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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    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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    08/03/09

    In reply to Play-By-Play: The Self-Loathing NYT's Ultimate Alessandra Stanley Flogging
    The Times should thank Stanley--at least people are talking about the Arts section now. Bring back the New York Sun, please, so this city can have the sort of arts coverage it deserves instead of the dutiful paint-by-numbers pablum we get from Sifton & Co.
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    08/02/09

    In reply to Play-By-Play: The Self-Loathing NYT's Ultimate Alessandra Stanley Flogging
    I am surprised. All this talk about Stanley's lazy fact checking and not one mention of her lack of insight and bad taste?
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    08/02/09

    In reply to Play-By-Play: The Self-Loathing NYT's Ultimate Alessandra Stanley Flogging
    While we're all in a tizzy about errors that make it to print, maybe Gawker should decide between figure dashes, en dashes, and em dashes, 'cus this post is all over the place. See also: the second graf of the Annie Leibovitz piece. Maybe Foster should go the Alessandra route and get a personal copy editor?
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    08/03/09

    @obloquy: Oh, shuddup. I've been known to pipe up about misspelled words on Gawker but M-dashes? How pedantic can you get, dude? Plus, everything on the InterNerd is fixable. Unlike in print.
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    08/02/09

    In reply to Play-By-Play: The Self-Loathing NYT's Ultimate Alessandra Stanley Flogging
    Missing from all of the coverage of this happy-go-lucky embarrassment to journalism is a fact known to everyone who's worked in a newsroom for longer than a couple of hours: The copy desk can save your ass, and the copy desk can hang it out to dry. I'd bet a Denton-scale amount of money that at some point(s) a copy editor tried to save Stanley from herself and in exchange got a heaping helping of attitude. It's a shorter distance than any high-profile writer would care to acknowledge from there to a Hoyt-administered public caning.
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    08/02/09

    In reply to Play-By-Play: The Self-Loathing NYT's Ultimate Alessandra Stanley Flogging
    I wouldn't say "even" Katie Couric; there was a little payback there.
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    08/02/09

    In reply to Play-By-Play: The Self-Loathing NYT's Ultimate Alessandra Stanley Flogging
    You think the Times's piece on Cronkite was full of fact-free fantasy? Check out their obit of Derrida.

    Needless to say, it was never corrected. He was French, after all.
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    snugbug promoted this comment Edited by WretchedGnu at 08/02/09 7:14 PM WretchedGnu was starred WretchedGnu was unstarred
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    08/02/09

    @WretchedGnu: You piqued my curiosity, as I love Derrida.. I peeped his NYT online obit from 2004 and what jumped at me immediately was that the writer called him "abstruse theorist" in the hed (not a factual error but still: What a jerk!) and the writer’s definition of deconstructionsim, which is roooong and sort of malicious.

    Also he misspelled École Normale Supérieure as École Normal Supérieure (TWICE in the same paragraph—nice!) and alleged that the 2002 doc Derrida was solely made by Amy Ziering Kofman, when in fact filmmaker Kirby Dick co-directed and co-everything the doc and he usually gets the 1st credit for the project.

    Nothing on the Alessandra Stanley Richter scale of wrongness, IMHO. What did I miss?
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    08/04/09

    @snugbug: "Nothing on the Alessandra Stanley Richter scale of wrongness, IMHO. What did I miss?"

    Well, their description of his work came entirely from The Big Reactionary Book of Filosophy, and did not address a single issue Derrida has ever actually written about.

    "deconstruction, the method of inquiry that asserted that all writing was full of confusion and contradiction..."

    uh, whut? Are you kidding me?

    "and that the author's intent could not overcome the inherent contradictions of language itself..."

    ??? Where, what... Are they talking about his argument with Searle? Where do they get this crap?

    "...robbing texts - whether literature, history or philosophy - of truthfulness, absolute meaning and permanence."

    Can somebody please tell me what the fucking subject of "robbing" is here? Does it even matter in this random word-spew?

    Could somebody please cite one article or book in which D argues anything about a book's capacity for "truthfulness"?

    I mean, the Derrida I've read addresses the history of the concept of writing (in relation to speech), Freud's theories of memory, the concept of "spirit" in Heidegger, the ramifications of gift-giving in certain anthropological theories, questions of testimony versus confession, etc, etc, etc.

    But apparently I'm wrong. The NYT sets me straight. What Derrida actually wrote about was the fact that "reality isn't real! Back to you, Steve Doocy!"
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    08/02/09

    In reply to Play-By-Play: The Self-Loathing NYT's Ultimate Alessandra Stanley Flogging
    and the reasons this person is still employed are what?

    in ye olde days, reporters got double plus secret probation for a misspelled middle initial
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    08/02/09

    In reply to Play-By-Play: The Self-Loathing NYT's Ultimate Alessandra Stanley Flogging
    Here's my favorite part of the article:

    "Though the correct date of the moon landing was fresh in his mind, Manly said, he read right over that mistake. Catching it might have flagged the need for more careful vetting."

    Here's something else that might have flagged the need for more careful vetting: the words "By Alessandra Stanley" under the headline.
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