tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post6498596627099688125..comments2024-03-29T03:56:03.736-04:00Comments on the daily howler: WE THE WALKING DEAD: A very slow walk on the New York Times side!<b>bob somerby</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02963464534685954436noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-49883044735523402982013-10-18T13:24:36.005-04:002013-10-18T13:24:36.005-04:00Bob is obviously not an expert on comedy. Repeated...Bob is obviously not an expert on comedy. Repeated running jokes and tag lines, often based on funny names or personal characteristics (like obesity), are staples. The highly-paid writers on late-night talk shows put this stuff in all the time; just mentioning certain names seems to throw audiences into paroxysms. Check out Letterman's monologue, for example.snoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-69679856404781345042013-10-18T10:47:23.073-04:002013-10-18T10:47:23.073-04:00Anon12:56pm, so what do you find off-base and supe...Anon12:56pm, so what do you find off-base and superfluous about TDH suggesting that Meet the Press indulged in a soulless Madison Avenue PR firm style false equivalence-argument in discussing the actions of both political parties during the shut-down?CeceliaMchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16017255006204800193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-58225251609511819602013-10-17T18:04:13.719-04:002013-10-17T18:04:13.719-04:00Certainly. Yes I do both know and understand what ...Certainly. Yes I do both know and understand what happened.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-17771938835714081482013-10-17T14:06:55.755-04:002013-10-17T14:06:55.755-04:00Please explain, anon 11:11Please explain, anon 11:11Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-91865908615824528072013-10-17T14:06:09.686-04:002013-10-17T14:06:09.686-04:00I'm curious as to whether or not Anonymous Oct...I'm curious as to whether or not Anonymous Oct 17 @ 11:11 knows what happened regarding the debt ceiling shenanigans and deal.<br /><br />If so, perhaps he'll enlighten us.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-20154562814757339112013-10-17T12:56:29.310-04:002013-10-17T12:56:29.310-04:00Anon @ 12:25, if I offended you I apologize. Like ...Anon @ 12:25, if I offended you I apologize. Like the greatest accomplisher of the last century I pity and love you. That is why I expressed understanding to begin with.<br /><br />I would use my own words but Somerby always says it best. But I think your protests are misdirected. There has been plenty of shutdown coverage here.<br /><br />Somerby showed how Salon falsely tried to blame the shutdown on bad journalism. <br /><br />Somerby showed how Drum got captured by the tribalists during the shut down battle. Who could forget: "Why shouldn’t you fund the cancer treatments, if that is the only thing the GOP lets you do?"<br /><br />And finally he told us Kristof got things right. <br /><br />Plus there was all those posts about the bad coverage of the effect of not lifing the debt ceiling.<br /><br />It's a big world beyond the beltway. Our classrooms are threatened by false thrilling tales that are made more thrilling through embellishment.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-69872770143059352622013-10-17T12:25:06.169-04:002013-10-17T12:25:06.169-04:00Well, you certainly have all the jargon of the tri...Well, you certainly have all the jargon of the tribe down. Now put what you just said in your own words instead of Somerby's.<br /><br />And excuse me for caring far more about the shutdown of federal government and the near collapse of the global economy than about Ripley's "ballyhooed" new book.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-66329144216552749312013-10-17T12:19:36.837-04:002013-10-17T12:19:36.837-04:00OMB (Great News for OPEN Government Fans)
We w...OMB (Great News for OPEN Government Fans)<br /><br /> We will probably never get an explanation of the debt ceiling implications beyond those of the once held captive Kevin Drum....BUT<br /><br />The pitifully explained government shutdown is over!<br /><br />That means the NCES database is back open. Piles of PISA, tons of TIMMS, pieces of PIRL and a pot of Gold Standard scores at the end of the rainbow for analysts and leprechauns alike.<br /><br />The effort to reveal Ripley for the con artist she is, launched on September 23, 2013 but stalled by somebody or other, can resume once more.<br /><br />Happy days are here again. <br /><br />KZAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-47877159305838084902013-10-17T12:15:13.677-04:002013-10-17T12:15:13.677-04:00Very few people listen as closely as Bob listens b...Very few people listen as closely as Bob listens but what they hear is "Crisis!" "Default!" In other words, hell in a hand basket. It makes them very anxious, hence the Tea Party and they become more anxious when the outcome is more debt. The news media is entirely responsible for stirring up these terrible, terrible Tea Party people. (Any honest person would rather have them in the neighborhood than those Obama voting Walmart "shoppers" who cleared the shelves in those Louisiana stores when they thought their food stamp cards were unlimited and then left the huge mess when the system came back on line.)Lionelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06336249052780481883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-77893558350080991562013-10-17T11:42:18.157-04:002013-10-17T11:42:18.157-04:00Anon @ 11:11
Perchance you are the same anon to w...Anon @ 11:11<br /><br />Perchance you are the same anon to whoim I earlier replied with this:<br /><br />We know, we know. You think Somerby's overdoing it with Amanda Ripley’s ballyhooed new book, The Smartest Kids in the World.<br /><br />We understand the complaint! But Ripley’s book is a remarkable text, a Rosetta Stone which helps us see the nature of modern “journalistic” practice.<br /><br />If you cannot see the connection between the Walking Dead, the Fabulous Ripley and her Fantastic Finns, and the conflagration of Butch Otters and Ted Yoho's you will probably be conned into a life of tribal hate by the rube runners.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-79431683824673275522013-10-17T11:13:16.710-04:002013-10-17T11:13:16.710-04:00bob somerby: "But Parker was simply engaged i...bob somerby: "But Parker was simply engaged in business as usual. She was involved in the imitation of life, the work of the walking dead."<br /><br />>>> not the work of the "walking dead". she very likely wasnt speaking her own mind at all. she was doing the work of her employer, which is a tool of the the very alive and superactivated moneyed interests.cal q. layshunnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-71115077616781339652013-10-17T11:11:14.242-04:002013-10-17T11:11:14.242-04:00Bob, you've got absolutely no clue about what ...Bob, you've got absolutely no clue about what just happened, do you?<br /><br />Now I understand why you spent the last two weeks on Amanda Ripley.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com