tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342454496014200176.post8945918133668533003..comments2023-05-05T06:38:34.592-04:00Comments on IMHO: Silver Star Awards, May, 2011Niceguy Eddiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03896896323840121445noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342454496014200176.post-70681170354030479882011-06-02T01:37:21.085-04:002011-06-02T01:37:21.085-04:00I thank you for the kinds words. I'm still aro...I thank you for the kinds words. I'm still around, just maybe not all of me. I've been having a very bad time the last several months. At best, I have moments.classicliberal2http://lefthooktheblog.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342454496014200176.post-72869999928222552762011-06-02T01:23:18.161-04:002011-06-02T01:23:18.161-04:00@Classic - I was just about to ask Eddie if he had...@Classic - I was just about to ask Eddie if he had heard from you lately - I was wondering if you had fallen off the face of the Earth! I miss your posts at your blog, and hadn't seen you at MMfA in a while.<br /><br />@Eddie - Sorry to hijack your comments, but it had to be said. Welcome back.<br /><br />okiepoliAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7342454496014200176.post-67945404819484867302011-06-01T11:53:59.703-04:002011-06-01T11:53:59.703-04:00Oddly enough, I managed to get approved as a poste...Oddly enough, I managed to get approved as a poster on Newsbusters (a process that took a month), and I've been spending some time there, lately:<br />http://newsbusters.org/user/66587/track<br /><br />I've written about the work of the MRC for many years. Their work is rather dismal, on the whole; targeting "liberal bias" in the press, they're left without much about which to write. Like all Bubble People groups, they peddle, to a conservative audience, the notion that they are persecuted and that they should resent it, and, inherent in the formulation, that outlets like Newsbusters are the ones who actually tell it like it is. Unlike the liberal "media watchdog" groups, their criticism is not intended as constructive, and makes no pretense of being so--they put forth absolutely no concept of the press as serving a necessary function in a democracy. The press is presented, instead, as merely something that gets in the way of their agenda. A thing to be overcome and defeated.<br /><br />The Ed Schultz situation caused a furor over there--probably over a dozen articles in only a few days. It's good to see the MRC suddenly become so concerned about misogyny, but their concern is disingenuous--strictly limited to gender attacks on conservative women. Gender attacks on liberal women (and women in general) are, of course, a routine feature of right-wing radio and tv, and elicits not a peep from MRC. By the end of the Schultz cycle, Newsbusters had offered up an article asserting that ANY criticism of the views of conservative women (regardless of whether there was a gender component) was "misogyny."<br /><br />The regular posters at Newsbusters are, it should be said, some of the absolute worst you'll find in the right-wing blogosphere. Virtually every time I've posted anything, I'm reflexively met with charges that I'm a black-hearted liar. When I pointed out the flood of gender attacks flowing from right-wing radio and tv, for example, I was called a liar. I then posted multiple examples. I was called a liar again, and the posters, there, then began aggressively demanding that I provide links to the offending comments (which is just another way of calling me a liar, as it is intended to insinuate that I'm unable to do so). The thing is, these are people who watch and listen to the shows I was referencing, and thus know, as well as I, that what I was saying was true. They know it, and STILL they act this way. They never back off. They never admit they were wrong. They never apologize.<br /><br />When I said the left doesn't make rock-stars of people who say the sorts of outrageously offensive things one hears on right-wing radio all the time and used Michael Savage as an example, I was challenged by a fellow who used Mike Malloy to "prove" me wrong on this, and who, further, said Savage is a nobody of no significance, and is no rock star in conservative circles. I pointed out to him that Savage has the 3rd highest-rated radio show in the U.S., with millions of listeners on over 400 stations, and has written 4 or 5 bestsellers in the last few years, while Mike Malloy does an internet radio broadcast out of his own basement to an audience of tens. He remained unfazed, and pointed out that Malloy's show is carried on a satellite radio station.<br /><br />So what can you do?classicliberal2http://lefthooktheblog.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com