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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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    04/22/09

    In reply to Lessons You Learn at a 'Future of the Media' Party
    I regret to say that I know nearly everyone in that photo. Some are even my friends. And I am even sadder to report that none of them have the first fucking clue about how to save the dying media biz.


    I shall now jump head-first into a bottle of Australian shiraz.

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    04/22/09

    In reply to Lessons You Learn at a 'Future of the Media' Party
    Engaging in this type of discussion is beneficial but it's only beneficial if there weren't just predictions being made about the future of the media. Yes, the newspaper are going bankrupt and the radio industry is slowly fading, but what can we do during this time of media transformation? How will the media itself change? Does the future hold a different representation of minorities or those who are not part of the dominant culture? I think that discussions about the media and how it will change are important, but after all has been said, something needs to be done or a plan should be created as we enter into a new media structure. Although we don't exactly know where the media is headed, we need to have an idea of how we want it to change.
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    04/22/09

    @Ryan Young: I have an idea of how I want It to change! The Media, all of them, meaning The Medias, plural, need to pay writers so we can eke out a comfortable upper class existence somewhere besides in Dreamland! I think the ref to the 'large few' who formerly eked it out were people like screenwriters, who had the sense to form a guild and demand a minimum for their work back in, what, 1933, and hasn't 1933 looked really familiar again lately? It should.
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    04/22/09

    @krismry: As much as i'd love to hoist a gallon-sized martini to that notion of paying writers well so we can live in Dreamland (although i prefer Fantasyland myself, but to each his own), i hate to point out to you that media is in fact already a plural noun.
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    04/22/09

    @Ryan Young: Who exactly are you? I assume you're one of these "new media figures" because it took you about 150 words to re-state the original problem in a way that makes it sound like you're trying to say something.
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    04/23/09

    @krismry: union scale mid level reporters at big city papers used to make low 6 figures
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    04/23/09

    @Hydroceph: Fantasyland is good too. I am happy you pointed that media is data is family are audience are depend on whether you speak english or american. xoxo
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    04/23/09

    @if_i_only_had_a_heart: yow! that's wonderful! you should see what they make everywhere else! nothing.
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    04/22/09

    In reply to Lessons You Learn at a 'Future of the Media' Party
    That's Denton's forehead on the right, right?
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    04/22/09

    In reply to Lessons You Learn at a 'Future of the Media' Party
    Looking at the pic this appears to be a gay party. Is it mostly men and a few hags who are interested in this? Wait, wait... don't tell me... It's the Andrew Sullivan thang?
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    04/22/09

    @ValborgMelbo: I've said it before and I'll say it again. Andrew Sullivan, yuuuummmmm!
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    04/22/09

    @RheaPollstry: we really are the same person, you and i, aren't we? You're scaring me.
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    04/23/09

    @ValborgMelbo: pasty unattractive white men mostly
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    02/13/09

    In reply to 30 Rock McFlurries Towards Product Placement Hell
    By the way, the Junior Mints episode in Seinfeld was a case of coming up with a funny idea first then asking permission to use the name of the real candy. They were not paid to do it. (Don't know if ALL Seinfeld product mentions were unpaid). That's not the same thing as a deal being made first, money changing hands, and then the writers are told that they MUST write a storyline that will highlight the product.
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    02/13/09

    In reply to 30 Rock McFlurries Towards Product Placement Hell
    I hate product placement in scripted tv (I can semi-tolerate it in semi-scripted tv) and no amount of guilt-tripping or get-over-it-ism is going to make me change my mind!
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    02/13/09

    In reply to 30 Rock McFlurries Towards Product Placement Hell
    i am completely for product placement, it always used to drive me crazy when folks on a sitcom would be eating somethin like "Tasty Pufs" for breakfast or getting a job at "Mega Burger" or etc... in the real world people consume and talk about brand-name products all the time, i want people on TV to do the same thing. + they might as well get paid for it, TV's a business not high art. + McFlurries are indeed delicious.
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    02/13/09

    @dippinkind: AHH! I totally agree with you. That shit pisses me off so bad. Uh, are we soulmates??
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    02/13/09

    In reply to 30 Rock McFlurries Towards Product Placement Hell
    But have you ever microwaved a doughnut?
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    02/13/09

    @IAmChuckBass: I have not, but I'm going to now.
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