tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post4405037159886403909..comments2024-03-19T06:13:08.345-04:00Comments on the daily howler: Your Daily Howler keeps getting results!<b>bob somerby</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02963464534685954436noreply@blogger.comBlogger62125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-64261106908347019502014-02-17T15:11:25.438-05:002014-02-17T15:11:25.438-05:00Zimmerman is to trolls as Gore is to Somerby?Zimmerman is to trolls as Gore is to Somerby?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-53624878705310094432014-02-17T12:37:02.988-05:002014-02-17T12:37:02.988-05:00Only if (1) Somerby read it, or (2) had illusions ...Only if (1) Somerby read it, or (2) had illusions about his writing, or (3) cared what a random troll thought about it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-89966422747460472642014-02-17T12:34:02.403-05:002014-02-17T12:34:02.403-05:00Beneath the words "Companion Site".Beneath the words "Companion Site". Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-48403780158478249822014-02-17T12:32:37.798-05:002014-02-17T12:32:37.798-05:00It is a waste of everyone's time to look up ho...It is a waste of everyone's time to look up how you have distorted quotes to charge Somerby with something ugly. It is enough to point out how your hatred tarnishes your soul. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-3478497511584243302014-02-17T12:29:59.908-05:002014-02-17T12:29:59.908-05:00How about if you skip this site and we continue to...How about if you skip this site and we continue to read what we want? No reason we cannot read this blog AND Krugman.<br /><br />Media Matters does a great job of documenting all that media malpractice on the right. I'd bet most of us read that too. They aren't so good at seeing the mote in their own eye. That's why this site is important. <br /><br />We're all bozos on this bus. But if you want to compare clown shoes, I'd say yours are bigger. No one mentions Zimmerman here except trolls, mean ugly trolls.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-84908531469480622912014-02-17T10:34:59.206-05:002014-02-17T10:34:59.206-05:00It's pretty stunning how much true media malpr...It's pretty stunning how much true media malpractice and clowning --- with significant implications for the country --- Bob has flat out ignored this past year because he can't stop playing with his favorite toys: race (Zimmerman) and Rachel. May I suggest that anyone inclined to read this site for media criticism skip it from now on and go right to Krugman. Bob used to serve as a useful corrective. He has become the very clown show he derides.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-88572744354844467482014-02-17T10:04:55.042-05:002014-02-17T10:04:55.042-05:00And please note that in his second football post, ...And please note that in his second football post, Somerby reached all the way back to 1998 to find evidence that Arizona State belonged in the big game in 2014 instead of Auburn.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-37061308681811795392014-02-17T10:04:34.033-05:002014-02-17T10:04:34.033-05:00*ouch*
that'll leave a mark...*ouch*<br />that'll leave a mark...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-81200682356307741682014-02-17T09:58:22.883-05:002014-02-17T09:58:22.883-05:00Right. Using the death of children to attack Rache...Right. Using the death of children to attack Rachel Maddow is the brilliant analysis we come to expect from Somerby.<br /><br />Pointing out that Somerby used the death of children to attack Maddow is vile.<br /><br />Such is the mind of the Bob Fan in which nothing that Somerby ever says, no matter how vile, can't be turned around to accuse Somerby's critics of the very viless of their Hero.<br /><br />You have learned well, Grasshopper. Perhaps he will now promote you to deputy pig killer.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-8352070064067866102014-02-17T09:39:05.782-05:002014-02-17T09:39:05.782-05:00Using the death of children to attack Somerby is i...Using the death of children to attack Somerby is indeed vile.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-15442800387782514662014-02-17T01:39:53.172-05:002014-02-17T01:39:53.172-05:00Regarding that opening Football post.
Auburn play...Regarding that opening Football post.<br /><br />Auburn played (and lost) to Florida State in the National Championsip. Arizona State was dismantled in the Who Cares Bowl by lowly Texas Tech. Your Howler Gets Results, but doesn't publish them when they betray his prognostication. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-26962199361368289992014-02-17T01:18:24.987-05:002014-02-17T01:18:24.987-05:00Anon @ 10:59
"The press corps' war again...Anon @ 10:59<br /><br />"The press corps' war against Candidate Gore..."<br /><br />It appears afresh atop every page even when it does not wind its way into a post.<br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-67750884888431459682014-02-16T23:10:24.835-05:002014-02-16T23:10:24.835-05:00I particularly call attention to the Dec. 4 post: ...I particularly call attention to the Dec. 4 post: "Rachel Maddow's very long, rather strange presentation."<br /><br />KZ describes it, quite accurately, with a quote from Somerby: "Let us tell you who Maddow’s channel doesn’t care about. Her channel doesn’t care about our country’s “black” kids, or about their parents."<br /><br />What could possibly prompt such a vile, hateful conclusion? <br /><br />It was the fact that Rachel Maddow implored, and even begged, her colleagues in the media not to broadcast the 911 tapes with the sounds of children being murdered.<br /><br />These were white, middle-class children, ergo, Maddow doesn't care about low-income black children.<br /><br />If ever one post revealed the sick, warped mind that Bob Fans so dearly worship, if ever one post ever exposed the depth of his utter hatred of Rachel Maddow, this is the one.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-12156836175658574312014-02-16T22:59:11.716-05:002014-02-16T22:59:11.716-05:00List of topics? Did you actually read any of them ...List of topics? Did you actually read any of them to make sure you were correct? I would, but I remember there was one in there about how Rachel Maddow doesn't care about low-income black children because she had the gall to ask the media to be sensitive and not air the 911 tapes about the Newtown shooting on the first anniversary of that tragedy.<br /><br />I would be very surprised if there were no mention of the War on Gore, or the pseud-scandals of the 1990s.<br /><br />I don't have the stomach to look, having been reminded by KZ's list how he floundered from topic to topic looking for anything that would attract clicks and eyeballs as he entered his fourth month commuting between Baltimore, Poland and Finland.<br /><br />So I will concede your point: Bob Somerby actually went TWO WHOLE WEEKS without mentioning Al Gore.<br /><br />Then he stumbled upon Chris and the Bridge and the pent-up demand was released!<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-69689318128915146522014-02-16T22:23:26.053-05:002014-02-16T22:23:26.053-05:00See KZ's list of Dec topics below. Then say &q...See KZ's list of Dec topics below. Then say "I guess I was wrong."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-50419936107757725012014-02-16T21:10:23.438-05:002014-02-16T21:10:23.438-05:00Nothing about Gore in KZ's list.Nothing about Gore in KZ's list.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-83112984404830557152014-02-16T20:24:14.637-05:002014-02-16T20:24:14.637-05:00I've never seen such exhaustive interpretation...I've never seen such exhaustive interpretation and penetrating analysis of such routinely bad writing. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-17984118418504118652014-02-16T15:56:26.239-05:002014-02-16T15:56:26.239-05:00And as certain as Red Pollard once rode Seabiscuit...And as certain as Red Pollard once rode Seabiscuit, Somerby will ride his new thoroughbred clickbait, Bridgegate, out of Maddow and sired by Zimmerman.<br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-8355695157798263652014-02-16T15:51:22.389-05:002014-02-16T15:51:22.389-05:00"Gore is mentioned maybe once a month here.&q..."Gore is mentioned maybe once a month here."<br /><br />I truly do not know what to say to a person who would think that is true.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-21854375130135142372014-02-16T15:11:07.761-05:002014-02-16T15:11:07.761-05:00OMB (The Way We Were/Truth to Tell No One Cares)
...OMB (The Way We Were/Truth to Tell No One Cares)<br /><br />December 2013, America's blog slept, musing mightily over minor cares, unaware of the brewing storm that would plunge it into months long mortal combat. <br /><br />Football 12/2/13<br /><br />"Script never sleeps, college football edition: John Feinstein knows who should play Florida State for the college football title...... <br />Who should be in the title game? There’s no real way to tell....<br />Here too, script never sleeps.....In our view, there are no “two best teams” this year.....It isn’t clear that Auburn rules. Will someone teach Feinstein to say this? " BOB 12/02/13<br /><br />Finland 12/2/13<br />Homer, Hector, Holocaust 2/2/13<br />Finland 12/3/13<br />Football 12/3/13 <br />Finland 12/3/13<br />Silly Salon 12/3/13<br />Rachel Maddow Doesn't Care About Black Kids 12/4/13<br />Silly Salon 12/4/13<br />Silly Salon 12/5/13<br />Finland! 12/5/13<br />MSNBC (Hayes) 12/5/13<br />MSNBC (Bashir) 12/5/13 <br />Finland !! 12/6/13<br />Krugman (Silly Salon) 12/6/13<br />Finland !!! (Special Saturday Edition) 12/7/13<br />PISA Cult 12/9/13<br />Silly Dowd 12/9/13<br />Silly Salon 12/9/13<br />PISA Cult 12/10/13<br />Silly Salon 12/10/13<br />Mandela Musings 12/10/13<br />PISA Cult 12/11/13<br />Silly Salon Mandela + Walsh 12/12/13<br />Pisa Cult 12/12/13<br /><br />"Today, though, we’re often struck—indeed, overwhelmed—by the monumental, overpowering dumbness of the American discourse...<br /><br />The dumbness of the discourse on Fox. The dumbness of the discourse from Rachel and Lawrence. <br /><br />The dumbness of the leading books about our public schools. The dumbness of the editorial in yesterday’s New York Times.<br /><br />Beyond that, one more point seems clear to us. As we honor the work of Ripley and Ravitch, <strong>we prove that we are secretly too dumb to be self-governing.</strong><br /><br /><strong>Truth to tell, no one cares much about any of this."</strong> BOB 12/12/13 <br /><br /><strong>DECEMBER 13, 1013: A DATE THAT WILL LIVE IN INFAMY </strong> <br /><br />"Maddow Proves it All Night Long!<br /><br />Won’t stop teasing Chris Christie: Just eighteen minutes into the show, Maddow was teasing Chris Christie.<br /><br />She wanted us rubes to watch her full hour."<br /><br /><strong>BOB knew at once his duty. He knew looked back!</strong><br /><br />KZ <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-21752834498484861572014-02-16T13:58:02.144-05:002014-02-16T13:58:02.144-05:00Go awayGo awayAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-78275955922273286382014-02-16T13:12:21.592-05:002014-02-16T13:12:21.592-05:00Today's tax rates are the lowest they've b...Today's tax rates are the lowest they've been a long time. Spending is also lower than in the past. Yet, conservatives are still complaining and trying to lower both. Unfortunately, services are worse, infrastructure is deteriorating, and our government is not as effective as it has been in the past either. So, we are seeing the effects of neglecting to fund our government and it is hurting people. People have a lot more to worry about than social security, and it is conservatives who are contributing to that worry.<br /><br />Whether young people think social security will be there or not, they will get their checks when they reach retirement age. If they manage to save beyond that, more power to them. So, what is the harm in young people worrying about their old age? If it causes them to join with conservatives in dismantling the ONLY source of security they will have in old age, they will be doing something very foolish economically speaking. If you abet them in this, David, you are doing something evil.<br /><br />The financial health of our nation does not depend on taxes or spending. It depends on the success of our industries. To starve education, development of new technologies, investment in infrastructure that supports our economy, and so on, by decreasing spending is doing far more harm than giving seniors a reasonable cost of living increase so they do not slip into poverty (and thereby become a bigger drain on public resources). An inability to see how everything fits together makes people like you, David, vulnerable to the demagoguery of the right, which is not driven by concern for anyone's welfare except the wealthy. Those people already have enough money. It is time for them to care about someone besides themselves. If that fits you, David, then people apply this to yourself as well.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-52536146788630549442014-02-16T13:01:38.633-05:002014-02-16T13:01:38.633-05:00A scandal becomes an actual scandal where there is...A scandal becomes an actual scandal where there is proof it exists beyond the accusations of partisan attackers (of whatever party).<br /><br />Gore is mentioned maybe once a month here. Trying to portray Somerby as someone with little to say entails pretending that all that is ever mentioned here is Gore. That is absurd to anyone who reads this blog regularly. While the war on Gore is used as an example and analogy, the main focus here is nearly always current events.<br /><br />Even if Somerby were talking about Gore every day (which he is not), that would not negate whatever point he is making in other posts here. <br /><br />The history of press attacks on candidates goes back to the revolution. You can point to highly partisan papers waging wars on opposition candidates using scurrilous attacks involving out-of-wedlock children, bad blood, drunkenness, and so on. People were able to discount this by considering the partisan proclivities of the publishers. Today, with the NY Times and other media pretending to be unbiased, attacks on candidates (mostly manufactured) tend to be believed by readers instead of discounted as examples of bias. We have come to expect neutral reporting and do not recognize when it is not neutral. That is one of the main points of this blog. To construe this as Somerby defending a college pal is ridiculous. So, where as you coming from in your attacks on Somerby? You pretend to be disinterested readers, but I don't think that is true because anyone who was a casual reader wouldn't be pretending that Gore is the only topic here, especially lately.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-35223907794861297652014-02-16T12:48:17.355-05:002014-02-16T12:48:17.355-05:00Greg, my criticism is in the fact that the "W...Greg, my criticism is in the fact that the "War on Gore" is the lens through which Bob now views EVERYTHING. It reached the point of ridiculousness long ago, but certainly no better expressed by than by such posts entitled "Chris Christie said he invented the Internet."<br /><br />To Somerby, everything becomes the "War on Gore" -- pseudo-scandals manufactured by a scandal culture media, and we are well beyond the point where Somerby even bothers to try to distinguish actual scandals from phony ones.<br /><br />Your point about Carter is a good one. I would go back even more and point that there was quite a "War on Truman" as well.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-42447519839963441132014-02-16T12:03:30.552-05:002014-02-16T12:03:30.552-05:00Oh and one more thing DinC. Here's my little ...Oh and one more thing DinC. Here's my little saying.<br /><br />Once a dick, always a dick.<br /><br />Republicans have been trying to destroy SS from the moment it was created.mmnoreply@blogger.com