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skahammer
09/18/09

In reply to If We Don't Get Our Priorities Straight Then Boy, Watch Out
Off-topic, but I'm choosing this post to say that you know what, HamNo has been doling out the Gawker-brand goodstuff for quite a while now -- since I don't know exactly when, really -- and I think today's a good day to point out what a worthy job he's been doing.

I promise I'm just a schmo from the distant provinces -- beyond even Far Rockaway -- and I've got no logs to roll here. I guess I just stumbled across an online photo of a former Gawkerite recently and thought to myself, kind of amazed, "Wow...that really was a long time ago."
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blix
09/18/09

@skahammer: Seconded. I'm also beginning to suspect that he's my Dad.
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skahammer
09/18/09

@blix: You've been getting high with Yoda in the back of the video store again, haven't you, Luke?
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blix
09/18/09

@skahammer: There is no try, only doobie.
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Cheap Shot
09/18/09

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We buy Purple Kush instead of Mexican Dirt Weed.
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snugbug
09/18/09

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Things to do tomorrow:
*Eat fragrant shepherd's goat cheese made in Bulgaria.
*Write an essay outlining the differences and similarities between Sofia Coppola and Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria.
*Calculate whether the odds of Americans confusing Bucharest with Budapest are greater than the odds of them confusing Belgium with Bulgaria.
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buda
09/18/09

@snugbug: I was on a flight to Budapest once on which the PILOT welcomed all of us to Bucharest upon landing. This was greeted with a lot of boos.
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snugbug
09/18/09

@buda: Oh, I'm sure you're right. I was being a smart-ass because the national lottery article referenced in the post is about Bulgaria, not Belgium.
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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
09/18/09

@snugbug: You're messing up the whole system: they don't expect you to actually click on the links. Geez.
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snugbug
09/18/09

@Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Where have you been, Billsville? We miss you in Bulgaria!
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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
09/18/09

@snugbug:

Oh I'm here, same place, just watching the United States slowly wind down, like at the end of Fight Club, or Dr. Strangelove, while taking a big Mannekin Pis.
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hypocriteoath
09/18/09

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but trickle down economics actually work, right? I said... RIGHT?
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AndPreciousLittleofThat
09/18/09

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Yeah Gawker, stick it to those Wall Street fatcats!

I'm sure it must've been the people at the top of the pile that got fired, right? Not those just-out-of-college types. Certainly they'd never let go of the people at the BOTTOM of the ladder.

So use that righteous anger and demand that eleven million back!
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allyzay
09/18/09

@AndPreciousLittleofThat: Because educated college people on unemployment deserve extra special money more than REGULAR people on unemployment, right?! Pretty sure most of us understand who this money is going to - it's still bullshit.
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bytememehard
09/18/09

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Dayum, I loves me a Belgium waffle. Where can you get a good one in New York?
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Banjo-Sea Kitten
09/18/09

@bytememehard: when you say it, it sounds so dirty though.
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dado
09/18/09

@Banjo-Sea Kitten: Like a Belgium waffle served up on a Jersey City hotplate by Mark Sanchez?
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Banjo-Sea Kitten
09/18/09

@dado: is he the cute football player? Does he fight dogs or engage in any other kind of assholery? If no, then you may hold the waffle and serve him to me a la carte.
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♥AntiSocialSocialite♥
06/18/09

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I didn't get CNNFail. I watched cnn that whole weekend (i was sick!) and they had great coverage. I think that ppl who participated in CNNFail weren't actually watching CNN.

and of course a legitimate news source can't just yank every 140 character breaking exclusive from twitter and put it on the air without it being substantiated - so, with the limited capabilities of television (as opposed to real-time updates from twitter and other social networking sites) in mind, I think the network did a pretty thorough job!
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El_Gato
06/17/09

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CNN has failed in its coverage -- if you can even call it that -- of Iran because for the past five years it's been hiring people based on the way they look and sound, not on their journalistic abilities.

As a result the only CNN person in Tehran is Christiane Amanpour, who got her job ages ago and would never have been hired today. As a result the network's "coverage" of the monumental events in Iran is a joke. The Daily Show did a good job of pointing that out on Tuesday night's show. Most of CNN's info is coming from Twitter. Which is just pathetic. It couldn't be any worse.
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mostlymartian
06/18/09

@El_Gato: The Daily Show has been making jokes about CNN's technology love for a while, it's their schtick for CNN. They were just continuing that. It wasn't some perceptive or particularly accurate observation in regard to their Iran coverage. CNN had Christiane already on the ground in Iran during the election. They have another guy on the ground there now too. They have had many excellent analyists discussing the events. The movement and access of journalists has been very restricted, so information from sources like twitter would be important no matter what.

Do you really think people like recent hire Fareed Zakaria are bimbos? CNN has lots of mediocre to plain looking people on camera and has kept them front and center when they could have been pushed to the side or dumped.
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gawkimo
06/11/09

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He didn't even have the siren when he had a headline containing the phrase "Latina Woman."
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bjonston
06/11/09

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I checked out the Drudge Report once. My computer came down with a nasty case of herpes and I had to put it down. It was ugly. Never went back.
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readingisforkids
06/11/09

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You all do realize that the drudge report is the center of the media network? Newscasters, journalists, and reporters all get stories from it. Ever wonder why you hear stories on TV that you read about on drudge weeks ago? Give him a break and don't rag on him just because he has more influence than you.
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Niko Bellic
06/11/09

@readingisforkids: I don't doubt for a second that Drudge told about Tiller's death weeks before it happened. I give him full credit for it, too.
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TRexstasy
06/11/09

@readingisforkids: Um, I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you just stumbled out of a time tunnel from 2004. Drudge isn't the center of much of anything anymore. His traffic has been dwarfed by Huffington Post and nobody follows his leads on stories except those sad white douches at Politico.
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Colonel Mustard
06/11/09

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The next right-wing extremist who wants to commit a few murders to further his cause better where one of those Susan Boyle masks if he wants any red state publicity for it.
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Colonel Mustard
06/11/09

@Colonel Mustard: "Better where"? Ugh. Try again.
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bjonston
06/11/09

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Matt Drudge: "Spreading lies, hatred and ignorance, one .gif siren at a time."
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monoverb
06/11/09

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I wonder if the blue light will spin when Matt comes bounding out of the closet?
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bjonston
06/11/09

@monoverb: Maybe not the blue the light. But the shiny blue tassels hanging from the pasties on his tiny little nipples will definitely go round and round, to the sound of his favorite Broadway show tunes.
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iplaudius
06/11/09

In reply to Drudge Would Rather Not Dwell on Right-Wing Terrorism
Granting shareholders a say in executive compensation would seem more an appeal to populist sentiment than a step toward socialism.

It would also make executive compensation more competitive and performance-based—competition and merit being "true" capitalist values, or so I thought.
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