Displaying 18,241 To 18,270 Of 19,504 Comments Check my new article. Sadly, it appears that Rahm will be one happy DLCer. » Posted By AdLib On December 14, 2009 @ 8:13 pm Which includes health insurance and health industry businesses. And as a hedge fund, has skin in the game on opposing financial regulations. On and on… » Posted By AdLib On December 14, 2009 @ 6:30 pm Turnover and what is called Bounce Rate are issues for HuffPo in their quest to keep raising their quarterly earnings. There are a set of users who are active bloggers, a set that are frequent visitors and readers but don’t blog and those who come occasionally to read an article or headline. It is the last group which a blog like HuffPo wants to “capture” because for them, it is the only path for growth. So they have a problem,the nastiness they’ve created has attracted and addicted a certain amount of people. At the same time, those who just want news and thoughtful discussion are not prone to stay long. How can they serve all these groups? Create an Open Blog ghetto for members to go to have their hostilities and keep the regular blogs censored to reflect a more controlled conversation and message that matches their agenda. Many people are upset by seeing people be hateful to each other, that and the growing realization, reflected here, at Daily Kos, etc., that HuffPo is a travesty is indeed driving more regulars away. Is this about The Planet? Not solely but we are a reflection of the reality that members are indeed leaving HuffPo. » Posted By AdLib On December 14, 2009 @ 5:56 pm Oak Invetments bought in with $25 million for a $50 million valued stake in HuffPo late last year. The change clearly started them and as hedge funds will, they hammer their investment vehicles to produce increased returns each quarter. It is the natural progression of such unprincipled greed that HuffPo would begin and continue a cycle of increased degradation and pandering/manipulation to increase traffic and thus ad revenues. It can only get worse. They are right about something, conflict does work to attract more people. How many folk slow down to look at a perfectly parked car as opposed to a terrible car accident. However, if you prefer getting to work on time, using your life and time more productively and not being stuck in a nightmare of angry traffic, you’d prefer not to have to have to deal with such “accidents” on a daily basis. » Posted By AdLib On December 14, 2009 @ 5:45 pm I think it’s a combination of things. First, they want the justification to be more oppressive and delete more posts that don’t fit their agenda. Creating this Open Thread, whether or not some Mod may be earnest about it, will accomplish this. Secondly, they are no doubt suffering a big turnover of readers and members who grow disgusted at what transpires there on the blogs. They may indeed feel that through stringent censorship, they can dial up or down the tenor of conversation that produces better numbers. This is all about one thing in the end, HuffPo’s Hedge Companies and Arianna making the most money they can through the manipulation of Progressives. » Posted By AdLib On December 14, 2009 @ 5:33 pm After hearing about the FU nellie got and growing tired of Ed’s BS populist rants, I have lost an enormous amount of interest and of course respect for him. He is a left wing blowhard that Jon Stewart also shows now respect for. KO and Rachel are smart, informed and not emotionally driven into their opinions, can’t say the same about Ed…and his overly emotional outrage makes me suspicious of how much he truly believes of what he says and how much is pandering for ratings. » Posted By AdLib On December 14, 2009 @ 5:04 pm Example of HuffPo posts that will and won’t be wiped. 1. Obama is a (N-Word). – NOT WIPED You see, as a rationalization for purposely agitating Progressives to keep clicking and blogging and making HuffPo more money, HuffPo is apparently claiming that racism is on topic and treating other blogers with respect is not. » Posted By AdLib On December 14, 2009 @ 4:56 pm To be generous, perhaps this is a Mod trying to convince the Admin over there to agree to this experiment. There are myriad other possibilities but what this still sounds like to me is a kind of bloggers ghetto. No free expression anywhere else on HuffPo…and yet there will be censorship there too, especially of anyone who dares insult The Queen or the site. And if they made this happen, it would only make them feel more righteous about being even more oppressive about wiping posts on every issue-oriented post, saying, “If you want to talk freely, you’ve got somewhere else to do it!” And, what good is it to have an open thread to try and discuss issues where trolls will run wild and personal conflicts will abound? It will be a mosh pit that is still censored and freedom of expression on all other posts will be even more restricted. I wouldn’t contribute to such a proposal, even if the Mod behind it is earnest. It will only further denigrate freedom throughout the site and in return, only provide a messed up and hypocritical Open Thread since censorship will continue there as well. » Posted By AdLib On December 14, 2009 @ 4:42 pm Roy Sekoff of HuffPo was just on the Ed Show being the smarmy dick that he is, assailing Obama for answering a question from Oprah about what grade he should be given for his first year in office. Obama said B +, for averting what looked like an inevitable second Depression, for getting Health care reform to near passage, etc. Sekoff instead said it was far lower and stabbed him in the back, blaming HIM for Congress’ action on Health Care, Congress’ action in changing the Stimulus bill and many other CONGRESSIONAL actions. He kept repeating “timidity” as Obama’s style of leadership. Is Sekoff really so poorly informed as to what Congress does as opposed to the President? No. He is Arianna’s point man in trying to smear and undermine this president under the guise of sticking up for Progressives. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out what damaging the public’s view of Obama and the Dem congress would mean in 2010 and possibly 2012. A smaller Dem majority in Congress which won’t be able to move ANY Progressive issues forward and by 2012, maybe even a GOP majority in one or both houses. This is what Sekoff and his boss Arianna and HuffPo are working towards. And how many of the faithful Progressives blogging at HuffPo recognize that they are being stabbed in the back? (BTW, I showed a bit of restraint here, I was so pissed off at seeing that interview that I was going to insult Sekoff by referring to him as Suckoff but decided not to. Whoops!) » Posted By AdLib On December 14, 2009 @ 4:15 pm Your point about using “Greek” to describe her negatively is well taken. I would suggest though that most who have used that in their description of her, including me in the past and Marion in this case, are not intending it as a slam against all Greeks, just as those of us who described Bush using “Texan” in their negative descriptions were not condemning all Texans. When describing AH, her being Greek and speaking with an accent is honestly one of the basic defining things about her to many. So, though I agree with you that it is best to describe her without using her nationality as part of negative description, I don’t think any here have done so with any intention of insulting others of Greek heritage. Also, I do think she and HuffPo definitely should continue to be a topic of discussion here due to their ongoing attempts to instill division and disrupt the Progressive agenda. » Posted By AdLib On December 14, 2009 @ 3:58 pm Heh! Your typo of “treason” instead of “reason” actually works on many levels! » Posted By AdLib On December 14, 2009 @ 3:25 pm Well done, Marion! Welcome to The Planet, an auspicious debut here indeed! One valuable service The Planet can provide, since a great deal of its population are bloggers with proven cred at HuffPo, is to continue to announce with legitimacy that “The Empress has no clothes”. So many sites and MSM outlets and even Pres. Obama take on other media outlets such as Fox, CNN, ABC, WSJ, etc. but we are among the very few talking about the manipulation of the news and the Progressive community by The Huffington Post. And I see HuffPo as potentially the most corrosive of the lot. At least if you hear a bullshit headline on Fox, you instantly file it under “to be verified” (or flushed away as items with similar properties are). With HuffPo, many Progressives swallow the headlines and stories whole. A wolf in sheep’s clothing in the midst of a flock is far more dangerous than a wolf that approaches as itself. So, though the personal conflicts between bloggers and battles with trolls over at HuffPo are not desired to be a topic of conversation here, exposing the dishonesty and agenda-driven corruption that has taken over HuffPo is desired here. We can help get the truth out about this deceptive undermining of the Progressive agenda and we should do everything we can to accomplish that. » Posted By AdLib On December 14, 2009 @ 3:20 pm Hanukkah: the festival of light Wonderful post, Cher! Many people know generally what other Hanukkah is but not much detail at all. Thanks for sharing your “light” with everyone! And Happy Hanukkah all! » Posted By AdLib On December 14, 2009 @ 12:36 pm Stupid is a Pre-Existing Condition: Whatever Happened to Suffering Real Consequences? That is the price of a society that has had its democracy overrun by capitalism, there are no morals to capitalism. If something or someone is seen as valuable or superior from a capitalistic POV, it is. Now, if it was your spouse having a dozen affairs on you, or your friend’s or relative’s spouse, would you be as quick to rationalize it away? Americans condone a Class society, where some people are superior and expected and permitted to exhibit selfish behavior. Maybe they believe, “One day I’ll be rich and famous and I’d like to be able to do whatever I want to do then”. Add to that the media’s dependency on celebrities for revenue and the money they make in the cycle of condemnation and resurrection of them and one sees the capitalistic pressure to eventually make most any transgression something other than absolute. » Posted By AdLib On December 13, 2009 @ 8:44 am BRAVO!!! Very well said. It is sad that so many are so easily and quickly seduced away from advocating and lobbying for change by the self-serving desire to merely judge and complain. How much more productive would all of these folks be if they invested themselves in advancing the Progressive causes they believed in instead of just attacking Obama for not having already implemented them in his first year? What is their goal and priority? Seeing these things happen or announcing whether their expectations of Obama have been satisfied or unfulfilled? » Posted By AdLib On December 13, 2009 @ 8:18 am Un(der)reported News—Weekend Edition What seems to be lost on many swing voters is that if a party and a candidate are willing to act like monsters to win an election, what do you think they’re capable of if they make it into office? Instead, the weak minded accept the obscene attacks as legit, like it’s a game and someone is worthy of losing if they can’t beat back lies and slander. Some responsibility has to fall on those voters who don’t reject these tactics while complaining about how they want bipartisanship. » Posted By AdLib On December 12, 2009 @ 5:40 pm Maybe a bunch of people should create t-shirts at Zazzle that criticize Zazzle. Like: “My parents went to Zazzle and all I got was a racist t-shirt.” » Posted By AdLib On December 12, 2009 @ 5:31 pm Vox Populi – AfterChat – 12-11-09 Heh! My taser is set on “fun”. » Posted By AdLib On December 11, 2009 @ 9:59 pm Heh! And Obama’s initial problem, according to the MSM was he might not be “black enough”. Here in Cali, both of our Senators are Jewish, many reps are but I still don’t think, even after Obama, the majority in America is ready to elect a non-Christian, a Jew or a Muslim or whatever as president, no matter how little they looked “Jew-y” or “Muslim-y”. » Posted By AdLib On December 11, 2009 @ 9:58 pm Cheers Khirad. I made a swift flyover there to drop a link then made it back here safe and sound. As for the exodus, the intensity of the live chat does burn a lot of energy on a Friday Night so folks do tend to wind down after it. Though, we do have our night owls who show up along the way too. » Posted By AdLib On December 11, 2009 @ 9:53 pm Night bito! Sleep well! » Posted By AdLib On December 11, 2009 @ 9:50 pm You mentioned Jewish, even that’s not “kosher” for a candidate to be. Remember snide references when Kerry was running that he might be part Jewish and his wife being Jewish seemed to be a negative. There still is religious prejudice against a President being anything other than Christian. That’s really messed up. » Posted By AdLib On December 11, 2009 @ 9:40 pm All is cool, read and follow my email, Kalima and it will magically return! » Posted By AdLib On December 11, 2009 @ 9:34 pm Night BDM! It was a lot of fun! » Posted By AdLib On December 11, 2009 @ 9:20 pm That’s a huge topic that is so barely addressed, the bubbling prejudice against Muslims. I mean, in America, the idea that a President “might” be a Muslim is enough to derail his campaign. Though Obama’s campaign worked hard to impress that he was not Muslim, they couldn’t come out too strongly to say, “So what if I was?” or Americans would turn on him. Talk about letting the terrorists win, we’re giving them the whole Muslim religion? » Posted By AdLib On December 11, 2009 @ 9:16 pm Someone left an albatross under their seat though. I hate when people just throw their used albatrosses wherever they please! » Posted By AdLib On December 11, 2009 @ 9:11 pm Thanks so much, nellie! Please do, the more the merrier! » Posted By AdLib On December 11, 2009 @ 9:09 pm I’m so pleased you and everyone else seems to enjoy it! Cheers! » Posted By AdLib On December 11, 2009 @ 9:08 pm BigDogMom : Passengers please form a line, no pushing, please remove all personal belongings from your overhead compartment…th ank you for flying Planet POVx » Posted By AdLib On December 11, 2009 @ 8:48 pm You can go back and reread it now, I’ll leave it up then archive it. » Posted By AdLib On December 11, 2009 @ 8:47 pmComments Posted By AdLib
2. Hi. – WIPED
3. Progressives are (N-Word) lovers. – NOT WIPED
4. You are so kind, I love you. – WIPED
Celebrities are seen as superior to us mere mortals, they can do terribly unprincipled things but as long as they go on Oprah and squeeze out a few tears, showing that they have emotions just like us common folks, they are warmly embraced and forgiven.
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