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Girls Gone Wild (find the link yourself) is advertising on conservative Townhall.com, the blogging home of Bill Bennett, Mike Gallagher, Dennis Prager, Michael Medved, and Hugh Hewitt. I’d be interested to see the demographic analysis on that buy. 
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Mark Halperin, ABC News’ political director, in an interview by Hugh Hewitt, wants consumers to judge the news media solely on their results, but is unwilling to provide the information necessary to evaluate. Give your MP3 player a break from music to listen to the three-hour interview (it’s shorter without the ads).
Talking to a group at Pasadena City College yesterday, John Kerry said,
You know, education — if you make the most of it, you study hard and you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq. (Source.)
Doesn’t sound like Kerry thinks much of the military. According to his thinking, the military is filled with those who don’t study hard, don’t do their homework, don’t make an effort to be smart.
But wait, that’s not what he meant to say. He was speaking from prepared remarks and had intended to attack President Bush rather than the military. According to his spokesperson, Kerry was supposed to say,
I can’t overstress the importance of a great education. Do you know where you end up if you don’t study, if you aren’t smart, if you’re intellectually lazy? You end up getting us stuck in a war in Iraq. (Source.)
Wow, Kerry certainly has problems following the script. And why would Kerry attack Bush for not studying? Has he already forgotten that Bush’s grades were better than his?
But, let’s give Kerry the benefit of the doubt. After all, as Kerry says,
If anyone thinks a veteran would criticize the more than 140,000 heroes serving in Iraq and not the president who got us stuck there, they’re crazy. (Source.)
Kerry does have past experience critizing soldiers and the government. Yet, Kerry refuses to apologize to the military for what he claims to be a misstatement.
How hard can it be to say, “I’m sorry”?
Update: You can watch it yourself.
(Troubles watching video? Watch it at YouTube.)
Maybe 37 years from now, an Australian computer programmer will discover the missing syllables to find Kerry actually said, “You end up getting us stuck in a war in Iraq.”
Update 2 (Nov 1, 2006): Kerry apologizes.
My brother is a PayPerPost blogger. I looked at it but couldn’t join because I have blogging gaps longer than PPP allows. Photo Matt writes and his commenters continue on the ethics and economics of blog advertising.
Blogging is becoming a way of life at Intel but most of it takes place behind the firewall where Intel’s watchers and customers cannot see it. Here are a few notable exceptions:
If the purpose of blogging is to start a communication, it looks like TinyScreenfuls and Intel Perspective are doing a better job (certainly a better job than blogan.net). Why, you ask? Look at the number of comments, especially this one where Josh invites questions about Intel.
I’m excited to see what will happen to Josh. According to his “Caveat Lector” he is doing this without official blessing.
The content of this blog is my personal opinion only and although I am an employee of Intel, the statements I make here in no way represent Intel’s position on any issue, nor am I authorized to speak on behalf of Intel on any matter.
Will Josh be able to walk the fine line of keeping an interesting discussion going without running afoul of the powers that be? Will he become Intel’s Robert Scoble? Or will he become Intel’s Heather Armstrong?
Looks like Jamison and I will be building an electric motor for a science project.
MarkTAW.com has a lot of graphs showing the national budget, debt, and deficit. Links, too.
(Source.)
Time for a trip to Freddy’s.
Update: I changed the embedded video to just a screen capture. It downloaded and played automatically, sucking bandwidth. Click the picture or link to see the video.
Today Lynne Cheney was interviewed by Wolf Blitzer, supposedly invited to talk about her new children’s book (Our 50 States: A Family Adventure Across America ). Blitzer tried to ambush her, but didn’t quite succeed…
LC: Right. But what is CNN doing running terrorist tape of terrorists shooting Americans? I mean, I thought Duncan Hunter asked you a very good question, and you didn’t answer it. Do you want us to win?
WB: The answer, of course, is we want the United States to win. We are Americans. There’s no doubt about that. You think we want terrorists to win?
LC: Then why are you running terrorist propaganda?
WB: With all due respect, with all due respect, this is not terrorist propaganda.
LC: Oh, Wolf…
WB: This is reporting the news, which is what we do. We’re not partisan…
LC: Where did you get the film?
WB: We got the film…look, this is an issue that has been widely discussed, this is an issue that we reported on extensively. We make no apologies for showing that. That was a very carefully considered decision, why we did that. And I think, and I think, of your…
LC: Well, I think it’s shocking.
WB: If you’re a serious journalist, you want to report the news. Sometimes the news is good, sometimes the news isn’t so good.
LC: But Wolf, there’s a difference between news and terrorist propaganda. Why did you give the terrorists a forum?
WB: And if you put it in context, if you put it in context, that’s what news is. We said it was propaganda. We didn’t distort where we got it. We didn’t distort anything about it. We gave it the context. Let’s talk about another issue in the news, and then we’ll get to the book. [Emphasis added.]
So what is it? Terrorist propaganda or not?
Hat tip to Hugh Hewitt for posting the full transcript.
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