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Thu, 12/11/2008 - 3:14pm — lambert

Some people believe "inappropriate" applies to actions. Others believe it applies to questions. Shoot the messenger!

Jon Favreau's a management problem for Obama. This is not going to go away.

NOTE More from (sigh) Politico:

Declaring a question "inappropriate" is different from merely voting it down; it's calling foul on a question, not just disapproving of it.

Community reporting systems like this are often vulnerable to abuse from committed partisans -- YouTube has wrestled with a parallel problem -- and the only solution is conscious efforts to remedy it.

So far, Obama's team does not seem to have stepped in to allow uncomfortable questions to rise to the top, and instead is allowing his supporters to sanitize the site.

Quelle surprise.

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Two of my least favorite words:

By a little night ... on Thu, 12/11/2008 - 9:07pm

"responsible" and "appropriate".

"Responsible" because in 1970 it was used to mean "going to school, as you were supposed to do, rather than participating in a moratorium against the war."

"Appropriate", because it was the term of choice in an Upper East Side High School I briefly taught at. I never did figure out what they meant by it.

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transparency "theater"--

By amberglow on Fri, 12/12/2008 - 2:00am

this, along with so much else, is all intended to give the appearance of something and to sell it as real and substantial -- without actually doing the thing or meaning it.

It's the standard m.o.

like this "apparent evolution" --

... Anyone who took the time to cut past Barack Obama's campaign rhetoric of "change" and bringing an "end" to the Iraq war realized early on that the now-president-elect had a plan that boiled down to a down-sizing and rebranding of the occupation. ...

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