Comments on: Newspaper surrenders to humorless nutroots; Editor and Publisher writer gloats

By: Minicapt

Minicapt — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:58:40 +0000

If I remember correctly M. Greg Mitchell has knotted his knickers before over vicious behavior by the right wing attack squads. It was noted at the time, that the Editor of Editor and Publisher had been acting contrary to the remit of his position. He’s basically acting IAW his previous behavior.

Cheers
JMH

By: Jim C.

Jim C. — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:39:39 +0000

UPDATE: the full article is back online, just below Zipp’s apology.

And Mitchell has added to his E&P article an email from Beach’s wife, telling him basically to lighten up.

By: Papa Louie

Papa Louie — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:03:56 +0000

...liberals in the media have also made ridiculing the left-wing blogosphere off-limits.

Who does this remind you of...? Who else tries to censor all ridicule of themselves? Oh, now I remember. It seems the Party of Peace and the Religion of Peace have a lot in common. Liberals even have their own version of Islamic Rage Boy. You can see Liberal Rage Boy here.

By: Land that I Love

Land that I Love — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:41:18 +0000

As a member of the Austin, Texas community, I can say wholeheartedly that I hate the Statesman and that it is nothing but a piece of worthless garbage. I keep my subscription for the comics. If you read it for a couple of weeks straight, a bizarre pattern starts to erupt. They’ll have about four of what I like to think are “Liberal Days” followed by one “Conservative Day” and then repeat. It’s a bit absurd but it is Austin after all.

By: Where Criticism Is Allowed, And Not Allowed « Tai-Chi Policy

Where Criticism Is Allowed, And Not Allowed « Tai-Chi Policy — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:19:01 +0000

[...] Where Criticism Is Allowed, And Not Allowed July 22, 2008 Posted by taoist in Free Speech, Liberal Fascism, Liberty, Lunacy. trackback For the latest examples of what the left considers allowable criticism vs. hate speech that needs to be banned, check out here and here. [...]

By: The Mahablog » More Media Mayhem

The Mahablog » More Media Mayhem — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:20:37 +0000

[...] that a “humor” piece someone wrote about Netroots Nation was “spiked,” and Michelle Malkin says, “So, not only are we not allowed to make fun of Barack Obama, but it appears that liberals [...]

By: Regulus

Regulus — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:18:42 +0000

You can spot the future liberal early in childhood: he or she is the one wailing in the back seat of the car:

“Mommy! He hit me back! Waaaah!!”

Eggshells armed with hammers. Pathetic and disgusting in equal measure.

By: The Jawa Report

The Jawa Report — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:07:48 +0000

The Forbidden Article on The Netroots Nation Conference…

Is cached here, if you’d like to read it. Background here…….

By: sambo

sambo — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:04:17 +0000

sonofdy said: Just wait, they also want to enforce the “fairness” doctrine.

Don't poke fun. they want to enforce. Get it!

By: Excessive Moderate

Excessive Moderate — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:47:07 +0000

…Rudy Giuliani as “Richard Nixon on crystal meth.”

LOL I gotta agree with that one.

By: Karmi

Karmi — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:08:02 +0000

American Statesman has caved into nutroots pressure to yank a front-page feature poking gentle fun at the Netroots Nation/Kossack blog convention last week.

I followed some of the Nutroots' blogs on the Netroots Nation story, and their reports were not all that positive either. Take the left-wing Afrosphere blog, Jack & Jill Politics for one example: Why Karl Rove Should Go To Jail

Our topic was “Send Karl Rove To Jail”...Karl Rove is a bad person. He has engineered the manipulation or theft of several elections. He helped usher in eight dark years of the Bush presidency.

This BIG important convention had as one of its topics – “Why Karl Rove Should Go To Jail”!?! Er…OK. Here’s one that reflects another example of what the convention was like: The Debate That Wasn’t - Smells like Bullshyt. They hate Harold Ford, referring to him as the “Dark Sith”.

The bad news is that the whole shebangabang was nothing more than a love fest between Harold and Markos. They kept allowing him to wander down memory lane when he was asked direct questions. It was more of “where can we find common ground” bullshyt.

By: Rhymes With Right

Rhymes With Right — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:02:46 +0000

KOSsacks Force Paper To Pull Piece…

Could you imagine the uproar if conservatives tried to get a mildly critical article pulled from a newspaper? Or is right-wing bloggers — say Michelle Malkin, Powerline, or LGF — and members of the Free Republic online community raised such……

By: nyc123me

nyc123me — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:58:45 +0000

err.. Animal Farm, sorry.

By: jukin

jukin — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:56:34 +0000

The First Amendment only applies if the left agrees with what you say/write.

Data point 5,256,985 proving the adage, “Scratch a liberal, find a fascist.”

By: nyc123me

nyc123me — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:55:48 +0000

And they continue to fail to see the irony in their actions – silencing those that disagree with them, the exact opposite of the liberal mantra of having the freedom of speech – because it apparently only applies to liberals. Hello Orwell’s 1984.. we are all equal, but liberals are more equal than others apparently.