[courtesy of Mr. Fish]
Wingnut meltdown:
Phoenix Woman on economic lies
Ian Welsh on economic bullshit
Please investigate the entire ACORN flap
ABC grudgingly reveals attacks on ACORN to be B.S.
Mr. Sponge on suppressing the vote
McCain: Middle class tax cuts are welfare
Rabbis call McCain attacks near hate speech
Obama death threat letters received in Florida
Robocalling their way under our skin and into our hearts
Liberal talk show hosts walks off Fox show because of incessant interruptions
Dallas Morning News says f-bombs in W are accurate
You can get anything you want . . . for $15 million
Note: fighting back should not involve actual fighting. Cleverness helps. Not that there haven’t been some victories. From a long and otherwise mostly uninteresting Al Giordano post:
[Ron] Fournier hasn’t had a byline about the presidential campaign (or anything else) since September 28.
For him, it must be a very sobering experience. And it’s a powerful lesson to those like him that work in journalism but would violate ethics codes while also attempting to ignite race hatred in America for partisan political motives.
Fournier’s disappearance from AP’s presidential campaign coverage in recent weeks is akin to a starting player being pulled off the roster in only the second game of the World Series, and he’s already missed games three, four, five and six.
For political reporters, covering a presidential campaign is the Holy Grail, the pinnacle of their careers, the thing they look forward to for the three years as they schlep bleary eyed through more boring political times, pretending to make news even when there is none, meeting deadlines only for the sake of filling up column inches. They endure even that knowing that on the fourth year comes the prize: to cover a presidential campaign, something that everybody in America and across the world is actually interested in and going to read.
But Fournier wasn’t assigned to cover any of the three presidential debates, not even the vice presidential one.
He missed the schmoozing in the “spin room” that political journalists live for every four years.
The parade of rightwing biased “analysis” pieces that Fournier used to assign so recklessly to unknown and unqualified but ideologically axe-grinding colleagues have dried up.
The invitations to the national network cable news shows and panels stopped arriving.
It’s the sad story of a disgraced wrong-doer, having been caught in the act, sitting and waiting by a telephone that does not ring and a Blackberry that ceases to beep.
And in general, the Associated Press’ coverage of the presidential campaign has become more even handed.
It’s a brief and shining moment for AP. It probably won’t last, but the important thing is that it happened during the most important three weeks of the four-year presidential campaign cycle.
The trouble with political victories is too often we don’t even hear about it when we win one. Giordano’s right to give credit to one of his “field hands” for helping, but he buried the lead. I had not seen or heard anyone else talk about Fournier being gagged.
Which is not to say that you win by silencing your enemies. Fournier has every right to peddle his bullshit. He doesn’t, however, have a right to peddle it under the Associated Press’s brand. Wire service news is supposed to be objective. It rarely is, but it’s usually far better than the partisan tripe Fournier was manufacturing. Hopefully he’ll be quietly fired after the election, and can achieve his career goal of working directly for Republicans.
See also Mr. Sponge on winning Presidential elections.
And finally, under the heading of Does anyone do any copy editing over at City Pages?, it’s Day 4 of no corrections for Minnesota Army Sergent wants her dog back.
I don’t think I ever made a single typo at City Pages that didn’t earn me an immediate email from the managing editor. Even as a private blogger I’ve never spotted a typo that I didn’t go in and fix later, no matter how old the post. Sergeant isn’t the easiest word to spell correctly, but then again that’s why pros get paid for doing it right.
On the plus side, kudos to CP for running this video that puts the lie to paid Republican staffer/partisan blogger Michael Brodkorb’s latest libelous Angry Al posts. Oddly, Brodkorb uses the same video to make his ridiculous point, proving that if you prime the pump wingnuts will see whatever you tell them to see. Check out the comments for the “thugery” allegations and mentions of the “incredible shring Demoncratic party.”
And isn’t it about time someone connected the dots between wingnut spelling and homeschooling?
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