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06.17.2008 6:19 pm

“Kinda like best friends” open thread

Hill and Barry to appear together again next week, the NY Daily News reports.

Katie Couric plays funny, via Poynter’s Romenesko.

DNC calls for investigation over McCain and public financing, from Huffington Post. (My advice: Get over it and talk about issues. Duh.)

I tried to stir this before, and few were interested. But TPM (that’s Talking Points Memo) hashes out the claim that the media may have been unfair to Hill.

What are you thinking about?

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I am thinking about why you continue to quote that liberal rag the Huffington Post? Nobody cares about campaign funding or financing except the candidates and their minions. People care about how much gas costs. How about at least a token subject from “HotAir.com”

— flyover
7:13 pm June 17th, 2008

We’ve got a problem, “flyover”. There’s two liberal rags involved.

— Senior citizen
8:22 am June 18th, 2008

the Daily Kos will be quoted next

— flyover
8:31 am June 18th, 2008

Because you cannot see that you should care is why you have been duped these last eight years. If it was not so sad and damaging to everyone, it would be so deserving. Please wake-up.

— D. Walker
10:10 am June 18th, 2008

So, you are for one-sided coverage as long as its your side, right?

— flyover
10:56 am June 18th, 2008

Geez Louise- is this what passes for intelligent, civilized debate these days. The media is bad! The Post is bad! Liberals are really bad!! Why are you guys even bothering to post here if you think the Post is such a terrible, slanted rag? We know that gas prices are high and its all the liberals fault even though they’ve been on the outs the past 7 years. The post has always had a somewhat leftward slant- deal with it or read something else. Doesn’t make them right- doesn’t make them wrong, just makes them what they are.

Ms Riley is just doing her job trying to stimulate intelligent conversation utilizing a variety of sources, including Huffington Post. Here are my responses:

1- Hillary and Barack Obama showing up together is a good sign, though I still doubt that they can share a ticket. Hillary has to make nice now to heal things over and clear her way for herself next year.

2- Katie Couric has turned into a kind of embarassment lately. I used to like her on the today show.

3- I hadn’t heard about the DNC investigation. I, too would just like them to hash out the issues, though I doubt much of that will happen till the fall.

4- Media unfair to Hillary? I think the media can be unfair to almost everybody, including W, but Hillary is a big girl and has created a lot of her own problems

5- What am I thinking about? Price of everything going up, not just oil, and not houses?? Yadier Molina’ brain? I’m glad I don’t live in a flood plain.. Inbev takeover of AB would be a big mistake. People don’t seem to know how to post decent comments in a friggin open thread…

— PurpleDude
12:32 pm June 18th, 2008

Sorry, pal. The internet and talk radio have finally given conservatives a voice. We are going to challenge liberal slant at every opportunity. You will not shut us up. Deal with it.

— flyover
2:10 pm June 18th, 2008

First, I think Jamie is very fair in giving a voice to all regardless. However, I agree that I wish she would visit some other news sources.

PURPLE: Just because the PD has always been a liberal rag does that mean that conservatives should just sit back and ignore that? Does always being that way make it right? Senator Obama just said this about radio:
“The ill effects of consolidation today and continued consolidation are well-documented — less diversity of opinion”
It’s funny how you liberals have no problem with the left-wing bias of TV and newspapers, but are trying to shut down talk radio by bringing back the (un)Fairness Doctrine.
Apparently if things are said that you agree with, they should be left alone, but if not, they should be shut down. How sad!

Democrats are such hypocrites when it comes to global war-ming and free speech.

— A CENTRIST
3:21 pm June 18th, 2008

Apparently the source determines whether or not the content is worthy of discussion/debate. The Huffington Post article is little more than a wire story, detailing what the DNC is doing. Nothing is “quoted” and no “liberal” view is espoused in the HP article.

One is certainly free to challenge in an open forum. One is also free to link to conservative rags, start a conservative thread elsewhere on the site, or start a conservative blog (they’re free) espousing non-liberal views. Views that others could comment on. Views about those nasty liberal rags and their co-conspirators.

While it’s true the Post and mainstream media are way behind the Internet curve, one is even further behind if all they can do with the Internet is whine.

— morehouse
3:22 pm June 18th, 2008

Centrist-

In the words of our president- bring it on. But bring it on intelligently. I for one don’t expect others to agree with me, nor do I always agree with the Post. But what passes for political discourse on talk radio, blogs, and cable tv is mostly name calling, yelling, and unproductive partisanship. I don’t want to shut down anything- I just want some progress over the nastiness of the past decade…

— PurpleDude
4:59 pm June 18th, 2008

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