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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
05/13/09

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Please explain significance of photo to post. Is it a photo of Michelle Malkin? Of a typical liberal? Just meant to get us to click?
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Mediahohoho
05/13/09

@Uncle_Billy_Slumming: It's a still from a home movie Michelle Malkin made of herself jumping up and down on a trampoline in order to demonstrate that, like global warming and evolution, gravity itself is a liberal hoax because no matter how much she jumped and jumped and jumped, her uterus didn't prolapse into her knee socks like an aborted kitten.

And they wonder why journalists don't read their blogs for news value.
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LilyBlue
05/13/09

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I'm guessing most of those journalists have read Malkin's blog once. But it's kind of like going on a blind date with a boring, stupid loser; you chalk up the time spent to open-mindedness, and firmly resolve to spend your hours more productively in the future.
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Preopsician
05/13/09

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The conservative is always "crazed," "insane," a "psychopath." You seldom say why; it's just the truth.
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valet_of_the_dolls
05/13/09

@Preopsician: Malkin ipsa loquitur.
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City_Dater
05/13/09

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There are conservative blogs offering real news and analysis? Where? Once the "Obama is a Communist Muslim, Bill and Hillary Clinton are responsible for everything wrong with America" crazies are eliminated, what remains?
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Colonel Mustard
05/13/09

@City_Dater: That was my reaction. It's hard to imagine any serious media outlet giving real consideration to frothing xenophobia and religious crusades as a viable counterpoint to actual politics.
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flossy
05/13/09

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Reading MichelleMalkin.com is like rubbernecking at a psychological 10 car pile-up on the freeway. You know nothing good will come of it, but you can't look away.

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momo
05/13/09

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Talking Points Memo features original reporting and analysis from a liberal perspective. MichelleMalkin.com is the crazed rantings of a racist psychopath. This is like saying "twice as many journalists read The Weekly Standard as pay attention to the Black Hebrew Israelites who hang out in midtown."

Nice!
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Hamilton Nolan
05/13/09

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I hope the Black Hebrew Israelites don't come across this post.
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zapfdingbatme
12/06/08

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Fuck Burma! China rules!!

Current score late in the fourth quarter: China, 25; Burma, 14. Burma's going to need a hell of a hail mary onslaught to catch up. Cuba's team is putting up a good fight though, and I think they're the team to watch if you're looking for an exciting season-ender.

The U.S., with no wins (read: imprisoned bloggers) in 2008 barely even made it out of spring training with a team. What kind of fucking police state do we live in anyway?? Actually, maybe U.S. bloggers just think they're more radical and challenging than they really are.
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gawkimo
12/06/08

@lastcigaretteme: Or maybe US bloggers don't talk about anything of significance or anything the state needs to be worried about. We "commodified our dissent" every since the first Che T-shirt hit the market. There hasn't been any serious challenges to state authority in America since armed Black Panthers were threatening to shoot back.
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gawkimo
12/06/08

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This doesn't seem to include journalists who have faced free speech crackdowns in the form of being gunned down by drug cartels or jihadists.
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Wendy_Kroy
12/05/08

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Not to be all seriousy, but, in the US, at least, part of the issue is that MSM journalists work for organizations that have First Amendment lawyers on call, and who will fund what litigation it takes to protect reporters' privileges. There are a lot of worthy non-profits, like EFF, that will step in to help bloggers who don't have such resources themselves - problem is, those non-profits usually don't get involved until something has already gone awry, ie, after a contempt citation has already issued. The lawyers for bigger news organizations are good at making sure those contempt citations won't get issued for their own folks in the first place.
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Kid Twist
12/05/08

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Not shown: 100% of the editors of prison newspapers are in prison.
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Private Hangnail
12/05/08

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Could this be attributed to the fact that years of working in darkened rooms hunched over glowing screens has contributed to the average blogger's love of child pornography?
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Sarcastro
12/05/08

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A quick peek into my basement confirms the above data.
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American Dreamer
12/05/08

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this chart is totally useless because it doesn't indicate the total number of people covered by the pie chart (if only a small number of people are covered the specific percentages carry less weight)
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SaraRueful
12/05/08

@Lucky in Love: Click through -- article says 125 total worldwide. Which sounds kind of low to me.
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Iceland Spar
12/05/08

@Lucky in Love: Quiet you - the internet is filled with heroes! We don't need your Nate Silver like statistics ruining this.
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American Dreamer
12/05/08

@Iceland_Spar:

125 is such a low number that creating a pie chart doesn't offer much guidance....when the number is that low the percentages can be expected to vary significantly from year to year
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Iceland Spar
12/05/08

@Lucky in Love: What's that about sample sizes and standard deviations? I can't hear your facts through all of the lauding of the internet maryters.
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BadUncle
12/05/08

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Shouldn't it read "by medium?"
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Sarcastro
12/05/08

@BadUncle: Unless it means that the media are imprisoning people. Which could be the case. I understand that Katie Couric takes scores of hostages daily.
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