If every liberal in the DC area cancelled their subscription to that rag, it would be put out of business. I urge all the readers of this blog who have subscriptions to consider doing just that!
Posted by Frank Sinatra at January 24, 2006 05:10 PMReally, it's not going to take prize-winning journalism to figure out the Abramoff scandal. first off, they ignored the cardinal rule: don't write anything down. Then, to make matters worse, everybody and his brother is cutting deals with the prosecution.
Posted by dj moonbat at January 24, 2006 05:41 PMthe fun question is always "why"?
why would the post appoint deborah howell omnbudsman?
why would they let vanderhei cover abrahmoff/delay/rove?
individually. these things don't happen by chance usually; when they happen conjunctively their odds of happening by chance a far higher.
so
this is not chance working, this is human intervention.
who's making the appointments?
someone in wapo management is a republican operative.
who's the "mole"?
shades of john lecarre.
until the corporate, institutional reasons for the actions of the wapo/wapo.com are understood, any effort at attacking their specific instances of "unfairness" or "stupidity" is pissing in the ocean.
the weblog world needs a wapo mole of its own.
Posted by orionATL at January 24, 2006 06:18 PMWaPo is a company paper in a one-industry town. Always was -- fawned over Nixon in National while Watergate was breaking in Local, loved Reagan, loves Bush.
They're the Court Circular.
Clinton was, despite his Georgetown degree, Not One of Us. Same with Carter.
But Nixon, BushI, Reagan -- folks you could do business with, folks you saw at Burning Tree.
Posted by Davis X. Machina at January 24, 2006 06:22 PMAlways follow the money. The Columbia Journalism Review has a web page that details who owns what in the media. When outfits like General Electric own an entire fleet of TV stations, and Rupert Murdoch has a vast global media network, then the voice of the citizenry is going to be found on page 27b, if we're lucky.
Here's the link--
http://www.cjr.org/tools/owners/
"But Nixon, BushI, Reagan -- folks you could do business with, folks you saw at Burning Tree."
*laugh* I am so glad I wasn't drinking milk when I read this. As it is, I'm just glad I didn't wake the kids. For those that don't get it:
http://www.marylandgolf.com/golfcourse/Burning_Tree_Club.html
http://burningtreeranch.com/
--MarkusQ
Posted by MarkusQ at January 24, 2006 07:41 PMVery Good Catch. This needs to be a well understood issue.
Posted by patience at January 24, 2006 07:59 PMAlways follow the money. The Columbia Journalism Review has a web page that details who owns what in the media. When outfits like General Electric own an entire fleet of TV stations, and Rupert Murdoch has a vast global media network, then the voice of the citizenry is going to be found on page 27b, if we're lucky.
Here's the link--
http://www.cjr.org/tools/owners/
Posted by eagleye at January 24, 2006 06:23 PM
*****
Ding ding ding.
We have a winner.
Nice job, eagle...you have spoken truth and made matters clear.
Its ALWAYS THE MONEY, especially where the filthy greed that is the modern GOP is involved.
Posted by at January 24, 2006 08:51 PMIf Keith Olbermann did not sometimes have VandeHei on his show as an analyst, then Olbermann could nominate VandeHei as the Worst Person in the World.
Posted by Erroll at January 24, 2006 09:05 PMThis Abramoff stuff is unserious. The way you can tell is when asshole commentators like Keith Olbermann talk about the numbers involved in the corruption. They break much more to the Republican side of the aisle, so Big Media gets to call it a Republican Scandal ---even though it is chickenshit to try to quantify or characterize it as anything more than asshole politicians of whatever stripe trying to get theirs while you can go and get screwed, fella.
So it's one more thing to use against the President. Yawn. Why not spend more time developing a workable and coherent view of the world than on trying to destroy someone?
So Bush met with Abramoff? Who gives a good goddamn?
Work on making this country a true two-party system again instead of this other shit that will get you nowhere.
Posted by Toby Petzold at January 24, 2006 09:13 PMBig Media gets to call it a Republican Scandal
It is a Republican scandal. And who owns "Big Media?" That's right....Republicans.
Posted by ann at January 24, 2006 09:21 PMToby da Fuck,
A wee bit defensive, are we?
A coherent worldview? Like one that got America through the Great Depression, WWII, Jim Crow and all that other shit and made America the envy of the world? Yeah, we own that worldview, jackass. Sure, it ain't perfect, but its pragmatic, its progressive, and its got a kick ass track record.
Your worldview is the one that fucks over the working man, slows the economy, engages in bullshit wars, panders to racists, breaks laws, busts the budget, screws the military, violates the Constitution, smears veterans, and tries to install an aristocracy. Your worldview is patently unAmerican.
YOUR WORLDVIEW IS A PROVEN FAILURE.
Bush and Rove and Abram Jackoff and Tom DeLay are all champions and pushers of your proven failure of a worldview. That's what fucking matters, asshole. They are all connected like a bunch of dingleberries circling Cheney's puckered neocornhole.
Posted by God Of War at January 24, 2006 09:31 PMToby,
Get back in the shallow end of the pool. The water is too deep here for you.
Posted by cosmo at January 24, 2006 09:57 PMApparently the Post editors are now claiming that we wouldn't know anything about Abramoff if it weren't for Steno Sue. Can they back this up at all? Did Sue Schmidt really break any Abramoff news?
Apparently the Post editors are now claiming that we wouldn't know anything about Abramoff if it weren't for Steno Sue. Can they back this up at all? Did Sue Schmidt really break any Abramoff news?
Posted by Joe Buck at January 24, 2006 10:41 PM
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No, but federal prosecutors sure in the hell did.
This whore media self-importance is revolting. They know they are becoming irrelevant, and the death throes are not a pretty sight.
Posted by God Of War at January 24, 2006 10:49 PMI was in Little Jimmy's house when it was for sale. It was a vitual GOOPER Hall of Fame. There were pictures of Bush and DeLay on the wall.
The crowning picture was an autographed copy of the Clinton impeachment managers.
I didn't know who's house I was in at the time, so I went home and looked it up in the county site, and lo and fucking behold it was Jim VandeHei's house!!!!
A little digging found that at the time his wife was a Bush appointee at HHS. She has since left.
I plotted my next move. If I put a HACK sign on the lawn, I could draw attention to him and he's behavior.
Alas, he moved before my plan was launched.
Posted by rhinsker at January 27, 2006 03:42 PM
fwiw, and to her credit, steno sue did state flat out on last weekend's tim russert/cnbc show that abramoff 'is a republican scandal'.
Posted by linda at January 27, 2006 04:16 PM