From: "Barrett Brown" <barriticus@gmail.com> |
Date: 6/13/08, 14:15 |
Senatus Populusque Americus:
Check out this Red State post entitled, "Where is Laura Ingraham?":
It should not go unnoticed that one of the nation's most popular radio hosts is off the air.
What happened? No one is talking. What I do know is that Laura wants to be back on the air. She does not want to be off the air.
What I'm getting from this is that Laura wants to be back on the air, and that, in addition, she does not want to be off the air. I get the same vibe from what Laura Ingraham said herself recently while in the course of not "talking":
The decision to remove the 'Laura Ingraham Show' from the airwaves was made unilaterally by Talk Radio Network as a tactic in contract negotiations, against my will and over my protest.
...
she said, without "talking," communicating not so much through herself
or her own organism, but rather through the wind as it rustles through
the tall grass, through the crinkling eyes of a lover as she gazes on
her beloved, and through the very caterpillars themselves.
You guys always kind of chuckle when Rush or anyone else talks about liberals wanting to shut down talk radio. Well, Laura Ingraham has been pulled off the air.
... by talk radio.
Remember, if this can happen to Laura Ingraham, it certainly can happen to any other conservative talk radio host.
... who find themselves engaged in a contract dispute.
There is more going on here than a contract negotiation.
Oh, noes! She got her own show on Fox, plus probably her own little dressing room! Write your congressman, and keep your powder dry! Mountain Dew! Extreme!
If you were paying attention last night, you might have noticed that, for some reason only known to God, we got a very strange diary popping up on the site - and by "very strange" I mean "highly disturbing, and we reported it to the relevant authorties."
So, "we got a highly disturbing, and we reported it to the relevant authorities diary popping up on the site"?
What should not happen is that any of our readers should think that it's a good idea to take obviously disturbed garbage inflicted upon us and repost it on other sites. That happened last night, which is why I now have to offer an apology on behalf of this site to both Markos Moulitsas and the readers of Daily Kos for the actions of one of our commenters.
That's sweet.
From our point of view, the only use that Daily Kos has is to serve as a handy Awful Example of what progressives sound like when they think no moderates and/or conservatives are listening. Other than that, they're frankly irrelevant to what we need to do here. Now, I understand that they obsess over us...
... he said, in a long blog entry talking about Daily Kos.
God, I wish I had seen that diary. I bet it was the most awesome thing ever with lots of internet explosions and calls for e-assassinations.