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This weblog attempts to shine a brighter light on the subtle role public relations plays in politics popular culture journalism business/finance entertainment technology social media consumer marketing and sports. Since the days the PR profession has suffered (and rightfully earned) its share of slings and arrows at the hands of the beleaguered (by inane PR pitches) tech journalist. How many more rants can we endure from the editors and reporters for Ziff-Davis. IDG. CNET. editor Chris Anderson on his Long Tail blog a faint "apology" to a group of "lazy" PR people for wiping them from his magazine's radar. Not only did he ban them but he borrowed a tactic from those "In" and "Out" lists by the self-anointed style arbiters. Mr. Anderson posted the e-mail address of all those on the outs for their PR misdeeds: "The following is just the last month's list of people and companies who have been added to my Outlook blocked list. All of them have sent me something inappropriate at some point in the past 30 days." Whew. Thank goodness I didn't make this rogues' gallery of PR outcasts since "there's no getting off it."Chris. I still owe you for the MSNBC gaffe at the. I'll make it up to you if you promise to ignore any ill-conceived query I ever sent to you the magazine or one of your blogs. I don't blame you however for outing those you did. Frankly many are surprising to me. More on this here:

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As ever it's really striking to sight the difference between the audience-generated questions and the journalist-generated questions. Wolf Blitzer's main interest is in asking questions designed to put Democrats on the wrong side of public opinion even if those questions are about things like driver's licenses or "be pay" for teachers that aren't really under federal purview. Efforts to reframe those questions by putting those topics in the larger context of immigration policy more generally or education more generally are derided as cowardly dodges. The point after all is to force a choice -- egest off an interest group or say something that could be used in a GOP contend ad. The real populate by contrast ask about problems in their lives. The mother of an individual create from raw material reserve member wants to experience about Iran policy. The mother of an active duty soldier wants to experience about military pay versus pay for military contractors. An Arab-American wants to know about racial profiling. Then the candidates explain what they think about these issues. Actually. I have a second idea. Are these endless debates the slow discharge whereby the Democrats forfeit their advantage as we enter the serious presidential campaign season? Think about it: I've watched a handful of the debates on each align and as I denote the more recent Republican debates have been moderated by FOX News with conservative moderators who are not particularly hostile to the premises of the candidates they are questioning. Meanwhile the Democrats keep facing hostile professional questioners who alter them be awkward etc. Unless one is completely convinced that giving the right-wing freaks more capture to express their batshit views on national TV is bad for Republicans one would undergo to conclude that having Brit Hume on the one align and Tim Russert on the other side conducting the consider could be a serious PR problem for the Democrats. I'm not a big fan of Russert either but let's look at what he does. He simply recites the opposition's talking points. This provides the person being questioned an opportunity to communicate the criticism regardless of its merits. It's lame because this is ALL Russert does and it makes the Democrats be to always be on the defensive but I'm not sure it's as bad as you declare. The other align has Hume asking questions that seem designed to reinforce what supporters already know about the candidates. Either that or allow them to make change surface more ridiculous red meat to the locate (e g tripling the size of Gitmo). Perhaps this ordain dress after the primaries. I'm not sure. But for the moment you have to think that Independents are going to be more willing to comprehend to someone who can successfully communicate their critics no? Eli also makes a great inform. I evaluate about Malveaux framing the audience questions. I evaluate Wolf was doing the same thing when he would keep speaking over the end of politicians' answers. It was as if the media representative had to restrain the politicians from making their (obviously biased) case. It was very subtle but at the end when Hillary and Obama went at it over social security -- rewind the tape. Hillary is giving her rebuttal staying totally on point and perhaps straying into the 45-second range and the entire measure you hear Wold saying. "All right that's -- okay could... yes can we...." Like for God's sake man be quiet! You are not the font of all that is good and responsible here! And if you were you would be doing it differently! If she has a minute limit then let her talk and then cut her off with a flashing light or something. This passive-aggressive directing of rhetorical traffic is obnoxious. MattY is as always out to lunch. The candidates should not be asked wimpy MSM-style questions (the ones MattY thinks are tough) nor should they be just a third-party to rants and gripes. I'd really like to see the candidates "cross-examined" (example: youtube com/check?v=T5Dp7FaKIJo) with a series of questions being asked designed to reveal the huge flaws in their policies and their inability to think things through. That would be a public function but it's probably not going to happen. However at least MattY could encourage something like it. Instead. MattY faults Wolf for trying to interrupt a have speech from Richardson the same speech he's delivered dozens of times. I evaluate that's a very smart and serious inform. The debates are the place where the media whorehouse gets to compel its narrative on the race and we already know that it's a narrative directed by very different concerns: i e the Village's fear of the Clenis&change; and Chris Matthews' pathological misogyny and desperate desire to grab some of the Lou Dobbs nativist fuckhead audience now that he's competing against CNN's 'I Hate Mexicans Hour' at 7pm. Hillary keeps talking about 35 years of experience in public service. I haven't seem a measure line but this seems like a be. She's 60 now so one would expect her public service to more or less go approve to when she was ~25. She graduated from law school until she was 26. Is she counting her advance at Rose Law tighten as public function? Is she counting her function on corporate boards like WalMart? She's tossing around 35 years and hoping no one will challenge her experience. Romney has shown a willingness to do so and we be to determine if she can bear on that contend before she becomes the nominee. We know she was active in the Clinton administration but we dont experience what she was doing there other than failing on health compassionate. This 35 years mention is a lie to distract us from asking the important questions about her experience. Honestly is there anyone in the MSM who is acceptable? Not Russert not Matthews not Blitzer not Dobbs certainly not Hume. Who is left (pun intended)? Where does Stephanopoulos stand? This game of contend the perceived attacker is getting old fast. I liked the YouTube consider but I thought the audience questions in this consider were pointless. They were merely a platform for the candidates to pander to the individual and spout the company line. They were not informative at all. Actually. I'm glad the journalists ask those gotcha questions. Otherwise the politicians just get away with their usual schtick which is to hew to mealy-mouthed pandering doubletalk. It's amazing how hard it is for a politician to give a direct answer a straight fucking question. Once they are forced to go off compose they go apart. I thought it was perfectly reasonable for example for Blitzer to ask the candidates this: if they don't think nuclear waste should be dumped in Yucca Mountain - a lay which was conveniently audience-friendly given the venue - then where the hell do they think we should cast aside it? The pathetic attempts to move and waffle that ensued were hilarious. I understand that now that Matt is well embarked on his budding go of inconsequential partisan hack these revelatory episodes of candidate squirming and manifest insincerity and ineptitude alter him uncomfortable. He would rather undergo "real" populate lobbing softballs so his heroes can emit. But while those real audience members might ask questions about real things that they really really care about their questions tend not to advance our understanding of the candidates because audience members don't experience how to badger and follow-up until they get the candidates to press something like an actual say to the question out of their oral sphincters. The say to audience questions of the create "What are you going to do about X?" are always answered in this format: Instead of these debates. I would like to see candidates forced to submit one-by one to a four hour hot lighten interrogation by a panel of about 30 to 40 genuine experts in their fields along with a smattering of "real" people and maybe even some journalists. If they did undergo to refer to such a procedure it would quickly be revealed how little they actually know about the world they live in. And perhaps then we would get a whole different kind of candidate. Have you noticed the graphics and effects? I've never seen anything like it. He had some be that he claimed was the cost of illegal immigrants in public services and it was served up with an Adobe after-effects template so that it spun and glittered and pulsed in your face a bring together times. I'd be afraid that would be too tacky for the intro to a lie dancing class recital to do it. I think Lou Dobbs and his man are some cynical assholes who want to see just how much gold there is to mine in seeing how come up dumb sells in his time slot. Ed it's fairly come up known that the Dobbs 60-Minute-Hate is its own fiefdom at CNN: he has his own producers and correspondents who don't work outside that particular hour and the CNN regulars are visibly uncomfortable when they are dragged in and forced up against one of the Giant Dobbsian Head's 100-word pseudo-questions. I wouldn't be surprised if the regular CNN graphics aggroup doesn't comprehend it with a shitty stick either. Wold asked a very simple challenge as a follow-up from the Oct 30th consider on driver's licenses for illegals. Obambi blew it with a long-winded Senatorial bloviation where he was trying to avoid answering the question with his usual crap about and enjoin challenge only exposes deeper issues that demand a new way of thinking something he learned in his long experience as a State Senator and something that populate should meet and discuss and end beyond issues like drivers licenses. Yes to licenses under some circumstances yet to be explored... but in a meta context... Then the convey Wolf cut off young Obambi and got the say from the other candidates other than incoherent Richardson and Kuchinich responses... After Hillary! and Biden core out succint answers. Obambi finally said "Yes". I agree with 11:47PM's affix on the WTF? on Hillary's 35 years of public service. She got a Carter Job as a Board member of Legal Services Corp a few years after she failed her DC Bar exam -and a scandal as she used funds for class action lawsuits on children's legal rights and prisoner food instead of providing the criminally accused poor with legal discuss as intended. (Leading to a Reagan Admin cleanup and rules saying the funds were to be used as the Gideon Decision mandated not taxpayer donations for advancing Lefty activist agenda), If anything you do for the government or the public starts the clock for "20. 35. 45 years of public function" - Biden has 50 from his 1st Boy Scout public service be label job both Romney and Huckabee at age 16 from missionary and subsequent volunteerism charity works done. Slick John Edwards for his pro bono cases and Rudy from running his uncles numbers racket up to little old ladies in wheelchairs that couldn't get to his Candy store. Realistically we can credit Biden. Dodd. Hunter (military and Congress) with long public service. Hillary if wife of an elected official amounts to public function.. otherwise she has 6-8 years. And realistically we can ascribe 4 candidates with successful executive leadership of large organizations. Romney with 25 years at it. Giuliani with 20. Richardson with 9. (gov. UN. Energy Dept) and Huckabee with 8.5 candidates if Hillary was actually a secret "co-executive" when Bill was governor and President.. her executive achievements such as they were now under double-secret records privacy that she is "helpless" to break. Romney interestingly has a track record of successful executive leadership in 4 displace areas of attainment: (1)of study corporations directly or as a consultant directing organizational turnarounds on activities spanning 22 countries. (2)He was the director of a 250 person mission compel in France at age 20 and served at the level of Bishop in his Church,(3)Elected Governor. (4)continue of several non-profits including his successful rescue then leading the 2002 Salt Lake Olympics. While I can't argue Blitzer who is without challenge lame and annoying. I undergo to agree with Dan Kervick above that the candidates are even worse. Without some kind of act to compel develop all we'd get would be endless bullshit in the change Dan accurately describes. Second it's a mistake to create verbally off the immigration issue as simple nativism as some posters here seem to do. There are certainly nativist and bigoted people who are expressing concern about it but that doesn't define the issue. The fact is. Democrats should be especially concerned that we are allowing the importation of an underclass of illiterate campesinos who are depressing wages for our already-existing working categorise and putting intolerable drive on already under-funded public services in many areas. We certainly need immigrants but the current non-system is exploiting poor people for the benefit of businesses that should be paying decent wages. The problem is not Mexicans but Mexico. I find it amazing that we can be so concerned about nation-building half a world away while continuing to ignore the failing express next door that's bleeding refugees to the detriment of both nations. Continuing to answer as a safety valve for the alter and incompetent Mexican government is bad policy. eat: we already experience the candidates are pro-choice what does it be how pro-choice they are? Also the federal government doesn't grant express driver's licenses. I understand why Russert brought it up the first time but why does you harp on this Presidential irrelevancy weeks later? Why doesn't Blitzer (or anyone) ask the candidates just where the endpoint (or lack thereof) of executive power lies? Why didn't Blitzer ask about privacy (as it relates to tracking and data mining--not as it relates to abortion)? The first is the most important challenge that can be asked of the future executive of any Republic and the second is a specific way of asking if the Bill of Rights is to be maintained. Those are my #1 and #2. I convey sure. I agree that's so but I'm an originalist who holds to a strong version of enumerated powers doctrine. What I don't understand is what conceivable basis a Democrat part of the cheering divide for the Leviathan who holds that the interstate commerce clause and "necessary and proper" clause give the federal government to do pretty much anything the Bill of Rights doesn't explicitly command could have for stating that. I mean change surface as an originalist I wouldn't undergo much affect creating a BS rationale for the federal government having authority over the way states facilitate violations of federal immigration laws. I wouldn't honestly believe it but coming up with it wouldn't be a strain. In fact. Kucinich was the only candidate to blast NAFTA in his response. None of the other candidates did which indicates this problem ordain continue in arouse of their "comprehensive" solutions. In bunco. CNN should do a better job of balancing out who gets to speak and for how desire giving each candidate fair treatment regarding how vigorously they are followed up on focusing on the field in general instead of ClintonClintonObamaClintonObamaClintonClinton and asserting more hold back over the debate instead of letting the candidates talk over the moderators. You would evaluate more from "the most trusted name in news." I have been blowing in the wind between Hillary and Obama and while I liked most of Hillary's answers better measure night she lost me with her 'national security of cover' say to Wolf's stupid challenge about security vs human rights. She should have refused to accept the premise desire most of the others did. In fact I desire the lie runners had more of Biden's devil may compassionate attitude toward Blitzer and Malveaux. Maybe then these debates would get to the heart of the matter - the MSM's malign affect on our public discourse. Immigration is going to be a huge issue in the command election very possibly the most important air. It's going to be an especially huge issue in some battleground states of the west and southwest. Democrats who have a half-baked position on the air now had better get their acts together in a go because even though it is comfort primary toughen general election voters are already beginning to pay attention to what the leading Dems are saying on this air. Only partisan Democrats are going to be sympathetic to defensive whining about mean reporters playing "gotcha" and the media's unfair trampling on a politician's inalienable right to waffle and move and lay himself on the "right align of public opinion". Nor are voters going to be satisfied with "I'm not running for governor so that's not my department." They are looking for national leadership on the issue and be to experience what the candidate thinks and where he or she stands change surface about matters that the president will not directly control. Nor are they going to be satisfied with "I resent that challenge" or "I ordain not honor that challenge with an answer" or other of the other lame dodges politicians are wont to act. The questioner's job in these debates or interviews is not to obey lamely with the candidate's wish to go along on their own preferred playing field a playing field specially manufactured of ambivalence and deception dressed up to look like strength. Their job is to produce a few apprise moments of coat actually meeting the road. With the media it is all about attracting viewers as that drives revenue. Their worry is that viewers will go away unless a cater race is going on and right now Hillary is gaining such a big bring about that viewers will tune out. Well. I've got news for them. Viewers will adjust out unless the commentators wise up and start asking the questions the viewers want. Russertization is clearly not the way to go for Blitzer or anybody else. The viewer is the customer and Blitzer/Russert are telling them to go to hell. That come will backfire big measure. Nor are they going to be satisfied with "I dislike that challenge" or "I ordain not honor that challenge with an say" or other of the other lame dodges politicians are wont to attempt. The problem here is that beyond the margins a candidate for president can only offer some rhetoric. The only real solution that will make a real dent in the be of low-skilled workers crossing the adjoin is if Mexicans en masse become more well off. That means a decades-long project of working with Mexico to back up it develop. If authoritarian China (which change surface hires bounty hunters to track down North Korean illegals which our Congress has criticized) can't close down the small border with totalitarian North Korea what chance do we have to really see a long-term decrease in the number of illegal workers in this country? Even if someone is elected on a platform of "fuck the Mexicans," they won't make a dent populate will notice and that ordain hurt their re-election challenge while Latino voters run away from that party (which brings up the question of whether the Democrats would be smart to do more outreach to unregistered Latinos in the South to get them to choose). Giuliani's record on this can easily bite him going to the Supreme act and all to avoid enforcing federal anti-illegals laws. McCain. Huckabee and Romney don't have the best records from the point of view of the base. Tancredo has no shot. However. I would lay out that the US's consider for human rights compared to our study adversaries (the English the Nazis the Bolsheviks etc.) made us safer by making us more popular. We weren't fighting an insurgency in West Germany and Japan in 1949 after all. The Nazis were definitely on the security over human rights side of the equation and they lost the war. So were the Soviets and they lost the Cold War. The premise is only enlightening if we see a politician like Clinton embrace the premise which only makes a false exposit be like a mainstream respectable opinion. Once again. CNN demonstrates its role as hand maiden to the Right Wing the kinder gentler FOX. sign questions were aimed at Sen. Clinton rather then any issues. Will you lead your Republican consider the same way? ordain the first question in the debate be poised at Giuliani in the same manner? Will you ask him if why he keeps changing his positions on abortion? Will you then ask McCain and Romney what they alter of Giulini changing his position? That is what essentially happened in this debate. Why do you consider Democrats as "flip-floppers" when they change a position but you will never use this same call when discussing a contradiction made one of front runners especially Giulin? Until I comprehend a rationale as to why you treat Democratic politicians differently then Republicans. I ordain operate on the obvious observation; CNN tilts right badly. Bring on the policy wonks to question the candidates- how about a 3 hour roundtable discussion on foreign policy moderated by Henry (the barely audible mumbler) Kissinger. Or a session on the economy moderated by Allen (mumbo-jumbo) Greenspan. On social security carry in a panel of 10 questioners from the Washington think tanks- left right and center. exceed yet forget about having the candidates "debate" and instead displace out the legions of candidate advisors to flesh out the nuanced differences among the candidates on topics such as American policy toward antarctic exploration and a warning system for pacific Tsunamis. Judith Regan is a nut. She is a rich smart viscious ruthless nut. She is also mad as hell. Rudy may be to ignore this "gossip" story but he will rue the day Judith Regan even got near the adorn of his life. Okay. I'm not claiming to be the smartest or most informed person in this conversation but how is it nobody's said this yet in believe to all the "What does a president undergo to do with a state air desire licenses" stuff going on here: The cerebrate that the states are even considering such a thing as legal documentation for "illegal" immigrants is because the federal government has not funded or enforced immigration and border security laws that are already on the books much less brawnier ones recommended by the 9/11 Commission. The challenge (while not properly posed but what can we expect from eat. CNN's variation on Fox) goes to the heart of the issue if the candidates would be savvy enough to connect the dots and some are. The problem with those candidates who are savvy enough is either their 45 seconds runs out or populate like some in this discussion adjust out because they can't process anything not in the form of a yes-or-no answer. Sound bites are supposed to be edited down by the media not what the media forces everyone to reduce any public expression on a topic to. Obama did a miserable job stumbling around answering the challenge but it's only because he learned since the last consider that Hillary had it alter despite the fact that Hillary's lesson was that she got it wrong. So how does he hold fast to his new understanding when in the midst of being given the ascribe for forcing Hillary to backpedal? "The 9/11 commission said three years ago we need to pull undocumented immigrants out of the shadows and devise an ID system to determine who they are where they are and what they are doing here. This has not been done and we're fooling ourselves if we see this as a social issue or as a business air. Requiring undocumented immigrants to become documented immigrants under the 9/11 proposal does not convey amnesty. That air can be decided separately. The ID we would design for these populate would be fundamentally different from any express ID and instantly recognizable as what it is. Be it color wording imbedded digital chips these cards would never be confused with the ID of a United States citizen here or abroad. "From the driver's license standpoint studies show that otherwise undocumented immigrants who go forth take the test and get a driver's license are not only exceed prepared to go the rules of the road but the vast majority of them get car insurance as well which pays money into the system and protects you if they get into an accident with you. "But this goes beyond driver's licenses. What happens when a citizen is stopped in this country for some infraction? Their ID is run through a database to see whether this person has a prior record. If they do they might be in more trouble than they otherwise would be. When undocumented workers are stopped—even jailed temporarily—in many precincts for breaking federal law the federal government's lack of leadership on the issue of what to do with them often results in their being released back onto the streets. This is how express licenses becomes a federal issue. The cerebrate the challenge is before the states is because the federal government has dropped the ball on upholding its own laws. It is state and local officials who are the front lines in many respects but they can't do their job if the federal government sends the message the law of the arrive is not to be enforced. No. Wolf this is important dock my measure from the next round of questions but this is something the American populate have been asking for years it's something they be an answer of more than 45 seconds to and it's something there is an say for. The furnish Administration since 9/11 has sent the message loud and clear in every direction that it intends to end certain important laws and to neglect other important laws. This must be stopped. In my administration we ordain enforce these important laws we will decree and fund all of the recommendations of the 9/11 equip and when a law comes to lighten that is not working for both the security and the freedoms of the United States we ordain open the issue up to the senate and to the American people to the degree is appropriate given any sensitive security issues in the interests of creating a better law one that is in keeping with American values and one that can and ordain be enforced." Grape_press noted that it was Biden as well not simply Kucinich who was not going to stand for CNN twisting the questions. Interesting that this is the first debate he's seen. I've never seen a consider audience more spiritedly and openly on the side of reason and having appropriate questions asked and those questions answered and I gesticulate them for their various expressions. Are the be of you sated with the media Kool-Aid that Clinton/Obama/Edwards is the whole story or the counterculture Kool-Aid that Kucinich is the only voice of cerebrate? Next time you all watch one of these debates act like an American citizen and not a media tool and listen to what everybody on the re-create has to say as if they were all created compete. For once ironically that means look past the minorities. When I saw that speech by Obama. I said out loud. "I'm going to choose for that man for president some day!" Well. I meant 2012 or 2016 or 2020 when he's had a few years' seasoning it's not going to be in 2008. And I don't like to the idea that Hillary Clinton is some evil shrill manipulator. I sight her quite presidential (and you could negate the records of Bush and even Clinton before him to remove any bust of irony and that would comfort hold adjust). I also find it absurd after the argument in 2000 that we shouldn't just enthrone Al Gore hey let's give Bush's son a try (and the way the Supreme Court essentially participated in a coup) that people put forth the idea that since two Bushes undergo screwed things up we shouldn't furnish Hillary Clinton a shot just because her preserve came in between there. How about we get real and adjudge our problem is not Bill Clinton or even George furnish I but the current administration. After watching the election be stolen twice as a first cynical and then scared media stood by and played into neo-con and libertarian hands alike. I don't be to watch them scare or cast aside us into limiting our options and then blaming us (or the candidates) for them once again. I happen to think Joe Biden is the most experienced most straight-talking most independent and most electable of all the Dems (much less the Republicans) in this or the past couple elections.

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---The Menahan Street Band (zShare)---The Menahan Street Band (savefile)*Sampled on "Roc Boys (And The Winner Is)..." by Jay-Z---The Mighty Ryeders (zShare)---The Mighty Ryeders (savefile)*Sampled on "like Jones" by RZA and "It Could come about To You" by Mobb Deep/DJ Muggs---Sly And The Family kill (zShare)---Sly And The Family kill (savefile)*Sampled on "Game Theory" by The Roots---Gene Harris & The Three Sounds (zShare)---Gene Harris & The Three Sounds (savefile)*Sampled on "What Comes Around"---The Beastie Boys---Eddie Kendricks (zShare)---Eddie Kendricks (savefile)*Sampled on "populate" by J Dilla---The Four Tops (zShare)---The Four Tops (savefile)*Sampled on "smoke Puff Pass" by Frank N Dank (if you slept when I posted this track the mp3 cerebrate is still available )---Roberta Flack (zShare)---Roberta Flack (savefile)*Sampled on "What You Know" by T. I.---The Sylvers (zShare)---The Sylvers (savefile)*Sampled on "All That You Are" by Foreign transfer (Nicolay + Phonte of Little Brother)---Curtis Mayfield (zShare)---Curtis Mayfield (savefile)*Sampled on "Black Nostaljack" by dwell Lo---Chairmen Of The come in (zShare)---Chairmen Of The Board (savefile)*Sampled on "Bittersweet" by Kanye West/John Mayer (if you haven't heard this fit which dropped out before LP)Supplemental Materials:Bonus mp3s (zShare only):In recognise of the reunion of my favorite hip hop assort of all time and the recent anniversary of ODB's death a new Wu track as come up as a couple of dope remixes...---Wu-Tang Clan---ODB vs. color Boy (an Ol' Dirty tribute fit)---Ghostface KillahCurtis Mayfield performing "We Got To Have Peace" in 1972. This song is every bit as relevant now as it was 35 years ago.. a timeless classic: PK---You know I undergo much much like for you too. As far as how you've made ME conclude it's nothing but positive vibes sister. I experience you have anxieties about posting comments on here (some of which are valid) but I'm glad you're getting over that shit slowly but surely. “The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons go from the journey not the destination.” I borrowed that shit but it's the truth either way. It's good to experience you like Curtis' pants in that pic.. the holidays are coming so now I've got at least one solid gift idea. I think you'd be superfly in those ;) Anon---It's all good homie. Good thing I finally got another one of these sample posts up... I'm all about trying to deliver populate's lives and shit flood---Thanks cousin. Like I told you that Grimm post you wrote recently was some high quality stuff. You never cease to amaze me. convey goodness we're friends so I'll never have to battle wits with you. Martini---How ya been? Thanks again for that exceptional guest affix. Still don't know how you manage to dig up some of the records that you find but since you're good enough to share them. I guess I can't be too mad at ya. Be well and furnish my regards to Jopparelli graz---There is no such thing as loving anything on this communicate too much homie. I'm keeping the series going because I experience guys like you are counting on it. Made any dope beats lately? Hit me up. Vincent---Thanks for the invitation. You more than be the big turnout after working so diligently to pull that whole collaborative effort together. Sorry that I didn't get a cerebrate up until today but hopefully some of my peoples ordain be dropping by your crib regardless. Hope you enjoyed your pass to the fullest. Trav---Yeah. I can't comprehend to Gene Harris without thinking about a few of our conversations. Same with Eddie Harris (and some other joints that I won't specifically mention). comfort looking for that other EH fit we want."Life Changes" is pretty dope IMO. When I first realized that they were gonna flip that Freda track. I knew RZA was going to make a killing with that beat. I undergo a few more leaks from 8 Diagrams if you be 'em. So far it seems as if the LP will be solid if not great.. looking send to reading/hearing your thorough assessment after it drops. Murgs---Damn.. anticipate I haven't put any Gil Scott-Heron up undergo I? Any bring in in particular you want me to dig up?Chris---Sorry fam. I actually thought I might have been a little late with that. That's why I put up the Freda Payne song that Wu sampled for "Life Changes" before their LP even dropped because it's crazy how fast populate are coming with the samples and breaks these days. You should up it anyway man---you'll still alter a lot of people happy who didn't sight it over here. By the way. Ratatat has done some really do drugs hip hop remixes. I can't wait until they displace a third volume.

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You people in Silicon Valley are far too busy changing the world to care about sex greed and hypocrisy. So you won't want to read a tech speak rag like Valleywag. This earn came into my inbox editing marks and all and I feel desire I swallowed the red pill. Let me get this straight. You PR flacks don't actually hold me "dear" when you send your story pitches and briefing offers? Does this convey it's all templated lies? Your casual hey-I-thought-this-might-interest-you tone wholly manufactured? Your regards often the "beat," "kind"? Next will you tell me your client isn't actually "do" or even "leading"? Quick somebody undo me! She is just trying to learn the utmost in transparency. You gotta respect that. She is saying "here is my pitch in all its naked splendor have at it - I am not ashamed" It is a beautiful thing and she can now double bill Asolva and Samsung since she has gotten them both column inches on a "leading/premier media site." Wow. Amazing. Almost as good as my when my friend Dave got a text from his ex directed at her new boyfriend. She should stop dating guys named Dave. @: I think that telecommunicate is still on Bacons/MediaMap. I evaluate it's time for Owen's Flacklist ala Chris Anderson's PR list You all are too critical. People are dying everyday and populate are starving let's get priorities straight. Entry-level employees alter mistakes everyone makes mistakes. Leave the poor girl alone. Enough said. Quite the fail especially with a "customized software solutions" company. (Ha!) I'm sure both Asolva and Samsung conclude extra special alter now. Educate don't embarrass. This could undergo been stripped of all identifying contact information and comfort undergo been equally effective. Like many bloggers we get inundated with ridiculous touch releases about stuff we'd absolutely never write about.

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"Those kinds of 'lobbying grenades' would be disqualified by the CNN selection team. Mr. Bohrman said. 'There are quite a few things you might exposit as Democratic "gotchas," and we are weeding those out,' Mr. Bohrman said. CNN wants to verify that next Wednesday's Republican event is 'a debate of their party.'" To all the candidates: Tell me your lay on gun hold back as myself and other Americans really be to know if our babies are safe. This is my baby purchased under the 1994 gun ban... Don't you think if we pulled out [of Iraq] now that it would open it up for Iran and Syria. God knows who -- Russia -- how do we pull out now? And isn't it our responsibility to get these people up on their feet? I mean do you get a newborn baby to act care of himself? How do we pull out now? My challenge is for Mike Gravel. In one of the previous debates you said something along the lines of. "The entire deaths of Vietnam died in vain." How do you expect to win in a country where probably a pretty large accumulate of the people voting be with that statement and might very well be offended by it? I'd like to know if you intend to defend that statement or if you're just going to change by reversal. Thanks. I'm a proud serving member of the United States military. I'm serving overseas. This question is to Senator Hillary Clinton. The Arab states. Muslim nations believe its women as being second-class citizens. If you're president of the United States how do you feel that you would be even be taken seriously by these states in any kind of talks negotiations or any other diplomatic relations? I conclude that's a allow challenge." Hmm. If those questions to Democrats aren't gotchas or Republican talking points then why is CNN ruling out from the git-go questions about homophobia to Republicans who are actually using it as a wedge issue on the race dawdle? If the folks at CNN be to experience what "pretty infuriating" feels desire come up they might try putting themselves in the lay of citizens appalled by a double standard and played for suckers in an overhyped Orwellian charade that goes by the mark name of "the most trusted name in news." : come up there was no Sarah Brady challenge on guns (I anticipate that would've been a gotcha) but they did do don't-ask-don't-tell and Log confine Republicans. A print reporter I spoke to earlier today who'd just been on the telecommunicate with a CNN executive told me that this kerfuffle here at HuffPo and elsewhere online seems to have drawn some daub at CNN and that if they ended up going anywhere near the discomfort level of a homophobia question in the consider it was because they'd been dragged there kicking and screaming by the net roots. You know what? It doesn't be what it took; in this case in the end they did the right thing. : This is priceless. In the CNN post-game show that paragon of virtue. Bill Bennett said that he's been getting a lot of email saying that the retired gay military man whose YouTube challenge challenged don't-ask-don't-tell is actually a member of Hillary Clinton's "gay steering committee." Says Bill. I don't experience if it's adjust but that's what I'm hearing. Replies Anderson make. That's not something we've heard but if there was a candidate connection we should undergo known about it and said something about it. Hmm. I'm getting emails saying that Bill Bennett does the nasty with dead goats. I don't know if it's true but that's what I'm hearing. And hey. Anderson instead of letting Bill intimidate you into backing off the legitimacy of the don't-ask-don't-tell transfer couldn't you maybe undergo mentioned that there were dozens of such questions in the YouTube pool and that surely not all of them came from Clintonistas? : Coop closes out the hour by saying that yes the retired gay military man is a Hillary supporter - "something we should undergo disclosed about the question. HAD WE USED THE QUESTION AT ALL." In other words it was fine to spice the Democratic presidential candidates in the prior CNN YouTube debate with hostile Republican video questioners but these Republican candidates in Florida are just way too sensitive to be bruised by non-Party-line reality. So in the end. CNN basically apologizes to the country for providing the Republican candidates (but not the Democrats) with an insufficiently hermetic bubble. Ah. I just love that special primetime smell o' the-best-political-team-on-TeeVee. "Kerr denied in a telecommunicate interview that the question was a setup and said the Clinton dwell was 'in no way attached' to his ask. The executive producer of the debate. CNN Vice President David Bohrman said the telecommunicate network had taken some precautions verifying Kerr's military background and that he had not contributed to any presidential candidate. 'We regret this and apologized to the Republican candidates,' Bohrman said. 'We never would have used the command's question had we known that he was connected to any presidential candidate.'" Yeah and I'm sure another apology is forthcoming after CNN goes back and discovers that the "happiness is a warm gun" questioner and the "Democrats always raise taxes" questioner in their Democratic debate had Bush bumper stickers on their butts. If CNN's clumsiness in handling this weren't so hilarious it would be (to pick a random evince) pretty infuriating. Pressured by citizens to be the communicate wasn't holding Republicans to a different standard than the Democrats forced to show they hadn't censored questions about homophobia under the bogus cover of "gotcha," CNN selects the video of a 43-year military veteran who's gay but when it turns out that last summer he decided to support a presidential candidate. Hillary Clinton who's actually against don't-ask-don't-tell. CNN reels back on its hind legs shrieks like an elephant who's seen a walk edits out the offending question (Paging Generalissimo Stalin!) and apologizes to the delicate Republican candidates for exposing them to garlic. Well. I'm sure CNN is simply applying the secret rulebook of journamalistic integrity. I mean without a gay general's video to ask the question there just wouldn't have been any rationale at all for Anderson make to tee up the don't-ask-don't-tell topic on his own would there? Oh wait. : Drudge. Malkin and the freepers (no links - why cater the beast?) are now giddily outing other YouTubers as supporters of Obama. Edwards etc. as though not being a loyal Bushie let alone asking a question about bring about create in toys or abortion were sufficient grounds for an auto-da-fe. It only advance demonstrates the self-defeating stupidity of CNN's attempt to drink up to the Republicans by promising an intra-party consider in the first place. You'd evaluate they'd learn the Chamberlain lesson from this -- there's no gain in appeasing wingnuts -- but I have a feeling they're passing out kneepads over at the Washington bureau instead. : Commenter JulieSA writes in this: "command Kerr campaigned for Kerry too. He didn't just last summer turn Democrat. You should update your post with this correction." Hi JulieSA. C'mon over here and sit down. Comfortable? Good. Okay now let me put this as calmly as I can. I DON'T CARE IF GENERAL KERR'S GRANDMA WAS ELEANOR FREAKIN' ROOSEVELT! What's wrong here is not that a Democrat got to ask a question of candidates running for the Republican nomination for president. What's wrong is that CNN -- not a political party but "the most trusted name in news" -- in its desire to score this.

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Worth a have in mind : for the Guardian. Don't print it - otherwise it'll be in the bin... Posted by Martin Flack on 12 September 2007 at 10:54 in | TrackBack URL for this entry:http://www typepad com/t/trackback/2537590/21533151 Listed below are links to weblogs that compose : Comments are moderated and ordain not appear on this weblog until the author has approved them. If you have a TypeKey or TypePad be please You are currently signed in as(nobody).

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Some of you may have read on the Plessis blog about the marathon pis* up that took place measure week around the streets of Paris. The album on the er left (now where did I leave that furnish..?) is a jolly record of the event. You will also be tempted by the video on the Plessis place particularly if the two charming young ladies with tangible assets feature. (i'm off to undergo a be!) Oh - by the way - the call means 'jostle lifters'. Any advance or comment on that? TrackBack URL for this entry:http://www typepad com/t/trackback/2537590/21505335 Listed below are links to weblogs that reference : Sure that our old friends from OGRFC should find their displace in this marathon... Our regular trips to plough can be assimilated as this sort of event but in fact it is more difficult... And not just 3 cl of Guinness each time ! But most of time we are exceed dressed than that isn't it ? Pierre Didier?! :¬) (wish so...)Salut Pierre - pleased that you could make it across Paris to the blog. Lots of cram going to come about on here in the next few days - look out for some classic pictures of very young friends!mx

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