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    10/31/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Biden was the most inscrutable choice, ever, for VP. Instead of "change" Obama brought out an old hack, who had trouble with both truth telling, even during the campaign, and with inserting his foot into his mouth. Oh, to know what kind of negotiation that was, to get him on the ticket---except, perhaps to allay terrified old white guys who feared a woman and a (half)black man on the ticket would bring on the apocalypse. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    apparently I am in the minority, but I love Joe Biden! I think he's like the lovable Steve Urkel of the White House. He comes in, says stupid stuff, knocks shit over, and is like "Did I do that?" Oh Joe. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Joe Biden is everything thats wrong and fucked up with congress. This dope won his seat in the Senate when he was 29 and has never had another job until being VP. He has learned about as much about how the country works from his perch in DC as Palin learned about Russia from staring at it. He is walking proof we need term limits.

    And he doesn't drink. I don't trust people who don't drink, unless they've already been alcoholics. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Why is it that I feel compelled to defend Gawker's subject matter against the editors/writers at least once a day lately?

    Either this new crop of staff writers is utterly fucked, or the editorial direction has taken a nosedive, or both.

    Is there some negative correlation between the quality of stories and the quality of AJAX/CSS? #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @Motoko Kusanagi: From where I'm standing, it would appear to be a positive correlation. It's a good day when I get tripped up by fewer than five unresponsive scripts, infinite waits for comments to load or what have you. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @romulus: The site gets prettier, and the content gets lamer. Just callin it as I see it. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @Motoko Kusanagi: Oh yeah, I didn't mean to quibble. I agree that the site gets fancier all the time, but features seem to break often. I should have added before that it could well be my OS and browser causing headaches most readers don't experience. And in all fairness, I haven't been reading long enough to judge contemporary content against the past. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Not sure what point you're trying to make, Amrita... that you think Cheney's worldview makes some sense? That Cheney was initially popular, before everything he did brought his popularity rating to a low of 28%? I love it that Biden is willing to call a moron a moron. This is a ridiculous post. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Oh, and if you're trying to poke fun at Vice Prez Biden for weeping during the debate when he spoke about his first wife and baby daughter who died, well then, that's just messed up. #joebiden
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    10/31/09

    @Conchie Birdie: One might argue that it was the worst kind of political hackdom for him to bring them up expressly to show his "empathy" side and try to squeeze a tear out of his plastic-surgeryized eye slots. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    I'm absolutely NOT a supporter of ANYTHING Dick says... but, Good Lawwd, Biden, Bin Laden will always BE a part of the issue. I'm sorry, I guess if you had the prez saying this I could understand... but, uh, Joe? Nope.

    That being said, why are we posting crap from Fox News anyway - I thought we weren't supposed to take this stuff seriously?
    #joebiden
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    09/21/09

    In reply to New, Improved Couric to Be More Cheery, Lady-Friendly
    Kates should be advised that gum-reduction surgery results in higher ratings with the 35-50 periodontist demographic.
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    09/21/09

    In reply to New, Improved Couric to Be More Cheery, Lady-Friendly
    "More cherry"? It's a bit late for that, no?
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    09/21/09

    @Elektra: Not if they keep fucking that chicken.
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    07/18/09

    In reply to Walter Cronkite Dead at 92
    Cronkite, 1996: "I regret that in our attempt to establish some standards, that we couldn't make them stick, we couldn't find a way to pass them on to another generation."

    http://www.newseum.org/news/news.aspx?item=nh_CRON090714_2
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    07/18/09

    In reply to Walter Cronkite Dead at 92
    Cronkite and my grandfather were friends and fraternity brothers at the University of Texas. It's an often recited story in my family that when Cronkite told my grandfather that he was dropping out of school, my grandfather told him, "Walter, you'll never do anything without a college degree."
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    07/18/09

    @spickle: Forgot to mention that, even though he had never met either of them, he called my parents on their wedding day to send his congratulations and apologies for not being able to come. A stand-up fellow.
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    07/18/09

    In reply to Walter Cronkite Dead at 92
    Farewell, Mr. Cronkite.

    I feel badly that this era of newscaster is gone. I know, I know, there's Brian Williams and every once in a while they roll out Tom Brokaw, but all in all, the landscape feels littered more with teleprompter jockeys and interchangeable "Anchor Man" carbon copies, than real, hard-core, newsmen.

    Maybe there just aren't enough of these elder statesmen around to show the young bucks how it's really done. (And even if they tried, they'd probably be appalled by all the pampering the new guys get. And how the legion of nightly news drones would probably scoff at going out in the field to report news in real time.) Doesn't it always feel like these guys just appear at a news desk like the inflatable auto-pilot in Airplane!?

    I'd almost say there's very little hope, but at least there's Pat Kiernan
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    Spirit Fingers promoted this comment Edited by Spirit Fingers at 07/18/09 12:15 PM Spirit Fingers was starred Spirit Fingers was unstarred
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    07/18/09

    I've been demoted again?!

    I'm actually saying how great this newsman was and how great the era was. And I wish there were more like him. I'm respecting a quickly vanishing craft (that I'm also a part of) that has changed over time, but also being real about it in my assessment.

    Somehow this is wrong to say? I'm not understanding how Gawker is working.

    Maybe I should have just kept it at: "Walter Cronkite will be missed by those of us in the journalism community and those whose lives he touched daily by offering the news with dignity, reverence and class. Many of us aspire to do just that, and even in missing that mark, there's always the memory out there of someone who did it right."
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    Image of RobinTrypticon RobinTrypticon
    07/18/09

    In reply to Walter Cronkite Dead at 92
    I was 7 years old when Kennedy was killed in Dallas and I distinctly remember sitting in front of the TV, sill in my school uniform, watching and hearing Cronkite tell us that Kennedy had died. I remember all the Apollo missions, especially the moon landing as well as Apollo 13 when everyone, and I mean the whole world, was praying for the safe return of the Astronauts and Walter was reporting. Vietnam was on the news every night during the late 60's and those reporters were right in the middle of the fighting, more so than they are today.......and Mr. Cronkite reported on that and everything that happened during that time including Kent State, Bobby Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Anti- War demonstrations…. All of it. What a life! God Bless him.
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    07/18/09

    In reply to Walter Cronkite Dead at 92
    What I loved about him was that he told the news -- real unvarnished news. His opinions didn't enter into his reporting. I loved his objectivity and I miss that in the current cable and mainstream news.

    RIP
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    07/18/09

    @momof3wildkids: Not true. He was very opinionated and was not afraid to let it be known. If anything, it is today's so-called journalists who have no spine when it comes to questioning what "official sources" tell them to dilligently write down. To wit:

    We have been too often disappointed by the optimism of the American leaders, both in Vietnam and Washington, to have faith any longer in the silver linings they find in the darkest clouds. . . .

    "For it seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate. . . . To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe, in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past."

    Walter Kronkite, CBS News, February 27, 1968.
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    07/18/09

    @persimmon: Thank you. He helped to end the war in Vietnam. He was an "activist newscaster," I guess. More power.
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    07/18/09

    In reply to Walter Cronkite Dead at 92
    His later pieces he did for NPR were well written and always interesting. A loss.
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