primary because it demonstrates the power of blogs and cyberspace? Whether you like the winner or not, it is more evidence that the blogs need to be reckoned with.
2. In the lead-up to the primary, most of the “establishment” Democrats supported Liberman. Now that it’s over, many have shfted their support to Lamont. Isn’t it reasonable for party leaders to accept the democratic results of a duly contested election and respect the choice of their Connnecticut constituents?
3. As for the supposed hijacking of the Democratic Party by the fringes, it’s interesting that I haven’t seen too many tears shed online from the left over the defeat of Cynthia McKinney.
Yes indeed…there is a lot of antipathy building for the radicalized left who seem to have adopted the Dems.
Next step in the cyle will be centrist support for the GOP.
Then……all those marginalized American commies will be out in the streets again without a disguise.
OMMAG
I much prefer having friends like Christ even if some think him imaginary, sure beats having delusional ideas as many on the left are so prone to
advocate with such ferocity.
Makes you go hhhhhmmmm.
Just a quick reply to one of the scary lefties on the Carpetbagger report.
the american pol. system is flawed right down to the bedrock; with a population of 300 million +/-, why do they still insist on a tweedle dee tweedle dum 2 party choice??? cripes, here in canada it is common to have as many as 5 candidates from recognized parties, and I dont mean the laughable trotskyists.
they groan and bemoan the creation of an independent when in fact it shows there is a need for a 3rd option.
You sure as hell want to believe they’re “a little bit scared of the bloggers”…but the Dems are not alone in this sentiment as GOP spinmeisters have stated the same.
If the truth be told, both wings of the “Republicrats” and would dearly love to shut down the freedom of cyberspace because it is counterspin to the millions they spend on PR each year….and they will at the nearest opportunity where they think they can get away with it.
Persinally, I think the “terrorist” threat will be used to install some draconian goverment controls on ISPs which will essentially allow complete surviellence of all i-net users and eliminate anonymity. This will be followed with some high profile arrests under the patriot act for “sedition”. Then they will go full steam ahead building and making you use internet II… which will be totally controlled by government regulators.
Controlling information flow is a credendum of the new statism we see in the bureaucrats who populate the modern super state….North America’s political elite differ little from China’s in wishing for complete control over what the public hear, see and believe….American Plutocrats will attain their goals by degrees where Chinese oligarchs simply decree their wishes.
Motto: Veritas odit moras*. (Seneca) …-
Watching the watchdogs
Charles Johnson continues to produce mind-boggling results in documenting the outrageous bias and outright fraudulence in the mainstream media depiction of the Lebanon war. Yesterday Charles demonstrated still more staged photojournalism from Lebanon by an AP photographer. (Charles linked to “Al-AP at it again with staged photos.”) Other striking instances of similar phenomena are on display in “Leading BBC reporter caught lying,” in “Green Helmet Man admits staging photos, AP spins furiously,” and in “Azzim Tamimi uncensored.” For Charles, it’s all in a day’s work.
Charles and Little Green Footballs are notable examples of what Professor Stephen Cooper of Marshall University calls Watching the Watchdogs: Bloggers As the Fifth Estate in the title of his new book. (The linked publisher’s page offers access to the book’s introduction, first chapter and index; the book’s Amazon listing is here.) The book is excellent. Judging it by its account of controversies in which Power Line played a role — Rathergate, the talking points memo, Krugmania, the Haifa Street photo — it meticulously reconstructs several of the most interesting engagements of the blogosphere and the mainstream media.
Professor Cooper has become both a student and an advocate of the role played by blogs like ours in connection with the mainstream media. In his conclusion, Professor Cooper writes:
Quite simply, the blogosphere exists because it fills a need. It was not brought into being by fiat; it evolved through the accumulation of individual acts. The many people who find it worth their investment in time and effort to create blog content surely do it because they find it fills a need for expression, for giving voice to their thoughts, in a way the previous outlets available to them did not. So, too, does the blogosphere fill a need for those who read the content, and participate in discussion by adding their comments. In this sense, then, the blogosphere represents a vox populi the technology did not determine, but did, instead, facilitate. This is clearly a free market perspective on the blogosphere; the author finds it the most satisfying understanding of it. …- http://www.powerlineblog.com/
* Truth hates delay.
that sound you hear is the Democratic Party being ripped to pieces as the radical left tries an uninvited takeover and scares off all the moderate democrats.
Thank you Howard Dean, Cindy Sheehan & the mob of moonbats and whackos at the Daily KOS for providing the foundation for at least four more years of GOP rule.
Its Rudi’s time a coming.
1. Shouldn’t everyone in the online community be celebrating the outcome of this primary because it demonstrates the power of blogs and cyberspace? Whether you like the winner or not, it is more evidence that the blogs need to be reckoned with.
2. In the lead-up to the primary, most of the “establishment” Democrats supported Liberman. Now that it’s over, many have shfted their support to Lamont. Isn’t it reasonable for party leaders to accept the democratic results of a duly contested election and respect the choice of their Connnecticut constituents?
3. As for the supposed hijacking of the Democratic Party by the fringes, it’s interesting that I haven’t seen too many tears shed online from the left over the defeat of Cynthia McKinney.
Yes indeed…there is a lot of antipathy building for the radicalized left who seem to have adopted the Dems.
Next step in the cyle will be centrist support for the GOP.
Then……all those marginalized American commies will be out in the streets again without a disguise.
OMMAG
I much prefer having friends like Christ even if some think him imaginary, sure beats having delusional ideas as many on the left are so prone to
advocate with such ferocity.
Makes you go hhhhhmmmm.
Just a quick reply to one of the scary lefties on the Carpetbagger report.
the american pol. system is flawed right down to the bedrock; with a population of 300 million +/-, why do they still insist on a tweedle dee tweedle dum 2 party choice??? cripes, here in canada it is common to have as many as 5 candidates from recognized parties, and I dont mean the laughable trotskyists.
they groan and bemoan the creation of an independent when in fact it shows there is a need for a 3rd option.
You sure as hell want to believe they’re “a little bit scared of the bloggers”…but the Dems are not alone in this sentiment as GOP spinmeisters have stated the same.
If the truth be told, both wings of the “Republicrats” and would dearly love to shut down the freedom of cyberspace because it is counterspin to the millions they spend on PR each year….and they will at the nearest opportunity where they think they can get away with it.
Persinally, I think the “terrorist” threat will be used to install some draconian goverment controls on ISPs which will essentially allow complete surviellence of all i-net users and eliminate anonymity. This will be followed with some high profile arrests under the patriot act for “sedition”. Then they will go full steam ahead building and making you use internet II… which will be totally controlled by government regulators.
Controlling information flow is a credendum of the new statism we see in the bureaucrats who populate the modern super state….North America’s political elite differ little from China’s in wishing for complete control over what the public hear, see and believe….American Plutocrats will attain their goals by degrees where Chinese oligarchs simply decree their wishes.
Motto: Veritas odit moras*. (Seneca) …-
Watching the watchdogs
Charles Johnson continues to produce mind-boggling results in documenting the outrageous bias and outright fraudulence in the mainstream media depiction of the Lebanon war. Yesterday Charles demonstrated still more staged photojournalism from Lebanon by an AP photographer. (Charles linked to “Al-AP at it again with staged photos.”) Other striking instances of similar phenomena are on display in “Leading BBC reporter caught lying,” in “Green Helmet Man admits staging photos, AP spins furiously,” and in “Azzim Tamimi uncensored.” For Charles, it’s all in a day’s work.
Charles and Little Green Footballs are notable examples of what Professor Stephen Cooper of Marshall University calls Watching the Watchdogs: Bloggers As the Fifth Estate in the title of his new book. (The linked publisher’s page offers access to the book’s introduction, first chapter and index; the book’s Amazon listing is here.) The book is excellent. Judging it by its account of controversies in which Power Line played a role — Rathergate, the talking points memo, Krugmania, the Haifa Street photo — it meticulously reconstructs several of the most interesting engagements of the blogosphere and the mainstream media.
Professor Cooper has become both a student and an advocate of the role played by blogs like ours in connection with the mainstream media. In his conclusion, Professor Cooper writes:
Quite simply, the blogosphere exists because it fills a need. It was not brought into being by fiat; it evolved through the accumulation of individual acts. The many people who find it worth their investment in time and effort to create blog content surely do it because they find it fills a need for expression, for giving voice to their thoughts, in a way the previous outlets available to them did not. So, too, does the blogosphere fill a need for those who read the content, and participate in discussion by adding their comments. In this sense, then, the blogosphere represents a vox populi the technology did not determine, but did, instead, facilitate. This is clearly a free market perspective on the blogosphere; the author finds it the most satisfying understanding of it. …-
http://www.powerlineblog.com/
* Truth hates delay.