Heck, Joe has described you folks dead on.
Posted by muckdog at March 4, 2007 08:34 AMgood writing, p.
Hope Klein is savaged for this latest flailing attack on the Demonic Left, cause we really, really are the foundation of all the extraordinary crisis looming in front of our exhausted, flagging superpower.
Did "America's Liberal" raise such a hue and cry identifying and denouncing actual (Right Wing) "extremists" when they began their ranting violent diatribes and hallucinations a decade and a half ago?
Didn't think so---but the country's resulting reaction to "conservative" ideology, failure, incompetence, corruption and lunacy--now THAT'S "extremist". What a puke.
Posted by euzoius at March 4, 2007 08:39 AMHeck, Joe has described you folks dead on.
Heck, it only took Bugs Bunny to describe you: "What a maroon!"
Posted by phidipides at March 4, 2007 08:55 AMWhat the Corporate blogger doesn't understand, but will soon, is that the liberal bloggers are some of the most intelligent, well informed, group of people in the United States. They are certainly better informed than the mainstream media.
There is a St. Louis show on PBS called 'Donnybrook,' copied somewhat after the McLaughlin Report. I was a faithful Thursday night viewer until three years ago. It became painfully obvious that these so-called St. Louis celibs were talking out their asses, and new nothing. Thanks to the blogs and bloggers, Americans do not have to remain in the dark about the truth.
Posted by Judith at March 4, 2007 08:59 AMGandhi's quote seems appropriate -
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
The corporate media (as well as our so-called leaders) have never shown any sense of history.
Posted by Jim Faith at March 4, 2007 09:22 AMWhat the Corporate blogger doesn't understand, but will soon, is that the liberal bloggers are some of the most intelligent, well informed, group of people in the United States.
Hoo, my iced tea just shot through my nose reading that one! Good one! Funny!
By the way, Joe did post a blog up on right-wing extremism soon after. It's just two words: Ann Coulter.
P-dip watches cartoons. Explains a lot.
Posted by muckdog at March 4, 2007 09:24 AM"Hoo, my iced tea just shot through my nose reading that one!"
The truth has a way of causing that sort of thing.
Posted by Judith at March 4, 2007 09:31 AMP-dip watches cartoons. Explains a lot.
Hell yes! You ever watch Moral Oral? Squidbillies? Does plagiarizing your knowledge of other's "market" analyses take all of your time?
Hoo, my iced tea just shot through my nose reading that one!
Why are you drinking iced tea through your nose? Is that a republi-con thing, like speaking out of your ass?
Posted by phidipides at March 4, 2007 10:07 AMBy the way, Joe did post a blog up on right-wing extremism soon after. It's just two words: Ann Coulter.
Yeah, it's a link to ThinkProgress. No commentary, no analysis, nothing. Pathetic.
Posted by ann at March 4, 2007 10:24 AMIsn't Pravda considered the Time of Russia?
The 1996 election “put a poison seed into the soil,’’ Andrei Norkin, a former anchor for NTV, told me. Norkin now works for the satellite network RTV1, which is owned by Gusinsky. “And, even if we did not see why, the authorities understood at once: mass media could very easily be manipulated to achieve any goal. Whether the Kremlin needed to raise the rating of a President or bring down an opponent or conduct an operation to destroy a business, or a man, the media could do the job. Once the Kremlin understood that it could use journalists as instruments of its will, and saw that journalists would go along, everything that happened in the Putin era was, sadly, quite logical.
Propaganda has become more sophisticated and possibly more effective than it was during the Soviet years, when television was a tool used to sustain an ideology. The goal today is simpler: to support the Kremlin and its corporate interests. “It’s a magic process now,” Anna Kachkaeva, who broadcasts a weekly interview show on Radio Liberty, told me. Kachkaeva, who is also the head of the Television Department at Moscow State University, went on, “There is no censorship—it’s much more advanced. I would call it a system of contacts and agreements between the Kremlin and the heads of television networks. There is no need to start every day with instructions. It is all done with winks and nods. They meet at the end of the week, and the problem, for TV and even in the printed press, is that self-censorship is worse than any other kind. Journalists know—they can feel—what is allowed and what is not.’’
The Putin government has made a clever calculation: a few newspapers, with tiny élite audiences, can publish highly critical investigations and editorials as long as that reporting and criticism stays absolutely disconnected from television. (And as long as their reporters keep out of Chechnya.)
I highly suggest reading the article--its description of Putin's Russia sounds a lot like the type of country that the wingnuts wish for the US. Of course, they would deny it, if only because in their limited intelligence, Russia still equals Communism.
Republicans for Putin in '08!
Posted by cheSF at March 4, 2007 10:40 AMKlein blogs on Right Wing Extremism: Ann Coulter.
Boy, he's really goin' out on a limb there! Pretty brave showing.
A president with an approval rating of 19% (and his 29% stooge front-man) openly flout the democratic will of the people by escalating their disastrous foreign occupation, which the enabling Repub party backs and protects. Further, the pair of presidents engage in an unprecendented political purge of US Attorneys in order to protect certain powerful Repub Congressmen from ongoing criminal investigations.
Faced with such actions, what does America's Liberal think merits his major attention: the "extremism" of the heinous netroots.
Great judgement, Joe Klein. Way to use your bully pulpit productively! A "liberal" for the ages.
Posted by euzoius at March 4, 2007 10:56 AMDear Mr. Mucky: snorting ice tea is not good. Ann Coulter does it. So does Kate Moss, and George used to until Pickles told him he can't touch her mammalian protuberances again. Be smart. Be safe. Don't do iced tea...
Posted by at March 4, 2007 11:10 AM"Why are you drinking iced tea through your nose? Is that a republi-con thing, like speaking out of your ass?"
Phidipides, as usual, your retort was swift and funnier than hell.
Posted by Judith at March 4, 2007 01:48 PMDoes plagiarizing your knowledge of other's "market" analyses take all of your time?
My work is my own. If you've read my blog, then you know that since about Thanksgiving 2006 I've been mostly in cash with low beta holdings and some QID, and expecting a market correction. I was a little early, but patience has paid off and once again I'm well on my way to outperforming the market index.
So, P-dip, I'd love to sit and trade insults back and forth with you all day long but I've got some stock scans to run. And you probably have some Bush-hatin' to do. Enjoy the rest of the weekend, mah frend.
Posted by muckdog at March 4, 2007 04:31 PMouch, that's gonna hurt. But it won't stop Joe from making cheap-vodka accusations.
Posted by Flamethrower at March 4, 2007 07:47 PMthen you know that since about Thanksgiving 2006 I've been mostly in cash
Bwaaahaaaahaaaa! No guts no glory. You aren't real until you're holding Chilean Pesos. Surf the inflation, baby!
QID
Think it'll ever get back above the mid-seventies? You aren't doing that day trading thing, are you?
low beta holdings
What happened to the good old days of being concerned with the P/E ratio? Republi-cons ruined that stuff. Everyone wants to do some form of the GLM to everything to squeeze pennies from a pigs ear. They ignore the standard error to their own peril.
Remember: Never invest anything in the market that you can't afford to lose in Vegas.
Posted by phidipides at March 4, 2007 08:06 PMPE ratios are relatively meaningless because demand for stock and excessive speculation can push them to extremes like in 1999-2000 when the SP500 PE ratio was near 30. But that was an era when people were quitting their jobs to be day traders.
I'm not sure if QID will behave like a normal stock. It's relatively new and is a double-beta inverse of the QQQQ. Looking at the chart tonight it looks like a double-bottom and then a huge ramp up. I'll probably hold a core position and trade around it while my model is on the sell signal. I wouldn't be surprised if we saw a light volume bounce here before resuming the correction.
Never invest anything in the market that you can't afford to lose in Vegas.
I'd recommend you read John Bogle's Common Sense on Mutual Funds. Maybe help you realize how ignorant that statement was.
Posted by muckdog at March 4, 2007 08:43 PMLooking at the chart tonight..
Good Lawd, mucky, you need to get laid, although I can't think of any creature that would do the evil deed.
Posted by at March 4, 2007 09:14 PMparadox - nice piece. But let's not overlook the additional fact that Klein is a crappy writer.
Posted by Marie at March 5, 2007 12:23 PM