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    The Secret, Shameless Sleaze Of MSNBC's Richard Wolffe

    Media Catfight: Rachel Sklar vs. Jeff Jarvis

    Dan Abrams Is Looking For Fresh Meat

    The Twitterati Get a Free Lunch from the MSM

    The Twitterati Are Left Crying in Istanbul

    Dan Abrams Wants to Buy a Few Good Bloggers

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    Twittering Like a Peacock

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    08/03/09

    In reply to The Secret, Shameless Sleaze Of MSNBC's Richard Wolffe
    Thank God for Amy Goodman.
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    08/03/09

    In reply to The Secret, Shameless Sleaze Of MSNBC's Richard Wolffe
    "... the big picture in all of this: that we now shamelessly live in an age when ..."

    Where you been, son?
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    08/02/09

    In reply to The Secret, Shameless Sleaze Of MSNBC's Richard Wolffe
    Oh, and Glenn Greenwald is actually principled and honest -- not to be mentioned in the same breath as the toady Rose and whore Wolffe.
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    08/02/09

    In reply to The Secret, Shameless Sleaze Of MSNBC's Richard Wolffe
    I guess I'll have to read the Glenn's column to get some instances where Wolffe had, and didn't acknowledge, a conflict of interest. Until I do, I'll have to be scouring my internal tapes for times I thought he was sucking up to power. My superficial memory can't bring one up to me now.

    But, yeah, Dan Bartlett? Really?
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    08/02/09

    In reply to The Secret, Shameless Sleaze Of MSNBC's Richard Wolffe
    I admire Glenn Greenwald. I think he over-writes by about 25%, but it's part of his wonkish knowledge to lay it all out. I appreciate his sincerity and his sense of justice in this compromised world. He has an intense sense of right and wrong, and is not afraid to offend powerful people in pointing it out.

    Disappointed about Wolffe- I had rather liked him on TV. But I suppose Washington is full of whores, nothing new there.
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    08/04/09

    @Baroness: Well said. GG's posts occasionally seem to be written in such a furious reverie of indignation that he skimps on the editing, but I am a loyal reader. I even flipped him a few nickels during his last fund drive so he could buy the equipment required for him to be more of a presence on American television from his home in Brazil.
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    08/02/09

    In reply to The Secret, Shameless Sleaze Of MSNBC's Richard Wolffe
    The Glenn (la-de-da he has an extra n) Greenwald I know is not doing this for altruistic reasons, yo.

    He never says anything without an ulterior motive. Probably to keep the feud going.
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    08/02/09

    @Iwillnotauditionforastar: Substantiate! Seriously. I'd like to hear more. What do you have?
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    08/02/09

    @Iwillnotauditionforastar: Uh... What the fuck are you talking about? Greenwald is one of the few political bloggers who actually knows something about the law.

    If you're a right-wing knob, just say that...
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    08/02/09

    @Iwillnotauditionforastar:

    Glenn is only 20% superfluous letterage, while Wolffe is 33%, since he has that extraneous f and a silent e.
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    08/03/09

    @WretchedGnu: He knows the law. Read what I write and then figure out what the words I mean say.

    I stand by he's not doing it for altruistic reasons.

    Stop. Go to MerriamWebster.com and learn those words.

    Not one of them mentions the law. Awww. Don't cry about being spanked.
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    08/03/09

    @Foster Kamer: I'm not saying you are wrong in your analysis.

    I'm not saying Glen(n) is wrong in his analysis.

    I'm simply making a qualitative analysis (geez, never expected to use that phrase on Gawker) based on my experience debating Glen(n) on multiple blogs that he is pushing this to destroy the agreement.

    Keep the left/right shout machine going. Shame then rally the troops to continue. Just my opinion based on my experience.

    Give me a sec to goog from 2006 for the perfect example.
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    08/03/09

    @Foster Kamer: I got 21,800 google results to go through.

    Send Glen(n) an e-mail and tell him to defend himself and we can have a mano e mano right here.
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    08/03/09

    @Iwillnotauditionforastar: One could say this about any kind of political criticism, that all it does it "keep the shout machine going." So what's the alternative, if we want to avoid such an interpretation? To never be critical?
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    08/03/09

    @skt.smth: When I'm critical I'm clear about it. When some are critical they are disingenious about it.

    This is just my personal opinion, but I prefer an open battle of ideas that lets people decide on their own.

    Regardless of the outcome. My ideas win, YAY! My ideas lose, I sucked at presenting them or the ideas sucked. No biggee. The audacity of informed choice.
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    08/03/09

    @Iwillnotauditionforastar: We're not understanding why you think Glenn Greenwald is disingenuous, though. That's the problem.
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    08/03/09

    @Iwillnotauditionforastar: If he's correct and reporting stories other media can't or won't touch, why would his motives matter? I think it's very much in the interest of Fox News viewers and MSNBC viewers for him (for someone) to report this story. Same with his work on privacy and torture, both during Bush administration and continuing, sadly, under Obama.

    I'm not sure if that fits your definition of altruism, but it does strike me as a mark of integrity, which is something I value a lot more than altruism in any case. Especially in a journalist.
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    08/03/09

    @Mediahohoho: We are starting to get very loose with who is a reporter and who is an editorialist, now aren't we?
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    08/04/09

    @Iwillnotauditionforastar: I'm not. He reports stories.
    You, on the other hand, are just kind of an ass.
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    06/20/09

    In reply to Media Catfight: Rachel Sklar vs. Jeff Jarvis
    Fun Fact: The Gaboon Viper has a 7 month gestation period.


    [animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu]

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    06/20/09

    In reply to Media Catfight: Rachel Sklar vs. Jeff Jarvis
    "I know Sklar socially/personally - like everyone in New York media .."


    Everyone in NY media knows Rachel socially/personally? That's a lotta people! She must be one hell of a social/personal person!


    Oh wait ... You mean "everyone who's anyone," don't you Foster?

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    06/20/09

    Hippity, you have a popular weekly liveblog on this very site & you generate an enormous amount of pageviews and comments. This implicitly makes you a New York Media Someb ody don't you think?
    And you're saying you don't know Sklar?
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    06/20/09

    @phlox✔: No, but I dont live in NY. I live in Connecticut.


    THAT MUST BE WHY.

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    06/20/09

    @MisterHippity: No, I'm saying Sklar's good at keeping her face around about town. I'm sitting at home blogging on the weekend. You tell me how much of a somebody I am.
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    06/20/09

    In reply to Media Catfight: Rachel Sklar vs. Jeff Jarvis
    I seriously doubt there's a page in the history of the internet with a picture of these four on it.

    So nicely done.
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    06/20/09

    In reply to Media Catfight: Rachel Sklar vs. Jeff Jarvis
    I would like to hear someone pronounce "mediaite" 10 times, fast. That's about it.
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    06/20/09

    In reply to Media Catfight: Rachel Sklar vs. Jeff Jarvis
    It’s annoying that Sklar thinks it’s all about her. Jarvis was attacking and insulting Abrams as lawyer-flack-publisher and so on.

    And the conflict of interest is obvious. It doesn’t matter if they are separate business entities, or if one started seven months earlier, or whatever.
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    06/20/09

    In reply to Media Catfight: Rachel Sklar vs. Jeff Jarvis
    I normally cannot stand Jeff Jarvis, and Rachel Sklar seems nice, but he wins this one. Still, the whole Mediaite/Abrams thing is intrinsically icky, and he was just pointing out the obvious, so she was at an obvious disadvantage.
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    06/20/09

    @The-Littlest-Hobo: Thanks. I think.
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    06/20/09

    @Jeff Jarvis: Normally I can't stand people named "Jeff," but I have to admit your name is rather alliterative. And I like alliteration. So I'm really quite torn.
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    06/20/09

    In reply to Media Catfight: Rachel Sklar vs. Jeff Jarvis
    Fun fact: my screen name comes from the fact that you can't make through 10 minutes of argument with someone in this town (hell, or even social pleasantries) without being reminded of their SAT scores, Top X school, or other useless academic distinction. Everyone in this fucking town was in the 99th percentile of something, so they drag their ass here, thinking that fact is going to be admired or useful to anyone.
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    06/20/09

    @ninety_nine: So you're not Barbara Feldon? Damn.
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    06/20/09

    @phlox✔: You took the words right out of my mouth. Must have been while you...were...kissin' me.
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    06/20/09

    @ninety_nine:@phlox✔: And now I've got this song running around in my head. Make it stop.
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    06/20/09

    OK Bookish, I'll bite.
    Also, posting this just to get that fucking awful Toto abomination out of my brain.




    + Watch video



    "
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    06/20/09

    @phlox✔: Thanks. I feel better now.
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    06/20/09

    In reply to Media Catfight: Rachel Sklar vs. Jeff Jarvis
    So, Jarvis and others are concerned that Mediaite will give favorable coverage of their consulting clients at Abrams Research, right?


    Rachel appears to be working both at Abrams Research and Mediaite. She should pick one arm of the branch and ignore the other. That would go a long way.

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    06/20/09

    In reply to Media Catfight: Rachel Sklar vs. Jeff Jarvis
    Hey, don't underestimate the worms--they know who they're fucking.
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    06/20/09

    @kneetoe: Well said. It's better to operate by feel when you are perpetually in the dark anyway. A principle many would do well to remember.
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    06/20/09

    @DoctorNine's Tin Foil Hat: WIN! POSSIBLY UNINTENTIONAL, BUT STILL: YES.
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