Hah. When I said bloggers should have editorial policies, I didn’t mean they needed to do “background checks on comment trolls”:http://www.southknoxbubba.net/skblog/archive_2004_08.php#3396. Nevertheless, it’s quite entertaining.
*Update* SKB’s decided to pull much of the information as he has been convinced that his target had been impersonated. Read more »

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Oh, “Dr. Atrios finds another”:http://atrios.blogspot.com/2004/08/journamalism-101.html.
bq. Editor and Publisher quotes Washington Post executive editor Leonard Downie as saying, “We are not judging the credibility of Kerry or the (Swift Boat) Veterans, we just print the facts.”
I think it’s safe to say if you don’t judge people’s credibility, you probably post facts along with a whole mess [...] Read more »

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Here’s a real winner.
Take a look “at this story by CBS Senior Political Editor Dotty Lynch”:http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/08/06/opinion/lynch/main634587.shtml . Read it carefully, then try to parse the argument.
bq. *A:* _Except for wishing that they could control all that spending_, the Kerry campaign has taken a rather benign attitude toward these groups [527s]…
bq. *B:* Both campaigns are run [...] Read more »

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JMM is right as usual.
Bush is a coward. I never really thought of it in those terms before, but it makes his behavior more understandable. Marshall gives two examples: how the President led us into war and how the President continues to lead us afterwards. Clicky the linky for that argument. I have one [...] Read more »

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Some of you may have noticed that Thudfactor is looking kind of sparse. I accidentally blew away some of my graphics — they are backed up someplace, but the logo was a bit out of date anyway. I no longer, for example, have the goatee.
I tried the goatee thing for awhile — about a year [...] Read more »

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