9 thoughts on “Compare And Contrast”

1. Gee, Mitch, I know you’re committed to truth, fairness, and what have you. So it must be an accident that you forgot to mention the 2nd Alliance for a Better Minnesota ad getting a B yesterday.

   http://kstp.com/article/stories/S1662671.shtml?cat=0

   Of course, I’d love to see a truth test of the first ad from a channel that DIDN’T donate $100K to Tom Emmer. Just sayin’.

2. Of course, I’d love to see a truth test of the first ad from a channel that DIDN’T donate $100K to Tom Emmer. Just sayin’.

   Um, Jeff? Journalists are generally not only pretty out-front about saying that the suits in the front office don’t control them, but in fact they discuss how to reinforce the separation between the front office and the newsroom intensely (usually by way of explaining how they’re not really as conservative as their publishers are).

   But OK, Jeff; if a single donation (verymuch in the interest of saving Minnesota’s fragile business climate) puts you off KSTP, then by all means explain to the rest of America why we should trust anything from the Strib (whose owners and publishers for decades supported the DFL, and still do, financially and in kind)? Or MPR (Bill Kling supports DFL initiatives without fail)? Or WCCO (CBS is very pro Democrat)? Or CNN (Ted Turner!)? Or the NYTimes (The Sulzbergers are rabid democrats)? Or The WaPo (their owners? Ditto)?

   I mean, completely ignoring the lockstep liberalism of most of their news coverage (except MPR, which makes up for it with their progream content), the particpation of many of their leading lights in Journolist, and on, and on, and on?

   What? A double standard? On MNPublius? Say it isn’t so.

   Anyway – so you trust Houser because he gave A4aBM a “B”, or do you distrust them becasue the Steamer and Ginny gave MNForward some money?: I get confused.

3. Hey, hey, hey! That’s enough of that Mitch.

   Don’t you go startin’ in with that factual framing stuff!

4. BTW, does anyone actually read MNpubic anymore? Word on the street is that even the frat boys that started it don’t bother since they’ve pawned it off on Rosenberg.

5. Well, I like Jeff, but the place does seem to be even more a DFL press release center than it did when Matt and Zack ran it.
   Although not as much as when “Senior Correspondent” Landry was there.

6. Off-topic question for the bike riders here.

   Are you still entitled to the moral superiority of being a Gaia-friendly bicycle rider over the rest of us internal-combustion-driving-planet-hating-polluters if . . .

   . . . you put your bike on the rack on the front of the bus when you climb aboard downtown but ride the bike a block home from your bus stop?

   .

7. I think it’ll fit under the smug moral superiority of being a transit zealot, at that point.

   You got me all self-conscious; I wound up throwing my bike on the bus the other night when I wasnt’ feeling well, and walked my bike the two doors to my house…

8. “. . . you put your bike on the rack on the front of the bus when you climb aboard downtown but ride the bike a block home from your bus stop?”

   You’ll never find me putting my Harley on the rack on the front of the bus. However if I did it would do a lot to improve the look of the bus. (wink)

9. Oh! Berg is a hypocrite!! He didn’t ride his bike!!!

   /Bart off

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