Comments on: McCain-Palin: Playing Media Chicken With The Public’s Interest http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/05/mccain-palin-playing-media-chicken-with-the-publics-interest/ Firedoglake weblog Sun, 29 Nov 2009 02:10:12 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: cleanth http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/05/mccain-palin-playing-media-chicken-with-the-publics-interest/#comment-1617016 cleanth Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:09:45 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/05/mccain-palin-playing-media-chicken-with-the-publics-interest/#comment-1617016 <p>Christy, you are always so good and responsive. I appreciate that. In this huge blog, you always have a personal touch.</p> <p>I have the data you want, and I shall send it to you at your emaial address at FDL. I have got to attend my physician in a few minutes, so I will send this data, along with my comments on related issues, to you there around dinnertime. I shall give you my personal email address at that time to facilitate our discussion(s).</p> <p>Again, your response is gratifying. As you know, I have followed FDL since its very inception, back when it was a one woman (Jane) show. I feel rather proprietary and protective of FDL.</p> Christy, you are always so good and responsive. I appreciate that. In this huge blog, you always have a personal touch.

I have the data you want, and I shall send it to you at your emaial address at FDL. I have got to attend my physician in a few minutes, so I will send this data, along with my comments on related issues, to you there around dinnertime. I shall give you my personal email address at that time to facilitate our discussion(s).

Again, your response is gratifying. As you know, I have followed FDL since its very inception, back when it was a one woman (Jane) show. I feel rather proprietary and protective of FDL.

]]> By: legaleagle88 http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/05/mccain-palin-playing-media-chicken-with-the-publics-interest/#comment-1616979 legaleagle88 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:35:02 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/05/mccain-palin-playing-media-chicken-with-the-publics-interest/#comment-1616979 <p>Wait. Her son’s name is “Track”?</p> Wait. Her son’s name is “Track”?

]]> By: Christy Hardin Smith http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/05/mccain-palin-playing-media-chicken-with-the-publics-interest/#comment-1616959 Christy Hardin Smith Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:18:40 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/05/mccain-palin-playing-media-chicken-with-the-publics-interest/#comment-1616959 <p>Where were you told that? I haven’t seen that at all - anywhere. Can you provide a link, please?</p> <p>We’ve had tech issues, and are trying to work out the kink — something Dave posted about several weeks ago the last time we had a spate of problems. I’ve seen no request for you or anyone else to “send money” so if you are getting that, I’d like to see where it’s coming from — thanks.</p> Where were you told that? I haven’t seen that at all – anywhere. Can you provide a link, please?

We’ve had tech issues, and are trying to work out the kink — something Dave posted about several weeks ago the last time we had a spate of problems. I’ve seen no request for you or anyone else to “send money” so if you are getting that, I’d like to see where it’s coming from — thanks.

]]> By: cleanth http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/05/mccain-palin-playing-media-chicken-with-the-publics-interest/#comment-1616953 cleanth Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:09:02 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/05/mccain-palin-playing-media-chicken-with-the-publics-interest/#comment-1616953 <blockquote><p>Can somebody tell a little about why FDL was functionally off the air for the last 24 hours of the RMC and is not back on-air? Was it just something in the boiler room, or was it something else.</p> <p>I’d really like to know, having killed over twenty minutes in toto waiting without success for FDL to load yesterday.</p></blockquote> <p>DANGEROUS QUESTION! I raised this issue, as did some other frequent contributors, and FDL jumped down my throat and today I am, apparently, <em>persona non grata</em>. Plus they seem to vet contributors by how much or whether they send $. The answwer I got for my inquiry, similar to yours, was “send money!”.</p>

Can somebody tell a little about why FDL was functionally off the air for the last 24 hours of the RMC and is not back on-air? Was it just something in the boiler room, or was it something else.

I’d really like to know, having killed over twenty minutes in toto waiting without success for FDL to load yesterday.

DANGEROUS QUESTION! I raised this issue, as did some other frequent contributors, and FDL jumped down my throat and today I am, apparently, persona non grata. Plus they seem to vet contributors by how much or whether they send $. The answwer I got for my inquiry, similar to yours, was “send money!”.

]]> By: cleanth http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/05/mccain-palin-playing-media-chicken-with-the-publics-interest/#comment-1616948 cleanth Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:49:37 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/05/mccain-palin-playing-media-chicken-with-the-publics-interest/#comment-1616948 <blockquote><p>Big Wet Smooches with Lots of Tongue…</p></blockquote> <p>Yech! Gross!</p>

Big Wet Smooches with Lots of Tongue…

Yech! Gross!

]]> By: mui1 http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/05/mccain-palin-playing-media-chicken-with-the-publics-interest/#comment-1616947 mui1 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:36:15 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/05/mccain-palin-playing-media-chicken-with-the-publics-interest/#comment-1616947 <p>Palin mentioned special needs, as if she was big on it and the crowd whoopped and cheered. She said she said to Congress, No thanks to the Bridge of Nowhere (very firmly). And of course, she talked about not liking earmarks and lobbyists (even though she hired Silver, Team Abramoff). I am curious about the Ted Steven PAC part. And how could she leave the mayor’s office with a deficit when she got $$$ in earmarks via Team Abramoff?</p> Palin mentioned special needs, as if she was big on it and the crowd whoopped and cheered. She said she said to Congress, No thanks to the Bridge of Nowhere (very firmly). And of course, she talked about not liking earmarks and lobbyists (even though she hired Silver, Team Abramoff). I am curious about the Ted Steven PAC part. And how could she leave the mayor’s office with a deficit when she got $$$ in earmarks via Team Abramoff?

]]> By: RedHen http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/05/mccain-palin-playing-media-chicken-with-the-publics-interest/#comment-1616946 RedHen Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:30:49 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/05/mccain-palin-playing-media-chicken-with-the-publics-interest/#comment-1616946 <p>We don’t need to keep harping on the strategy of insulating Palin from the press. There is plenty of reporting that can be done comparing the public statements she had made to date with the facts: support of the bridge to nowhere, board member of Ted Steven’s PAC, cuts in budget proposal for teenage mothers, cuts in budget proposal for special needs kids, leaving the mayor’s office with a deficit, and on and on. Just keep reporting on those discrepancies and eventually she will be forced out of the woodwork, or the public will see her one-liners for what they are - cleverly packaged lies. In either case it’s a win for us.</p> We don’t need to keep harping on the strategy of insulating Palin from the press. There is plenty of reporting that can be done comparing the public statements she had made to date with the facts: support of the bridge to nowhere, board member of Ted Steven’s PAC, cuts in budget proposal for teenage mothers, cuts in budget proposal for special needs kids, leaving the mayor’s office with a deficit, and on and on. Just keep reporting on those discrepancies and eventually she will be forced out of the woodwork, or the public will see her one-liners for what they are – cleverly packaged lies. In either case it’s a win for us.

]]> By: mui1 http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/05/mccain-palin-playing-media-chicken-with-the-publics-interest/#comment-1616945 mui1 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:22:22 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/05/mccain-palin-playing-media-chicken-with-the-publics-interest/#comment-1616945 <p>Something tells me that the Rethuglicans put all these plants in the audience whose job it was to hoot wildly at various parts in Palin’s speech, as if she just said something absolutely brilliant. It looked fake. That is my goodness to honest Rohrshach feeling. How will she fare without the adulation of the 30% to prop her up?</p> Something tells me that the Rethuglicans put all these plants in the audience whose job it was to hoot wildly at various parts in Palin’s speech, as if she just said something absolutely brilliant. It looked fake. That is my goodness to honest Rohrshach feeling. How will she fare without the adulation of the 30% to prop her up?

]]> By: mui1 http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/05/mccain-palin-playing-media-chicken-with-the-publics-interest/#comment-1616944 mui1 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:17:53 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/05/mccain-palin-playing-media-chicken-with-the-publics-interest/#comment-1616944 <p><a href="mailto:Correction@107" rel="nofollow">Correction@107</a> lobbyist for the defense industry.</p> Correction@107 lobbyist for the defense industry.

]]> By: mui1 http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/05/mccain-palin-playing-media-chicken-with-the-publics-interest/#comment-1616942 mui1 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:17:21 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/05/mccain-palin-playing-media-chicken-with-the-publics-interest/#comment-1616942 <p>Did anyone see this guy (one of the minor speeches after Brownback)? He stood up like he had a megaphone, wearing a full suit and started shouting WoooooHoooo! (Er, not Henry Kissinger, who was looking a little to smug for a war criminal). This guy reminded me eerily of the guy who wore a Vote for Joe t-shirt, pretended to be from CT, and harassed Lamont at a diner and other events. It turned out he was a defense contractor.</p> Did anyone see this guy (one of the minor speeches after Brownback)? He stood up like he had a megaphone, wearing a full suit and started shouting WoooooHoooo! (Er, not Henry Kissinger, who was looking a little to smug for a war criminal). This guy reminded me eerily of the guy who wore a Vote for Joe t-shirt, pretended to be from CT, and harassed Lamont at a diner and other events. It turned out he was a defense contractor.

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