The New York Times today provides one more stereotypical brush to its work-in-progress portrait of bloggers as drooling-the-mouth members of mob carrying computers instead of rope for a lynching or torches to set fire to the monster. The bottom line is: Stereotypes are bred by LAZINESS. And the Times provides it in bulk form with an article with the original leading headline: … [Read more...] about Bloggers: NY Times Portrait Of A Drooling At The Mouth Lynch Mob

As we said in Around The 'Sphere, it certainly seems that way — and seems like it can happen any minute on two prominent liberal blogs. Americablog has been running teaser posts all morning saying the finishing touches are being put on a post that is a big one. This one says "He's Toast." Raw Story has this headline (but no post yet):"Developing: Mounting … [Read more...] about It Something About To Break On Jeff Gannon Story?

A note that we'll be inviting some Guest Bloggers to our site later on this week. We do this to give you a bit of a different perspective and also to help TMV out when he has long distances to travel. In the past, we did all blogging on the road by laptop, which we'll still do but this will ensure solid, new content on this site continually from independent thinkers. … [Read more...] about Guest Bloggers This Week

Now that the campaign is over John Kerry's wife/the woman John Kerry is married to (we are confused about terminology) Teresa has changed the way she is to be addressed: According to The Washington Times, Teresa Heinz, the erstwhile Teresa Heinz Kerry, has stopped using the last name of her husband, Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, last year's Democrat presidential nominee. … [Read more...] about Teresa Plays Ketchup With Her Life

File this New York Times report in the What Makes You So Certain Department: The razor-thin margin apparently captured by the Shiite alliance here in election results announced Sunday seems almost certain to enshrine a weak government that will be unable to push through sweeping changes, like granting Islam a central role in the new Iraqi state. WHEEW! What the New York Times … [Read more...] about Iraqi Election Results Mean Coalition Gov’t But Not Necessarily Doom

This time he has disowned his daughter. It's a fascinating story since it raises questions about families, acceptance and perceptions of betrayal on both sides. Marc Fisher writes in Washington Post: Maya Keyes loves her father and mother. She put off college and moved from the family home in Darnestown to Chicago to be with her dad on a grand adventure. Even though she … [Read more...] about Alan Keyes Strikes Again

Australian troops are being trained to be ready for the worst if they're captured by the enemy, according to Right Thinking. Read Lee's post in full. Towards the end he notes some protests over this training in Australia, and adds: I remember when I was in navy boot camp. As part of our CBR (chemical, biological, and radiological) training they had us wearing gas masks, put … [Read more...] about What Do You Do If You’re Captured By The Enemy?

Links from all over the blogo-you-know-what. Links are NOT restricted to one viewpoint. Opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect the opinions of The Moderate Voice. WILL THERE BE A BIG STORY TODAY ON THE JEFF GANNON CONTROVERSY? Americablog is hinting something VERY BIG is coming. First they show you this picture. And then there's this cryptic post:"I'm wrapping it up … [Read more...] about Around The ‘Sphere

We're Guest Blogging on Dean's World this weekend. If you're new to this site, this means we do all of our posting on Dean's World during this period. We do the same crappy insightful posts there that we do here. Dean Esmay has me back there very weekend, despite reader demands. Regular posts resume here no later than Monday morning, although we'll sometimes resume posts … [Read more...] about We’re Guest Blogging This Weekend

Whether he said the words that got him in trouble or not, CNN's Chief News Excutive Eason Jordan has quit, a victim of delayed response to a snowballing media and blog controversy — and of his own inexplicable stonewalling: NEW YORK — CNN chief news executive Eason Jordan quit Friday amidst a furor over remarks he made in Switzerland last month about journalists … [Read more...] about CNN’s News Chief Eason Jordan Quits

A new documentary has come out about a cultural icon — what many see as one of the key milestones in the vulgarization of American culture: Deep Throat. This is the movie with the title that became an easy laugh line for any comedian in the 1970s and 80s — and was the witty inspiration for the nickname of Woodward-Berstein's still mysterious Watergate source. But, … [Read more...] about A Documentary About A Movie That Sucked

Subtitle this one "Your U.S. Foreign Aid At Work": Pakistan says it has paid 32m rupees ($540,000) to help four former wanted tribal militants in South Waziristan settle debts with al-Qaeda. Military operations chief in the region, Lt Gen Safdar Hussain, said the payments were part of a peace deal signed on Monday with tribesmen. It is the first time Pakistan has admitted … [Read more...] about Our Friend Pakistan Gives Money To Al Qaeda

A new poll suggests President George Bush's support is starting to slowly erode as good feelings about Iraq's democratic elections begin to wear off and controversy over the administration's Social Security reform plan takes center stage. In fact, one of the most notable aspects of this poll is the drop in numbers for GWB among seniors: WASHINGTON - Americans are feeling a … [Read more...] about Bush Poll Numbers Start To Erode

Note to shoppers in London: GET A LIFE. From time to time The Moderate Voice hands out highly coveted memberships to its Get A Life Club for fellow humans displaying a degree of silliness, political correctness or pettiness that puts us in awe. Today we induct some more members, namely these shoppers who gave a new meaning to the phrase "shop till you drop": Five people are … [Read more...] about New Members Of TMV’s GET A LIFE CLUB

Arthur Miller, an icon of American theater who also had a role in pop culture during the 50s by marrying the late Marilyn Monroe, has died: NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. playwright Arthur Miller, one of the giants of American literature, has died, his assistant said on Friday. He was 89. "Mr. Miller passed away at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut, last night at 9:17 p.m. of … [Read more...] about Top Playwright Who Married Marilyn Monroe Dies

Secretary of State Condolezza Rice could be smack, dab at the center of yet another controversy over pre-911 attack warnings to the White House in light of yet another new revelation. Australia's Herald-Sun reports: EIGHT months before the September 11 attacks the White House's then counterterrorism adviser urged then national security adviser Condoleezza Rice to hold a … [Read more...] about Rice Was Strongly Warned About Al Qaeda In January 2001

CNN's news chief Eason Jordan has issued a clarification that also sounds a bit like a retraction, although no one will know for certain the exact wording of what he actually said and how he said it unless a tape that exists of this incident is released. Will this end the controversy? Probably not, unless the tape comes out. But although blogs can devote space to it until the … [Read more...] about Eason Jordan Issues A De Facto Retraction

It looks as if Howard Dean will be heading the DNC — and with overwhelming support of DNC members. Does this represent the ascension of the party's left wing? Or simply a feeling that the party needs to shift to a different way of delivering its message by accentating differences between the two parties. Or does this represent a combination of both? A CNN poll … [Read more...] about Howard Dean The Apparent Shoo-In

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