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September 04, 2008

It's Official: CNN, MSM Simply Getting Their "News" From the Daily Kos Now
— Ace

Turns out the Daily Kos is wrong. Badly wrong. Yet again.

Multiple layers of painstaking ~~editorial~~ Daily Kos diarist fact-checking.

And yet the MSM, which is caught unprepared because the group that usually does their work for them (the DNC and Obama campaign) has been caught flat-footed and utterly by surprised, now turns to someone else to do their work for them, and that someone happens to be the very qualified journalists writing under fake names like "ArcXIX" and "OmegaKat' at the Daily Fucking Kos.

Here's an idea, media: I know it sucks that the DNC and David Axelrod aren't giving you your talking points and story tips at the moment, but... just this once, could you maybe do your own work?

Just for a week or so, until the DNC and David Axelrod regain their composure.

You're the, uh, "professionals" singularly qualified to do this shit, right? Then, um, how can it be that your "research" is coming from Daily Kos bloggers?

I thought you were, you know, better than bloggers or somethin'. Has your position on this changed?

Thanks to Dave from Garfield Ridge.

The Daily Kos

The most trusted source on cable TV. Why not cut out the middleman and go right to the real source?

Posted by: Ace at 12:22 PM | Comments (21)
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1 I think Karl Rove is blogging at DKos under pseudonyms setting them up to make them look like....hehe....special needs children.

Posted by: EC at September 04, 2008 12:26 PM (j2Tjh)

2 The sick thing is that this has been out there for a couple of days and disproven, yet they still repeat it.

Posted by: mesablue at September 04, 2008 12:30 PM (5yNaE)

3 Soledad O'Brien only got it wrong because instead of doing basic research for her report she was tending her many kids. Sarah Palin could learn a lot from Soledad.

Posted by: Natalie at September 04, 2008 12:32 PM (dCigj)

You'd have thought that after that Hindenburg of a WaPo story about pregnant teens that CNN would at least try to do some Googlin' and cipherin'.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year here) at September 04, 2008 12:34 PM (B+qrE)

READ YOUR BLOG, ACE!

I posted about this Alaska special ed thing in the comments about five hours ago. A lib friend of mine called me earlier today with his "a-ha!" and I pointed out 1) how special ed funding works in general and 2) that the program was divvied up into two line items.

Posted by: BumperStickerist at September 04, 2008 12:34 PM (NnAGL)

6

Oh boy, this is GREAT!

Just think of this the next time you hear Jonh Roberts sonorously intone some important facts about Sarah "The Real Presidential Candidate" Palin.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3190/2809532049_b9b6a6cd9b_o.png

It's like the amount of tumescent love they showed Barry is equal in amount to the hatred the show towards Sarah.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz at September 04, 2008 12:35 PM (sf4Oe)

7 bumperstickerist,

You know how much stuff is coming down, man?

You realize how much "porn time" I'm already giving up for this bullshit?

Give a guy a break. I only have two hands, and this chicken isn't going to just choke itself.

Posted by: ace at September 04, 2008 12:47 PM (1WR4H)

8 Daily Kos, Dan Rather ... it's all the same

Posted by: The Chewbacca Defense at September 04, 2008 12:50 PM (nuuDA)

9 Heh. I sent the Weekly Standard link over to CNN's tip email with the suggestion that Soledad stop using Kos as a source.

Posted by: mpur at September 04, 2008 12:52 PM (mpAYQ)

Give a guy a break. I only have two hands, and this chicken isn't going to just choke itself.

Actually this is one area where the Japanese truly are way ahead of us. Even their sex toys have USB connectors and custom software.

Posted by: Maetenloch at September 04, 2008 12:53 PM (cqaC+)

11 It's like the MSM is asleep at the wheel, dreaming of their glory days, only to wake and see the iceberg loom ahead and, in the confusion of their drowsiness shout "Ram Speed!" while trying to formulate the words "Hard to Port!".

Posted by: Immolate at September 04, 2008 01:15 PM (CcY2L)

Good. Bring it, beotches.

Don't let a teeny weeny little speechifying beat you. Pick up your guts, shove them back into your gaping abdominal cavity, get up on the horse and charge again.

This just isn't any fun if I don't get to see your mental stability slowly break apart before my eyes, real time.

Posted by: Entropy at September 04, 2008 01:21 PM (HgAV0)

13 The George Soros MSM.

Posted by: demoncrat at September 04, 2008 01:43 PM (8nB5X)

14 #10 Actually this is one area where the Japanese truly are way ahead of us. Even their sex toys have USB connectors and custom software.

I've seen that! It's like a cross between a dunkin' donut and a tesla coil, but with a kung fu grip. ...and it shoots lightning bolts!

Posted by: Fritz at September 04, 2008 01:50 PM (zAvxs)

15 The schadenfreude is so rich and creamy. Oh,and is that foam on top? Lovely.

*removed pants for ball dipping*

Posted by: Warden at September 04, 2008 01:56 PM (QoR4a)

16 Keith Olbertool got his "violating op-sec" thing from Jon Soltz of Votevets (moveon.org). http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jon-soltz/is-the-mccain-palin-campa_b_123643.html

Posted by: stace at September 04, 2008 02:32 PM (JO0c/)

17 Warden....I need a new keyboard thanks to you.

Dammit.

But other than that...hysterical.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at September 04, 2008 02:35 PM (gC1jh)

18 I think Kos has been too busy to fact check - he's on a marathon Sybian expedition brought on by the MSM's incessant Obamasturbation. It's hard to read when your ass is crammed with vibrating plastic cock and you're playing the home edition of "Brokeback Mountain."

Posted by: jazz at September 04, 2008 02:41 PM (sUWlR)

19 That's why that site is properly referred to as The Daily Krazy.

Posted by: Ninth Stage at September 04, 2008 04:08 PM (iiKqN)

20 Now Daily Pos is conceding that Sarah is the mom, but arguing that Todd is not the dad. It's so freakin' obvious that Trig's dad is the Chinese, Japanese or maybe Korean business partner that Sarah was fooling around with. I mean, look at the eyelids on that kid. Definitely not Amurrican.

Soledad O'Brien is running with the story tomorrow morning.

Posted by: Johanna Lapp at September 04, 2008 04:51 PM (E9Jrr)

21 It used to be called rip'n'read, which was fine if the information came from the police or fire departments, that whole who, when, where, why thing didn't require interpretation nuance.
These days, when journalists don't know whether they are news breakers or news makers, it's called reportage.

Posted by: lotocoti at September 04, 2008 05:57 PM (IF5U8)

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