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2/27/2009
1.in·de·ter·mi·nate
Pronunciation:
\ˌin-di-ˈtərm-nət, -ˈtər-mə-\
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English indeterminat, from Late Latin indeterminatus, from Latin in- + determinatus, past participle of determinare to determine
Date: 14th century
1 a: not definitely or precisely determined or fixed : vague b: not known in advance c: not leading to a definite end or result
2: having an infinite number of solutions
3: being one of the seven undefined mathematical expressions
2. in·ev·i·ta·ble
Pronunciation: \i-ˈne-və-tə-bəl\
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from Latin inevitabilis, from in- + evitabilis evitable
Date: 14th century
: incapable of being avoided or evaded
3. cli·max
Pronunciation: \ˈklī-ˌmaks\
Function: noun
Etymology: Late Latin, from Greek klimax, literally, ladder, from klinein to lean
Date: circa 1550
1: a figure of speech in which a series of phrases or sentences is arranged in ascending order of rhetorical forcefulness
2 a: the highest point : culminationb: the point of highest dramatic tension or a major turning point in the action (as of a play) c: orgasm d: menopause
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9/24/2008
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9/17/2008
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7/02/2008
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5/22/2008
Luke Ryland: Why has the US failed on this story so dramatically for 6 years?
Sibel Edmonds: [...] With the US media, it appears as though if there is no clear partisan angle, then there's no story. As you know, this case is spread over two administrations, and that appears to make it difficult for the reporters to cover the story. Even within one news organization you might have one journalist who wants to use the story to indict Clinton, and another who wants to use the story to bash Bush, and in the end neither of them write about the story because it doesn't fit their partisanship, their 'narrative', so they just drop it altogether.
I had such high hopes for the alternative press, and they do a lot of good work, but partisanship repeatedly gets in the way there too, on both sides.
[...]
The other major problem in the US is the focus on symptoms, rather than root causes.
[...]
I have one message for the US media: If they think this is over, it's not over. Much more will come out. They won't be able to ignore it any longer, and so I hope they get over any reluctance they might have.
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Submit To Propellerposted by profmarcus at
1/28/2008
now, if somebody would PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE step forward and start addressing the constitutional crisis, the rule of law, and accountability...Why the Blogosphere Went for Edwards
I feel like writing this now, before any caucus or primary results, while my feelings are uninfluenced by events that right now remain uncertain. I don't think the mainstream media or the people that work inside the Beltway really understand the blogosphere at all. We may not fully understand them either, but we have a better grasp of what makes them tick than they have of what makes us tick. We're fighters. Fighting is pretty much all we do.
This whole movement was born of a vacuum. The primary vacuum was in the media. We discovered in the lead up to the invasion of Iraq that the media was not only shutting out our voices, but they were distorting the facts, and the facts were, therefore, going unrebutted. And we discovered that we could publish our voices just as easily as the New York Times could publish the lies of William Safire, Judith Miller, or Dick Cheney. We discovered that we could factcheck the articles appearing in the papers and the warmongers appearing on our television.
We found a truth deficit and set out to provide the truth that was lacking. For those of us that have been doing this for years, we are steeped in this contrast between what is reported and what is true. We know who the liars are. We know who the lazy reporters are. And we know who has been battling with us (Russ Feingold, Chris Dodd) and who has not (Joe Lieberman, Harold Ford). We now have comrades-in-arms...people that we have been standing with day after day after day. And we have enemies that have undermined our mission at every opportunity.
I'm sitting here listening to a speech Barack Obama made yesterday in Coralville, Iowa. He's saying all the right things. Here's an example (paraphrased): 'If you have been steeped in the common wisdom of Washington DC that says it is a good idea to invade Iraq, you can't be the best person going forward to question and change our foreign policy.' And that is exactly right. That explains so clearly what it means to have been in the fight on the side of the blogosphere versus what it means to have been on the sidelines within the consultancies of the Capitol. But Obama hasn't really embraced us. He's gone his own way. And that explains why, in the end, the blogosphere broke heavily for John Edwards.
No, I don't mean people turned their back on Obama because he didn't pay the proper respect to the blogosphere. That isn't what happened. Obama didn't embrace our way of doing things. Worse, he began to use rhetoric we had spent energy to debunk. He went even further. He tossed aside one of our central insights...an insight won through hard experience: we cannot compromise with the Republican Party...we must smash them.
Perhaps because his wife is such an avid reader of blogs, Edwards' campaign tapped right into our zeitgeist. He came out with our insight front and center. You want Edwards' message? Here it is: 'Fuck David Broder, fuck Joe Klein, fuck Chris Matthews, fuck FOX News, fuck Tim Russert, fuck Mitch McConnell, fuck Big Oil, Big Pharma, and Big Defense. We don't need them. They won't negotiate in good faith. They're stacking the deck against us. And we can beat them by telling the truth and getting organized.' That's Edwards' message, and that is the message we have internalized both through our successes and our failures.
What's funny is that Obama is saying many of the same things, in his own way. The policy differences between Edwards and Obama are minimal. But Obama's tone deaf to the blogosphere. And, as a result, the blogosphere didn't trust him. Take Armando:
...we do not criticize Obama's political style on aesthetic grounds; we criticize his style because we think it will not work to actually EFFECT CHANGE. We believe that despite his being touted as the change candidate, his political style is the one LEAST likely to achieve progressive policy change.
His 'style' will be ineffective. Why did so many of us conclude this? It's because we have watched Tom Daschle, Harry Reid, and Nancy Pelosi try to negotiate with the Republicans (in the minority, the majority, no matter) and it does not work. We have watched the Dems talk tough and then back down time and time again. We're done with conciliation and we don't believe bipartisanship is possible without first crushing the Republican Party down to a stump.
Ironically, Obama might be the perfect candidate to provide the kind of crushing victories this November that will make true bipartisanship possible again. I definitely think that is a possibility. In fact, I feel his chances are strong enough that I can't endorse Edwards over Obama. I do hope Edwards wins in Iowa, but not necessarily because I prefer him to Obama. More than anything, I want Edwards' style to be vindicated. I want partisanship and combativeness to be rewarded. And I want Clinton/Lieberman/Ford/Carper/Carville/Begala/Penn to lose.
In any case, this is the best I can do to express why the blogosphere went for Edwards. None of the candidates were going far enough on policy, but at least Edwards was representing our fighting natures. And that, in the end, was decisive.
Labels: accountability, blogosphere, Booman Tribune, Chris Dodd, constitutional crisis, Daily Kos, Dennis Kucinich, internet, John Edwards, liberals, Progressives, Ron Paul, rule of law, U.S. Constitution
Submit To Propellerposted by profmarcus at
1/03/2008
From NBC News writer Chris Colvin, writing on the NBC Nightly News blog:Salon's Glenn Greenwald has engaged in a fairly brutal takedown of something TIME columnist Joe Klein wrote about Congressional Democrats' updates to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act -- which turned into a series of posts that culminated with Greenwald today demanding answers from Klein's editor. (And incidentally, raising the issue of a false story one of our competitors ran with back in 2001, which had a particularly nasty resonance in our newsroom -- and for which there was never an apology or any accountability.)
Believe me, I'm not pointing this out because it involves competitors. Browse around the archives of DailyHowler.com or MediaMatters.org if you want to see harsh criticism of us. The point is, journalists, particularly in Washington, aren't going to be able to repeat partisan spin that contains falsehoods as analysis without being called on it anymore. And as Greenwald notes, it's rather telling that the calling-out is coming from the blogosphere and not the actual Democrats who Klein misrepresented. Maybe that's why there is a blogosphere to begin with.
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Submit To Propellerposted by profmarcus at
11/28/2007
[C]oncerning our blogging brethren, can someone please explain to me why the WGA strike is more important to them than preserving what's left of our constitution?
The problem I have with sources like that, sources I don't even know
and thus I have no clue if they're credible, is that not only do I
not know if this person is twisting the truth with his "facts," but
his facts are based on other Web sites I've never even heard of.
Sorry, but I'm not going to go on a wild goose chase, checking out
500 sources and then their sources too, to see if this guy has any
credibility. Get me an article from a real publication that has a
track record of truth and accuracy.
that's precisely the not at all subtle, dismissive response i anticipated... of course, you MUST satisfy yourself about source credibility... no one, myself included, would have any respect for you if you didn't do that, consistently and exhaustively... i do my own due diligence, to be sure, and don't expect you to rely on my say-so... i will accept your challenge to provide "real" sources, but only if you're willing to not shoot me out of the saddle with dismissive comments like "wild goose chase..." the constitutional crisis, imho, is quite real and sitting there like a ticking time bomb... my key professional skill, among others, is pattern recognition... it's what i do... i see pieces and assemble them in my mind until a picture starts to emerge... i imagine that's what you do as well... i can and will offer you pieces - credible pieces from "real" sources (altho' these days, i'm not entirely sure what qualifies as a "real" source, so i will say "established" sources instead) - but you must be the one to put them together...
i am a very small fish in the blogosphere, [name redacted]... i've never aspired to be more... you are a big fish, one i respect... i have and continue to be frustrated over why the "big fish" of the liberal and progressive blogosphere, the ones i read many times a day, can continue to put things like the wga strike [h/t doomsy] higher on the list than the constitutional crisis, when it is precisely the destruction of the separate-but-equal, balance of powers constitutional structure that has led our country to its present sorry state... if i didn't feel so passionately about that issue, [name redacted], i wouldn't be bothering you or attempting to send you off on a "wild goose chase..." i think you've got enough smarts to see what i and an increasing number of others are seeing... don't prove me wrong...
i'll be backatcha, but probably not tomorrow... otoh, if you'd prefer that i just shut the hell up, say so and i won't clutter up your inbox... i'm not up for either an argument or "dueling sources..." my energy would be better spent elsewhere...
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Submit To Propellerposted by profmarcus at
11/17/2007
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