tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post6735548276843659823..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: The SmearAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-65718659266853497472017-10-04T13:12:17.201-04:002017-10-04T13:12:17.201-04:00@ Granite Dad - true. I had a helluva time findin...@ Granite Dad - true. I had a helluva time finding all-liberally biased sources for my gun control FB discussion last night (I hope you skipped it), but I managed it, and I know linking to Washington Post and Boston Globe articles kept some dismissal at bay.Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-77532605017241310692017-10-04T12:54:36.921-04:002017-10-04T12:54:36.921-04:00Texan99, I find them very useful if you need to p...Texan99, I find them very useful if you need to prove something to a left-leaning friend. If Snopes says that it is not true, that is much more convincing to someone then sending them an article from the Daily Caller or something similar. GraniteDadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04851407860883846133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-5401959274385376652017-10-03T09:37:54.389-04:002017-10-03T09:37:54.389-04:00I laughed when I read "even Snopes." Th...I laughed when I read "even Snopes." They're a very serious offender. I often check stories there and, if there is the least political whiff about the story, routinely conclude that the analysis is wildly biased, even if a little good information can still be gleaned from it. They're not bad when it comes to debunking run-of-the-mill urban legends and fake internet memes, especially quotations attributed to surprising people in anonymous poster form.Texan99https://www.blogger.com/profile/10479561573903660086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-89083777111288958292017-10-02T19:38:39.861-04:002017-10-02T19:38:39.861-04:00"Hate Speech", of course, is anything th..."Hate Speech", of course, is anything the Left doesn't like.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-22365276264528517212017-10-02T15:50:00.854-04:002017-10-02T15:50:00.854-04:00"He who controls the present controls the pas..."He who controls the present controls the past."<br /><br />I don't see a grand plot to destroy print media--that seems to be happening independently. <br /><br />It is interesting to watch the machinery gearing up to suppress "hate speech." Can you say "mission creep?"jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01792036361407527304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-14149424952422515282017-10-02T13:20:28.939-04:002017-10-02T13:20:28.939-04:00I've stopped reading the lap dog media and the...I've stopped reading the lap dog media and the alphabet networks. For this, and other, reasons.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-54375542117278989222017-10-02T12:25:26.153-04:002017-10-02T12:25:26.153-04:00That's the sort of spin/respin undermining she...That's the sort of spin/respin undermining she is writing about. She does not reference that incident in this book. As I noted at the end, she may have covered that material in Stonewalled, which I have not read. She resigned from CBS, was not fired, though such things are sometimes ambiguous.<br />Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-50235471418252826632017-10-02T10:57:45.402-04:002017-10-02T10:57:45.402-04:00I find this interesting in that I see the author&#...I find this interesting in that I see the author's name, and immediately think "isn't that the paranoiac who was fired by CBS for being political?"<br /><br />But going to Wikipedia (which cannot be assumed to be unbiased) I see the link to a story pushed by Brock's "Media Matters" about her allegedly hacked devices, and their report at https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2015/01/29/federal-report-investigation-found-no-evidence/202332 perfectly lines up with the thesis above -- it cleverly omits mention of her CBS <i>work</i> computer being compromised, as reported by people at CBS other than her who sought and got independent expert confirmation. And my recollection about her departure from CBS doesn't seem to fit with the evidence presented there either.Douglas2https://www.blogger.com/profile/11290012200563917585noreply@blogger.com