Its time to FIGHT! Strike back against these media weapons of mass distortion!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K50TS0UZE7w

THIS IS THE VIDEO THEY DONT WANT YOU TO SEE!

why is it even referred to as journalism? its just plain old hackery.

Mr. Jacoby is the Globe's token wing-nut, kind of like that new guy over at the NYTimes. Neither columnist offers much in the way of coherent or original thinking that furthers the debate, usually they just rehash the latest talking points from command central.

steve, i realize you're just trying to be polite, but you do know: jacoby is of course trying to mislead readers. he's a professional propagandist: that's his job!

Jacoby's well known in Boston as a pluperfect jackass.

Mr. Jacoby's musings are reflective of the old, very old America I use to live in. It would do him well to embrace the new America that will be set in motion should the American electorate truly exercise their collective wisdom and elect Barack Obama as our next president. In the meantime, Mr. Jacoby is entitled to his delusions! -Kevo

Those of us who read the Globe regularly know to ignore Jacoby. He decides what he thinks about a given issue and then goes looking for arguments and evidence to support his view, scraping the bottom of the barrel if necessary. If the arguments are nonsensical and the evidence totally bogus, so be it; he either can't tell or doesn't care, and goes ahead and writes his column anyway.

The fact that his take on most issues is bogus to begin with only feeds this dynamic.

Do you think he turned into a bat before flying, or that he was in too much of a hurry to get to his files and that he changed mid-jump? And why can't he just store this stuff on the internet like everyone else? Perhaps he just likes to have an excuse to fly.

This is off topic, but Lieberman just told Andrea Mitchell:

"I have a lot to repent for" (in reference to the High Holy day ritual --after her wishing him a good fast for Yom Kippur).

Mitchell laughed and said: "I'm not going to go there. That's between you and your maker".

Yeah, well, maybe we should go there, since he brought it up..I'd say he has a LOT to repent for-- starting with he just claimed: that the accusations of McCain/ Palin ignoring the bigoted shout-outs are just silly, arguing they probably just didn't hear it.

>"It's journalism at its most ridiculous."

No, it's journalism at its most dishonest.
They know exactly what they are doing.

It doesn't matter if it's honest, moral, ethical (whatever)... it's 'just win baby'

He read it. He read it because he was hoping to find more proof that Obama condones genocide. He just chose to "edit" the comment out of context which is how these jerks work. It's why they're losing. They are clumsy, stupid and don't do their homework. Remind anyone of a particular GOP candidate for president ?

I loved that response from Obama--it was clear to me he was saying that horrible things happen everywhere and as such we need to use our brains and all of our resources including calling for the multitude ways to intervene when a moral affront occurs--such as utilize dipolomacy and sanctions and so forth.

Earlier Obama made a great analogy: that just as in families, we prioritize our problems.

Throughout, Obama made it clear he has a strong moral conscience, that he is quick to address moral breaches, but that clearly we need to so with a foresight and thoughtfulness.

He is essentially both a realist and an idealist.
And I think Obama should say so. Maybe folks don't understand this (?).

Maybe these pundits just don't get it either, don't understand how you can be both.

Or maybe they're just so desperate because they see what is happening that they need to pull the comments out of context and create massive distortion.

Or maybe it's a bit of both.

Jeff Jacoby is a lying sack of shit. He knows that's not what Obama said, and didn't even bother to quote him.

This is all that's left of the right: sociopaths lying to morons.
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Jacoby's just Mallard Fillmore with a newspaper column. I waiting for the day when the newspaper editors realize that there's a difference between diversity of opinion and flat wrong. Under any sensible three strikes rule, Jacoby's not just out, he's lost the whole game.

The answer is obvious, Steve. "conservative Republican columnist" != "journalist." Simple.

It's journalism at its most ridiculous.

It is Republicanism as she is spoken.

We actually had 4 blessed months without him when he was suspended for plagiarising a 4th of July column on the fates of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.

The source had been kicking around for some time on the intertubes. Jacoby compounded his crime by slightly rewriting it to fuzz over the many afactual bits in the original, so what he did to the genocide quote is no surprise.

if Jacoby had considered what Obama actually said before accusing him of flip-flopping on genocide, he wouldn't have written such an offensive piece.

The words "Jeff Jacoby" and "journalism" are contradictions in terms.

And I can assure you that your explaination of events is far beyond Jacoby's comprehension. He has been a very consistent dunderhead for many years.

It's no suprise that the Palin Wing of the Republicun party eats his stuff up.

There is a reason that Jeff Jacoby is known as the dumbest man in Boston and the Alan Colmes of conservative columnists. He sounds reputable until you actually listen to the words.

Jacoby's just Mallard Fillmore with a newspaper column.

The difference being that Jacoby spends less time in jail for DWI.
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There is also a difference between "preventing" a potential genocide (in Iraq) and trying to stop one that is in progress.

If the trigger for intervention is to prevent a potential genocide, then we could go into a lot of places.

It is interesting that McCain thought that the different ethnic groups would get along just fine prior to the invasion, but now thinks they can't get along if we leave. He may have new insight into the ethnic situation, but he already screwed up once. In both instances, he claims to be able to see into the future a set of facts which support his decision to occupy Iraq.

This is pretty typical Jacoby -- long on insinuation, short on facts and absolutely hypochondriac in his heavings about liberals.

Most of us ignore him for the turd that he is.

Fascinating juxtaposition of this fool and David Brooks.

i just did a cut and paste of steve's post and mailed to the globe... i suggest you do the same...

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