en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/741134 Comments by VictorErimita http://bigjournalism.com/lstranahan/2011/03/15/ignoring-death-threats-to-wisconsin-politicians-is-media-bias/#IDComment135372174 Although you are not required to give up your liberal values because others have aboandoned most of theirs, you may want to consider whether, for example, you really want "single-payer health care" if it is enacted, administered and run by today's Left. Which by definition it would have to be, right? These are the people who WILL be running the State if many of your preferred policies are enacted. That alone is why so many people oppose statist and socialist policies: because they have always resulted in one or another degree of tyranny. You are now experiencing one aspect of that tendency of the Left to tyranny: utter intolerance of dissent and not the slightest interest in even entertaining other views. It's not accidental, it's endemic to leftism. It's not aberrant, it's essential. Consider it, as you are forced to see what the Left has become in reality. Wed, 16 Mar 2011 18:10:50 +0000 http://bigjournalism.com/lstranahan/2011/03/15/ignoring-death-threats-to-wisconsin-politicians-is-media-bias/#IDComment135372174 http://bigjournalism.com/lstranahan/2011/03/15/ignoring-death-threats-to-wisconsin-politicians-is-media-bias/#IDComment135372141 Lee deserves nothing but credit for his honesty and fairmindedness in these postings. But he is not intellectually required, as many posters here imagine, to review his liberal core views because he is encountering evidently unexpected hostility from those he fornerly assumed to share his broader liberal values. He is not required, for example, to change his views on gay rights because many others who share those views cannot tolerate dissent. But Lee, you are becoming aware of something you perhaps did not know before: much of today's Left is no longer liberal in any meaningful sense. And the Democratic Party is no longer controlled by liberals, but by radical leftists, "progressives," socialists or whatever label fits. "Liberal" no longer does. They do not value dissent (unless they are doing the dissenting.) They do not value free speech of others, nor diversity of opinion. They value rigid conformity to every iota of their worldview. Diversion from it in any way requires a hostile response and purging of the heretic in question. This seems to be news to you. Wed, 16 Mar 2011 18:10:39 +0000 http://bigjournalism.com/lstranahan/2011/03/15/ignoring-death-threats-to-wisconsin-politicians-is-media-bias/#IDComment135372141 http://frontpagemag.com/2010/07/28/the-champion-of-transparency-and-his-secret-life/#IDComment89386222 Well, remember, Gandhi's recommendation for European Jews was for them all to commit suicide as a "nonviolent" protest. His reasoning was that the world would then be "appalled." He didn't mention what else he thought the world should do after being appalled. But you're right on about this little twerp. He's playing International Man of Mystery with the U.S. because he knows the U.S. won't kill him. If he went after the real bad guys, he'd have a ricin dart between the eyes in a matter of weeks. Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:13:58 +0000 http://frontpagemag.com/2010/07/28/the-champion-of-transparency-and-his-secret-life/#IDComment89386222 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2010/07/09/watch-inception-stars-trash-evil-stupid-cheney-palin-preach-hypocritical-environmentalism/#IDComment85870833 How anyone can look forward to any Hollywood film any more is beyond me. For one thing, every Hollywood movie today is essentially a tour of the twisted mid of Hollywood screenwriters (and producers and studio heads.) What do we find in those minds? It's bizarre, twisted and repulsive. And they all stumble over each other to see who can be the Koolist Kid, who can be the most shockingly "transgressive" and therefore ever so hip and cutting edge. They haven't known or cared how to write an actual story in decades. They pitch a "concept" and pick the actors before the script is written. The script is written to appeal to the Kool Kidz culture, not middle American audiences. In fact, the script is usually, at some point in the film, meant to insult, vilify and ridicule mainstream Americans and everything they do, say or stand for. Who cares about these people and the vile crap they produce? And how this late in the day can anyone be "disappointed" in them. It's what they are. Fri, 9 Jul 2010 22:33:23 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2010/07/09/watch-inception-stars-trash-evil-stupid-cheney-palin-preach-hypocritical-environmentalism/#IDComment85870833 http://bigjournalism.com/abreitbart/2010/06/30/hypocrisy-thy-name-is-andrew-sullivan/#IDComment83571551 It happened right after Bush spoke out in support of the Defense of Marriage Act and against the trend of judges a a small handful of local officials in New York, San Francisco and Portland to force gay marriage on voters and have it sweep the country through the full force and effect doctrine. Andrew went full loony right then. He seemed to literally lose his marbles. Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:57:39 +0000 http://bigjournalism.com/abreitbart/2010/06/30/hypocrisy-thy-name-is-andrew-sullivan/#IDComment83571551 http://bigjournalism.com/abreitbart/2010/06/30/hypocrisy-thy-name-is-andrew-sullivan/#IDComment83570925 I don't think so. Before his psychotic break, or whatever it was, he was very interesting reading. His agonizing over the conflicts between his Catholic faith and his desire to live a gay lifestyle seemed genuoine to me. He deeply questioned his own views in those days, more than most bloggers anywhere. He was thoughtful, original, fairly fearless. And he made sense a lot of the time. I don't see that as being narcisisstic or seeking face time. Now, I'm sure narcissism plays a big role. But he also seems literally deranged. Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:55:37 +0000 http://bigjournalism.com/abreitbart/2010/06/30/hypocrisy-thy-name-is-andrew-sullivan/#IDComment83570925 http://bigjournalism.com/abreitbart/2010/06/30/hypocrisy-thy-name-is-andrew-sullivan/#IDComment83569983 But he forfeited his intellectual and moral integrity long ago. He is a ranting, slavering hater of anyone who he even imagines may oppose gay marriage. And he has a Foucault-esque, even De Sade-eque fascination with "toruture," real and imagined: "Remember the cruelties!" Yes, please remember them, over and over and over for me. Denouncing Breitbart for trying to penetrate the odious significance for our nation of Journolist is standard-issue Sullivan: contemptably hypocritical. The man has permitted huimself to devolve into a l;ittle snake. But his bite isn't worth much any more. He seems to make a living, but he is preaching to a choir that doesn't need him. he influences no one any more. Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:51:49 +0000 http://bigjournalism.com/abreitbart/2010/06/30/hypocrisy-thy-name-is-andrew-sullivan/#IDComment83569983 http://bigjournalism.com/abreitbart/2010/06/30/hypocrisy-thy-name-is-andrew-sullivan/#IDComment83569850 Me too. He got me to reconsider my position on gay marriage. But as anyone who used to follow him back when he had intellectual relevance and personal integrity knows, he utterly flipped when Bush denounced the lawless activism in San Francisco, Massachussetts, New Paltz, New York and elsewhere where judges and mayors were trying to force gay marriage on an unwilling population. He still calls himself a conservative, I guess, and the fact he spends his time denouncing conservatives of course gives him a forum in leftist publications. They love nothing more than a "maverick" who denounces conservatism supposedly from "within." Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:51:29 +0000 http://bigjournalism.com/abreitbart/2010/06/30/hypocrisy-thy-name-is-andrew-sullivan/#IDComment83569850 http://bigjournalism.com/abreitbart/2010/06/30/hypocrisy-thy-name-is-andrew-sullivan/#IDComment83567666 Ooh. Deadly accurate. Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:42:52 +0000 http://bigjournalism.com/abreitbart/2010/06/30/hypocrisy-thy-name-is-andrew-sullivan/#IDComment83567666 http://bigjournalism.com/dweigel/2010/06/28/hubris-and-humility-david-weigel-comes-clean-on-washington-post-the-d-c-bubble-the-journolist/#IDComment82785482 I guess I give him a little credit for some self criticism, but this level of self aware epiphany after mere days looks a lot more like getting one's mea culpi out of the way before proceeding with more of the same, albeit in a different, as yet unspecified, venue. If he wants to actually do something important, he needs to (1) ditch the juvenile snark; unplug from the brainless group think of the media shark tank, not plug into it via things like Journolist, and (2) report. We can do without the sage observations of yet another 28-year-old J-school wonder, thank you. Grow up and get some integrity and perspective. Those of us out here in the productive world who have to actually create things, employ real people and be accountable for what we do are not impressed by snarky wonder boys. But write a book on the inner working of Journolist and its effect on the nation, and I'm all ears. Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:53:31 +0000 http://bigjournalism.com/dweigel/2010/06/28/hubris-and-humility-david-weigel-comes-clean-on-washington-post-the-d-c-bubble-the-journolist/#IDComment82785482 http://bigjournalism.com/dweigel/2010/06/28/hubris-and-humility-david-weigel-comes-clean-on-washington-post-the-d-c-bubble-the-journolist/#IDComment82785424 Great idea. A book on the Journolist and its effect on the MSM narrative would be a blockbuster best seller. Weigel is a 28-year-old. A kid. He got caught up in the heady excitement of the D.C. scene and imagined himself a player in it. He has grown up in the soup of coarseness, profanity and self-importance that is the legacy of the Boomer generation, but the "given" world into which he was born. He knows nothing of the world of modesty and restraint that preceded it. He sees the Mahers and Stewarts, the Feys and Colberts, the merchants snark and rightly concludes that that is what "sells" now. OK, Mr. Weigel, but it is a dishonorable trade. Do you get that at all? It is not journalism. It is childish ego display. Adults get that. DO you? Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:52:51 +0000 http://bigjournalism.com/dweigel/2010/06/28/hubris-and-humility-david-weigel-comes-clean-on-washington-post-the-d-c-bubble-the-journolist/#IDComment82785424 http://bigjournalism.com/mvadum/2010/02/08/max-blumenthal-equal-opportunity-hater/#IDComment55911686 In short, a perfect contributor to The Nation Magazine. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 23:02:35 +0000 http://bigjournalism.com/mvadum/2010/02/08/max-blumenthal-equal-opportunity-hater/#IDComment55911686 http://bigjournalism.com/sright/2010/01/11/sarah-palin-signs-with-fox-news-liberals-heads-explode/#IDComment51610082 "considering that CNN and MSNBC are bleeding money and viewers, it makes one wonder: Why didn’t they try to hire the governor?" Really? You honestly still think anyone in the MSM is still in it for ratings or any sort of business rationale at all? I thought this site was an overdue recognition that the MSM are not merely negligent, incompetent or even biased, but are actively, consciously engaged in the manipulation of the public mind. How on Earth can anyone still be surprised at MSM "bias" or wonder how they can miss "business" opportunities that seem so obvious? Tue, 12 Jan 2010 04:24:44 +0000 http://bigjournalism.com/sright/2010/01/11/sarah-palin-signs-with-fox-news-liberals-heads-explode/#IDComment51610082 http://bigjournalism.com/whochswender/2010/01/08/its-deja-doom-all-over-again-the-fate-of-the-earth-and-global-warming-hysteria/#IDComment51137803 Excellent. I too was among the doomsday believers in the 1970s and early 1980s. Famine, depleted resources, wars over water, population booms that would end life as we knew it by 2000 if not sooner, global cooling. And of course, inevitable nuclear war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. As we know, not one of those dire, "certain" predictions was remotely accurate, and their chief adherents, like all religious apocalyptics, never admitted they were wrong and continue to make their livings making the same sorts of predictions. I was humbled by my naive credulity. I am constantly wonderstruck by the failure of so many of my contemporaries to be similarly humbled, or at least made a little skeptical, of the latest left-leaning, left-justifying, apocalyptic narratives. But....religion is religion. Sat, 9 Jan 2010 03:44:01 +0000 http://bigjournalism.com/whochswender/2010/01/08/its-deja-doom-all-over-again-the-fate-of-the-earth-and-global-warming-hysteria/#IDComment51137803 http://bigjournalism.com/abreitbart/2010/01/08/war-of-the-words-henry-blodget-ignores-the-elephant-in-the-room/#IDComment51136610 Andrew, I think this new launch can be a great success. But not if you squander your energy on pygmies. I spend many hours a day combing the internet for news and opinion, and I have never heard of the Gawker or the Business Insider. Who cares what they say or do? If you chase every one of these little twerpy lefty spin shops around, you won't be able to do the real noble work you have set out to do. Go after the big boys. Sat, 9 Jan 2010 03:26:27 +0000 http://bigjournalism.com/abreitbart/2010/01/08/war-of-the-words-henry-blodget-ignores-the-elephant-in-the-room/#IDComment51136610 http://bigjournalism.com/abreitbart/2010/01/07/sin-lies-and-missing-audio-tape-how-gawker-duped-me-into-an-interview/#IDComment50949427 Exactly, and you probably have more readers on this new site already than they will ever have. Don't waste your time on such small fry. Use your energy on the ones that matter. Fri, 8 Jan 2010 03:44:33 +0000 http://bigjournalism.com/abreitbart/2010/01/07/sin-lies-and-missing-audio-tape-how-gawker-duped-me-into-an-interview/#IDComment50949427 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ekaris/2009/12/30/the-sins-of-charlie-sheen-why-does-hollywood-keep-hiring-him/#IDComment50416145 Yeah, I think one of the main reasons \"entertainment is not just dumbed down, but crude bordering on the obscene, is that it reflects the world view and character of the people who write---people who live in LA and New York and work for the entertainment complex. This subculture has become aggressively degenerate. Any questioning or criticism of anything they produce is dismissed or ridiculed as prudery. No one should impose any standards at all on them, even though they impose the fashionable \"standards of their own insular culture on the rest of us all the time. Tue, 5 Jan 2010 03:38:05 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ekaris/2009/12/30/the-sins-of-charlie-sheen-why-does-hollywood-keep-hiring-him/#IDComment50416145 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ekaris/2009/12/30/the-sins-of-charlie-sheen-why-does-hollywood-keep-hiring-him/#IDComment49698421 His current show, 2-1/2 Men, is a nonstop array of explicit jokes about sex, drinking, sex, farts, sex, obscenity and the celebration of narcissism. Apparently aimed at adolescent males, but these days you never know. Why would anyone be surprised that the people who make this show would not even notice, let alone care about, the kind of personal life he lives? Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:55:54 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ekaris/2009/12/30/the-sins-of-charlie-sheen-why-does-hollywood-keep-hiring-him/#IDComment49698421 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9CPDCOG0#IDComment48844760 "Obama said the use of that vote-stalling tactic, which requires 60 votes to cut off debate, has been imposed in an "unheard of" routine fashion. He said it's problematic regardless of which party controls the White House and Congress, but conceded that, as president, he doesn't have much power to do anything about it." Did Obama vote present for those filibuster votes blocking Bush's court appointments? I'm guessing he supported them. I agree the filibuster has been abused, but it's awfully hypocritical (and all too typical) of Obama to whine about it now that his agenda is being delayed because of it. Besides, he could have avoided by by simply doing what he promised to do (I know, quaint notion, isn't it?) and take on health care in a genuinely open, transparent and bipartisan fashion. I think he would have found plenty of support on the GOP side. Instead, he and the Dem congressional leaders have operated in deep secret, ignoring every single Republican proposal and demonizing anyone who even questioned what they were doing. Obama has no standing to complain about Republicans using the only toll left to them to have any say in the matter at all. And oh by the way, the clear majority of American agree with them, not with Obama, so no arguments about how undemocratic it all is. Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:45:19 +0000 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9CPDCOG0#IDComment48844760