The Gawker post by "Anonymous" was self-serving dreck. She was unfairly smeared, and she could have used this to her advantage, had she not muddied the waters by trying to pin this on "Coons goons."
She shouldn't be elected, but Gawker should apologize.
@roguedandelion: Political ads that exceed 0:30 are very very rare on TV (I sometimes cover this stuff). So minute-long ads are usually internet-only. Are they running a shorter, 0:30 version there?
@elSpanielo: No, you have it backwards. 1100 is the giveaway ("Costco's law" -- they wrote it!). 1105 at least leaves a slim possibility that the state will get some money back in the deal. But both measures screw the state, both measures will cut state revenues by hundreds of millions of dollars and make our bad fiscal picture even worse. I'm voting a big no on both. I'd rather have a state liquor monopoly that the liquor distributorship mafias I've seen at work in other states.
@Don Is: Agreed. Frankly, when I look at the marginally literate, short-sighted oafs filling out most of the back benches in Congress, I'd say our big problem is that government is way, way too much like us.
Williams' parting shot at NPR, on the Fox web site:
"This is evidence of one-party rule and one sided thinking at NPR that leads to enforced ideology, speech and writing. It leads to people, especially journalists, being sent to the gulag for raising the wrong questions and displaying independence of thought."
The gulag? Really? This sounds like a guy who's been drinking the Kool-Ade at Fox for some time, and was just looking for an excuse to lash out at NPR.
NPR should've had the guts to can him right after he started doing the pundit thing. Maybe it's time for MSM to have a new journalism standard: Their reporters may no longer be allowed to appear as pundits on politicized faux-news like Fox, MSNBC and even the Daily Show. It just undermines good, independent journalism. Enough with the blather.
@sysyphus' sister: Let's be more precise: Santa Caterina! When Brazilian empress Leopoldina decided to import some German settlers for the southern states, back in 1824, she knew what she was doing.
Oh, come on. The SeaTimes story on this was absurd. They reported the strong opinions of a handful of clergyman, took those quotes to regular people for a reaction, and managed to gin up a controversy where none existed before.
This isn't an issue for 99% of American Christians and Christian clergy. And it's not news.