tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post9007377901095505402..comments2023-12-20T04:18:41.617-06:00Comments on The Hunting of the Snark: A Terrible ShameSusan of Texashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-4356976824876076902010-09-19T20:08:15.115-05:002010-09-19T20:08:15.115-05:00That's good stuff. I'm working on a post a...That's good stuff. I'm working on a post about her stock market article. It seems that she and P. Suderman are pushing the latest wingnut attack--that reitrement is a decades long vacation that those lazy, spoiled old people think they deserve.Susan of Texashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-36329415146249804422010-09-19T19:04:03.905-05:002010-09-19T19:04:03.905-05:00Megan gets an article in about 2 out of 3 print ed...Megan gets an article in about 2 out of 3 print editions. In July August, she got to push drugs - http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/no-refills/8133Downpuppyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10312490198813632190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-77026504608825056942010-09-19T17:17:12.365-05:002010-09-19T17:17:12.365-05:00Shame on you for using mongoloid, a synonym for Do...Shame on you for using mongoloid, a synonym for Down Syndrome, to call someone retarded. Why do you hate Trig Palin, mister? Why?<br /><br />As for the letter, I presume you've read it and know that it is totally unconnected to the totally fictional gag order. So what we have here is (1)a letter from a regulator telling the regulatees that they must follow the law or suffer legal penalties and (2)the second-hand, utterly unsubstantiated rumor of an undetermined type of "gag order" that may or may not have been applied to a group of insurers. In case that was confusing, note that McArdle's source said the rumor was fake, the insurers wrote McArdle and said the rumor was fake, and McArdle admitted the rumor was fake and apologized for spreading that rumor to the world and inaccurately and unfairly casting aspersions on Ms. Sebelius, based on personal feelings regarding a letter than had absolutely nothing to do the fictional gag order.Susan of Texashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-8245792500956574962010-09-19T15:52:34.371-05:002010-09-19T15:52:34.371-05:00Ummmm... The full text of the letter is available ...Ummmm... The full text of the letter is available on the "internet".<br /><br />You are a mongoloid. A mongoloid that got clever and learned how to lie.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-35205562740107289942010-09-19T11:38:29.643-05:002010-09-19T11:38:29.643-05:00Facts have a strong Liberal Bias, so obviously Meg...Facts have a strong Liberal Bias, so obviously Megan <i>can't</i> use those lying liberal facts!<br /><br />It's Word Salad with a Homemade dressing of (from the Romanian Alps!) Hypocrisy blended with Virgin-1st-pressed smugness and flavored with her very own kitchen-sill-grown lies.Kathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03176801494652946278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-9053980228137617762010-09-19T06:43:30.173-05:002010-09-19T06:43:30.173-05:00The question that puzzles and irritates me is Who ...The question that puzzles and irritates me is Who on earth would marry Newt Gingrich, and why?Kiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07652157502257079776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-27447443620042989122010-09-19T06:41:12.018-05:002010-09-19T06:41:12.018-05:00As for Megan, here's my riveting insight: she&...<i>As for Megan, here's my riveting insight: she's not a journalist, and doesn't much pretend to be one. She's a blogger, which means she's paid, not to get facts or even explain anything, but to give her opinion. Period.</i><br /><br />Well, she's not a reporter. But all the bloggers I read--some who get paid to give their opinions and some who are not--do feel responsible to take care over facts. Perhaps if we didn't believe that there exist some professions that are allowed to make up its own facts our media would not be in the condition it is in today.Kiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07652157502257079776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-41853699638337511722010-09-18T12:39:45.932-05:002010-09-18T12:39:45.932-05:00That's true, Charles F. Oxtrot, Sebelius' ...That's true, Charles F. Oxtrot, Sebelius' actions are much more important than McArdle, but the latter is not entirely irrelevent. She does have some influence, and she is the centerpiece of my examination of seemingly reputable media figures, after all.Susan of Texashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-9348110252276541282010-09-18T12:36:20.126-05:002010-09-18T12:36:20.126-05:00She seems to have worked everything out in her min...She seems to have worked everything out in her mind; she is a blogger when she is being held to journalism standards, and she's a journalist when someone questions her blogging authority. It's win-win!<br /><br />It's amazing to me that the Atlantic and WaPo can survive the scandal of their "salons." I guess selling access to your stable of reporters isn't a big deal anymore. When did having conflicts of interest suddenly become okay?Susan of Texashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-50048359554119442382010-09-18T12:31:04.240-05:002010-09-18T12:31:04.240-05:00Sibelius was Kansas Insurance Commissioner, and in...Sibelius was Kansas Insurance Commissioner, and in that role was known as "business-friendly". During her tenure, insurance companies were always favored in contests between insurers and insureds/claimants.<br /><br />Whatever McCain says about her: irrelevant.<br /><br />What Sibelius actually does and has done: entirely relevant.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-75149504390532637062010-09-18T12:27:52.553-05:002010-09-18T12:27:52.553-05:00Gingrich probably fancies himself a canny operator...Gingrich probably fancies himself a canny operator, savvy in the ways of saying anything, regardless of how untrue or lunatic, to further his strategic ends. He also probably believes that you're not a hypocrite if your hypocrisy is deliberate.<br /><br />As for Megan, here's my riveting insight: she's not a journalist, and doesn't much pretend to be one. She's a blogger, which means she's paid, not to get facts or even explain anything, but to give her opinion. Period.<br /><br />Hence the consumer tips, the recipes, and all the rest of the dreck. And hence the total indifference to facts, documentation, or clarity. <br /><br />If this were on display on an actual private blog--which it is, by the million, every day--it wouldn't matter. McMegs would be just one more glibertarian loudmouth dancing the hoochie-coochie for the punters.<br /><br />What's galling is that it's under the rubric of the Atlantic, which DOES present itself as a journalistic endeavor. So she appropriates its institutional authority and reputation, in the service of her narcissistic self-display. That's why so many people read her, and that's why she deserves to be pilloried and mocked at every possible opportunity.Mr. Wonderfulnoreply@blogger.com