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Maybe The Journal interviewed Eric Cantor (R-VA-Bliley Old District) (4.00 / 2)

Since we don't have cable, I just heard this replay on CSPAN radio:

KING: Let me ask you quickly in closing, we're almost out of time, but you were on this program four months ago, we came out to cover a town hall in Northern Virginia, the launch of your National Council for New America. You said that was the type of thing you wanted to do, these town halls all across America to help you in the health care debate, to help you in these other debates. That organization best I can tell has fallen off the planet. What happened?

CANTOR: Well, no, John, we actually a few weeks just had a Web- based forum, a health care policy forum where there were over 100,000 visitors to join the discussion with members of the NCNA like myself. My intention is so that we continue to reach out and talk to as many folks in this country that want to be engaged in this process. And as we've seen over this past weekend, hundreds of thousands of people spent their own money, took their own time to come to Washington to engage in the debate surrounding health care reform.

Yeah, Eric, what happened after that first pizza party?

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by: CA Berkeley WV @ Sun Sep 13, 2009 at 21:45:36 PM UTC

Record number comment to phony Journal article on march in DC (4.00 / 2)

I just noticed that the comments on this article in today's Journal has reached record numbers, most all of them are in opposition of the article on all counts, accuracy, fairness, puffery, you name it all the demons come out in the comments.  I think a more progressive newspaper would do well in the eastern panhandle as it's going more progressive every year.

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by: JBdem4usa @ Mon Sep 14, 2009 at 02:47:18 AM UTC

An unbiased newspaper (0.00 / 0)

An unbiased newspaper would do well too. Considering how much the Journal tilts to the extreme right - Michelle Malkin as columnist for one example - it'd be good to see an objective newspaper enter the market.

When a man embarks upon a crime, he is morally guilty of any other crime which may spring from it. Sherlock Holmes.

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by: Carnacki @ Mon Sep 14, 2009 at 12:49:12 PM UTC

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they can pick an chose what they cover (0.00 / 0)

what passes for objective has become 50/50 he said/she said, and that drives me nuts. the world is not flat, so having people like that in the argument is ignorant, not conservative. journalist standards i don't know from.

but the urinal sucks at even being a good "local" paper sometimes.

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by: CA Berkeley WV @ Mon Sep 14, 2009 at 18:52:00 PM UTC

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good on the reality based community (0.00 / 0)

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by: CA Berkeley WV @ Mon Sep 14, 2009 at 18:53:17 PM UTC

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Wheeling papers did the same crap (4.00 / 2)

Ohio Valley Residents Take on Washington

And here's Mike Myer's new thing --- claiming that HE'S "the people": Listen to the People, Not Obama Rhetoric

And, the best was this past week when Mike Myer wrote ANOTHER Heather Bresch editorial and REFUSED to apologize for their December 2007 lie.

The Nutting Family is absolute scum (just check their pharmacy bills).

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by: WV26003 @ Mon Sep 14, 2009 at 10:49:54 AM UTC

that is what i wondered (0.00 / 0)

i have no skin to protect in this fight now. so let's go.

what about some of the "not nice" signs, mr. meyers? are those your people too?

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by: CA Berkeley WV @ Mon Sep 14, 2009 at 18:37:36 PM UTC

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BREAKING: Extra protestors found! (4.00 / 2)

from an on the ground report, just like The Journal reporter

What no one has noted is that two-thirds of the National Mall was filled by an entirely separate event on Saturday that had nothing to do with protesting the president. September 12 just happened to be the 24th-annual Black Family Reunion, which ran from 7th Street all the way to the Washington Monument. I spent several hours on the Mall on Saturday, and there's no question that protesters numbered at least in the tens of thousands, but they were isolated to only a fraction of the area they're credited with having filled.

Oh, the irony. It burns.

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by: CA Berkeley WV @ Tue Sep 15, 2009 at 05:16:31 AM UTC

Then there was this all-white group (0.00 / 0)

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by: One Citizen @ Tue Sep 15, 2009 at 17:00:44 PM UTC

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I bet, like with Colbert, (0.00 / 0)

the TEA Party Patriots think those guys are with them
I am glad they, Billionares for Bush, are back

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by: CA Berkeley WV @ Tue Sep 15, 2009 at 22:42:55 PM UTC

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So now the Journal runs a Bresch piece? (0.00 / 0)

WVU effectively handled unfavorable attention from Bresch controversy

Is it just a coincidence that the name Nutting appears on the WVU Board of Governors???

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by: WV26003 @ Wed Sep 16, 2009 at 12:18:54 PM UTC

this sentence makes no sense (0.00 / 0)

WVU did not deserve the unfavorable attention that resulted from the Bresch controversy.

Huh? I'm glad to see the first comment on the story pushing back on that inane line. "It's called accountability."

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by: Clem Guttata @ Wed Sep 16, 2009 at 13:52:20 PM UTC

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Anybody else notice The Journal Day of Caring picture (4.00 / 1)

where Matt Burdette is just leaning on the broom?

Way to toot your own horn there, folks.

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by: CA Berkeley WV @ Thu Sep 17, 2009 at 05:58:42 AM UTC

Arrr, was this us, mateys? Or just a coinky-dink? (4.00 / 1)

In a letter to the editor today the myth of a million is repeated. Not to give the Nutty Nutting family any credit, but there was this at the end:

Editor's note: Though initially reported as exceeding 1 million, that was considered to be incorrect. Depending upon the source, crowds for the recent rally in Washington have been estimated at around 70,000 for the Sept. 12 event.

The yahoo from the Wall Street Journal editorial board on CSPAN this morning's round-table is still only cutting the number in half. Locally, it's a start, maybe.

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by: CA Berkeley WV @ Sun Sep 20, 2009 at 15:42:07 PM UTC