Anita Ward: Ring My Bell

Thought this might resonate with Ms. Paglia, but maybe not.

Erma Bombeck with a workout regimen?

Was going to try for something about the crackling good writing but upon further reflection, the metaphor explains itself.

Peter O

If more people started watching BG, you'd be writing an article six months later saying how much better BG was before it became popular.

Don't get a hernia patting yourself on the back.

Peter O

Come on, you can find something funnier than that.

Joe is a half-bright windbag. The sooner he's out of the race, the better.

Funny, you didn't even mention the Neil Kinnock speech plagiarizing that knocked him out last time.

for that penetrating gaze into the obvious.

I have to wonder why presidential candidates feel the need to hire high profile bloggers in the first place. The blogging community that reads and comments on each other's blogs is not one that is going to be converted from one side to the other. Just put your candidate's blog up and they will come, regardless of who's running it.

Having said that, the right wing bias that exists in the MSM is readily apparent in the treatment of Amanda Marcotte.

It's kind of amazing when you think about it. The MSM really have no clue why the public could be mightily pissed at them. Hence, their characterization of totally earned criticism as partisanship.

I keep going back to Judy Miller and her quote after getting busted on the WMD story. "I was fucking right..."

That pretty much sums it up.

I'm trying to figure out which of your stories about the iPhone over the last month wasn't totally predictable.

First it was: Wow, the iPhone! Then, is the iPhone overhyped? Then, a succession of no it's not, yes it is, well maybe columns. Finally, it crashed on me after I bought it.

I believe that columnists on technology owe it to their readers to be skeptical and apply some critical thinking to whatever new whizbang invention comes along. Think about it.

Are we dumb enough to expect anything resembling the truth from this lying sack of shit? No, we are not.

The irony of Matthews' praise for Buchanan's "cross dressing Democrats" comment at the '92 Republican convention is that it was that type of schoolyard banter at the convention that went a long way to costing the Republicans the election that year.

I also remember Al Franken and Arianna Huffington (in her Republican phase - ha!) on Comedy Central predicting the same thing as Buchanan was speaking.

Thanks for your efforts.

Apple Marketing Department

This is what a real journalist (online or otherwise) would report on a story such as this. Take a lesson.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20625498/

I am a student in a court reporting school and I thank you for your words about stenographers and reporters. I'm not so thin-skinned (young, lol) that I took offense, but I appreciate the clarification.

and applied their marketing magic, I'm sure you'd be trumpeting it as a thing of genius...

is working too hard to convince everyone he has a penis.

that Apple's movie rental plan might suck? You're a journalist, right?

It's interesting that a poster mentioned the production of the Steve Earle's intro cover of Down in the Hole. The first time I heard it, I was stunned - the song wasn't happening for me. The second time I heard it, last night, I was digging on the production/arrangement.

Don't know if I'll ever catch up to the vocal though.

who thinks that, by and large, comments blow.

Excepting mine, of course.

I think this example of media bias against Hillary Clinton is a poor one.

It's fairly obvious, to me and more than a few others, that Hillary was indeed parsing her reply in order to continue to cast doubt on Obama, in whatever way she can. Given the stakes, I didn't think the move was especially dirty, but please don't tell us it wasn't a calculated reply on some level.

Peter

You're a tech reporter? Thought you were an Apple publicist. And yes, I'm a Mac owner, just not a Macinista.

I'm sure you're reading the deranged comments of Apple fanatics and nodding your head and thinking you're right.

I suggest you go back and read your own uncritical columns on the arrival of the over-priced iPhone and the subsequent price cut which you trumpeted as a boon to consumers, never mind the early adopters who had been played as chumps.

I suspect you think that your flailing is somehow objective, like the crappy tv news pundits who take criticism from all sides and therefore say they must be objective. This is not the case with them or you. Please wake up.

She didn't seem that angry to me. Now if that sassy white woman makes a rebuttal vid, look out y'all.

I remember an early attempt at capturing coaches' wisdom during timeouts in the NBA playoffs: Billy Cunningham to Maurice Cheeks "Mo - when you get the ball don't f--- around!"

I'm guessing the 76ers didn't have a media consultant back then, but that's a good thing IMO.

Joe Biden is the very definition of a Senate windbag. What does it say about the current state of politics that anyone is taking him seriously?

A reporter who actually interviews people and reports instead of regurgitating press releases. What a concept. Welcome.

Mom enabled Bush for years, daughter is enabling Sarah Palin? These people had eight years to run the country into a ditch. And I'm supposed to feel sympathy?

does this nitwit have a forum? Does anyone take her seriously? Bueller?