RIGHT-WING MEDIA ELITES BLAST COMMENTERS ON LIBERAL BLOGS AS 'VICIOUS' 'HURTING THE COUNTRY'

[Breeze54]

MEDIA -- RIGHT-WING MEDIA ELITES BLAST COMMENTERS ON LIBERAL BLOGS AS 'VICIOUS' 'HURTING THE COUNTRY':

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Yesterday at the Republican convention, the Huffington Post hosted a panel discussion
about the rise of new media with a number of leading traditional media personalities.

Conservative talker Laura Ingraham applauded the rise of the online journalism, stating,
"Look, the old media blew it; the free market does work." But many of her conservative
co-panelists lamented the perils of this free market.

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough said the flip side of the emergence of the blogopshere is
that "it's so ugly now in some parts of the internet" that good people are being dissuaded
from running for office. His fellow conservative media elites chimed in with similar
criticisms.

Conservative columnist Peggy Noonan said online commenters "are much like what you would
have gotten in 1880 if you walked into a bedlam with a megaphone and said, 'I'd like to say
a few words.' It's wild, it's crazy, and it's awful, and it's often quite vicious."

Conservative pollster Frank Luntz said, "Mean would not describe it. It is as humanly
vicious as it possibly can be," adding that it is "deliberately insulting." Scarborough then
proposed a solution: "Why don't internet sites that want to be respected make people
(commenters) put their names and their phone numbers."

Arianna Huffington agreed with him about the need to keep commenters from http://app.mx3.americanprogressaction.org/e/er.aspx?s=785&lid=8943&elq=9265C2584AF644A1B338FBD3FBF9C9CB">"hiding behind the cloak of anonymity."

:eyes:

[progressivebydesign]

1. Have those self-righteous assholes ever been on Malkin's site?

How about freerepublic?? Or even listened to the filth coming from Glen Beck? Or how about Rush Limbaugh's radio show? Or Michael Savage?

The indignant assholes can fuck themselves... poseurs. Do we even need to bring up John McCain's comments about a 13 year old Chelsea Clinton???

[HowHasItComeToThis]

4. RIGHT ON, CITIZEN

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

2. Uhoh.

Time for another Blogger Ethics Panel. :eyes:

[HowHasItComeToThis]

3. TRUE DEMOCRACY IS MESSY

SO WHAT

[Bob Dobbs]

5. Right wingers can only PROJECT their own sociopathology on others.

These sick scumbag prevaricators haven't seen anything, yet.

The real journalism is in the streets now, happening on freespeech.org and theuptake.org and submedia.tv et al.

Network news propaganda is dead, newspaper propaganda is dead, fascist radio propaganda is dead and they don't even know it. They are irrelevant.

A cultural revolution is sweeping the world and the power elite dinosaurs are sinking in the tar pit of their regressive hubris.

[Union Thug]

6. Then you know the 'liberal bloggers' are doing it correctly!

[Kerrytravelers]

7. Boo. Hoo. We're so mean. Maybe we are. Perhaps they should stop advocating war and we'll be nicer.

[Breeze54]

14. Exactly...

;)

[lpbk2713]

8. Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh said ....

"Anybody know where I can get some Oxycontin?"

:eyes:

[MidwestTransplant]

9. They are shocked...shocked and never would do anything vicious. Obama was educated in a Madrassa

cough cough.

[gatorboy]

10. Uh oh. Looks like they put there douchebag Republican hats back on...

[ColbertWatcher]

11. DON'T THEY ALWAYS SAY THAT!? n/t

[Sunnyshine]

13. It's pretty much everything they say. No substance, just frame the other guy as a vile baby killing

American.:nopity:

[ColbertWatcher]

19. So, this is nothing new. n/t

[Wilber_Stool]

12. Just give us 20 or 30 tv shows......n/t

[Sunnyshine]

17. Exactly! 5 hours of Scarborjoke vs 2 hours of Progressive on MSNBC- and this is an "improvement"

We could take them on in Prime Time. Tune in to Keith and Rachel - just to give our views some airtime. As we've jumped through the smallest of FCC hoops while being suppressed and avoided by executive ideologues that are monetarily invested in shaping elections.

[DearAbby]

15. Do you remember when they used to laugh at the blogs?...n/t

[Robbien]

16. How are those people media "elites"

Something is seriously wrong with a country when the media elites are such bigoted biased wingnuts.

[bridgit]

18. Fuck them, their time has elapsed

[scarface2004]

20. thanks...i didn t know we rule the world!!!

frnk lntz can suck a donkey!! (is that vicious enough you weasely piece of shit!?)

[conspirator]

21. FUCK THE ELITES, LEFT WING OR RIGHT WING, BUT SPECIALLY THE RIGHT WING nt

[WCGreen]

22. They are all just afraid of losing influence...

They are tied to the MSM and therefor have constraints. Plus, they are accustomed to not being called out on anything. Now that the "Net" is second guessing, asking questions that they should be asking, they feel under siege.

For too long they have had a cozy relationship with those in power.

How can you criticize someone and then show up at their private function?

They call that access. I call it brown nosing.

[Hubert Flottz]

23. Maybe they'd like this Indy blog...from Alsaka(WOW)

I like the trooper gate info here. Haven't heard the media talk about this info on this case YET...

Vetting, Wooten and Troopergate

snip...

In 2005, Palin and her sister Molly went to the Palmer Courthouse while Mike Wooten was in Portland with his stepson. They convinced a judge to grant Molly a domestic violence restraining order against Wooten. This was done so Molly could retain full custody of the children.

When Wooten returned from Portland, he realized that there was a order prohibiting him from seeing his kids. Three weeks later, Wooten was granted an appearance in front of the couple's divorce judge.

In front of Judge Suddock, Molly testified that Wooten never hit her or never physically abused her or ever touched the children. She told the judge she was feeling pressure from her family to file the order.

Suddock immediately dissolved the order because there was no proof of any domestic violence and called the order an abuse of the legal system. He then scolded Palin's sister for keeping Wooten's kids away from him.

http://www.andrewhalcro.com/index.php

Some nice comments from some folks in the beauty queen's home town.