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Dear Greg
I find it quite disingenuous of you to point out that the VoteBoth movement has gathered over 25,000 signatures without also recognizing that Rush Limbaugh and various other conservative pundits are urging their 20 million+ listeners to essentially sabotage the signature list.
I know it's not something that is verifiable, but your breathless "Late late updates!" in which you cite different people calculating the importance of the number of signatures is just really shameless when the verification of the signatures is completely suspect, and especially after a number of commenters alerted you to the fact the signatures list is being freeped by dittoheads.
At the end of the day I realize it's not that big of a deal, but your reputation should be at least relatively important to you, and by disingenuously omitting the fact that there is a huge push by conservative media to continue the candidacy of Hillary Clinton sort of undermines the neutrality of opinion you attempt to maintain.
I know it's not something that is verifiable, but your breathless "Late late updates!" in which you cite different people calculating the importance of the number of signatures is just really shameless when the verification of the signatures is completely suspect, and especially after a number of commenters alerted you to the fact the signatures list is being freeped by dittoheads.
At the end of the day I realize it's not that big of a deal, but your reputation should be at least relatively important to you, and by disingenuously omitting the fact that there is a huge push by conservative media to continue the candidacy of Hillary Clinton sort of undermines the neutrality of opinion you attempt to maintain.
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Joe Scarborough was shamelessly pushing the notion that Hillary is doing better against McCain than Obama theory in an effort to say that Obama has to pick Clinton.
It is so obvious that the Right really wants Clinton on the ticket so they can use the entire bag of tricks that they have been saving up for the past 8 years or so to defeat Hillary. They have been planning for her since the late 90's and they would love nothing more then to force Obama into adding her to the ticket.
I'm not saying that their plan would work in the General; but it is what they consider their best hope to win in November.
June 6, 2008 1:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey, I saw Scarborough do that. He cherry picked negative things from the CBS poll, but never mentioned that it was the most recent poll and showed Obama up by 6 points on McCain nationwide at 48/42. It was a big deal because they've been tied so much. Has anybody else figured out that Obama has been tied with McCain----based on pretty much just Obama supporters before the end of the primary. When our friends Senator Clinton and her supporters join us, things may look a whole lot different. When the dems hang together, we're a powerful bunch!
June 7, 2008 3:37 AM | Reply | Permalink
I recommend this not because I want to slam Hillary (it's over), but because it remarks on the quality of TPM reporting in an important way.
June 6, 2008 1:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
I admire Greg's refreshingly cavalier attitude toward the English language. Kudos to Greg for sticking it to the facts!
June 7, 2008 2:05 AM | Reply | Permalink
LOL!
June 7, 2008 1:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
With all respect, get off this. It seems too much a call for attention than a serious inquiry.
June 7, 2008 11:13 AM | Reply | Permalink
Greg's gonna look like an old Republican troll if he doesn't re-adjust his slant to allow Hillary to support Obama.
One might understand some bestigal bitterness, but after Hillary's speech today, if you really respect her leadership like you have always claimed, then please, Greg, follow her lead.
June 7, 2008 1:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
I meant "vestigal bitterness" for all the typo-concern-trolls with us today.
Or was it a Freudian slip?
June 7, 2008 1:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Is that like a mix of vestigial and bestial? Sounds a bit kinky...
June 7, 2008 1:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
That's what I mean by "freudian slip..."
or it could be as simple as "best I gal," whatever that means...
June 7, 2008 1:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Careful I think we're gonna start a blogpile here, Greg may have been a partisan, but he certainly doesn't deseve the macaca treatment!
Unless, of course, it is funny, then anything goes...
June 7, 2008 1:19 PM | Reply | Permalink