Andrew Sullivan's Blog, page 2815

Dave Weigel Quits, Ctd

Julian Sanchez, a good friend of Dave's, zooms out:

If the Princess-and-the-Pea brigade now cheering his departure would bracket their persecution complex for five minutes, they'd realize that he was consistently delivering coverage about as fair and sympathetic as could reasonably be hoped for.  What they apparently wanted was a movement hack to dole out indiscriminate praise to anyone claiming the mantle of conservatism--whereas Dave took the right seriously enough to make distinctions...

"Mommy, Get The Oil Off!"

A citizen journalist shoots footage down in Destin Beach, Florida.
















Florida - United States - Destin Beach - Business - BP

Goldblog Retreats

Good blogging requires constant re-thinking. Marc Ambinder has a superb post on the whole subject. I agree with every word.
















Marc Ambinder - United States - Politics - Government - Marc

You Are Being Watched

This is what the standards of toilet-trained reporting amount to:

Nothing is really off-the-record.

Really? There's more:

I've been leaked postings from JournoList before -- wonderfully
charming things written about me, as you might have guessed -- and I
haven't had the opportunity to use them, but would be happy to if the
need arose.

Wow. No wonder the list-serv is now over.

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No Liberal

Phil Klein defends Weigel, as anyone who can read would.
















Politics - Washington Post - United States - Conservatism - Ezra Klein

The End Of JournoList

Ezra writes the obit:

It was ironic, in a way, that it would be the Daily Caller that
published e-mails from Journolist. A few weeks ago, its editor, Tucker
Carlson, asked if he could join the list. After asking other members, I
said no, that the rules had worked so far to protect people, and the
members weren't comfortable changing them. He tried to change my mind,
and I offered, instead, to partner with Carlson to start a bipartisan
list serv. That didn't interest him.

In any case...

Mental Health Break

Born Ruffians - What to Say (HD) from Jared Raab on Vimeo.

Oscilloscopes are usedfor viewing voltages, primarily in the sciences, medicine, engineering,telecommunications and industry. Though other people have reprogrammedoscilloscopes to display images in the past, the "video to scope"process used in this video is the first of its kind. The images you seeare made up of a single point of light, moving quickly across a screenin order to draw shapes – that means the entire Born Ruffians video...

South Park Macho, Ctd

A reader writes:

I was in Afghanistan in '05 and Iraq in '06 with the 82nd
 We all loved Team America, occasionally referred to ourselves as such and although I thought it was a bit offensive -- and made my views
on it clear -- from time to time "durka durka" and "Mohammed jihad
used by my soldiers on

In yet more evidence that the American public just doesn't understand its military, I'm disappointed to read that people are shocked that American soldiers a) liked...

Friedersdorf Counters Goldblog On Weigel

A must-read. Money quote:

In the excerpt above, Mr. Goldberg quotes an anonymous Washington
Post staffer who, it should be noted, spoke disparagingly of his or her own newspaper in a conversation with a journalist from a competing media company. This source disparaged Dave Weigel, The Post, and the people responsible for hiring him, anonymously. In other words, this source's very actions imply that he or she knows The Washington Post would look unfavorably on the public airing of this...

The Next Oprah? Ctd

More fodder for Zach Anner's growing army of fans here and here. Add to his nearly 8.5 million votes here.

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