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Ezra at Pandagon has an interesting analysis of the debate last night. It’s well worth reading the whole thing, but this part really struck me:
bq. The number of Democrats who wished we’d nominated Edwards (or Dean) has been anything but insignificant, and their grumbling has been impossible to ignore. Those concerns have been laid to rest. [...]
{mosimage} Much of the handwringing on the left and the right about the New Liberal Media has focused on its incivility. For example, in today’s Washington Post Ellen Goodman watches Fahrenheit 911 and determines that the
Rush Limbaugh of the Left would not do the liberal cause any favors:
If the reds have Bill O’Reilly, the blues [...]
I recieved email today from Blather.net letting me know (among other things) that Google pulled their Adwords accounts because Blather.net contained language critical of George W. Bush.
Google told Dave Walsh:
bq. We permit sites containing commentary, analysis, and opinions, as long
as they do not advocate against specific individuals, groups, or
organizations. Please keep this in mind as you change [...]
So I’m reading this article today in the conservative “Washginton Post”:http://www.washingtonpost.com/ about Wes Boyd. You may know Boyd from “MoveOn.org”:http://www.moveon.org, but I know Boyd from his “flying toaster”:http://www.angelfire.com/oh2/FlyingTPs/ days. He created After Dark, the Macintosh screensaver that had me mesmerized much of my Junior High School life.
Anyway, as I said I’m reading the article (oh yeah, [...]