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May 08, 2013

WaPo Profiles Sharyl Atkisson
— Ace

What's interesting is that the Washington Post suggests she's a tool of the right because she follows stories the right is interested in.

The Washington Post doesn't say this out of its own mouth, but it does ask the question, by noting she's a "Rorschach test" viewed differently by the right and the left.

If Atkisson's a tool of the right because she follows stories featuring liberal villains, what does this line of reasoning suggest about the entirety of the liberal media? Whoops, I gave away the answer in the question.

Note that Atkisson offers the standard media response to the charge of bias -- she just goes where the story is, without prejudice or favor. Atkisson does indeed go where stories are -- even if the rest of the media has embargoed them.

Does this mean she's "partisan"? Why? Because she means it when she says she'll go wherever a story takes her, and the rest of the media most emphatically does not?

Liberals see a partisan tool. Â“I think Attkisson has completely given herself over to the right and is very happy to be their champion,Â” says Eric Boehlert, a senior fellow at the liberal Media Matters for America organization.
Attkisson, 52, sees neither. She says she bears no partisan grud-
ges, not on the Benghazi story or another in which her reporting nettled Obama administration officials Â— the Justice DepartmentÂ’s problem-plagued gun-tracking operation, known as Fast and Furious (for which Attkisson won an Emmy for investigative reporting).
Â“IÂ’m a political agnostic,Â” she says. Â“I donÂ’t think about whoÂ’s good and whoÂ’s bad. I just go where the story leads. . . . People can say what they want about me, I donÂ’t care. I just want to get the information out there.Â”
But Attkisson, who holds a third-degree black belt in taekwondo, takes a fighting stance when she feels sheÂ’s being stonewalled. Which is exactly what she thinks the White House has done to her on Benghazi.

Liberals seem not to believe her claim to be a "political agnostic." Strangely enough, liberals themselves often say exactly this about themselves.

What is it about this statement that they find difficult to believe? Do they know something about the typical reporter who claims it which causes them to have skepticism about it?

Do they know they themselves are lying when they say it?

...
AttkissonÂ’s general approach to her work may be spelled out in the self-description on her Twitter account: Â“Investigative Journalist. Dreaming of a day when public officials answer questions as if they know they work for the public.Â”

I suppose to the media, the Public Relations Office of the Government, that seems like a partisan remark.

The article is worth a read, as it notes the angry pushback she gets from the White House, with taxpayer-paid government officials calling CBS to complain about her. But:

. Â“My goal is to report on untouchable subjects in a way that is fearless.Â”

Via @adamsbaldwin

Posted by: Ace at 06:59 AM | Comments (196)
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1
Who's on first?

Posted by: Doctor Fish at May 08, 2013 07:02 AM (1lQzY)

2 I imagine it could be pretty thrilling for a reporter to be the only person on a story. There might be 50,000 reporters to compete with if you want to publish your breathless account of how beautiful Moochelle is, but you can be the lone voice if you dig into Benghazi.

Posted by: t-bird at May 08, 2013 07:02 AM (FcR7P)

3 We need more actual reporters like her.

Posted by: Grey Fox at May 08, 2013 07:02 AM (XQsSC)

4 Â“IÂ’m a political agnostic,Â” she says. Â“I donÂ’t think about whoÂ’s good and whoÂ’s bad. I just go where the story leads. . .

This is exactly what every reporter is supposed to do and almost none actually do

Posted by: Vic at May 08, 2013 07:02 AM (53z96)

5 She's hot, too.

I'm surprised she hasn't been fired, or demoted, or sent to work at some tiny CBS outpost in Alaska.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 08, 2013 07:02 AM (BDU/a)

6 Before 11am? You haven't been to bed yet, have you?

Posted by: BCochran1981 at May 08, 2013 07:02 AM (da5Wo)

7 I'm surprised she hasn't been fired, or demoted

CBS didn't renew her contract. Same diff.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs to skip the beer and go straight to tequila at May 08, 2013 07:03 AM (ZKzrr)

8 I'm surprised she hasn't been fired, or demoted, or sent to work at some tiny CBS outpost in Alaska.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 08, 2013 11:02 AM (BDU/a)

I think her contract was not renewed. I expect to see her on Fox in the near future.

Posted by: Tami[/i][/b][/u][/s] at May 08, 2013 07:03 AM (X6akg)

9 What a stupid hater bitch.

Posted by: Megan McCain, Supreme Intellectual at May 08, 2013 07:03 AM (JQuNB)

10
Sharyl Atkisson has bigger balls than Hairy Reed!

Posted by: Doctor Fish at May 08, 2013 07:03 AM (1lQzY)

11 Â“My goal is to report on untouchable subjects in a way that is fearless.Â”

There are no untouchable or taboo subjects if you are a reporter. Who, What, When, Where, and How. Why was added later by the warm and fuzzy liberal class.

If you report the facts, the truth, why should you have to be considered fearless in a country with the Constitution and the Bill of Rights?

Posted by: Caustic at May 08, 2013 07:04 AM (/b8+5)

12 >>>Before 11am? You haven't been to bed yet, have you? No I have. I'm setting the alarm about 20 minutes earlier every day. One day, in the far future, I hope to awake by the ungodly early hour of 8:35.

Posted by: ace at May 08, 2013 07:04 AM (LCRYB)

13 I'm surprised she hasn't been fired, or demoted, or sent to work at some tiny CBS outpost in Alaska.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 08, 2013 11:02 AM (BDU/a)

-----

Werd.

We need more help tearing thru Palins stuff.

We cant find shit and we need the help.

Posted by: THE MFM at May 08, 2013 07:05 AM (nELVU)

14 Note that the article is in the Style section cause she's a woman, see?

Posted by: jeannebodine at May 08, 2013 07:05 AM (LBBS3)

WaPo doing a profile on her? Yuck. This is merely them sticking a target on her so she can be new enemy number one of the left. "She's fair game, boys!"

Posted by: Lee in KY at May 08, 2013 07:05 AM (jgXna)

16 She's a heroine. Did CBS nit fire her, btw? I thought I read they were firing her. It is stunning to read widespread denounciations of *any* invetigative journalism, but I do routinely.

Posted by: Y-not on the phone at May 08, 2013 07:06 AM (5H6zj)

17 Nobody believes her shit.

Posted by: Tom Hanks, The Most Trusted Man in the World at May 08, 2013 07:06 AM (JQuNB)

18 She'll end up on the Blaze Network.

Posted by: Caustic at May 08, 2013 07:06 AM (/b8+5)

19 so is this an admittance by the left they could care less about terrorist attacks that kill Ambassadors ,staff, and those that tried to save them??

or dead teenage mexicans killed because of fast and furious and guns being given to drug cartels BY the Govt?

do they actually give a damn about anything, other than Team Progressive?

So i'm being clearly told , That all their concern about blood for oil, and illegal wars was nothing but political claptrap?

well i guess the answer is yes, Because as we see they no longer care about war or dead, or military dead, or brown folks dead.

Posted by: willow at May 08, 2013 07:07 AM (nqBYe)

20 I don't know what her politics are. I don't care what her politics are. I just care that there is at least someone who thinks that the job of reporting is to report, let the ramifications fall where they may. I also hope that she continues to be just as aggressive with President Perry or President Cruz or whomever. I'm not really joking about the Unpeople comments. Many in the media quite sincerely believe that if the Right is interested in a story, then the story does not matter or is untrue. The implications of that are quite frightening indeed.

Posted by: alexthechick - Bring the SMOD at May 08, 2013 07:07 AM (VtjlW)

21 > I suppose to the media, the Public Relations Office of the Government,
> that seems like a partisan remark.

Please. Unless you lived in another universe in the 1981-1992 and 2001-2008 periods you shouldn't be referring to them as a government dept. Heck, NPR [IS] a government agency (basically) and was an outright partisan in those periods. Call em what they are, a totally unified part of The Party. And we all know what I mean by 'The Party' or do I have to spell it out?

Posted by: John Morris at May 08, 2013 07:08 AM (YhRJW)

What is it about this statement that they find difficult to believe? Do they know something about the typical reporter who claims it which causes them to have skepticism about it?

Do they know they themselves are lying when they say it?

***

Yes, they really do think that we are that stupid and the LIVs are.

Posted by: WalrusRex at May 08, 2013 07:08 AM (Hx5uv)

23 Given she is 52, and probably started working before Obama became Prez, I wonder why no one has looked into her earlier work?

Posted by: Baldy at May 08, 2013 07:09 AM (tyDFN)

24 WaPo asked Media Matters for a opinion, even though MMFA openly coordinates with the White House. No wonder the MSM gets about the same level of respect accorded to child molesters.

Posted by: Stace at May 08, 2013 07:10 AM (YLiN/)

25 "Get Back in Line you troublemaker!!"

Posted by: Liberal Media at May 08, 2013 07:10 AM (bb5+k)

26 Off Sock.

Posted by: Diogenes' Lamp at May 08, 2013 07:10 AM (bb5+k)

27
Ben Gauzee ?????

Never heard of the dude......

Posted by: Charlie Gibson at May 08, 2013 07:10 AM (nELVU)

28 I have to say, she looks mighty fine too.

Posted by: EC at May 08, 2013 07:10 AM (GQ8sn)

29 Â“Investigative Journalist. Dreaming of a day when public officials answer questions as if they know they work for the public.Â”

And then they have the balls to praise some politicians for their "public service".

Posted by: Dang at May 08, 2013 07:10 AM (R18D0)

30 I had read comments at NYtimes about this yesterday and they only kept saying Fox news, as if Attkinson was a Fox news reporter.

it was Fox!

Fox!

Posted by: willow at May 08, 2013 07:11 AM (nqBYe)

31 @KatiePavlich

I am sitting next to reporters who are talking smack about @gretawire, @JudgeJeanine & @FoxNews. Greta & the Judge are sitting chairs away

Posted by: Tami[/i][/b][/u][/s] at May 08, 2013 07:11 AM (X6akg)

32 OT: Telling reporters outside the Graham Putnam & Mahoney Funeral Parlors that flying TsarnaevÂ’s body to his Russian homeland Â“is not an optionÂ” because the uncle of the Boston Marathon bombing suspect refuses to do so, a grim-faced Gemme said, Â“Unfortunately, we are still without a burial site with no immediate prospects.Â” http://goo.gl/Kx7vK The entire family are assholes.

Posted by: Waldo at May 08, 2013 07:11 AM (sXWmd)

She'll get smeared. And keep writing. Rinse. Repeat.

Sorry but I have to say this: At the end of the day, all of the media needs to stop 'being' the story; just read/write the information. I could care less about you or how hard you think your job is.

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at May 08, 2013 07:11 AM (Z5KPR)

>>> Â“My goal is to report on untouchable subjects in a way that is fearless.Â”

She is obviously biased!!!

Posted by: India Times at May 08, 2013 07:12 AM (3ZtZW)

35 This right-wing extremist, doesn't have, an emoticon of respect, for the, hard work, that we real journalists, have been doing, since gestation.

Posted by: Meggie Mac at May 08, 2013 07:12 AM (WCe8r)

36 It really is pathetic how all it takes for a reporter to be viewed as right wing is to be even-handed. These morons probably think Jake Tapper is a right winger too.

Posted by: Zippity Doo Dah at May 08, 2013 07:12 AM (E55AK)

37 Maybe at some point even Ms. Attkinson can't take anymore of the lying, deceitful Obama administration. Some people do have a conscience, better late than never. What does it matter? Well Hillary, 4 good men are dead because of your incompetence. It fucking matters.

Posted by: mpfs at May 08, 2013 07:13 AM (iYbLN)

38 H8trs gonna H8. Man, I'm so fuckin' avant-gard and shit.

Posted by: Maya Angelou at May 08, 2013 07:13 AM (JQuNB)

39 I'm not really joking about the Unpeople comments. Many in the media quite sincerely believe that if the Right is interested in a story, then the story does not matter or is untrue. The implications of that are quite frightening indeed. Posted by: alexthechick - Bring the SMOD at May 08, 2013 11:07 AM (VtjlW) They hate us, and they believe in treating us as the "other". They are manifesting the same hatred as Jim Crow Democrats from a bygone era, they have simply re purposed that hatred towards us.

Posted by: Diogenes' Lamp at May 08, 2013 07:13 AM (bb5+k)

40 Country falling to fucking hell thanks very much in part to WaPo and their ilk, and they 'do a story' on how their token (small c) conservative is an experiment? Reporting is supposed to be reporting regardless of political affiliation. If we could somehow eliminate the monopoly the leftist limousine liberal has on the media, we could have a chance.

Posted by: Melodicmetal at May 08, 2013 07:13 AM (QY9FJ)

41 Well..., if a Media Matters guy says it, it must be true. Because unbiased.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at May 08, 2013 07:13 AM (aDwsi)

42 >> A good reporter ... whose name Ace consistently misspells. She should change it and make it easier.

Posted by: Andy at May 08, 2013 07:13 AM (0BE3B)

43 No I have. I'm setting the alarm about 20 minutes earlier every day. One day, in the far future, I hope to awake by the ungodly early hour of 8:35. Posted by: ace at May 08, 2013 11:04 AM (LCRYB) Make sure you're walking back the time you go to bed too. Or else you're just setting yourself up for failure. *sigh* 8:35? I wish. Totally missed my opportunity to get a foot into politics. Maybe I should get one of them blog thingies. If only there was someone around here I could ask....

Posted by: Pimp at May 08, 2013 07:13 AM (da5Wo)

44 There is a handsome career to be had in simply following a big story wherever it leads, particularly since so few "journalists" are doing it. Posted by: The Obsidian Owl at May 08, 2013 11:06 AM (tWmgi)

That is exactly how Rush got his mega-millions. He simply told the truth and when he got it wrong, he immediately apologized and corrected his mistake. Not that Rush was ever a journalist, but, he was right there commenting on the facts of every major story.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at May 08, 2013 07:13 AM (kXoT0)

45 Â“My goal is to report on untouchable subjects in a way that is fearless.Â”

She is obviously biased!!!

Posted by: India Times at May 08, 2013 11:12 AM (3ZtZW)

and i'd like to know when stories became untouchable?

and why ?

Posted by: willow at May 08, 2013 07:13 AM (nqBYe)

46 Sounds like Atkisson is doing the work journalists don't want to do. Is she an illegal immigrant?

Posted by: Marcus at May 08, 2013 07:14 AM (GGCsk)

47 fuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuck It followed me! Off stupid sock!!!!

Posted by: BCochran1981 at May 08, 2013 07:14 AM (da5Wo)

48 Country falling to fucking hell thanks very much in part to WaPo and their ilk, and they 'do a story' on how their token (small c) conservative is an experiment? Reporting is supposed to be reporting regardless of political affiliation. If we could somehow eliminate the monopoly the leftist limousine liberal has on the media, we could have a chance. Posted by: Melodicmetal at May 08, 2013 11:13 AM (QY9FJ) And once again, there. it. is.

Posted by: Diogenes' Lamp at May 08, 2013 07:15 AM (bb5+k)

49 AtC is right about Unpeople. This is why Atkisson is being examined like an exotic strain of potentially dangerous bacteria.

Posted by: Stace at May 08, 2013 07:15 AM (i5xnd)

That article is just...shocking, if it's possible to be shocked anymore. I can't even put it into words.

If the Post were a real newspaper, it would not have run an article on Atkisson, it would have offered her a job. Since its own "reporters" can't find their own asses with a flashlight.

Posted by: rockmom at May 08, 2013 07:15 AM (aBlZ1)

51 fuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuck

It followed me!

Off stupid sock!!!!

Posted by: BCochran1981 at May 08, 2013 11:14 AM (da5Wo)

Didn't you off-sock in the previous thread? Hahaha!!!

Posted by: EC at May 08, 2013 07:15 AM (GQ8sn)

52 I guess reporters do not mind at all the 'threats and initmidation ' to whistleblowers NOW.

Posted by: willow at May 08, 2013 07:15 AM (nqBYe)

53 No I have. I'm setting the alarm about 20 minutes earlier every day. One day, in the far future, I hope to awake by the ungodly early hour of 8:35. Posted by: ace at May 08, 2013 11:04 AM (LCRYB) ace, are you using the alarm that wakes you up via light? ( http://amzn.to/12V51IC ) I know you've mentioned using a light box to help with seasonal affective disorder and maybe that clock will help with the whole waking up as well.

Posted by: alexthechick - Bring the SMOD at May 08, 2013 07:16 AM (VtjlW)

54 I'm not really joking about the Unpeople comments. Many in the media quite sincerely believe that if the Right is interested in a story, then the story does not matter or is untrue. The implications of that are quite frightening indeed.

Posted by: alexthechick - Bring the SMOD at May 08, 2013 11:07 AM (VtjlW)

Yup, have a co-worker who is a huge Liberal. Another co-worker who is Conservative sent him a link to something or other to prove a point. The Liberal would not click the link and he said, "It is just a lie. That is all Republicans do--they lie. They lie about everything."

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at May 08, 2013 07:16 AM (kXoT0)

55 Time was that journalists followed stories no matter where they led.

Today's journalists are too concerned with performing fellatio on their god-king. Their only allegiance and discernment is to politics. Their politics. Period.

Posted by: Marcus at May 08, 2013 07:16 AM (GGCsk)

56 It's amazing to see the MSM out themselves this way. Not sure if it will make any difference--but amazing.

Posted by: Body Builder at May 08, 2013 07:17 AM (DrC22)

57 The entire family are assholes.

Posted by: Waldo at May 08, 2013 11:11 AM (sXWmd)

Wouldn't you think the wife's wishes supersede that of the uncle? Even the parents wishes supersede that of the uncle.

Posted by: Caustic at May 08, 2013 07:17 AM (/b8+5)

58 Get up at 4am. It will change your life for the better.-_-

Posted by: Marcus at May 08, 2013 07:17 AM (GGCsk)

59 I haven't read the WaPo article yet, but wouldn't it simply make sense for them to look at Atkisson's work prior to Obama?

I mean she didn't just appear out of nowhere during F&F did she? If she's been holding someone's feet to the fire for a while it would seem to me her claim of agnosticism is accurate.

Posted by: tsrblke (work)[/i][/b][/u][/s] at May 08, 2013 07:18 AM (qr78K)

60 Around 1990, there were 3 hot, HOT female anchors at CNN - one was that blonde (Catherine Crier?), I thought one was Atkisson, though I could be wrong, and the other had dark hair and made me want to practice guitar a lot.

Posted by: SFGoth at May 08, 2013 07:18 AM (dZ756)

61 If we had a hundred more like her, there would be hope for the nation.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 08, 2013 07:18 AM (P7hip)

62 So let me get this straight: Trying to find out what went wrong when 4 Americans, including an ambassador, were killed in a US Consulate in Libya, and trying to find out why the US govt is providing guns to Mexican drug cartels ==> tool of the right wing. Ignoring stories not favorable to boyfriend Obama and/or are beneficial to the right ==> objective journalist

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at May 08, 2013 07:18 AM (6zgse)

63 perhaps woodward and attkinson and a couple of others should start their own newspaper.

hey maybe Koch if successful would hire them?

Posted by: willow at May 08, 2013 07:19 AM (nqBYe)

64 If these hearings go well I just might have multiple orgasms at my desk. I'll will require medical attention.

Posted by: mpfs at May 08, 2013 07:19 AM (iYbLN)

65 19 To this day, I do not understand why more journalists don't realize that there is a giant reporting vacuum just waiting to be filled.

They are not reporters. They are propagandists for the regime.

Posted by: real joe at May 08, 2013 07:20 AM (dwQLu)

66 Ace needs a dog. It would wake him up in the morning, make sure he got exercise, and keep him company during the day. Dogs are also chick magnets.

Posted by: Waldo at May 08, 2013 07:20 AM (sXWmd)

67 That quote from Eric Boehlert, considering the source, sounds a lot more like a compliment than an attack. That guy going after someone for being partisan? What a joke.

Posted by: red sweater at May 08, 2013 07:20 AM (oATMN)

"HOT female anchors at CNN" = "Jumbo Shrimp"...

more urban myth

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at May 08, 2013 07:20 AM (Z5KPR)

69 64 So let me get this straight:

Trying to find out what went wrong when 4 Americans, including an ambassador, were killed in a US Consulate in Libya, and trying to find out why the US govt is providing guns to Mexican drug cartels ==> tool of the right wing.

Ignoring stories not favorable to boyfriend Obama and/or are beneficial to the right ==> objective journalist

MFM: Because, Shut Up! I just finished reading some of the comments in the WaPo article ace linked. Jeebus, liberals are stupid and evil.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 08, 2013 07:20 AM (lVPtV)

70 Twitter is reporting that Amanda Berry will be making a statement soon.

The news channels are going to explode with these competing stories.

Posted by: Tami[/i][/b][/u][/s] at May 08, 2013 07:20 AM (X6akg)

71 The Benghazi 4 deserve their justice.

Posted by: mpfs at May 08, 2013 07:21 AM (iYbLN)

72 Didn't you off-sock in the previous thread? Hahaha!!! Posted by: EC at May 08, 2013 11:15 AM (GQ8sn) I. Fail. Every. Fucking. Time. I don't know why I bother.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at May 08, 2013 07:21 AM (da5Wo)

73 >>66 If these hearings go well I just might have multiple orgasms at my desk. I'll will require medical attention.

Posted by: mpfs at May 08, 2013 11:19 AM (iYbLN)<<

Dr Muad'dib at your service miss. How can I be of service?

Posted by: Muad'dib at May 08, 2013 07:21 AM (KjlbF)

74 >>>ace, are you using the alarm that wakes you up via light? ( http://amzn.to/12V51IC ) I have both a blue-light LED box and a Wake Up Light. I don't really use either anymore. I use the wake up light as a reading lamp. When you're waking up as late as I've been, your wake up light is The Noonday Sun.

Posted by: ace at May 08, 2013 07:21 AM (LCRYB)

75 Its the same reason "Fox News is biased". Not because of how they report the news - but only because of what they report, ie the news that will be ignored by the MSM because it casts progressives in a bad light.

Posted by: Reality Man at May 08, 2013 07:21 AM (obXkJ)

>>>and i'd like to know when stories became untouchable?

Cycle of rebirth. Its a Hindu thing

Posted by: India Times at May 08, 2013 07:21 AM (3ZtZW)

Did they just reprint their criticisms of Bob Woodard and just replace his name with Atkisson?

Granted Woodard has a habit of making shit up but recently he was possibly making it up about the Left which they didn't like.

Posted by: polynikes at May 08, 2013 07:21 AM (m2CN7)

78 60 Get up at 4am. It will change your life for the better.-_- Posted by: Marcus at May 08, 2013 11:17 AM (GGCsk) Now see, that is a lie.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at May 08, 2013 07:21 AM (da5Wo)

79 It is really troubling to watch people refuse to discuss subjects. They have the "I've made up my mind, don't confuse me with facts" mentality. How can so many people be so brain dead as to assume anything coming from a republican is a lie, when, in fact that is not anywhere near the case. I don't know if the republicans can even turn this around, it's like a mass disease.

Posted by: Caustic at May 08, 2013 07:22 AM (/b8+5)

80 AtC is right Words to live by, Horde. Words to live by.

Posted by: alexthechick - Bring the SMOD at May 08, 2013 07:22 AM (VtjlW)

81 As I keep posting:

Jason Collins - Gay in the NBA, what a hero, what a guy

Christopher Stevens - Gay in the Diplomatic Corp and dead because of Hillary and Barky, no big deal.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at May 08, 2013 07:23 AM (kXoT0)

82 Did I read that CBS didn't renew her contract?

Posted by: jeannebodine at May 08, 2013 07:23 AM (LBBS3)

83 59 The entire family are assholes. Posted by: Waldo at May 08, 2013 11:11 AM (sXWmd) Wouldn't you think the wife's wishes supersede that of the uncle? Even the parents wishes supersede that of the uncle. Posted by: Caustic The wife they claimed signed her rights to the body over to the wife, whatever the hell that means. Anyway, he's calling the shots. But I think that they are all assholes. None of them have been truly cooperative.

Posted by: Waldo at May 08, 2013 07:23 AM (sXWmd)

84 Dr Muad'dib at your service miss. How can I be of service?

Posted by: Muad'dib at May 08, 2013 11:21 AM (KjlbF)

Put your hand in the box.

Posted by: Bene Gesserit at May 08, 2013 07:23 AM (GQ8sn)

85
Trying to find out what went wrong when 4 Americans, including an ambassador, were killed in a US Consulate in Libya, and trying to find out why the US govt is providing guns to Mexican drug cartels ==> tool of the right wing.

***

That's right. She should just lie back and think of diversity.

Posted by: WalrusRex at May 08, 2013 07:23 AM (Hx5uv)

86 God bless her.

Posted by: ChristyBlinky, Sarcastic and Radicalized Redneck Queen at May 08, 2013 07:23 AM (baL2B)

87 Nobody trusts reporters any more. Sadly they won't trust Ms.Atkisson out of the box due to her colleagues destructive tom-foolery.

There has always been a bit of the political circus in our media. Problem is that now the sideshow is constantly performing in the center ring and people like Atkisson are sitting in the curiosity booth next to the bearded lady and two-headed dog.

Posted by: Marcus at May 08, 2013 07:23 AM (GGCsk)

88 I have just been so appalled and disgusted by the whole Benghazi affair. I pray the truth comes out and that the villainy of those involved is exposed for all to see. I don't know what I would do if Shrill becomes president, although somehow I don't think she will. Thanks to Sharyl Atkisson for being dogged on this, as a decent reporter would.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at May 08, 2013 07:23 AM (6zgse)

89 I have both a blue-light LED box and a Wake Up Light. I don't really use either anymore. I use the wake up light as a reading lamp. When you're waking up as late as I've been, your wake up light is The Noonday Sun. Posted by: ace at May 08, 2013 11:21 AM (LCRYB) I have a really hard time waking up too. I've found an alarm on my iphone that works pretty well. You can set music from your phone to be the alarm. The wife, however, apparently does not appreciate Stand Up And Shout by Steel Dragon at 530am.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at May 08, 2013 07:23 AM (da5Wo)

90 When I read John Bolton saying Benghazi could be the downfall of the Obama administration, I get more than a tingle up my leg.

Please, please, please let it be.

And tomorrow the families of the SEAL Team 6 members who were killed in the helicopter crash in A-stan are going to speak out against the administration.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 08, 2013 07:24 AM (lVPtV)

Holy crap! Beck just described the Saudis and Saudia Arabia as "poison."

Good for him.

Posted by: ExSnipe at May 08, 2013 07:24 AM (PBm/l)

92 >>Posted by: Bene Gesserit at May 08, 2013 11:23 AM (GQ8sn)<<

Listen here Benny, you ain't tricking me with the box schtick again.

Posted by: Muad'dib at May 08, 2013 07:24 AM (KjlbF)

Sharyl Atkisson has bigger balls than Hairy Reed!

Verne Troyer has bigger balls than Reid.

Bigger brain, too.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 08, 2013 07:24 AM (zF6Iw)

94 I wish Stevens family had spoken up in his defense. It makes me ill every time I see a photo of his lifeless body. His family reminds me of those dopes in the soviet union that would tolerate their entire families being wiped out by comrade stalin.

Posted by: Waldo at May 08, 2013 07:24 AM (sXWmd)

95 Shamelessly cut and pasted:

Today, 8 May, is the 68th anniversary of V.E. Day (for "Victory in Europe") in 1945,

which saw the German surrender and the end of World War II in the European

theater.* Lest we forget. English novelist Nicolas Monsarrat (1910-1979) was born

in Liverpool and earned a law degree at Cambridge. With the outbreak of World War

II, he joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and served on the North Atlantic con-

voys for several years. This experience led to his crafting perhaps the most highly

regarded novel about modern naval warfare yet written - The Cruel Sea - which ap-

peared in 1951 while its author was serving as a British diplomat in South Africa. An

equally esteemed motion picture, starring Jack Hawkins, was made of the book two

years later, and it remains a classic today. Several other Monsarrat novels followed,

but none ever gained the stature of The Cruel Sea.)

Posted by: Mike Hammer at May 08, 2013 07:24 AM (aDwsi)

96 Guess who won't be invited to next year's White House Press Corps Balll-licking Festival? And it isn't Lindsay Lohan

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 08, 2013 07:24 AM (Da/fK)

97 Holy crap! Beck just described the Saudis and Saudia Arabia as "poison." Good for him. Posted by: ExSnipe at May 08, 2013 11:24 AM (PBm/l) Did he follow that up with a "the only way to protect yourself from their influence is to BUY GOLD"?

Posted by: BCochran1981 at May 08, 2013 07:25 AM (da5Wo)

98 Uh, oh..., I sense a barrel trip coming on..

Posted by: Mike Hammer at May 08, 2013 07:25 AM (aDwsi)

"Time was that journalists followed stories no matter where they led.

Today's journalists are too concerned with performing fellatio on their god-king. Their only allegiance and discernment is to politics. Their politics. Period."

Sometimes I think focusing out ridicule on individual reporters and using words like kneepads, fellatio, gargling, etc. would potentially have a larger impact in the end than trying to Alinsky politicians.

Most of the time, however, I think about Letting it Burn.

Posted by: Jaws at May 08, 2013 07:25 AM (4I3Uo)

100

This is why Atkisson is being examined like an exotic strain of potentially dangerous bacteria.

---

I'm willing to test the theory that her danger is sexually transmitted. Because Science!!

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at May 08, 2013 07:25 AM (SO2Q8)

101 Gee, I hope Stephen Colbert is eating a big shit sandwich today.

Posted by: SurferDoc at May 08, 2013 07:26 AM (6H6FZ)

102

Regarding the Brother KaraBombov's body, I believe the wife declined to claim it, and the uncle was next in line here in the country.

Put it on a garbage barge and dump it at sea.

Posted by: Boots at May 08, 2013 07:26 AM (oG66P)

103 How can so many people be so brain dead as to assume anything coming from a republican is a lie, when, in fact that is not anywhere near the case. I don't know if the republicans can even turn this around, it's like a mass disease.

Posted by: Caustic

Reading comments from liberals from this article and others prove your point.

I have however noticed more and more criticism of Choomboy and Hillarity than I have ever read before. A lot of Americans are sick and tired of being called names a long with a country in peril with nothing but excuses coming out of the WH.

Posted by: Cheri at May 08, 2013 07:26 AM (G+Wff)

104 I would also note that I'm of the mind that in journalism (much like my field in academics) I think it might be impossible to set aside one's bias.

Even if one is not overtly opining editorial choices introduce bias as well. To that end, the marketplace of ideas demands that we get fill positions (especially journalistic positions) with people from all sides of the aisle. Open disclosure of one's positions which may create bias would also help (because you may not see your bias, while it's openly apparent to others.)

And I think it goes beyond political bias. Attkisson may not be a "conservative" as much as she may be incredibly distrustful of people in power in general this is not necessarily mutually exclusive with "liberal" (I don't know this, I'm merely using her as an example.) Whereas I think the rest of the MSM has made it clear they're only distrustful of the "wrong" people in power. But both of these viewpoints possibly introduce bias into reporting. (Again, I'm not accusing Attkisson of anything. If she has a bias, this time it seems to have gotten things right. I'm sure it hasn't been 100% spot on in the past though, no one bats a thousand.)

Posted by: tsrblke (work)[/i][/b][/u][/s] at May 08, 2013 07:26 AM (qr78K)

105 So 'female' is not sufficient armor to keep your MSM job if you perform poorly in their eyes. How many points do you need? Handicapped? Muslim? LGBT?

Posted by: SpongeBob Saget at May 08, 2013 07:26 AM (epxV4)

106 And tomorrow the families of the SEAL Team 6 members who were killed in the helicopter crash in A-stan are going to speak out against the administration. Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 08, 2013 11:24 AM (lVPtV) I remember getting out of the service in 1972 and almost feeling the need to apologize for having been a baby killer (meaning in the military) at the time. Liberals forgot to include that, this time.

Posted by: jwb7605 ([i][u]Let it Burn[/u][/i])[/s][/b] at May 08, 2013 07:27 AM (Qxe/p)

107 4am, jog, workout catch up on Asia, Europe blood pumping, mind firing on all cylinders.

I love the smell of chaos in the morning.

Posted by: Marcus at May 08, 2013 07:27 AM (GGCsk)

108 One day, in the far future, I hope to awake by the ungodly early hour of 8:35.

Posted by: ace at May 08, 2013 11:04 AM (LCRYB)

That's Pacific time, right Ace?

Posted by: eastvalleyphx at May 08, 2013 07:27 AM (GRvW4)

109 Charles Gibson? Never heard of him.

Posted by: Garles Chibson at May 08, 2013 07:27 AM (dBZTE)

110

It is simple as this when evaluating the framework of the left and right.

The left are children and the right are parents.

Posted by: polynikes at May 08, 2013 07:27 AM (m2CN7)

111 104 Gee, I hope Stephen Colbert is eating a big shit sandwich today.

Posted by: SurferDoc at May 08, 2013 11:26 AM (6H6FZ

Imagine how unbearably smug he'd be if his lefty sister had won.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 08, 2013 07:27 AM (lVPtV)

112 so they didn't want to report on Benghazi or fast and furious because it wasn't local news?

Posted by: willow at May 08, 2013 07:27 AM (nqBYe)

113 33 @KatiePavlich I am sitting next to reporters who are talking smack about @gretawire, @JudgeJeanine @FoxNews. Greta the Judge are sitting chairs away Posted by: Tami at May 08, 2013 11:11 AM (X6akg) I hope they sue them and are taking notes.

Posted by: ChristyBlinky, Sarcastic and Radicalized Redneck Queen at May 08, 2013 07:28 AM (baL2B)

114

100 BCochran1981,

Don't know. I went outside right after he said it. But he probably did.

Posted by: ExSnipe at May 08, 2013 07:28 AM (PBm/l)

115 Did he follow that up with a "the only way to protect yourself from their influence is to BUY GOLD"?

Posted by: BCochran1981 at May 08, 2013 11:25 AM (da5Wo)

---

Is buying gold a bad thing?

Posted by: Velvet Ambition at May 08, 2013 07:28 AM (R8hU8)

116 So first it was about the Mo video, to which media hit pieces tried to link Pam Geller and Robert Spencer. Then it was old news and partisan politics. Back to personalizing the issue, here Atkisson.

Posted by: Beagle at May 08, 2013 07:29 AM (sOtz/)

117

and i'd like to know when stories became untouchable?

January 2004.

and why ?

Because shut up, racist!

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 08, 2013 07:29 AM (zF6Iw)

118 Posted by: tsrblke (work) at May 08, 2013 11:26 AM (qr78K) One would hope one's bias would not overcome curiosity about the negligence of the government (at best) in the matter of 4 Americans serving their country overseas.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at May 08, 2013 07:29 AM (6zgse)

119 I haven't used an alarm clock in over 20 years and still get up every day same time. It does not matter how much rack time I've had or what part of the planet I am on.

Posted by: Marcus at May 08, 2013 07:29 AM (GGCsk)

120 In a sane world we would have roughly equal #'s of reporters/editors with a liberal bias that dig hard into conservative pols whenever there is a potential story, reporters/editors with a conservative bias who dig harder into liberal pols and good reporters like Atkisson who just think every story deserves to be reported. That would give 2/3s covering any big story and the LIVs would be informed and only the "dont burst my bubble ivory tower twerps" would manage to avoid exposure to the facts by only using media that they know will filter out unpleasant stuff for them. Even the LIVs would mock these for being so out of touch in that sane world.

Unfortunately we live in some strange Orwellian/Huxley/Rand combined nightmare world where an Atkisson is either partisan or "see we are not biased, this story was covered" , although the rest of us ignored it instead of repeating the facts to make sure everyone was informed, because potential wingnuts might have voted with you clingers against our liberal heroes trying to establish utopia if they heard the facts instead of stories about how awesome Michelle's toned arms are."

Posted by: PaleRider at May 08, 2013 07:29 AM (vL0Nv)

121 The 'Stache was just on Fox and I was paying attention and missed him, dammit.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 08, 2013 07:29 AM (lVPtV)

122 Posted by: ace at May 08, 2013 11:21 AM (LCRYB)

Oh the hard hard life of a blogger. Man I want this job. Is it like the "Dread Pirate Roberts" can I just off you and take the name

Posted by: tsrblke (work)[/i][/b][/u][/s] at May 08, 2013 07:29 AM (qr78K)

123 @56 Sherry "Republicans lie" is simply one of the leftards magic wards Like you might say God bless you after a sneeze That way they can't be invaded by logical thought from double plus unfold nonpeople

Posted by: The boomers at May 08, 2013 07:30 AM (YGjUV)

124 She won't obey the club rules...that means she's a reactionary, right wing extremist.

Posted by: The MSM at May 08, 2013 07:30 AM (Zv1QB)

125 105
Regarding the Brother KaraBombov's body, I believe the wife declined to claim it, and the uncle was next in line here in the country.

Put it on a garbage barge and dump it at sea.

Those French vultures are pretty hungry... they don't mind eating roadkill.

Posted by: real joe at May 08, 2013 07:30 AM (dwQLu)

126 One would hope one's bias would not overcome curiosity about the negligence of the government (at best) in the matter of 4 Americans serving their country overseas. Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at May 08, 2013 11:29 AM (6zgse) Hahahahahahahaha. *bitter, not humorous, laughter*

Posted by: BCochran1981 at May 08, 2013 07:30 AM (da5Wo)

127 Stupid spell correct

Posted by: The boomers at May 08, 2013 07:31 AM (YGjUV)

128

Yup, have a co-worker who is a huge Liberal. Another co-worker who is Conservative sent him a link to something or other to prove a point. The Liberal would not click the link and he said, "It is just a lie. That is all Republicans do--they lie. They lie about everything."

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at May 08, 2013 11:16 AM (kXoT0)

I hate assholes like that. I'd say, "Go ahead. Call me a liar to my face, you fucking coward."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 08, 2013 07:31 AM (zF6Iw)

129 ace, I'm with you on the waking up thing. When I have my own kingdom (under the beneficent rule of Empress alexthechick, of course), I will decree that work cannot start before noon.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at May 08, 2013 07:31 AM (6zgse)

130 18 She'll end up on the Blaze Network. Posted by: Caustic at May 08, 2013 11:06 AM (/b8+5) I hope so. The hell with Fox.

Posted by: rickl at May 08, 2013 07:31 AM (zoehZ)

131 I for one am looking forward to the Steven Colbert, Colbert-Busch (why the hyphen??), DCCC mocking thread today.

How about we go with a setup that allows posters to insert their own jokes?

Posted by: Marcus at May 08, 2013 07:31 AM (GGCsk)

132 118 33 @KatiePavlich

I am sitting next to reporters who are talking smack about @gretawire, @JudgeJeanine @FoxNews. Greta the Judge are sitting chairs away
Posted by: Tami at May 08, 2013 11:11 AM (X6akg)

I hope they sue them and are taking notes.

Posted by: ChristyBlinky, Sarcastic and Radicalized Redneck Queen at May 08, 2013 11:28 AM (baL2B)

Some in the media thought "mean girls" was a template.

Posted by: Caustic at May 08, 2013 07:31 AM (/b8+5)

133 whose name Ace consistently misspells.

She should change it and make it easier.

Posted by: Andy

Especially now that everyone else is using his invention...

Two t's and two s's. It's really not that hard, people.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at May 08, 2013 07:32 AM (Yr6sH)

134 I'm with you on the waking up thing. When I have my own kingdom (under the beneficent rule of Empress alexthechick, of course), I will decree that work cannot start before noon.

How do you feel about Monday morning absenteeism?

Posted by: EC at May 08, 2013 07:32 AM (GQ8sn)

135 I'm not really joking about the Unpeople comments. Many in the media quite sincerely believe that if the Right is interested in a story, then
the story does not matter or is untrue. The implications of that are quite frightening indeed.

Posted by: alexthechick - Bring the SMOD at May 08, 2013 11:07 AM (VtjlW)

The astonishing thing in this instance is that they flat out admitted this to be true.

They've been pushing the meme that they weren't following the story because Fox News covered it, thus rendering the topic unclean.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at May 08, 2013 07:32 AM (SY2Kh)

136 Yup, have a co-worker who is a huge Liberal. Another co-worker who is Conservative sent him a link to something or other to prove a point. The Liberal would not click the link and he said, "It is just a lie. That is all Republicans do--they lie. They lie about everything."
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at May 08, 2013 11:16 AM (kXoT0)

Absolutely. Years ago I recommended Journeys with George (Alexandra Pelosi's documentary of W's campaign) to a Lefty co-worker. He admitted he would never watch it because he "didn't want to humanize Bush."
We are not human to these people.

Posted by: real joe at May 08, 2013 07:33 AM (dwQLu)

137 How do you feel about Monday morning absenteeism? Posted by: EC at May 08, 2013 11:32 AM (GQ8sn) Punishable by death.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at May 08, 2013 07:33 AM (6zgse)

138 How do you feel about Monday morning absenteeism?
Posted by: EC at May 08, 2013 11:32 AM (GQ8sn)

Punishable by death.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at May 08, 2013 11:33 AM (6zgse)

Well then...

Posted by: EC at May 08, 2013 07:33 AM (GQ8sn)

139 I would also note that I'm of the mind that in journalism (much like my field in academics) I think it might be impossible to set aside one's bias. Posted by: tsrblke (work) at May 08, 2013 11:26 AM (qr78K) Of course it is. The very neural pathways in our brain are formed by past experiences and prior thoughts. The key isn't to claim Olympian objectivity, it's to understand that you are biased and attempt to determine if that is impacting your research and presentation and, if so, how to counter that. Let's move this into a very frivolous realm. I like Chris Evans. Tell me he's in something and I am inclined to think it's going to be good, simply because he's in it. For some reason, I loathe Jake Gilliweed or whatever. Tell me he's in something and I am inclined to think it's going to be horrible, simply because he's in it. Tell me that William Fitchner and Milla Jovovich are in something and I will go to the movies on a Friday night and pay full price to watch Ultraviolet. Of course people are biased. We are human beings. Bias is part of who we are and how we think.

Posted by: alexthechick - Bring the SMOD at May 08, 2013 07:33 AM (VtjlW)

140 ace, I'm with you on the waking up thing. When I have my own kingdom (under the beneficent rule of Empress alexthechick, of course), I will decree that work cannot start before noon.

Tyranny!!! Who will make my Egg McMuffin?

Posted by: Hollowpoint at May 08, 2013 07:34 AM (SY2Kh)

141 "Dreaming of a day when public officials answer questions as if they know they work for the public.Â” *** I guess she didn't hear Obama's commencement address the other day?

Posted by: A Moron In Mind Only at May 08, 2013 07:34 AM (+I8Mq)

142 alex,

i dunno if you read wet cut loop's article yesterday about a colorado editor actually writing NRA members should be put in camps?

it's all become so fkn bizzare.

Posted by: willow at May 08, 2013 07:34 AM (nqBYe)

143 Tell me that William Fitchner and Milla Jovovich are in something and I will go to the movies on a Friday night and pay full price to watch Ultraviolet.

Best use of Hammer Space evah!

"Guns.........many."

Posted by: EC at May 08, 2013 07:34 AM (GQ8sn)

144 143 How do you feel about Monday morning absenteeism? Posted by: EC at May 08, 2013 11:32 AM (GQ8sn) Punishable by death. Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at May 08, 2013 11:33 AM (6zgse) It is a well known fact that 94.5% of all car problems occur on Monday morning, usually accompanied by telephone issues.

Posted by: jwb7605 ([i][u]Let it Burn[/u][/i])[/s][/b] at May 08, 2013 07:35 AM (Qxe/p)

145 Let's move this into a very frivolous realm. I like Chris Evans. Posted by: alexthechick - Bring the SMOD at May 08, 2013 11:33 AM (VtjlW) Mmmmm.... Chris Evans.... Sorry, was there any other text after that? I didn't notice.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at May 08, 2013 07:35 AM (6zgse)

146 Well we know she couldn't possibly be a liberal stooge, she's too good looking.

Posted by: dananjcon at May 08, 2013 07:35 AM (jvd3N)

147 C-span 3 for the live hearing

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at May 08, 2013 07:35 AM (SO2Q8)

148 James Rosen reports on Fox that both Ambassador Pickering and Admiral Mullen have declined to testify at this hearing. They were sent letters of invitation and they formally declined.

This goes with Andy McCarthy's theory that they whitewashed the report because they are sucking up to the Left.

Posted by: Miss Marple at May 08, 2013 07:36 AM (GoIUi)

149 Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at May 08, 2013 11:29 AM (6zgse)

Not really, I suspect. If you're a hard core leftist, you're liable I think to trust other leftists. So they gave you a story and it satisfied you. Our biases take us in different directions.

Take a non-political example. My wife may tell me that the wood under the window is warped and she's not really sure why. I trust her so I take her at her word. I really have no reason to continue to investigate (but if I had, I'd probably find she'd been over-watering the plants and not cleaning up the overflow.)

(Actually real life story: Once my wife left out a piece of newspaper after cleaning off her nails. I was on my way out of town the morning I noticed it and she said "oh, I forgot I'll take care of it when I get back from taking your to the airport." I had no reason not to trust her. Until I got home and it was still there. Turns out she had spilled acetone on the table and stained it.)

Posted by: tsrblke (work)[/i][/b][/u][/s] at May 08, 2013 07:36 AM (qr78K)

150 Fox is covering the hearing right now, for those who don't have C-SPAN 3.

Posted by: Miss Marple at May 08, 2013 07:37 AM (GoIUi)

151 I had no reason not to trust her. Until I got home and it was still there. Turns out she had spilled acetone on the table and stained it.)

Divorce her!!!

Posted by: EC at May 08, 2013 07:37 AM (GQ8sn)

152 anyway we should find a new name for JournOlsts

one that explains it all.

They should never be referred to as journalists. propaganda arm is too used up.

something else. they should become so marginalized and shown for the freaks they are.

unfortunately i'm not really knowledgeable or experienced in how to do this.

Posted by: willow at May 08, 2013 07:37 AM (nqBYe)

153 Posted by: alexthechick - Bring the SMOD at May 08, 2013 11:33 AM (VtjlW)

The Fifth Element.

One of the best silly, campy movies of all time.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 08, 2013 07:37 AM (/WLC3)

154 I haven't used an alarm clock in over 20 years and still get up every day same time. It does not matter how much rack time I've had or what part of the planet I am on. What is 'The Sun', Alex. Floating Balls Of Gas for $400, please.

Posted by: t-bird at May 08, 2013 07:37 AM (FcR7P)

155 Of course people are biased. We are human beings. Bias is part of who we are and how we think.

Posted by: alexthechick - Bring the SMOD at May 08, 2013 11:33 AM (VtjlW)

True and we all have a different frame of reference but reporters are supposed to be able to be aware of and recognize their own bias and be vigilant in not allowing it to come out in their work.

Posted by: Caustic at May 08, 2013 07:37 AM (/b8+5)

156 19 To this day, I do not understand why more journalists don't realize that there is a giant reporting vacuum just waiting to be filled. There is a handsome career to be had in simply following a big story wherever it leads, particularly since so few "journalists" are doing it.

I guess kissing the ring and becoming just another soldier in an army of mediocre partisan armchair analysts is simply easier.
===========
1) The vast majority of "news" stories are near--if not total--wholesale C&P from press releases, not just politics.

2) If you get in the habit of NOT C&P'ing entire Dem party press release (you're allowed to insert (a) a helpful quote dressed up as "non-partisan" from any Dem source or (b) a quote from any R that makes other R's look bad), you will never get a position on the staff of a Dem. And that's the real plum--ugly, stupid people with little other real world skills looking for a sinecure via proving their loyalty to the party.

That's why they do it. One day, they all dream of being named White House Press Secretary. It's like little Chan Ho Mihn dreaming of being a three time NYC Marathon winner. But Chan, at least, has a chance of beating the Africans.

Like I said, ugly and stupid.

Reality says they'll be the first against the wall if they ever get the paradise they're agitating for.

Posted by: RoyalOil at May 08, 2013 07:37 AM (VjL9S)

157 Of course people are biased. We are human beings. Bias is part of who we are and how we think. Posted by: alexthechick - Bring the SMOD at May 08, 2013 11:33 AM (VtjlW) I once got into a very long internet debate with a friend of a friend who claimed that when he wrote, he could go completely outside himself. That he could write in such a way that was completely removed from himself and his life experiences. I called bullshit and proved it. Repeatedly. He refused to accept it.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at May 08, 2013 07:37 AM (da5Wo)

158 They should never be referred to as journalists. propaganda arm is too used up.

something else. they should become so marginalized and shown for the freaks they are.

unfortunately i'm not really knowledgeable or experienced in how to do this.

How about "Paid Spokeshole".

Posted by: EC at May 08, 2013 07:38 AM (GQ8sn)

159 Not really, I suspect. If you're a hard core leftist, you're liable I think to trust other leftists. So they gave you a story and it satisfied you. Our biases take us in different directions. Posted by: tsrblke (work) at May 08, 2013 11:36 AM (qr78K) I understand that, but my comment was referring to supposed journalists.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at May 08, 2013 07:38 AM (6zgse)

160 148 alex, i dunno if you read wet cut loop's article yesterday about a colorado editor actually writing NRA members should be put in camps? it's all become so fkn bizzare. Posted by: willow He also referred to the remaining Boston terrorist as a "sick kid wannabe"

Posted by: Waldo at May 08, 2013 07:38 AM (sXWmd)

161 Tyranny!!! Who will make my Egg McMuffin? Posted by: Hollowpoint at May 08, 2013 11:34 AM (SY2Kh) In the Principalities of alextopia, breakfast will be available at all times. So shall it be written, so shall it be done.

Posted by: alexthechick - Bring the SMOD at May 08, 2013 07:38 AM (VtjlW)

162 Posted by: BCochran1981 at May 08, 2013 11:37 AM (da5Wo)

The old reporters' rule of "Who,What, When, Where, How" makes a huge amount of sense.

It minimizes bias and maximizes information.

It's so passÃ©.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 08, 2013 07:39 AM (/WLC3)

163 In the Principalities of alextopia, breakfast will be available at all times. So shall it be written, so shall it be done.

It's 8AM somewhere.

Posted by: EC at May 08, 2013 07:39 AM (GQ8sn)

164 A liberal Ã¸nce bit my sister ...

Posted by: Njarles Ryibsøn at May 08, 2013 07:39 AM (dBZTE)

165

The Alinsky-ites in this country have been very succesful in infiltration our education, military, religious and financial institutions.

We can turn this around but it will be a long, hard slog.

Posted by: Cheri at May 08, 2013 07:39 AM (G+Wff)

166

The Right has our own Inspector Generals that expose inaccurate reporting by people on the Right.

The Left has a Department of Propaganda that makes sure the inaccuracies are properly dispersed and protected from scrutiny.

Posted by: polynikes at May 08, 2013 07:39 AM (m2CN7)

167 New Benghazi thread.

Posted by: Tami[/i][/b][/u][/s] at May 08, 2013 07:40 AM (X6akg)

168 The Fifth Element. One of the best silly, campy movies of all time. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 08, 2013 11:37 AM (/WLC3) I didn't like it. The Resident Evil movies on the other hand....

Posted by: BCochran1981 at May 08, 2013 07:40 AM (da5Wo)

169 Ace has certainly dropped enough hints. I think he really wants a Snickerdoodle or what ever you call those pups. Maybe we can find him a rescue?

Posted by: Waldo at May 08, 2013 07:40 AM (sXWmd)

170 infiltrating...... forgot media, entertainment, cultural.....

Posted by: Cheri at May 08, 2013 07:40 AM (G+Wff)

171 I didn't like it. The Resident Evil movies on the other hand....

But no Multipass!

Posted by: EC at May 08, 2013 07:41 AM (GQ8sn)

172 Posted by: alexthechick - Bring the SMOD at May 08, 2013 11:33 AM (VtjlW)

See I'm not even sure you can reliably determine if your biases are affecting your work without a secondary interlocutor (whose bias make up is different than yours.)

To go back to what I know (Bioethics) I've advocated we'd be better off dropping the term "expert" or even analyst and just embracing the partisan makeup of the field. (Partisan in the non-political sense.) Advocate for your particular tradition be it virtue, principlism, collectivism, whatever.

I suppose this is a lot harder to do in journalism, but I'd imagine you'd need an intellectually diverse editorial board with people on roughly equal footing to choose and craft the stories reported on.
Which (as been pointed out) is not happening.

Posted by: tsrblke (work)[/i][/b][/u][/s] at May 08, 2013 07:44 AM (qr78K)

173 Imagine how unbearably smug he'd be if his lefty sister had won.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 08, 2013 11:27 AM (lVPtV)

He is damn near unbearably smug as it is.

Posted by: SurferDoc at May 08, 2013 07:45 AM (6H6FZ)

174 I wish Stevens family had spoken up in his defense. It makes me ill every time I see a photo of his lifeless body. His family reminds me of those dopes in the soviet union that would tolerate their entire families being wiped out by comrade stalin. Posted by: Waldo at May 08, 2013 11:24 AM (sXWmd) Disquieting follow up thought...they only tolerated it in silence because they were terrified. And rightfully so. The normative reaction is to wail to the high heavens, yet Steven's family does no such thing. The best case is that the wailing is being starved for oxygen. The worst case a precursor to horror.

Posted by: JQP at May 08, 2013 07:46 AM (GVL0g)

175 i dunno if you read wet cut loop's article yesterday about a colorado editor actually writing NRA members should be put in camps?

it's all become so fkn bizzare.

Posted by: willow

To be fair it was in some two bit, backbencher newspaper. Nothing we can say or do to the guy would compare to the shame he must feel over his failure to get a better gig.

I enjoyed the article. His flowing tears of impotent rage fueled me for hours.

My favorite part? Where he whined about politicians failing to bend to the will of various newspaper editorials. How dare they fail to obey the wishes of the Dallas Morning News?

Posted by: Hollowpoint at May 08, 2013 07:46 AM (SY2Kh)

176 Sharyl ought to have Pulitzer prizes stacked up to her ceiling; instead, she's going to be job hunting. I guess the Pulitzer has been downgraded to Nobel Peace Prize status; a liberal echo chamber circle jerk prize. Have a look at the 2012 'winners':

NYT
NYT
POLITICO
HuffPo
The AP

Yep, not much echo chambering going on there.

http://www.pulitzer.org/awards/2012

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 08, 2013 07:46 AM (ccXZP)

177 "ItÂ’s still not clear what happened at the U.S. compound, but some answers might come Wednesday"

Funny how this cocked-up wapo narrative isn't followed by UK broadsheets The Guardian, Times and Independent. The journalists and opinion writers at the big three never arrive at the same conclusions as those at the Telegraph but at least they aren't insufferably - and purposefully - incurious.

Posted by: 13times at May 08, 2013 07:47 AM (fGPLK)

178 Divorce her!!!

Posted by: EC at May 08, 2013 11:37 AM (GQ8sn)

I personally thought it was cute that she figured that her thought process was:

1) Hide it with newspaper

2)?????

3) Profit!

Except, the newspaper had stuck to the table and she had no plan for getting it up, which is why the newspaper was still there when I got back. Lack of foresight and an inability to lie would be apt descriptions for my wife . I assume she knew I'd figure it out eventually, she just wanted a few days I guess.

Posted by: tsrblke (work)[/i][/b][/u][/s] at May 08, 2013 07:47 AM (qr78K)

179 We can turn this around but it will be a long, hard slog. Posted by: Cheri at May 08, 2013 11:39 AM (G+Wff) Alternatively, relatively dubious, short and violent.

Posted by: JQP at May 08, 2013 07:48 AM (GVL0g)

180

"We are not human to these people. "

In their defense, it *is* much harder to fantasize and even advocate herding us into cattlecars and Zyclon B showers when we're "human" to them.

Posted by: Jaws at May 08, 2013 07:49 AM (4I3Uo)

181 I once got into a very long internet debate with a friend of a friend who claimed that when he wrote, he could go completely outside himself. That he could write in such a way that was completely removed from himself and his life experiences. I called bullshit and proved it. Repeatedly. He refused to accept it.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at May 08, 2013 11:37 AM (da5Wo)

They try to teach me to "engage the arguments of my opponents" and "consider them as you're writing."

But I have a really hard time doing that. I tend think my opponents are morons. And to be fair they usually are.

I actually had one paper I wrote where I said "my opponent's counter arguments are naive and moronic, showing lack of intellectual rigor."

I got an A .

Posted by: tsrblke (work)[/i][/b][/u][/s] at May 08, 2013 07:49 AM (qr78K)

182 anyway we should find a new name for JournOlsts

one that explains it all.

They should never be referred to as journalists. propaganda arm is too used up.

something else. they should become so marginalized and shown for the freaks they are.

unfortunately i'm not really knowledgeable or experienced in how to do this.
Posted by: willow at May 08, 2013 11:37 AM

I'm kind of partial to "slimey scumbags"

Posted by: berserker at May 08, 2013 07:51 AM (FMbng)

183 >I am sitting next to reporters who are talking smack about
@gretawire, @JudgeJeanine @FoxNews. Greta the Judge are sitting chairs
away <

In the salad days, a good ass-kicking was a pretty good cure.

But I suppose today we can just ask then a math problem

Posted by: Marcus at May 08, 2013 07:53 AM (GGCsk)

184 26 WaPo asked Media Matters for a opinion, even though MMFA openly coordinates with the White House. No wonder the MSM gets about the same level of respect accorded to child molesters. Posted by: Stace at May 08, 2013 11:10 AM (YLiN/) Child molesters don't go around proclaming their special virtue and demanding respect. Maybe not NAMBLA, but for the most part I imagine they're ashamed of their perversion.

Posted by: The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth at May 08, 2013 07:54 AM (Hsgnv)

185 I am wondering at what point we just start grabbing people by the belt and throat punching them into sensibility.

Posted by: Marcus at May 08, 2013 07:55 AM (GGCsk)

186 96 Sharyl Atkisson has bigger balls than Hairy Reed!

Verne Troyer has bigger balls than Reid.

Bigger brain, too.
*
*
My cat has bigger balls than Harry Reid. And the cat's been spayed.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 08, 2013 07:57 AM (BDU/a)

187
I'm kind of partial to "slimey scumbags"

I was thinking something like 'Journolefts'...but that's redundant.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at May 08, 2013 07:58 AM (0IhFx)

188 Why does this story exist? I suppose that the idea of a journalist doing her job the way it's supposed to be done is so unusual that it's a "man bites dog" story. Hell, reporting facts that are embarassing to the Obama regieme is a "man bites head off of grizzly bear" story. But of course this story serves two more important purposes. It prepares the battlespace in advance of the hearings and it also punishes the apostate, serving as a warning to keep the lapdogs in line. After you read the WaPo you either remain uninformed, are misinformed, or more likely become malinformed. No other options.

Posted by: The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth at May 08, 2013 08:02 AM (Hsgnv)

189

Progressive partisans know they're being lied to by the administration and the propagna-media but it's OK. The lies serve a greater good, after all. Atkisson seeking truth, and acting like a reporter, doesn't earn her credibility or respect among those partisans. In fact, just the opposite: because she ignores the propaganda points we seek to make, she is a "tool", and a class enemy.

Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia; she should only report that fact and ignore any narrative that runs to the contrary.

Posted by: President For Life Obama at May 08, 2013 08:03 AM (B5y+v)

190 Media Matters is a Communist front organization.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at May 08, 2013 08:06 AM (IDSI7)

191 Finally.... For Congress not bad.

Posted by: Beagle at May 08, 2013 08:06 AM (sOtz/)

192 I assume she knew I'd figure it out eventually, she just wanted a few days I guess.

Posted by: tsrblke (work) at May 08, 2013 11:47 AM (qr78K)

Well I hope you made her work it off in sexual favours.

Posted by: EC at May 08, 2013 08:06 AM (GQ8sn)

193

To go back to what I know (Bioethics) I've advocated we'd be better off dropping the term "expert" or even analyst and just embracing the partisan makeup of the field. (Partisan in the non-political sense.) Advocate for your particular tradition be it virtue, principlism, collectivism, whatever.

I suppose this is a lot harder to do in journalism, but I'd imagine you'd need an intellectually diverse editorial board with people on roughly equal footing to choose and craft the stories reported on.
Which (as been pointed out) is not happening.

Pretty tough to achieve even-handedness within one organization. Better to achieve it on the ensemble average, viz., some of the media being liberal, and some pro-American, and neither making any bones about it. That's the way newspapers used to be a long time ago.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at May 08, 2013 08:13 AM (IDSI7)

194 Anyone calling Atkisson a Republican water carrier is wrong. Atkisson began her research on Fast 'n Furious from the indignant leftist take, according to what "everyone knew" to substantiate the "inherited from Bush" blame game. She found out just how completely illegally that Obama's judicial branch was officiating, and she actually documented and reported her findings, proving her investigative journalist credentials. To call integrity as corruption takes a liar. That Obama, Inc. takes offense to her reporting is not her problem, but theirs. The more they bitch and harass, whether in public or in private, the worse they look, and the more people see, which is exactly what they don't want happening. Revisionism is an equal opportunity plague found in major political parties and religions. It's a sham when either Demos or Repubs feel themselves free of responsibility because the other guys are the "more" corrupt gang, and supposedly play the "Because I Could" card more than anyone willingly admits. Authoritarianism goes hand in hand, whether with neoconservatives gushing "compassionate" social justice and the /DHS/ Patriot Act, or within utopian totalitarianism. Go figure. Anything that preempts the Supreme Law of the Land being our US Constitution with Bill of Rights intact is, in a word, wrong. Or in another word, UNAMERICAN.

Posted by: panzernashorn at May 08, 2013 11:22 AM (MhA4j)

195 62 Around 1990, there were 3 hot, HOT female anchors at CNN - one was that blonde (Catherine Crier?), I thought one was Atkisson, though I could be wrong, and the other had dark hair and made me want to practice guitar a lot. Posted by: SFGoth at May 08, 2013 11:18 AM (dZ756) Rudi Bakhtiar was the other one.

Posted by: JohnW at May 08, 2013 11:35 AM (FpUC1)

196 I don't need Sharyl Atkisson to be a conservative - I just need her to keep being a real reporter.

Posted by: An Observation at May 08, 2013 11:49 AM (ylhEn)

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