“5-6 paragraphs a day…”

NOTE For those readers who came in late, Tom an infrequent but valued poster, and he’s not Shrill like me…. So, if Josh has lost time, he needs to start fixing the damage to his brand (unless, of course, this is his plan for his brand).

You know, I have the feeling that a news gathering organization that did just that, no print at all, just straight news, could get some eyeballs these days. Call me crazy…

[x] Any (D) in the general. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.

like TPM or DailyObama.

Some of us refuse to patronize those sites. So if you don’t quote them, we won’t get your point.

I was highly amused by Josh’s latest. Mostly because of the descent through the piece.

First paragraph gives the quote from Hillary Clinton.

Second paragraph, states what the quote is saying is ’technically true.’ Read another way, she stated a fully accepted fact.

Third paragraph, the quote is a “non-point.”

Fourth paragraph, the quote is “nonsense”, “ridiculousness”, and an ’example of up is downism.’

By the fifth paragraph, the quote is just plain “malarkey.”

It’s easy to see why Josh gave his article the title “Maximize the Confusion,” that does after all appear to be his goal.

Like I said, I wish Josh would just admit he’s openly advocating for Obama and acknowledge that what he is presenting is Obama-camp spin instead of pretending he’s doing “analysis.”

Like I said, I’m not to the point of pulling my hair out over all of this but I do think that this primary season is a bit of a mess and hope that it doesn’t doom us against the phoniest Republican nominee of this generation and everyone’s favorite media darling, St. John McCain.

i gave up on josh when, on the day after tpm won some sort of award for journalism on the attorney general scandals, he chose to cite drudge for a source of info about the clinton campaign.

Oh come on. TPM is heavy on the good-for-Obama, bad-for-Clinton news, but at this point so is REALITY. Fair or not, the majority of TPM is a news filter. Throwing out obvious right-wing crap, we are left with this sort of ’balance’.

And please, stop thrashing TPM for reporting a story which was on Drudge. It was a TRUE story… even the stopped watch Drudge is right twice a day.

If you want to become an ignorant buffoon, there is no better way than to carefully insulate yourself from information you might not like.

and that’s what has happened to Josh. (And to many others of both camps, to be sure.)

Until now he’s been a pillar of reasonable thought, but the power of hope and faith has swept him away - to the point where he can’t see clearly enough to even edit his own writing.

Not reading his work is foolish, because he is an influential speaker and it is important to try and understand what’s happening here - and in the future. If Obama loses, there will be a real need to reach out and embrace those with whom we’ve differed; that will be harder to do if we stop talking to each other now.

If Obama wins the nomination, expect Josh and others to become even more insufferable; if he wins the Presidency, there will be such a hoorah of self-congratulatory crowing that it will be difficult for any caution to be heard, and there will be a real Mass Movement underway - all heated up and looking for someplace to go. Pity Brother Barak, if he cannot keep them satisfied.

At some point liberal progressives will have to reconcile and work together, or loose the right to claim that appellation. Foolish to cut off dialogue with each other over a damn politician.

Damn foolish.

by being so in the tank for him—it’s make or break, trustwise, for many of them—esp if they depend on hits/ads.

it’s really puzzling why so many who called for that are backing the non-oppositional, non-fighting, non-issue-oriented candidate, i think.