Monday, August 01, 2005
Blogger Ethics and the FEC Collide
Who knew there was such irresponsible outrageous partisanship being broadcast over the airwaves? We'd better convene an ethics panel stat...
Open Thread
No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread. --Robert Burton
Save Ohio and America!
The ball is coming to attack!
When it does, who will you trust to defend America?
Jean Schmidt?
Or Paul Hackett:
On August 2, the choice is clear.
(picture thanks to pixie)
When it does, who will you trust to defend America?
Jean Schmidt?
Or Paul Hackett:
On August 2, the choice is clear.
(picture thanks to pixie)
Urging?
I was a bit puzzled by this:
No examples of any of these are given, but does anyone remember any pundit "urging" Rehnquist to retire? I imagine survival statistics for cancer were given, but has anyone really treated "him as a barely functioning member of society?"
There is a disturbing quality to all the recent chatter from talking heads, both conservative and liberal, urging Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist to retire from the Supreme Court.
Diagnosed with thyroid cancer and hospitalized recently with a fever, Rehnquist has undergone nearly a yearlong odyssey of fighting the disease. He's had a tracheotomy. He's undergone chemotherapy.
The media and political pundits continue to treat him as a barely functioning member of society and sound his death knell, citing survival statistics that are too often misleading.
No examples of any of these are given, but does anyone remember any pundit "urging" Rehnquist to retire? I imagine survival statistics for cancer were given, but has anyone really treated "him as a barely functioning member of society?"
Exciting New Logo
Playing around with this great logo that someone made for me months ago but I, in my lazy ways, never made use of. Change is so disconcerting.
Anyway, special thanks to the designer who also designed this award winning game called DaVinci's Challenge.
Anyway, special thanks to the designer who also designed this award winning game called DaVinci's Challenge.
Hackett Update
I don't have exact numbers, but it looks like Hackett's raised at least $20,000, $28000 including $6000 $7000 or so through the Eschaton community site, since the call went out...
30 Grand
Brigham says team Hackett needs $30,000 to fund their election day GOTV efforts.
You can donate here or here.
[[contacting bob to, uh, clarify the math]]
Paul Hackett is a Fighting Democrat and he's gambling, pushing, pull out all of the stops and running like his life depends upon it (if he loses, he'll probably be sent back in Iraq).
To Get Out the Vote, we need to raise $30,000 today. Here's why.
Last week, the netroots stepped up and delivered around $40K a day. The campaign gambled and put all of that on TV (the ads are great and a Democrat is leading the Republicans in gross points in every market in every medium!!!).
It worked, and now Independents are breaking rapidly our way. And Democrats in the district are so fired up that the far more than expected are signing up for GOTV.
This has drastically increased the cost of the GOTV mobilization. The enthusiasm over the weekend was more than expected and more was spend during the huge door-to-door effort. Now the campaign needs money for tomorrow to finish the job.
The cost breaks down to around$500$50 a precinct with 600 precincts. The netroots best friend, Matt from ActBlue, is flying in right now to coordinate moving the money.
But we need enough to finish the job.
Your investments have made Hackett a contender. Please ask people to give one more time so we can win this in the field.
You can donate here or here.
[[contacting bob to, uh, clarify the math]]
Death to the Roundtable
Cenk Uygur has a post about the latest version of the traditional Meet the Press "journalists plus conservatives" roundtable. Aside from the perpetual lack of liberal voices on these things, which is of course an issue, I don't understand why journalists agree to appear on these things (and why their editors allow them to).
Journalists are limited in the range of "opinion" they're allowed to express on these things. Essentially, they are allowed to regurgitate current conventional wisdom or offer up "liberals say..." or "conservatives say..." type of sentences. They're placed in a conversation with partisan hacks, who are not constrained by anything at all. Even if there was an actual liberal on for balance I would still object to journalists appearing in these formats.
Journalists are limited in the range of "opinion" they're allowed to express on these things. Essentially, they are allowed to regurgitate current conventional wisdom or offer up "liberals say..." or "conservatives say..." type of sentences. They're placed in a conversation with partisan hacks, who are not constrained by anything at all. Even if there was an actual liberal on for balance I would still object to journalists appearing in these formats.
Scrap Heap
Uwe Reinhardt:
When our son, then a recent Princeton graduate, decided to join the Marine Corps in 2001, I advised him thus: "Do what you must, but be advised that, flourishing rhetoric notwithstanding, this nation will never truly honor your service, and it will condemn you to the bottom of the economic scrap heap should you ever get seriously wounded." The intervening years have not changed my views; they have reaffirmed them.
Unlike the editors of the nation's newspapers, I am not at all impressed by people who resolve to have others stay the course in Iraq and in Afghanistan. At zero sacrifice, who would not have that resolve?
Open Thread
No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread. --Robert Burton
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