tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post8626895934874415041..comments2023-10-07T05:29:20.923-07:00Comments on McClatchy Watch: Friday September 18 -- Got news or an update, leave it in commentsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger52125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-66998218865562521402009-09-18T22:22:50.713-07:002009-09-18T22:22:50.713-07:00Outrageous McClatchy propaganda regarding Joe Wils...Outrageous McClatchy propaganda regarding Joe Wilson. <br /> http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/1240808.htmlAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17148447781392815887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-50127592324470486902009-09-18T17:42:57.024-07:002009-09-18T17:42:57.024-07:00To quote another poster...
they hate Fox because.....To quote another poster...<br />they hate Fox because...<br /><br />just want their opinions and beliefs reinforced so they don't have to think.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-84822432909359986792009-09-18T15:21:37.712-07:002009-09-18T15:21:37.712-07:00"Because it lies and distorts."
LOL Ho..."Because it lies and distorts."<br /><br />LOL How original.TruthHurts001https://www.blogger.com/profile/01183674558757778892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-80569564368118357392009-09-18T15:15:40.924-07:002009-09-18T15:15:40.924-07:00"Well, I don't know why someone would fee..."Well, I don't know why someone would feel "insulted" by reading something they disagree with"<br /><br />Personally, I'm not insulted by things I diagree with...<br /><br />But I sure as hell wouldn't spend my money to buy it.<br /><br />I'm fairly certain that millions of others feel the same way.<br /><br />:o)TruthHurts001https://www.blogger.com/profile/01183674558757778892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-87207899222323045692009-09-18T14:28:41.119-07:002009-09-18T14:28:41.119-07:00...perhaps you could shed light on why the left ha......perhaps you could shed light on why the left hates Fox News. You would think they would love to have their beliefs challenged...<br /><br />The same reason the right hates MSNBC.<br />BwahahahahahahaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-79972035199885922712009-09-18T14:22:54.174-07:002009-09-18T14:22:54.174-07:00///perhaps you could shed light on why the left ha...///perhaps you could shed light on why the left hates Fox News.///<br /><br />Because it lies and distorts.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-54549427952987898612009-09-18T12:54:40.285-07:002009-09-18T12:54:40.285-07:0011:10 writes: “They'd benefit from having thei...11:10 writes: “They'd benefit from having their beliefs challenged” You keep writing that same thing over and over, so perhaps you could shed light on why the left hates Fox News. You would think they would love to have their beliefs challenged. <br />BwhahahahaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-51638335098785487632009-09-18T12:26:18.766-07:002009-09-18T12:26:18.766-07:00Question: Is it really a wise business practice to...Question: Is it really a wise business practice to force employees to take furloughs, then pay employees overtime (time-and-a-half) to work for the employees on furlough?<br /><br />It seems to me that you're just paying 50 percent more than you need to, but I'm sure McClatchy knows better than me.<br /><br />Right?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-6219035898826471422009-09-18T11:10:37.696-07:002009-09-18T11:10:37.696-07:00...But hey, if the MSM wants to continue insulting......But hey, if the MSM wants to continue insulting half the country, let them continue self-destructing...<br /><br />Well, I don't know why someone would feel "insulted" by reading something they disagree with (especially since there are so many sources they also can consult). They'd benefit from having their beliefs challenged. But obviously, many just want their opinions and beliefs reinforced so they don't have to think. That's their loss.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-84312526359748005642009-09-18T10:38:03.623-07:002009-09-18T10:38:03.623-07:00John -- I'd love to know what the Star is payi...John -- I'd love to know what the Star is paying Hendricks and Diuguid and Sanchez and Shelly. Not to mention the biggest (literally) embarrassment of all, Jason Whitlock.Kevin Gregoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04694898785243338105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-20408444927707312522009-09-18T09:24:30.810-07:002009-09-18T09:24:30.810-07:00This has been an argument of mine since The Star b...This has been an argument of mine since The Star began cutting its workforce. The Star's editorial board is a national embarrassment. It is not only heavily tilted to the far left, but it continuously disgraces the profession by serving as a handmaiden to KC's corrupt establishment, pimping for its sleazy edifice complexes and promoting its money-grubbing schemes.<br /><br />It is at the heart of The Star's credibility crisis and there is no question that editorial policy drives the news side.<br /><br />By eliminating the editorial staff (save for someone to post letters from readers) there would be more money for reporters to do local news and The Star would be spared from the repeated embarrassment writers like Hendricks and Diuguid and Sanchez and Shelly bring to the paper.<br /><br />As it is, our local blogs post material that is vastly superior to anything these whores publish and the credibility of The Star is continually diminished.John Altevogthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15537336489001296295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-47645051572928391822009-09-18T09:00:08.831-07:002009-09-18T09:00:08.831-07:008:48 -- half the readers in the country are tired ...8:48 -- half the readers in the country are tired of reading news and editorials slanted in one direction only. <br /><br />But hey, if the MSM wants to continue insulting half the country, let them continue self-destructing.Kevin Gregoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04694898785243338105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-20561479030812135962009-09-18T08:48:03.531-07:002009-09-18T08:48:03.531-07:00...How many people dropped their subscriptions aft......How many people dropped their subscriptions after reading an editorial, crumpling the paper up, and vowing NEVER AGAIN...<br /><br />Why would anyone object to reading an opinion they didn't agree with? Are they afraid they might find out they've been wrong? Or at least might see factors they haven't considered? Or is it just easier never to have your beliefs challenged so you have to think?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-36991563894430074862009-09-18T07:31:16.486-07:002009-09-18T07:31:16.486-07:007:16 -- McClatchy would get more readers if they s...7:16 -- McClatchy would get more readers if they started living up to their "Truth to Power" motto instead of acting like a DNC propaganda arm.McClatchy Watchhttp://www.cancelthebee.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-54090288854098134362009-09-18T07:16:56.133-07:002009-09-18T07:16:56.133-07:00How many people dropped their subscriptions after ...How many people dropped their subscriptions after reading an editorial, crumpling the paper up, and vowing NEVER AGAIN.<br /><br /><br />================<br /><br />I don't know but that was the exact final straw with me. I had watched the quality of the paper go downhill for several years before I retired but continued my subscription out of loyalty.<br /><br /> It finally became just too much with some of the garbage they were allowing their anonymous "Editorial Board" put out.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-74863497471105326432009-09-18T07:08:18.307-07:002009-09-18T07:08:18.307-07:00If you eliminated newspaper editorials and you'...If you eliminated newspaper editorials and you'd get an immediate bump in subscriptions. <br /><br />How many people dropped their subscriptions after reading an editorial, crumpling the paper up, and vowing NEVER AGAIN.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-75487226670996498902009-09-18T07:07:23.679-07:002009-09-18T07:07:23.679-07:00S.F. Chronicle sheds 5 more jobs (San Francisco Bu...S.F. Chronicle sheds 5 more jobs (San Francisco Business Times)<br /> <br />The Northern California Media Workers Guild said late Wednesday that five members of the San Francisco Chronicle’s editorial department are being laid off, the latest in a series of staffing cuts at the troubled daily newspaper. <br /><br />The Guild didn’t indicate which editorial staffers were losing their jobs. <br /><br />Five staffers in the Chronicle’s classified advertising department, four of them Guild members, agreed to job buyouts last week, according to the union, and “at least one voluntary layoff has been accepted in editorial, the Guild said. <br /><br />That would mean at least 11 jobs have been eliminated this month, after earlier rounds of cuts this year slashed roughly 150 Guild job between March and mid-May. <br /><br />“Company managers told Guild officers that no additional ‘journalist’ positions are being cut for now, but did not rule out the possibility of additional layoffs in non-news departments,” the Sept. 16 Guild statement said.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-15190259107661613192009-09-18T07:04:34.281-07:002009-09-18T07:04:34.281-07:00Why wasn’t ACORN consulted?
NY Tax Lawyer’s $100K...Why wasn’t ACORN consulted?<br /><br />NY Tax Lawyer’s $100K in Deductions for Prostitutes Disallowed (ABA Journal) <br /><br />A New York tax lawyer has lost a bid to deduct more than $100,000 in payments for prostitutes and pornography. <br /><br />The federal Tax Court denied the deductions, claimed by lawyer William Halby as medical expenses for sex therapy. TaxProf Blog reported on yesterday's ruling, first noted by Tax Update Blog. <br /><br />The U.S. Tax Court opinion (PDF) involved more than $100,000 in deductions for 2004 and 2005. <br /><br />Halby noted his visits to prostitutes in a tax journal, but they were not part of a physician-ordered therapy and they are illegal in New York, the Tax Court said. <br /><br />Halby lost a similar bid before the New York Division of Tax Appeals last year, the New York Post reported at the time. The New York ruling involved more than $300,000 in deductions for 2002, 2003 and 2004.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-75266874916227109522009-09-18T06:01:57.038-07:002009-09-18T06:01:57.038-07:00New poll finds Americans not buying Obama's li...New poll finds Americans not buying Obama's light-at-the-end-of-the-recession talk LA Times <br /><br />In recent days both Democrat Vice President Joe Biden and the other fellow have begun to make the argument in public that from the point of view of the secure White House, they can somehow see the current dumpster economy smelling better, light at the end of the tunnel, the dawn of a new economic era just over the horizon. <br /><br />This is based largely on scattered economic stats indicating that things are not so much really getting better; they're just not getting bad as much as before. <br /><br />Back in those awful winter days when new blood and Aretha Franklin's hat arrived with such promise and the new team inherited a terrible situation from you-know-who and his evil partner, you-know-him. <br /><br />Also Fed chairman Ben Bernanke, who also still has a fulltime job, sees the recession as virtually over. <br /><br />But a new poll indicates it's gonna take a whole lot more than repeated rhetoric to convince skeptical Americans not feeling the $787 billion economic stimulus. <br /><br />The new CNN / Opinion Research Poll finds an overwhelming majority of Americans see the country as good and stuck in a recession and have no doubts about it. <br /><br />Fully 86% of the 1,012 adults surveyed said the country remained mired in a recession; 13% disagreed. Seventy-seven percent call it a severe or moderate recession; only 10% light. More than half said their economic position had not improved in the past year and nearly 40% said it was worse.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-14434833685424378932009-09-18T04:54:47.190-07:002009-09-18T04:54:47.190-07:00L.A. Times Buries (And Hides) Worst Facts of ACORN...L.A. Times Buries (And Hides) Worst Facts of ACORN Scandal (Patterico)<br /><br />Well, well. Just look at how the L.A. Times is characterizing the myriad revelations of rampant criminal conduct by ACORN. You guessed it: it’s portrayed as a conservative thing:<br /><br />Trying to dodge a building conservative firestorm, the House and Senate made clear Thursday that the community-based nonprofit organization ACORN was persona non grata on Capitol Hill.<br /><br />. . . .<br /><br />Congress’ actions were the strongest statement yet that the advocacy group, which conservatives accused of voter fraud in the 2008 presidential election, has become politically radioactive for Democrats.<br /><br />Gee, why are those damn conservatives so upset? It takes until paragraph five to get this much out of Times editors:<br /><br />Video made public earlier this month that featured ACORN workers giving advice on how to evade the law is the latest subject of conservative criticism.<br /><br />Oh, well, if it’s just conservative criticism, then it must be bogus.<br /><br />By the way, why isn’t this the headline? “ACORN workers caught on tape giving advice on how to evade the law”? Why is that not in the lede? And it takes until the paragraph seventeen to give some of the lurid details:<br /><br />The most serious blow to ACORN’s reputation, however, may have come this month when video surfaced showing two employees in the group’s Baltimore office advising two actors who were posing as a prostitute and pimp on tax evasion and fraud. The duo are conservative filmmakers who have targeted ACORN offices nationwide.<br /><br />Oh, well, if they’re conservative filmmakers, then it must be bogus.<br /><br />So: mentioning that illegal activity is involved comes in paragraph five, and the revelation that a pimp is involved comes in paragraph seventeen. <br /><br />And which paragraph tells Times readers that the illegal actions that ACORN workers eagerly worked to cover up include trafficking in child prostitutes aged 13 to 15? <br /><br />For that little tidbit, you have to read all the way down to paragraph fuck you L.A. Times readers because you don’t even need to know that part at all.<br /><br />Can we agree that this constitutes hiding the worst of it?<br /><br />So remember: opposing pimping out underaged prostitutes is a conservative thing.<br /><br />So says the L.A. Times.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-70103847258996924842009-09-18T04:35:19.598-07:002009-09-18T04:35:19.598-07:00The Company He Keeps(GatewayPundit)
“Next week th...The Company He Keeps(GatewayPundit)<br /><br />“Next week the Obama Administration will allow Ahmadinejad, Castro, Chavez, Gaddafi and several other international thugs into New York City to speak in front of the United Nations General Assembly. <br /><br />However, one country’s president will not be allowed into the United States.<br /><br />President Roberto Micheletti from Honduras will not be allowed to enter into America. <br /><br />The US has suspended the visa policy in Honduras.<br /><br />For the first time in this country’s history, our leaders in government are siding with Marxists Hugo Chavez, Daniel Ortega, Raul Castro and Evo Morales against a democratic foreign leader.”<br /><br />Before the Presidential election, we were told it’s wrong to judge candidate Obama by his radical friends and associates. <br /><br />Now President Obama chooses to recognize radical international leaders and reject democratic friends. Can we judge him now?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-24192696569657084392009-09-18T04:34:19.080-07:002009-09-18T04:34:19.080-07:00Democrats to Obama : Um, what exactly are we getti...Democrats to Obama : Um, what exactly are we getting for selling out Poland to Russia ? <br /><br />What are you getting? You’re getting the same thing you got when he sold out Honduras to Chavez over that non-coup “coup” they staged: The warm fuzzy glow of knowing that George Bush would heartily disapprove. <br /><br />But some members of Obama’s own party, however, had a simple question for the administration: if this was a return to realism, and a concession to Russia’s long and vocal opposition to the missile program, what, exactly, was the U.S. getting in return for fundamentally changing it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-87526460095051988442009-09-18T04:32:46.513-07:002009-09-18T04:32:46.513-07:00White House collects Web users' data without n...White House collects Web users' data without notice (Washington Times) <br /><br />The White House is collecting and storing comments and videos placed on its social-networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube without notifying or asking the consent of the site users, a failure that appears to run counter to President Obama's promise of a transparent government and his pledge to protect privacy on the Internet.<br /> <br />Marc Rotenberg, president of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, said the White House signaled that it would insist on open dealings with Internet users and, in fact, should feel obliged to disclose that it is collecting such information. <br /><br />"The White House has not been adequately transparent, particularly on how it makes use of new social media techniques, such as this example," he said. <br /><br />Defenders of the White House actions said the Presidential Records Act requires that the administration gather the information and that it was justified in taking the additional step of asking a private contractor to "crawl and archive" all such material. <br /><br />Nicholas Shapiro, a White House spokesman, declined to say when the practice began or how much the new contract would cost. <br /><br />The National Legal and Policy Center, a government ethics watchdog, said archiving the sites would have a "chilling effect" on Web site users who might wish to leave comments critical of the administration.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-20436014090092999802009-09-18T04:31:39.740-07:002009-09-18T04:31:39.740-07:00Pelosi: I'm clueless about cash cut-off (ACORN...Pelosi: I'm clueless about cash cut-off (ACORN.........)NYPOST <br /><br />WASHINGTON -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said yesterday she is clueless about an amendment to prohibit government funds for embattled ACORN, although it overwhelmingly passed the Senate Monday and the White House is calling for the group to be held accountable. <br /><br />"I don't even know what they passed," Pelosi told The Post yesterday. <br /><br />"What did they do? They defunded it?" <br /><br />The amendment to suspend housing grants was a stunning blow to the community-activist group -- and came as some Democrats and the White House have been backing away from the group.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-37573959082177231122009-09-18T04:30:24.444-07:002009-09-18T04:30:24.444-07:00Obama Sings the "Sounds of Silence"
Lyr...Obama Sings the "Sounds of Silence"<br /><br />Lyrics to Obama's version of Simon and Garfunkel's "Sounds of Silence." Lyrics: <br /><br />Hello ACORN, my old friend/ I cannot talk with you again/ <br /><br />Because a vision softly creeping/ Of hidden cameras that went peeping/ <br /><br />from a story the press could not contain/ cannot remain/ <br /><br />Within the sound of silence/ <br /><br />In Martha's Vineyard I walked alone/ 'Til Teddy's funeral I had flown/ <br /><br />And his story I did revamp/ 'Cause He drove his car into the cold and damp/ <br /><br />But his death may yet help my healthcare plight/ And split the right/ <br /><br />And keep the sound of silence/ <br /><br />And in the DC Mall I saw/ Ten thousand people, maybe more/ <br /><br />Racists talking without speaking/ Haters hating without hating/ <br /><br />People writing stories that networks never share/ And no one dared/ <br /><br />Disturb the sound of silence/ <br /><br />"Fools", said I, "You do not know/ Freedom like a cancer grows/ <br /><br />Hear my words that I might teach you/ Another speech just might reach you"/ <br /><br />But my words, like silent raindrops fell/ And echoed/ <br /><br />In the wells of silence/ <br /><br />But the media bowed and prayed/ To the neon god they made/ <br /><br />And the polls flashed out its warning/ In the words that it was forming/ <br /><br />And the sign said, "The seeds of the defeat are marching on the national mall/ <br /><br />And those town halls"/ And proven in the sounds of silenceAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com