Shot In The Dark: Not Especially Observant

September 19, 2005

Not Especially Observant

I used to rip on Mark Gisleson - proprietor of Norwegianity, one of the bigger local leftyblogs. He's written (and continues to write) a few howlers, but he's a leftyblogger; you expect him to bring down the Fox News Network?

Nah, I've met Gisleson. Nice enough guy, as these things go.

But he's gotta start hiring better help.

He's started subbing some of his blogging at the Wege out to one "MNObserver". I know - it's hard to find good subcontractors these days. For example, MNob wrote this bit here, about a piece I wrote last week, about which MNob says:

Oh, look, Mitch is screaming for Whistleblowers to step forward.

Emh, no.

If you read the piece, it's a bit of my customarily deft satire of NPR's dragnet-like search for any "whistleblower" - any - that can do something to impugn the Administration, and a characteristically savage-yet-perfunctory fact-checking of what the "whistleblower" (and NPR) were broadcasting.

Sorry, MNob. While I know the whole point was to grab a quick snark at my expense, a little reading comprehension might help.

But that'd be dangerous. One day, reading comprehension; the next day, you're a Republican.

Not to worry. I think you're safe.

Posted by Mitch at September 19, 2005 05:05 AM | TrackBack

Comments

Mitch,

If you'd read the notes I posted earlier you'd have seen the man interviewed was a 26 year veteran who had been with FEMA since its inception, and who worked at the National Emergency Response Center writing daily briefings from field reports directly for top management.

Sounds pretty high up the food chain to be "any old whistle blower".

Posted by: Bill Haverberg at September 19, 2005 10:09 AM

This was MNobserver's complete post.....

Oh, look, Mitch is screaming for Whistleblowers to step forward. In the interests of helping out our fellow blogger (since he's already busy offering technical assistance to the Elizabeth Dickinson for Mayor write-in campaign), here are a few: Bunnatine Greenhouse, Jesselyn Raddack, Bruce Boler, Teresa Chambers, Sibel Edmond, Richard S. Foster, Dr. Susan Woods, David J. Graham, David Lappa, David Lewis, John Oliveira, Coleen Rowley, Eric Shinseki, Donald Sweeney, Frederic Whitehurst.

Oh, but wait… He's looking for whistleblowers to expose all the lying that FEMA critics – especially those within FEMA itself – have done over the last few weeks.

Nevermind.

I think he read your post.

Posted by: Eva Young at September 19, 2005 11:56 PM

Bill,

My point: The reporter was asking why FEMA wasn't doing things...that FEMA doen't do. FEMA does not call out the National Guard. Only Governors and Presidents (and in wartime, the Pentagon) do.

Eva,

No, he didn't. He totally missed the point of the post.

As did - as usual - you.

Posted by: mitch at September 20, 2005 05:32 AM

Oh, yeah - Eva? Why are you pasting entire posts into my blog again?

Aside from being an imposition (not a huge one, but why?) and a waste of bandwidth (aside from the waste inherent in givine MNob further exposure), it's also at the very least an imposition on copyright laws, if not a violation.

You've been asked several times to stop it, and ridiculed roundly for your incessant practice of doing it.

Knock it off.

Posted by: mitch at September 20, 2005 05:35 AM