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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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    Image of Motoko Kusanagi Motoko Kusanagi
    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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    Image of Nick Denton Nick Denton
    10/27/09

    In reply to New York Times Fires Freelancer for Misunderstanding Ethics Rules That the New York Times Also Misunderstood
    How about a little background? Justin Rocket Silverman, Karion's favorite New York journalist, also nearly got fired last year -- after he went on the Thrillist ride.
    [www.portfolio.com] #mikealbo
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    10/27/09

    In reply to New York Times Fires Freelancer for Misunderstanding Ethics Rules That the New York Times Also Misunderstood
    Bercovici strikes again: His reporting got Sarah Polonsky canned from Page Six for similar reasons a few years ago.

    [gawker.com] #mikealbo
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    10/27/09

    In reply to New York Times Fires Freelancer for Misunderstanding Ethics Rules That the New York Times Also Misunderstood
    Now, if the junket had been to Berlin [gawker.com] , I might have understood. (I think this was my favorite Underminer piece).
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    10/27/09

    In reply to New York Times Fires Freelancer for Misunderstanding Ethics Rules That the New York Times Also Misunderstood
    Too bad. Mike Albo was so much better than the woman who thinks that fat people ain't got no right to live, much less shop. I thought The Underminer pieces were screamingly funny.

    Albo, Balk, Choire-rhymes-with-story, I'm feeling nostalgic.

    It wasn't the best exercise of judgment, of course, but this only confirms to me that it's a whole lot easier to be "pure" if you're wealthy.

    I hope he lands on his feet.
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    10/27/09

    In reply to New York Times Fires Freelancer for Misunderstanding Ethics Rules That the New York Times Also Misunderstood
    Yeah, he shouldn't have taken the junket. But gifts are delivered at the Christmas season to writers at some of our best-loved publications, and no one says boo. #mikealbo
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    10/26/09

    In reply to New York Times Fires Freelancer for Misunderstanding Ethics Rules That the New York Times Also Misunderstood
    I just re-read Emily Gould's post from back in 2007 about Albo livin' the dream as a freelance writer.

    [gawker.com]

    Then I read his tweet:

    "in case there is any confusion: im a freelance writer. i have 486 dollars in my bank account. i have no health insurance. i owe my parents $"

    Who can't in the Manhattan media universe commiserate with that statement?

    Should he have gone on the junket? Hell no. But I still feel bad for the poor guy. The whole thing just causes my head to reel. I hope Gawker, Daily Finance, or The Awl offers him a job so he can get some health insurance and pay his parents back. #mikealbo
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    10/26/09

    In reply to New York Times Fires Freelancer for Misunderstanding Ethics Rules That the New York Times Also Misunderstood
    "You totally crossed the line between what is ethical and what is garbage!"

    "It’s hard not to cross it; they keep moving the little sucker, don’t they?"

    -- Broadcast News #mikealbo
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    10/26/09

    In reply to New York Times Fires Freelancer for Misunderstanding Ethics Rules That the New York Times Also Misunderstood
    So many things. For sure the NY Times wasn't going to do anything about it until it made the blogs and other press. Secondly, it's way over the top to cut his column about shopping when he took a travel junket. Also it's not exactly in the same realm as making facts up about WMDs in Iraq. Lastly, I am sure that for every Mike Albo there are 15 freelancers who contribute to the Times who have taken press trips, junkets, comp rates, free dinners and what have you, either for other pubs or because they are frickin' freelancers who work for themselves and want to keep up. #mikealbo
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