Comments on: My Apology To Debbie Schlussel http://informedspeculation.com/2006/04/02/my-apology-to-debbie-schlussel/ Refunds Cheerfully Given To All Who Disagree Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:29:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Mark http://informedspeculation.com/2006/04/02/my-apology-to-debbie-schlussel/comment-page-1/#comment-16200 Mark Wed, 19 Apr 2006 01:51:18 +0000 http://decision08.net/2006/04/02/my-apology-to-debbie-schlussel/#comment-16200 Thanks, Kewalo...we'll be glad to see you, and feel free to jump in and disagree anytime...a lively comments section is more interesting for us all... Thanks, Kewalo…we’ll be glad to see you, and feel free to jump in and disagree anytime…a lively comments section is more interesting for us all…

]]> By: Kewalo http://informedspeculation.com/2006/04/02/my-apology-to-debbie-schlussel/comment-page-1/#comment-16198 Kewalo Wed, 19 Apr 2006 01:42:12 +0000 http://decision08.net/2006/04/02/my-apology-to-debbie-schlussel/#comment-16198 I'm not sure how I got here, just idly following some links. But I am so glad I meandered over. Kudos on your great post. Nice to see that there are things we can agree on...I wish more of us realized that supporting other Americans regardless of party or ideology is what made this country strong. I've bookmarked your site and will be back. I'll look forward to reading something from the right that doesn't consider me an enemy and call me unamerican for having different beliefs. Thanks, Kewalo I’m not sure how I got here, just idly following some links. But I am so glad I meandered over. Kudos on your great post. Nice to see that there are things we can agree on…I wish more of us realized that supporting other Americans regardless of party or ideology is what made this country strong.

I’ve bookmarked your site and will be back. I’ll look forward to reading something from the right that doesn’t consider me an enemy and call me unamerican for having different beliefs.

Thanks,
Kewalo

]]> By: Polimom Says » Is America losing its mind? http://informedspeculation.com/2006/04/02/my-apology-to-debbie-schlussel/comment-page-1/#comment-16164 Polimom Says » Is America losing its mind? Tue, 18 Apr 2006 15:24:03 +0000 http://decision08.net/2006/04/02/my-apology-to-debbie-schlussel/#comment-16164 [...] Nasty as that was, the rightwing blogosphere, for the most part, separated itself from her, and one blogger posted an article that has since stuck in my mind (here’s a snip, with my emphasis): Do we now only care about American hostages if they are Republicans? Bush supporters? Supporter of Israel? Our Iraq policy? Do we cease caring if they support Palestinians? Sunni Muslims? Where are the boundaries? [...] [...] Nasty as that was, the rightwing blogosphere, for the most part, separated itself from her, and one blogger posted an article that has since stuck in my mind (here’s a snip, with my emphasis): Do we now only care about American hostages if they are Republicans? Bush supporters? Supporter of Israel? Our Iraq policy? Do we cease caring if they support Palestinians? Sunni Muslims? Where are the boundaries? [...]

]]> By: Mark http://informedspeculation.com/2006/04/02/my-apology-to-debbie-schlussel/comment-page-1/#comment-15268 Mark Tue, 04 Apr 2006 02:40:51 +0000 http://decision08.net/2006/04/02/my-apology-to-debbie-schlussel/#comment-15268 Man - you got me good...hey, it's 9:30, does your Mom know you're not in bed yet?... Man – you got me good…hey, it’s 9:30, does your Mom know you’re not in bed yet?…

]]> By: Chris http://informedspeculation.com/2006/04/02/my-apology-to-debbie-schlussel/comment-page-1/#comment-15267 Chris Tue, 04 Apr 2006 02:34:42 +0000 http://decision08.net/2006/04/02/my-apology-to-debbie-schlussel/#comment-15267 Dear Mark - Tell Jim Geraghty I said hi when you can find the time to stop tossing his salad. Dear Mark – Tell Jim Geraghty I said hi when you can find the time to stop tossing his salad.

]]> By: AST http://informedspeculation.com/2006/04/02/my-apology-to-debbie-schlussel/comment-page-1/#comment-15257 AST Mon, 03 Apr 2006 22:32:20 +0000 http://decision08.net/2006/04/02/my-apology-to-debbie-schlussel/#comment-15257 I think that calling Carroll a traitor is silly. I'm glad she's home. I'm also saddened that her translator was killed during her kidnapping. That tells me all I need to know about her captors. To me, Carroll was fooling herself by thinking she could mix into Iraqi society and not be endangered. Yes, she loves Iraq, but did that lead her to take risks? Did it lead her into providing PR for the criminals who took her? I don't think that's very professional for a journalist. What if she were covering the White House and said she had come to love the President and his administration? Now she's become the story instead of what she reports. She's being a reporter the way she's been taught, but the current model of journalism as taught in our J-schools, with its emphasis on hostility toward our government and military while giving our enemies the benefit of every doubt. The news media today seem to think they're entitled to run their own foreign policy, and it's caused a number of their employees to be murdered. If I were an editor, I'd be leary of reporters who want to go in and humanize the people who are blowing up their fellow Iraqis. Would they do that with Organized Crime? They make excuses for terrorists and criminals, and make this war harder by encouraging the enemy and sapping political support here for what we're trying to do. I don't agree with Debbie Schlussel, but I can't excuse the media organizations of which Carroll is a part, either. Are they going to support the family of her translator from now on? I think that calling Carroll a traitor is silly. I’m glad she’s home. I’m also saddened that her translator was killed during her kidnapping. That tells me all I need to know about her captors.

To me, Carroll was fooling herself by thinking she could mix into Iraqi society and not be endangered. Yes, she loves Iraq, but did that lead her to take risks? Did it lead her into providing PR for the criminals who took her? I don’t think that’s very professional for a journalist. What if she were covering the White House and said she had come to love the President and his administration?

Now she’s become the story instead of what she reports.

She’s being a reporter the way she’s been taught, but the current model of journalism as taught in our J-schools, with its emphasis on hostility toward our government and military while giving our enemies the benefit of every doubt. The news media today seem to think they’re entitled to run their own foreign policy, and it’s caused a number of their employees to be murdered. If I were an editor, I’d be leary of reporters who want to go in and humanize the people who are blowing up their fellow Iraqis. Would they do that with Organized Crime?

They make excuses for terrorists and criminals, and make this war harder by encouraging the enemy and sapping political support here for what we’re trying to do.

I don’t agree with Debbie Schlussel, but I can’t excuse the media organizations of which Carroll is a part, either. Are they going to support the family of her translator from now on?

]]> By: megapotamus http://informedspeculation.com/2006/04/02/my-apology-to-debbie-schlussel/comment-page-1/#comment-15255 megapotamus Mon, 03 Apr 2006 22:03:23 +0000 http://decision08.net/2006/04/02/my-apology-to-debbie-schlussel/#comment-15255 Schlussel is consistently emotional and shrill. Her relatively lofty perch in Punditland has been a puzzlement to me for many a day. Now, with Carroll's recant and frank declaration that she had a gun to her head (which I figured was likely anyhow) should satisfy all carpers. Yes? No. Schlussel is consistently emotional and shrill. Her relatively lofty perch in Punditland has been a puzzlement to me for many a day. Now, with Carroll’s recant and frank declaration that she had a gun to her head (which I figured was likely anyhow) should satisfy all carpers.
Yes?
No.

]]> By: All Things Beautiful http://informedspeculation.com/2006/04/02/my-apology-to-debbie-schlussel/comment-page-1/#comment-15246 All Things Beautiful Mon, 03 Apr 2006 19:19:43 +0000 http://decision08.net/2006/04/02/my-apology-to-debbie-schlussel/#comment-15246 <strong>Suspicion (FURTHER UPDATED)</strong> UPDATE IX: The London Telegraph attacks the right wing Blogosphere in a major way....Embittered', the ever hateful and bitter Mahablog, who cannot string two words together without spitting out venom, who calls me "ever-brainless" and a "dimwitt" Suspicion (FURTHER UPDATED)

UPDATE IX: The London Telegraph attacks the right wing Blogosphere in a major way….Embittered’, the ever hateful and bitter Mahablog, who cannot string two words together without spitting out venom, who calls me “ever-brainless” and a “dimwitt”

]]> By: Mark http://informedspeculation.com/2006/04/02/my-apology-to-debbie-schlussel/comment-page-1/#comment-15241 Mark Mon, 03 Apr 2006 17:46:19 +0000 http://decision08.net/2006/04/02/my-apology-to-debbie-schlussel/#comment-15241 Dear Chris - tell Satan hello when you see him, okay?... Dear Chris – tell Satan hello when you see him, okay?…

]]> By: Chris http://informedspeculation.com/2006/04/02/my-apology-to-debbie-schlussel/comment-page-1/#comment-15239 Chris Mon, 03 Apr 2006 17:38:27 +0000 http://decision08.net/2006/04/02/my-apology-to-debbie-schlussel/#comment-15239 Jill Carroll is a seditious rat and I could care less if she got released. Debbie Schlussel is right. Oh, and your buddy Jim Geraghty is a real gutless puke. I was feeding him emails from Teresa Heinz's charities during the 04 election (posted on my site). After the 10th email I sent him, I asked what he planned to do with them. He replied, "Nothing. I'm afraid of legal action from Heinz-Kerry. But keep sending them. They are a great read." Since then, I can't stand the spineless bastard. Jill Carroll is a seditious rat and I could care less if she got released.

Debbie Schlussel is right.

Oh, and your buddy Jim Geraghty is a real gutless puke. I was feeding him emails from Teresa Heinz’s charities during the 04 election (posted on my site). After the 10th email I sent him, I asked what he planned to do with them. He replied, “Nothing. I’m afraid of legal action from Heinz-Kerry. But keep sending them. They are a great read.” Since then, I can’t stand the spineless bastard.

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