Comments on: Minnpost’s Blog Cabin the new blog police?

By: left of left

left of left — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:13:14 +0000

If it is the real Mitch Berg, neo-con nutso,
then we know what his politics are. Brauer? we know who pays him. So why don’t you just stick to posting love letters to Bachmann-Palin and re-vomit the Cheney-Limbaugh oxycontin-speak
in your chemical smeared blur of reality.

By: Mitch Berg

Mitch Berg — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:51:03 +0000

David Brauer, center-left pundit and columnist, reaches out to a bunch of leftybloggers (at a lefty propaganda site) with reasonable point, and gets mau-maued.

Question, David: Would Justin consider the above “Harsh”, or is he too busy parsing Michael Brodkorb’s latest for signs of pique?

I know, I know – Justin can speak for himself.

By: Ollie Ox

Ollie Ox — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:02:12 +0000

You opened by stating that the fear on the left was about factchecking. Can’t be accountable at all, can you?

By: icecycle

icecycle — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 05:27:53 +0000

“Yeah, that wasn’t about fact checking.”

Well, at the risk of belaboring an obvious point, Ollie; you said: “Since icecycle is so concerned about fact checking, let’s turn the spotlight on some of Minnpost’s reporting.”

Sometimes I guess one can’t help but rub another’s nose into it, can one?

By: Zombie Post

Zombie Post — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:10:24 +0000

Yeah that Silent Swede has it all wrong Minn Post is not a bunch of dead-enders they are more
like zombies that rechew that fat from the NY Times and WashPo they call brains and try to
shove it down our local throats, just as they did when they were in the majors.

So busy editing but no real news. When Minn Post breaks a Blagojevich on T-Paw or Coleman
and his Nasser-K deals let me know. Time to take dead-pool bets on the Minn Post, burn rate must
be flaming hot and zombies hate fire.

By: Ollie Ox

Ollie Ox — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:12:37 +0000

Icecycle–a little fact checking about what you wrote:

“Odd that it is the lefty bloggers that erupt into outrage over the prospect of someone doing a bit of fact checking; or is it?”

Yeah, that wasn’t about fact checkingt. Probably best not to bait and switch your own arguments in a single thread. You might end up misreading your own comments.

By: icecycle

icecycle — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 04:06:04 +0000

Ollie, you misread my comment completely (Odd? Or is it?).

I wasn’t defending anyone. I was just making the observation that the cry and hue was reserved to the left-o-sphere. I have complete confidence in the right’s ability to withstand the withering scrutiny of “MinnPosts” watchdog.

“TradMed”? Uh, OK…no comment.

Please continue ripping one an other to shreds.

By: Eric Ferguson

Eric Ferguson — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 02:46:03 +0000

What it comes down to is bloggers have a right to moderate what gets posted on their blog. If someone can’t live with that or persuade the moderator to change he policy, there’s the option of not posting on that blog. Any of us can start our own blog if we feel particular about how moderating is done. Given how nasty comments get attributed to the blog or the site instead of the commenter, it makes sense to moderate.

By: Ollie Ox

Ollie Ox — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:36:41 +0000

You were the one who was defending MinnPost, icecycle. Your pivot in the second comment in a lovely example of a conservative sticking to principles. Thanks.

By: icecycle

icecycle — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:12:10 +0000

Meeeow! Lefty blogger cat fight!

You guys really don’t hesitate to throw each other under the bus, do you?