Displaying 391 To 416 Of 416 Comments Thanks! :] » Posted By abby4ever On December 22, 2009 @ 1:17 pm I can’t even find the FAQ section. » Posted By abby4ever On December 22, 2009 @ 1:05 pm Uhavemail » Posted By abby4ever On December 22, 2009 @ 11:02 am MEDIA COVERAGE OF HEALTH CARE REFORM Thank you, O mystical one; you aren’t so bad yourself. » Posted By abby4ever On December 22, 2009 @ 10:48 am Hey Nellie! What a long time it’s been. I am happy you are here. Perhaps it is different over there. Over here the different news outlets are virtually intimidated by the gov’t. They (the news outlets) put on a good show and often pretend to be super-critical and highly aggressive…rather the way gov’t ministers around the world have been pretending to be both with the banks and their greedy bailout demands, when it’s mostly for public consumption. But at the end of the day, they usually fold. For survival…and to stay abreast of the competition. » Posted By abby4ever On December 22, 2009 @ 10:45 am The thing about the press is that it’s made up of human beings, and something you can never take out of human beings, is the agenda. We all have them; some are good, some are bad, some are somewhere in between. Beyond that, it is virtually impossible for even the most well-meaning, principled news outlet to stay independent of the gov’t…any gov’t… for very long. Why? Because the press is about getting the big story first, getting the big interview, and in doing both getting ahead and staying ahead of the competition. It’s a matter of survival. Over here in the UK, the BBC is supposed to be independent of the gov’t. It is funded by us, but the gov’t still has a large say in the distribution of those funds. You will often see the BBC fighting very shy of criticizing the gov’t to any meaningful degree, precisely because of things I’ve mentioned above. Be too critical and the big story (about the gov’t minister) will be given to you not first, but last. Be too critical and the big interview, of the important cabinet minister, or the prime minister himself, will not be given to you at all. Both will be given to the competition (provided they aren’t too critical either). And if you are a new news outlet, trying your damndest to rise above the status quo and provide something objective and substantive, you can, though you are principled to the core, be marginalized if not destroyed…in a short period of time. Here I am not defending the press that Chernynkaya has so astutely called out for their concentration on the fights about health care rather than the substantive issues about health care itself. I simply state a sad fact. » Posted By abby4ever On December 22, 2009 @ 9:57 am That’s it then. Ari is officially dubbed Miss Piggy. Miss Piggy of Huffington Manor. » Posted By abby4ever On December 22, 2009 @ 7:25 am Yes, Drudge Light is the perfect name for hp nowadays. When I did a post at hp yesterday about Ari turning on Obama and going on all the big talk shows playing the analyst (and tossing her hair like Miss Piggy) another poster at hp, it might have been Monica, said something to the effect that she couldn’t wait to see the bowing and scraping if things suddenly turn back for Obama, turn brighter. I don’t quote her verbitim but just give what I believe to be the jist of what she said. And I so agree! Right now I think Ari is hedging her bets. For some reason, she seems to think that Obama is washed up and either the Repubs are in for a good 2010 showing or else some Dem will rise like a star to outshine Obama. The parade of negative articles over there lately, ones either dark with innuendos or else blatant attacks, is alarming. The bread is thick with butter on one side now, but if things change, the bread will flip…and so will the butter. LOL !!! » Posted By abby4ever On December 22, 2009 @ 7:07 am A really fine…though disturbing…article. » Posted By abby4ever On December 21, 2009 @ 11:28 pm AdLib: As a Christian, from the age of seven, I want to say that your article ‘God’s Blog’ is, though iffy in parts, hilarious. » Posted By abby4ever On December 23, 2009 @ 1:15 am “Two-thirds of the country don » Posted By abby4ever On December 21, 2009 @ 1:13 pm Can you imagine those two trying to have a conversation? They both talk nonstop… » Posted By abby4ever On December 21, 2009 @ 10:52 am The word ‘jihad’ is of course both emotionally and culturally loaded, as she must know. » Posted By abby4ever On December 21, 2009 @ 10:50 am Health Care Bill Clears Senate Test I didn’t know you were poorly, best wishes on getting better, KQ. Aren’t hospitals fun? :[ » Posted By abby4ever On December 21, 2009 @ 10:44 am I really like this article. I wasn’t quite sure what had happened (we don’t always get the most accurate reports over here) and this article is concise (and yet somehow lively, too)… and, as I’ve said, has real clarity. » Posted By abby4ever On December 21, 2009 @ 10:38 am Hi KQ, I am fine. Nice to see you after all this time, I thought maybe you had run off somewhere. :] » Posted By abby4ever On December 21, 2009 @ 10:28 am Isn’t it a good article? Clarity. » Posted By abby4ever On December 21, 2009 @ 10:02 am LOL !!! Hi, Pepe. » Posted By abby4ever On December 21, 2009 @ 10:00 am Hi Sue! Thanks. Where have you been lately, anyway? How’s the skiing? Wait, the surfing? » Posted By abby4ever On December 21, 2009 @ 9:56 am Thank you, escri. » Posted By abby4ever On December 21, 2009 @ 9:48 am Nice article, Scheh, really well-written. :] » Posted By abby4ever On December 21, 2009 @ 8:04 am We’re up in Gretna now, we always spend the tail end of our Christmas holidays up here. My husband’s grandmother has a cottage here that is a proper little English cottage like the kind you see in books, thatched roof, etc. There is supposed to be 10 inches of snow tonight but they always lie. I mean the weather people. Still, the sky looks to be that milky grey color that happens right before snow. It’s about 24 degrees here. And outside the front window, the ground is covered with blackbirds, they are everywhere and we don’t know why. » Posted By abby4ever On January 4, 2010 @ 8:20 am No I haven’t seen it before, it’s clever. Yes, post your son’s email to his friend if he doesn’t mind. It’s quiet right now. Just getting ready to go do some shopping (just food), waiting for hubby to get home. When it’s early morning/mid-day(UK time) this site is like a tomb. So your happy posts are most welcome! {{{chirp-chirp}}} » Posted By abby4ever On January 4, 2010 @ 7:41 am Thanks,Sue, and a lovely New Year to you and yours. KFC with the grandchild, what fun. :] » Posted By abby4ever On January 4, 2010 @ 7:05 am Hi Emerald. What a happy, chirpy little post you have done! » Posted By abby4ever On January 4, 2010 @ 6:56 am Hi javas. I think it’s one of the greatest dilemmas a coach could ever find himself in. You could call it the Cry Now/Play Later,Play Now/Cry Later, dilemma. (I’ve heard it called worse but I can’t repeat it here…LOL !!!) » Posted By abby4ever On January 4, 2010 @ 5:56 amComments Posted By abby4ever
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