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I am glad that Tom Morrow h... (Below threshold)1. Posted by Imhotep | May 31, 2007 10:25 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I am glad that Tom Morrow has lots of jobs; good for him.
1. Posted by Imhotep | May 31, 2007 10:25 PM |
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Posted on May 31, 2007 22:25
2. Posted by Jim Addison | May 31, 2007 10:25 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Democratic gaffes are about as likely to draw media scrutiny as Democratic corruption - which is to say, darned little.
I'm sure the media has a good reason for this attitude. It's probably for the chil'ren, or to save the planet or something.
2. Posted by Jim Addison | May 31, 2007 10:25 PM |
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Posted on May 31, 2007 22:25
3. Posted by Justrand | May 31, 2007 11:03 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Watts the big diel? Shur a word or too is misspellled...but as long as hur massage gets out then wee should be greatful...write?
3. Posted by Justrand | May 31, 2007 11:03 PM |
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Posted on May 31, 2007 23:03
4. Posted by GeminiChuck | May 31, 2007 11:04 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Bush's fault for cutting education spending.
4. Posted by GeminiChuck | May 31, 2007 11:04 PM |
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Posted on May 31, 2007 23:04
5. Posted by Lorie Byrd | May 31, 2007 11:15 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
She certainly is not getting the Dan Quayle treatment.
5. Posted by Lorie Byrd | May 31, 2007 11:15 PM |
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Posted on May 31, 2007 23:15
6. Posted by Brian | May 31, 2007 11:22 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Someone better be fired tommorrow!
6. Posted by Brian | May 31, 2007 11:22 PM |
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Posted on May 31, 2007 23:22
7. Posted by Tim in PA | May 31, 2007 11:23 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
New jobs eh? How 'bout hiring some spellcheckers. (obligatory cheap shot!)
In any case, you want more jobs? How about not screwing over people that might actually hire people. Because, believe it or not, when you hire someone, there's a pretty good chance that you just made a job. No, really, I'm not kidding!
My father has been part owner in a company he started for several years now. He'd hire at least 25% more workers if lower taxes gave him the budget to do so. This isn't rocket science.
7. Posted by Tim in PA | May 31, 2007 11:23 PM |
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Posted on May 31, 2007 23:23
8. Posted by Brian | May 31, 2007 11:26 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Democratic gaffes are about as likely to draw media scrutiny as Democratic corruption - which is to say, darned little.
Yeah, like that whole Kerry joke thing... you hardly heard about that in the media. Or the "Gore/Internet" thing; barely a peep. Or Howard Dean's scream. Or...
8. Posted by Brian | May 31, 2007 11:26 PM |
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Posted on May 31, 2007 23:26
9. Posted by Bruce | May 31, 2007 11:27 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Proofreaders need work too.
9. Posted by Bruce | May 31, 2007 11:27 PM |
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Posted on May 31, 2007 23:27
10. Posted by Lee Ward | May 31, 2007 11:42 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Oh, come on now, Kim - get serious. I'm sure that elementary school children all over the US will laughing about this tomorrow -- you conservative blogger are just ahead of the curve as usual.
10. Posted by Lee Ward | May 31, 2007 11:42 PM |
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Posted on May 31, 2007 23:42
11. Posted by marc | June 1, 2007 12:34 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I disagree, the media will report it.
Complete with quotes from Kerry: "The sign was ritten bi the troops."
11. Posted by marc | June 1, 2007 12:34 AM |
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Posted on June 1, 2007 00:34
12. Posted by Scrapiron | June 1, 2007 12:34 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Do we have to wonder why the antique MSM is going down the tubes? They have lost the respect of everyone but the freaked out (Brian/Lee) left wingers. A simple mention and a laugh about the misspelled word would have got them off the hook. Massive layoff's continue in the news world, even in the lost world of SF. Soon we will be rid of most of them. Who wants to read or listen to something they already know is wrong or a complete lie? It's a waste of time in your short life, think I'll go fishing.
12. Posted by Scrapiron | June 1, 2007 12:34 AM |
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Posted on June 1, 2007 00:34
13. Posted by metprof | June 1, 2007 1:46 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
marc, lololol
I think the villege needs spelling lesins before they raise anymore childran
13. Posted by metprof | June 1, 2007 1:46 AM |
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Posted on June 1, 2007 01:46
14. Posted by Brian | June 1, 2007 2:47 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I'm "freaked out"? Oh, heavens to Betsy!
14. Posted by Brian | June 1, 2007 2:47 AM |
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Posted on June 1, 2007 02:47
15. Posted by ted | June 1, 2007 4:20 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
This story obviously has two aspects:
First, Hillary/Hillary's campaign mis-spelling, which is certainly hillariously embarassing.
Second, AP's photograph. This aspect is no laughing matter. If one picture says it all about the MSM, that does it. This aspect needs to be taken up. It says so much. It is the big story here!!!!!
15. Posted by ted | June 1, 2007 4:20 AM |
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Posted on June 1, 2007 04:20
16. Posted by marc | June 1, 2007 5:11 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
ted:
First, Hillary/Hillary's campaign mis-spelling, which is certainly hillariously embarassing.
I suspect it was whoever sponsored Shillarys appearance and not anyone connected with her campaign.
That doesn't detract from the shear comedic value of it, I'm just saying is all.
16. Posted by marc | June 1, 2007 5:11 AM |
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Posted on June 1, 2007 05:11
17. Posted by Keys | June 1, 2007 5:18 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
The misspelling will not get any traction in the press. This former newspaper reporter is certain of that. Dan Quayle's "potatoe" got extensive play and repeated references mostly because so many journalists are down-the-line Democrats. You won't find much on al-Qaeda torture, either, since the journalists so badly want to harm this presidency and get a leftist Democrat as President--more important than anti-war sentiment on their part, in my judgment.
I checked The New York Times after Dan Quayle's "potatoe" and listed its misspellings. I spotted 88 misspellings before quitting the paper in 1993 because of its falsehoods and propaganda. I found burgandy, duplicitious, Napolean, Penetentiary, statuatory, supress, and, of course, much more.
Misspellings occur not because of stupidity. Some are inadvertent. Most reflect bad pedagogy in public schools. Errors like tommorrow ought to increase as people learn less in schools and colleges and read less there or anywhere.
17. Posted by Keys | June 1, 2007 5:18 AM |
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Posted on June 1, 2007 05:18
18. Posted by Rodney Dill | June 1, 2007 6:07 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Hill's intelligence exposed, Misssion Accomplished.
18. Posted by Rodney Dill | June 1, 2007 6:07 AM |
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Posted on June 1, 2007 06:07
19. Posted by HughS | June 1, 2007 8:32 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Potatoe Head
19. Posted by HughS | June 1, 2007 8:32 AM |
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Posted on June 1, 2007 08:32
20. Posted by Mark L | June 1, 2007 8:45 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Shouldn't the line run"
"I'll get your bottom dollar."
20. Posted by Mark L | June 1, 2007 8:45 AM |
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Posted on June 1, 2007 08:45
21. Posted by brainy435 | June 1, 2007 9:21 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
The great part is that the misspelling is noticable 7 more times in the picture, and looks like it is up there dozens of times overall.
21. Posted by brainy435 | June 1, 2007 9:21 AM |
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Posted on June 1, 2007 09:21
22. Posted by Hermie | June 1, 2007 9:46 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I guess that Seagate, Adobe, Applied Materials, the Silicon Valley Leadership Group and Hillary's other sponsors do not require their employees to know basic English skills.
22. Posted by Hermie | June 1, 2007 9:46 AM |
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Posted on June 1, 2007 09:46
23. Posted by D-Hoggs | June 1, 2007 9:50 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
That AP link just goes to a google listing of links, none of which show that picture, I can't find that pic anywhere but here.
23. Posted by D-Hoggs | June 1, 2007 9:50 AM |
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Posted on June 1, 2007 09:50
24. Posted by Rodney Dill | June 1, 2007 10:48 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Here's a link while it lasts, the yahoo links seem to get moved after a while.
http://news.yahoo.com/photo/070531/480/b3c673eb200e40a183c0b1c1878c519b/print;_ylt=AmrAtCf5vwlIfnAdxdmU0XlsaMYA
There's a few more in the slide show
http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/events/pl/081702hillary/im:/070531/480/b3c673eb200e40a183c0b1c1878c519b;_ylt=AivO5QgKx6ZtEe58KagXERJrWscF
24. Posted by Rodney Dill | June 1, 2007 10:48 AM |
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Posted on June 1, 2007 10:48
25. Posted by D-Hoggs | June 1, 2007 11:01 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
thanks Rodney
25. Posted by D-Hoggs | June 1, 2007 11:01 AM |
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Posted on June 1, 2007 11:01
26. Posted by Kat | June 1, 2007 12:19 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Maybe if I trolled like Lee Ward, I would get my own WizbangKat.. *bows*
26. Posted by Kat | June 1, 2007 12:19 PM |
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Posted on June 1, 2007 12:19
27. Posted by Rodney Dill | June 1, 2007 12:27 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
"I promise not to raise your taxxes, todday."
27. Posted by Rodney Dill | June 1, 2007 12:27 PM |
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Posted on June 1, 2007 12:27
28. Posted by Rance | June 1, 2007 1:45 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
At least give Hilary credit for how professionally she wrote the sign. Can any of us free hand a sign that well?
What you mean that she didn't write the sign with the misspelling, that the local sponsors paid a commercial artist to do it? And that Hilary just showed up, stood in front of it and talked?
So how does that make it her fault?
28. Posted by Rance | June 1, 2007 1:45 PM |
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Posted on June 1, 2007 13:45
29. Posted by Rodney Dill | June 1, 2007 1:52 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
So how does that make it her fault?
Sort of like the 'Mission Accomplished' sign.
29. Posted by Rodney Dill | June 1, 2007 1:52 PM |
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Posted on June 1, 2007 13:52
30. Posted by jhow66 | June 1, 2007 1:53 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
What!!!! what !! wee wee lee lee ward didn't say someone lied? Much be the load he is under from having to comment on his own threads so it will have at least one.(snicker snort)
30. Posted by jhow66 | June 1, 2007 1:53 PM |
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Posted on June 1, 2007 13:53
31. Posted by Brian | June 1, 2007 6:53 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Hillary Clinton stood in front of this and no one in the media said a word:
Wrong.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=14&entry_id=17180
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,21831498-5001021,00.html
Oh, I know... now you're going to complain that it didn't get enough press.
The misspelling will not get any traction in the press. This former newspaper reporter is certain of that.
Well, I guess now we all know to ignore what "this former newspaper reporter" has to say from now on.
31. Posted by Brian | June 1, 2007 6:53 PM |
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Posted on June 1, 2007 18:53
32. Posted by seePea | June 1, 2007 10:07 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
As a techie,
I'm more upset about the sponsors not catching the problem and doing something about it.
btw - re: Dan Quayle's "potatoe", the flash card had the spelling wrong.
32. Posted by seePea | June 1, 2007 10:07 PM |
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Posted on June 1, 2007 22:07
33. Posted by Brendan Loy | June 2, 2007 7:01 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
The whole question of whether the media will focus on the issue is more complicated than you guys are making it out to be - and by "you guys," I refer both to the conservatives and to the liberals. While bias plays some role, it's more subtle than "the media only cares about Democratic gaffes." In reality, the media only cares about gaffes that play into pre-existing stereotypes/storylines about the candidate in question. This is why Gore "inventing the Internet" and Dean's scream got so much play -- the former played into the pre-existing stereotype of Gore as a overbearing, didactic schoolmarm type, the latter into the pre-existing stereotype of Dean as an unhinged loose cannon. If Dean had claimed to invent the Internet or Gore had screamed bloody murder at a campaign rally, it wouldn't have gotten nearly as much play. Likewise, when Bush or Quayle make this sort of mistake, it plays into the pre-existing stereotype of them being dumb, whereas no such stereotype exists of Hillary, so in their cases it gets more play than in this case.
Now, there may be some bias inherent in the existence of those stereotypes with regard to Bush and Quayle in the first place. But on the other hand, it's not like all Republicans are subject to that particular smear. If there was a misspelling at, say, a McCain rally, I doubt it would get much attention either, because McCain is not viewed as being "dumb." But if McCain makes a "gaffe" that involves him seeming overly hot-tempered, it'll be all over the media in no time. Point being, this is about MSM laziness more than MSM bias. They have their pre-set storylines and they shoehorn anything they can fit into 'em, and ignore anything that doesn't fit. In some ways, that's worse than bias.
(Kerry's "gaffe" was different -- it had substantive content, as he seemed to be insulting the troops -- so I put that in a different category.)
33. Posted by Brendan Loy | June 2, 2007 7:01 PM |
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Posted on June 2, 2007 19:01
34. Posted by Rodney Dill | June 3, 2007 9:39 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Brendan, I think you are right in saying this won't get much substantative play, as Hillary apparently didn't have anything to do with the spelling in this case, I don't buy that she doesn't have a history of gaffes. (missing documents, throwing stuff at Bill, Vince Foster affair, Her tact for pushing HealthCare, Her trying to appear as the 'two-for-one' president with Bill...) Whether something sticks or not has a lot more to do with the media (for either Republican or Democrat) than anything else.
34. Posted by Rodney Dill | June 3, 2007 9:39 AM |
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Posted on June 3, 2007 09:39