I wrote:

"Obama said this then McCain said that then Obama said this can you believe it?

Jake, which are you, a gossip columnist or a senior national news correspondent?"

It got me thinking. I'd like the following people to ask "is it news or is it gossip?" and "Should I verify that this isn't just hearsay, or something taken out of context BEFORE I write or broadcast?
-Andrea Mitchell
-Dana Milbank
-Jake Tapper
-Bill Kristol
-Charles Krauthammer
-Jonathan Weisman
-Harold Ford Jr.
-Joe Scarborough
-Pat Buchanaan
-Wolf Blitzer

I'd also like all the cable news channels to ask:

"How many times a day should we run the same attack ad in its entirety as news, not commercial air time, before we're the ones guilty of damaging a candidate's reputation?"

"Are we just repeating what everyone else gossips about or are we journalists?"

"On issues, such as drilling for oil in ANWR, should we just have politicians from both sides recite talking points or should we look into an issue on our own and report facts neither side mentions?"

It seems as though the McCain campaign has hit on a real winner with the "controversial" ad. The MSM seems happy to broadcast for free any of his ads all day long, as long as there is some controversy in the ad or a manafactured controversial response to it.

Its actually genius, evil genius.

I posted at ABC and also wrote directly to their editors. I got a form email response from the editors. I would be surprised if my comment on the Tapper piece remained. Let me know if you see it.

Geez, I put up a couple of posts and they didn't last 5 minutes (they must have posted a couple of interns to watch the site), but the following has been up for a bit:

All I need to know is that Obama hung around ant-semite racists for twenty years. Not twenty seconds which would still be too long.
Does he have a conscience?
Padre Pio, was a very holy man and a great mystic. Every time I think I’ve read about every book I written on the man come across another one. In this particular book on him which I was looking at recently, there was a person who told a story about going to him for confession. He told about Padre Pio becoming very angry at him for voting for a socialist. Later he went back to him for confession and told him that this time he did not vote for the socialist but he couldn't bring himself to vote for other candidate either, Again Padre Pio became very angry at him
and would not grant him absolution(forgiveness of sin) From this we have to conclude
that Padre Pio considered it a sin for someone to vote for a socialist and also to opt for not voting
at all either. Another story I read about him in another book was when he went up
to a person he didn't know and had never met and confronted him about being
a communist. In other words, to Padre Pio, a person’s salvation was not exclusionary from
one’s political considerations and what political party you belonged to or voted for (if the moral positions of such contradicted Christian teaching) could put your soul in jeopardy. And what about being an accessory to another’s sin? If a politician has made clear his pro-abortion position and I vote for him and once he gets into office he carries through with his philosophy am I not guilty of aiding and abetting?

(The name of the book from which I got the Padre Pio story was "Stories of Padre Pio" by Katharina Tangari published by TAN books,Rockford Illinois translated from the Italian "Il Messaggio di Padre Pio". Madame Tagari knw Padre Pio for many, many years and was a "spiritual daughter" of him.
We will have to ANWER TO GOD for our decisions people.

If you upload the pictures to www.photobucket.com others can use them, too. Photobucket makes it very easy to plug pictures into blogs.

Definitely do screen captures.

And remember that on Tapper's blog, the comments are newest to oldest so make sure you capture the time stamps, too.

What strikes me about the comments about Tapper is that fact that you bloggers refuse to accept the power you have to change all of this. Further, you have not noticed that the whole blogging experience has altered the entire electronic communication (read news distribution industry) of this country. You are now in a position to alter Tapper's bias and his stations abuse of their sacred trust by editing out unacceptable comments. Take your indignation to the higher level of direct action. Organize like minded people. Target the sponsors. Saturate the airways with the truth of this abuse. Communicate with the ill informed so that they know they are being manipulated by these highly thought of operatives. IT IS TIME TO ORGANIZE NOT SIMPLY COMPLAIN!

for more stories of Tappers lunacy

http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/8637.html#comment-642782

and as you read the comments, more tales of the sinister editing out inconveniant comments, I think we have a pattern folks.

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Batocchio said,

February 1, 2008 at 10:32

Yay! I got my comment at Tapper’s post deleted. Some other critical comments have also disappeared. And we didn’t even swear…

Don't feel bad...happens to me every time I post a comment on Little Jakey Tapper's "opinion" blog. When he wrote that IDIOTIC juvenile trash-piece about "smelling smoke" on Obama and how he LIED about quitting smoking, I must have posted 10 comments about it and each one was deleted within a few minutes.

It's par for the course at ABC.

Jake Tapper is a obnoxious idiot TOOL.

It's no wonder they have to censor out all the mockery and derision he attracts.

And ABC News has become a FoxLite rightwing sleaze newtwork of late. Sad and despicable.

I had 3 comments deleted yesterday and when I tried to post a 4th time, I got some kind of spam filtering notice that my comments had to be approved before being posted.

I also notice that they have a number of pro McCain "regulars" who look like they spend all of their lives posting on ABC News, swamping the site and crowding out others.