Reply #12: Would you like me to the posts that sparked this reaction?

[althecat]

I think you are correct that most people are upset about the headline - but even that is justifiable. However there are people being a great deal more dismissive of Palast and RFK than pure headline criticism.

Take this post from OTOH.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=7497055&mesg_id=7503940

OnTheOtherHand (1000+ posts) Sat Oct-18-08 11:35 AM
Response to Reply #29
50. I paid my buck and shared the PDF
Edited on Sat Oct-18-08 12:08 PM by OnTheOtherHand
Being assimilated into Palast's personal fundraising operation was not really a priority for me, but I wanted to see what he was saying.

Some folks over at Daily Kos are ticked at Palast because they have first-hand information about the registration rolls in New Mexico and Colorado, and they know he is misrepresenting the registration purges in those states. (I don't remember whether those particular misrepresentations show up in the comic book.) Not to be confused with the purge efforts in Michigan and Montana that fell afoul of court scrutiny (or the Ohio Republicans' demands that just got blocked by the U.S. Supreme Court).

I like investigative reporters who try to distinguish facts from hype. That isn't really Palast's gig. I don't know why.

ETA: By the way, I don't mean that I reposted the comic. Palast has a right to make money this way, however ethically suspect some of us might find it. I did share it with a few people who wanted to see it but would never have given Palast the buck.
"Isn't the whole point of 'research' to figure out the truth? In the search for truth, isn't it important to start with facts that are factual?" --Skinner, 11/13/06

I have been encountering stuff like this all over other threads on this for the past 24 hours.

:)