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Corporington Post

I must say, I stumbled upon this site sometime back, and have to compliment you on your prescient and sage warnings about HuffPo and its divergence from some of the core values and content which attracted its earliest users.

I hope that the communities and relationships formed there, which Huffington commodified and sold to AOL, can somehow be recaptured in this space. I’m not a HuffPo commenter or refugee, but I am very glad to see such an alternative to the media product being offered by the HuffPo/AOL corporation.

» Posted By GN On February 8, 2011 @ 4:09 pm

Joan Walsh, Joe Miller and the First Amendment

This is beyond excellent. I have found that those with some pretty harsh (and as you note, sometimes quite petty) criticisms of the WH tend to be extremely thin-skinned when criticized in return. It is a shame that some progressives cannot be trusted to stay the course and look out for the best interests of everyday Americans without joining in the media’s excesses and distractions.

Thanks for this thoughtful piece questioning whether we need to follow neoconservatives who vacation with Newt Gingrich blindly when they flood us with content meant to dispirit and ultimately, suppress the vote. I would be utterly unsurprised were Huffington an outright plant, and I don’t make that accusation lightly.

» Posted By GN On October 21, 2010 @ 8:16 am

Some of Us on the Left Are Being Royally Ratf*cked

And so in other words, the game is to create unattainable expectations for President Obama comprising of a wish list which was never promised, and then slamming President Obama for not meeting those expectations.

Again, this is sophistry and political gamesmanship, not positive or mature advocacy. Unless your goal is to enable the GOP, it is also very ineffective advocacy.

» Posted By GN On August 31, 2010 @ 11:15 am

Actually, this comment resembles the sophistry which inhabits the worst of the sensationalized blogs in which the perfect is the bitter enemy of the good.

In the context of this country which is not remotely close to 100% progressives, immediate conversion to a single payer system was not an option. To declare HCR a failure because of that is the worst type of political gamesmanship. This applies to your “analysis” of the stimulus as well.

» Posted By GN On August 31, 2010 @ 9:54 am

This comment doesn’t seem very reality based. First, it bizarrely compares President Obama with Bush (Bush as a passive participant in his foreign policy portfolio is one of the more bizarre constructions which I’ve seen). Second, it characterizes health care reform, finreg reform, and the stimulus not as historical and unprecedented pieces of legislation, but as “failures.”

Media spin.

» Posted By GN On August 30, 2010 @ 12:12 pm

TAKE ACTION: Help Write a Speech For Pres. Obama

These are excellent points.

» Posted By GN On August 31, 2010 @ 12:04 pm

Robert Gibbs, Ratfucking and the Professional Left

Thanks for the welcome! This is a very nice space, and this piece was cogent and enlightening.

» Posted By GN On August 18, 2010 @ 11:50 am

Thank you very much for the warm welcome!

» Posted By GN On August 18, 2010 @ 11:49 am

This is a wonderful, educational piece and should be required reading for lefty media producers and analysts, including bloggers. I’m a little sad that there has been such a failure of multiple media institutions, both online and in more traditional media outlets, to reign in excess, hyperbole, and sensationalist content, thus making those institutions very easy prey for ratfucking. I think that the media environment has become similar to that during the runup to the Iraq War: full of lies and hyperbole which function to get Americans to act against our own best interests.

Thank you for such a measured, reasoned, and factual admonition to leave the sensationalist portions of the media behind, and employ critical thinking instead.

Tell the truth, shame the devil.

» Posted By GN On August 18, 2010 @ 7:25 am