Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
NARAL Communications Director STWF’d
There appears to be a subtle difference between the FOX News story on the sudden departure of NARAL Communications Directory David Seldin, Friday, and the follow-up in the Washington Post that appeared Sunday. The FOX News article leaves ample room for doubt, with no spin in one direction or the other, as to whether NARAL was getting rid of Seldin or Seldin was getting rid of NARAL. The Post story gives us a good shove in the direction of presuming the latter.
Some Democrats said their side should be tougher, and one of them is David E. Seldin, who as NARAL’s communications director had defended the ad’s linking of Roberts to violent abortion opponents as “100 percent accurate.” A day after Thursday night’s announcement that the ad was being yanked, Seldin sent an e-mail to friends saying that he was leaving his job immediately.
In one job I had, it became key to the success of our enterprises to try to anticipate what was going to happen with other teams. Sometimes, someone outside would leave. Sometimes, someone on the inside would leave. Or we’d get worried someone somewhere was about to leave. Maybe someone in a key position was about to not be there anymore, or word was just getting out that someone already wasn’t there anymore.
Seasoned readers of corporate spin, which showered us with buzzwords designed to confuse whenever high-ranking executives were shown the door, we used to say “I got a feeling so-and-so is about to Spend More Time With His Family.”
So it’s kind of amusing to me, with that background in the rear-view mirror, that the following paragraph is shared between the Fox story and the Post story:
Seldin, who had held the job for just over two years, wrote in the Friday afternoon e-mail: “I’ve been thinking for a while that I would most likely leave after the Supreme Court nomination fight was over, and by leaving now I can spend the next two weeks in Cape Cod with my family relaxing, instead of trying to find a place with good cell phone reception.”
This is really encouraging. Not because I’ve got a big hard-on to outlaw abortion whenever & wherever I can, which I don’t. It’s encouraging because the ad, which is really at the heart of the matter no matter which side you believe, is a lie.
An abortion-rights group is running an attack ad accusing Supreme Court nominee John Roberts of filing legal papers �supporting . . . a convicted clinic bomber� and of having an ideology that �leads him to excuse violence against other Americans� It shows images of a bombed clinic in Birmingham, Alabama.
The ad is false.
And the ad misleads when it says Roberts supported a clinic bomber. It is true that Roberts sided with the bomber and many other defendants in a civil case, but the case didn’t deal with bombing at all.
Awhile back I had written about how incredibly, and tragically, rare it was nowadays to tell a provable falsehood and then not only get caught for it, but suffer some kind of consequence for spreading it around as well.
Twice in the last two weeks liars are suffering consequences for their lies. And both times, there is actually some coverage of the consequences in the media. This time, it is the communications director of a powerful political advocacy group. Fired, asked to resign, or resigning in disgust after being caught in a known lie.
This is real progress, in an age when we tend to show much more enthusiasm for believing known lies, than we do for debunking them or listening to somebody else debunk them.
This is the kind of thing that could eventually save our society. IF we keep it up. But that is a big “if”.
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