Comments on: IMHO

By: macbigot

macbigot — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:22:27 +0000

Folks, he's right — he's no journalist. Because if he were, he would have caught that 'shill' and 'shrill' are not the same thing. Unless you're referring to Katie Couric.

By: pascal

pascal — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:26:20 +0000

If I were TA I wouldn't respond either since liberals can't stand truth and must deny reality. And, so, they lie. And, they repeatedly lie, and they distort. In their view everything is relative, which makes lying easier. Came across this little gem to share with the few females who might read this blog….http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/11/the_wilding_of_sarah_palin.html but liberal girlie men would find it useful as well.

By: macbigot

macbigot — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:22:27 +0000

Folks, he's right — he's no journalist. Because if he were, he would have caught that 'shill' and 'shrill' are not the same thing. Unless you're referring to Katie Couric.

By: pascal

pascal — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:26:20 +0000

By: malercous

malercous — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:09:06 +0000

Abdul; my problem with you is that you aren't an ideolouge. If you were it would be so much easier for me to poke fun at you. While you do come at some issues from an ideological perspective you are open to reason and fact, the signs of an independent thinker. This is squrely in contradiction with your claim to being a republican, which you're not. You my friend, are an “independent” leaning to the right.
“Comedian” skills? I think the word you want is “comedic.” And you have such skill? Really? Now I don't get your program where I live so maybe that's where you display them, but really? I just don't get that. Have others told you you're funny? (Family doesn't count. Neither does your appearance)
Go ahead, say something funny. A nice easy softball, hit it out of the park. Make me laugh.

By: pascal

pascal — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:01:36 +0000

Ouch! But if Abdul is just a commentator then he's at Tully level too. He can't report the facts on Palin because he basically has only the one side from all of his sources. Not likely he could be right, if that is his job. What distinguishes him, he renounces, e.g. he gets off his butt and wears out shoe leather. I've seen him before the Guv's mansion and in the Legislature. When he does facts he adds value. Commentators aren't worth used toilet paper without the facts to back them up. Consider, “She got out because every damned one of those ethical complaints had teeth. ” As posted by one of our regular liberals who hadn't read Sarah's book”. Now, he knows that is a false statement. Will he man up and confess before all that he was mistaken again? No doubt the issue is also in Abdul's memory banks as “factual” since ethic complaints were filed, hundreds of them. Any commentator worth a pinch of salt would immediately detect the odor of s*** concerning the validity of hundreds of complaints. We are back to Rex's pancake again being mighty thin for not having two sides. I think Abdul does a good job with getting the facts most of the time but not on Palin. He blew it by foregoing a great source for facts. Journalists often lie by omission on purpose-this one fails the subject for being off in the fiction section of la la land. TA can obtain partial redemption for agreeing with Palin's media characterization and even making it known to the cheap skates who don't have a copy of the book.

By: Think Again

Think Again — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:02:18 +0000

Rico, you clearly don't pay attention. I want good government. On this blog, I've wondered multiple times why Tully and the Ch. 13 guy didn't go bonkers at the sit-down televised interview. Kevin Rader looked completely ignorant, and Tully….well, if I were his editor, I'd have fired him for journalistic incompetence.

Not only did Tully fail to ask any questions on-air…he was one of only two or three journalists who witnessed the tragic mental mishap by the late Ms. Carson. He had a duty to follow-up and report on his findings.

So don't go off making assumptions again. It only makes you look, well…kinda like Tully.

By: Taxpayer 834512

Taxpayer 834512 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:47:05 +0000

It's unfortunate that an "opinion guy" provides some of our best journalism and reporting. Can someone name a local broadcaster that will more freely air both sides of public opinion on issues?

It's even more unfortunate that today's "journalism", theoretically held to a higher bar than Abdul, ignores as much as it informs. It can provide in-depth exposes on non-political issues like the dangers of asbestos exposure, the local library construction debaucle, and two waves of Sarah Palin within America, while ignoring thorough pursuit of birth, health, college, and political history and records of President Barrack Obama.

I would contend that "look(ing) at the facts as objectively as possible in order to draw the right conclusions" would include observing that America spends too much money. Whether it's the Concord Coalition, the Economist, the Wall Street Journal, or the frequent warnings of Democratic Senator Evan Bayh, it's seems conclusive to me that Harvard Medical Dean, Dr. Jeffery Flier, had it right Nov 17th in the WSJ. Living in a state (Massachusetts) with state-run health care, he observed, "Here, insurance mandates similar to those proposed in the federal legislation succeeded in expanding coverage but- despite predictions- increased total spending." He summarized earlier in the article, " In effect, while the legislation would enhance access to insurance, the trade-off would be an accelerated crisis of health-care costs and pepetuation of the current dysfunctional system- now with many more participants. This will make the eventual solution even more difficult."

I wish all our opinion guys, journalists, reporters, and dishonest hacks alike would conclude that we need to reduce Federal spending NOW: proposed health care legislation, Afghanistan, and all programs across-the-board.

By: Indiana_Barrister

Indiana_Barrister — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:18:24 +0000

Everyone is a friend and when friends act up you call them on the carpet. Or it could be that people have started behaving better since I showed up.

By: Indiana_Barrister

Indiana_Barrister — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:04:21 +0000

Honky,

As always I appreciate it when readers catch my typos. The curse of thinking faster than I type. And by the way, that's Mr. Asshole to you! Thanks.