Comments on: The Decline of Blogs And Gaffes

CBS' Dick Meyer Takes Heart In The Dithering Of Two Traditional Campaign Weapons

[bedwetter777]

blue4green, You''ll note that my interpretaion of your words and motivation behind them as "unkind" is the kindest interpretaion of them.

[bedwetter777]

You can interpret what she meant by her words kindly, with the benefit of the doubt since you do not have an irrefutable connection to what is in her heart. Or, you can ossume that you know what is in her heart and interpret her words unkindly. Your interpretation of her words is the most unkind interpretation possible.

[stopkidding]

I just hope McCain doesn''t do to the country what he was doing to that lobbyist.

[blue4green]

bedwetter...major spinning.

Her remark is a very strong and wrong statement. She is proud of our country for her first time? Are you kidding me? What kind of remark is that? The obvious is that she hasn''t been proud of our country until her husband started winning in a Presidential election? My goodness, after that, I guess we couldn''t possibly expect her to be proud ever again. And what are the rest of mere Americans supposed to do if that measuring stick is acceptable for pride?

Please. And this from someone who fancies herself to be the next First Lady of that country she is only now proud of?

[bedwetter777]

Allegations do not equal truth. If all it takes is serious allegations to deserve coverage, the instances of false allegations will explode from those seeking their 15 minutes of fame.

[blue4green]

Why has the media been ignoring this news? This is a serious allegation
and if anthing, it affords Obama a chance to grab tv time to dispute this
mans allegation. David Axelrod has been very active behind the scenes
here, so they know this is serious.


Minnesota Man Claims He Took Drugs & Had *** with Barack Obama in 1999
Submitted by Julie on February 19, 2008 - 1:32pm. Elections Elections 2008
News Politics U.S. Politics

Barack Obama now faces a new challenge - one that is sure to be much more
scandalous than anything he''s seen so far. If the allegations are to be
believed, it''s also a scandal that his campaign has tried to cover up. A
Minnesota man has come forth, claiming that he took cocaine in 1999 with
Obama, the then-Illinois legislator, and participated in homosexual acts
with him.

"My motivation for making this public is my desire for a presidential
candidate to be honest. I didn''t want the *** thing to come out. But I
think it is important for the candidate to be honest about his drug use as
late as 1999."

Check out Larry Sinclair''s YouTube Videos and his claims against Barack
Obama:

http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/4766

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVeFVtcdSYY&eurl=http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/4766

[creeper00]

Mr. Meyer,

You are not alone in your frustration with blogs. I''m a member of Daily Kos and I see an increasing number of posts expressing outrage at the level of discourse.

But that, in itself, is a positive thing. Bloggers are fairly good at policing their own.

I''m reduced to hanging in there till November. Conventional blog wisdom has it that every election season spawns the type of posts we find so aggravating. We''ll see what happens when the dust settles.

[markangeloo]

You forgot about Matt Drudge

& his yellow journalistic headlines & photos

with no stories behind them !! They are influencing

many of voters ideas.

[bedwetter777]

You can love your country and at the same time not be proud of it. Racism and sexism are still problems that limit it from living up to the words "all men are created equal." Now, with a woman and black man as favorites to be the next holder of the highest office in the land it appears that we are about to take a big step toward actually living up to this ideal.

[bedwetter777]

The anonymity in expressing opinions that blogs allow creates an environment for freer expression at the expense of civility.

[blue4green]

The media doesn''t want to make much of Michelle Obama''s comment, unlike Howard Dean Rallly Cry, or Mr. Gore''s sigh, this is a real remark, not fabricated into something that was otherwise a normal body function, because they have been pushing Obama at folks for over a year.

It''s not a surprise they are trying not to report it. But it surely disgusted me when I learned of her arrogant and demeaning remark. And that is why it''s NOT being discussed. To limit how many folks actually hear what she said.

And a bit funny that this stupid dug out of no where story of McCain surfaces, to squash the Obama "for the first time in my adult life I''m proud of my country" especially since Mrs. McCain started commenting on it on their appearances.

[Razzl]

So, Meyer, you''re another one of those elitists who dislikes the incredibly important and revolutionary new political tool of blogging because you don''t like the aesthetical effect of citizens from all walks of life interacting with each other to talk about politics. Blogging gives you the same rough edges you get when citizens talk to each other in person at meetings or bars or whatever--except that blogging gives the public a chance to interact quickly and hash out issues or ideas or news in timely fashion without the mediation of you and your colleagues. Your complaints are as quaint as the complaints of some of the founding fathers during the constitutional conventions who worried about what democracy would produce when the unwashed masses were allowed the privileges of citizenship. If you don''t like the crudeness of the public discourse, add your own two cents to it by taking part in blogs, don''t turn your nose up and diss the rest of us for making use of the only mass media tool we have access to...

[bedwetter777]

My take on blogs is that reading them is like taking the temperature of the nation with a rectal thermometer.

[tbweb]

My take on Blogs is they are like reading a daily Horoscope column in ones favorite news media. No one really takes their daily horoscope too seriously, about as serious as reading a Chinese Fortune Cookie, but people read their daily Horoscopes just the same, just to see what it has to say about them, Blogs are sort of like that and subconsciously people may be more subtly influenced by these outside the box sources than they realize.

[runningralph]

*** Meyer,
It looks like this blog site is increasingly used by pimps as in the previous blog from luvneverend. I wonder if their is a way to block pimps from a web site.