Update: Well, at least they don't hate me because I'm queer. Whew. I feel so much better:
In an email to the Huffington Post on Monday, Harwood clarified that the quote was not meant to convey any displeasure on the part of the administration for the gay community's public advocacy.
"My comments quoting an Obama adviser about liberal bloggers/pajamas weren't about the LGBT community or the marchers," he wrote. "They referred more broadly to those grumbling on the left about an array of issues in addition to gay rights, including the war in Afghanistan and health care and Guantanamo -- and whether all that added up to trouble with Obama's liberal base..."
I have a writing assignment due today. I'm going to make the deadline, but I just looked at the time and I'm sort of amazed at how quickly the morning got away from me. Because I've been reading original sources, analysis and commentary from many different places all morning, and even though I'm a fast reader, it has still taken some time. It's too important to me, a pajama wearing blogger, to check and double source my facts and otherwise make sure what I'm about to write is reality-based and correct, to prepare my pieces any other way.
If I were employed by the mainstream press, I wouldn't have to do any of those things. I could just toss off an anonymously sourced playground insult and add some snotty, insider comment, and call it day.
I wonder if the next Blogger Ethics Conference will have a panel on the latest in fleece and microfiber jammies. I hope so.
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Good for you, cd
The whole "anonymous sources" thing is being badly abused.
Sargent might also want to run his copy through spell check, just to avoid things like "solicitious" turning up in posts. Just a thought ...
"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better." -- Albert Einstein
Yeah, the GOP are always bitch-slappin' their base
No wonder I can't handle the truth! ++++
I thought I could handle the truth...
... until I clicked on that link.
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Mahatma Gandhi