TRIUMPH OF THE BLOGGERS?
CBS documents flap puts spotlight on Web commentators
Monday, September 20, 2004 Posted: 10:41 PM EDT (0241 GMT)
FROM www.cnn.com
LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- Internet bloggers have drawn blood and American journalism may never be the same.
To hear some press experts tell it, CBS's admission Monday that it was duped into using questionable documents about President Bush's National Guard service during the Vietnam War was a watershed moment brought on by a small army of Internet-based commentators known as bloggers.
Their insistence, from the moment that CBS aired its report almost two weeks ago, that the documents were fake turned the question into a national issue ending with anchor Dan Rather, CBS and the American media establishment in a state of deep embarrassment.
Bloggers were the first to challenge the authenticity of the documents and first to publish detailed examinations of the evidence by dozens of self-declared experts, some of them with Republican Party ties.
INTERVIEW WITH A BLOGGER
CELEBRATING TRIUMPH!
(SOUND OF TYPING KEYS – ETC)
OTHER CONTROVERSIES BLOGGERS HAVE DISCOVERED.
Well, we've been celebrating pretty hard in our chatroom here. We've wallpapered our chatroom with naked pictures of Lt Uhura.
(NOT FINISHED YET)
Wednesday, September 22, 2004
From CNN News
Ted Nugent's Vote Scratch Fever Sorry P. Diddy , but rock-and-roller Ted Nugent says your message to America's youth to just vote is, to put it mildly, garbage. "I'm scared to death when the left, the hippies, the MTV parolees go, 'Just get out and vote,' " the Nuge tells Whispers. "That's not good enough. It's like saying, 'Well, there's a child drowning in the river. Just do something. Here, I'll throw him a cinder block.' Well at least you did something," smirks the creator of such hits as "Cat Scratch Fever." "We don't need to do just something," barks the Republican activist and National Rifle Association board member. "We need to do the right thing, you understand? And I see this 'Just vote' from Puffy, Daddy, or whatever he is, to be frightening, pipe dream, fantasy world, youth ignorance," Nugent froths. You laugh? Don't. The Nuge is huge on outdoors TV with his top-rated Spirit of the Wild, pushes politics on his website, and is a hit on the USO tour with country's Toby Keith . His message: Be passionate and educated about politics. "Voting is the most important decision a free man can indulge in..."
- Voting is an important decision, and so is staying off that gun crazy nut's lawn.
- Teenagers voting without thinking about it all the way through? Why, that would be like teenagers being shipped off to a country full of terror mongers, handing them guns and hoping it all turns out okay.
- What is with comparing young peple voting to throwing a cinderblock at a drowning man? Maybe our soldiers should just throw cinderblocks at the terrorists.
More Nugent Quotes:
- Voting for Kerry, that's would be like trying to saddle up a hamster and ride him in a Peace March.
- Young people making decisions for themselves? Why not just cut the wings off a butterfly glue 'em to your head and jump off the Golden Gate bridge you Hippie freaks?!
- Guns don't kill people. Strike that, guns don't kill ENOUGH people.
- I love my country like a love the taste of a Napalm. When the Nugent forest gets a little too overgrown -- I have my friends at the Detroit Air patrol call in an small scale airstrike and Napalm my back yard. Then I invite all my neighbors (that are still alive that is) over for some barbecue. You ain't lived til you've tasted Barbecue Badger
Ted Nugent's Vote Scratch Fever Sorry P. Diddy , but rock-and-roller Ted Nugent says your message to America's youth to just vote is, to put it mildly, garbage. "I'm scared to death when the left, the hippies, the MTV parolees go, 'Just get out and vote,' " the Nuge tells Whispers. "That's not good enough. It's like saying, 'Well, there's a child drowning in the river. Just do something. Here, I'll throw him a cinder block.' Well at least you did something," smirks the creator of such hits as "Cat Scratch Fever." "We don't need to do just something," barks the Republican activist and National Rifle Association board member. "We need to do the right thing, you understand? And I see this 'Just vote' from Puffy, Daddy, or whatever he is, to be frightening, pipe dream, fantasy world, youth ignorance," Nugent froths. You laugh? Don't. The Nuge is huge on outdoors TV with his top-rated Spirit of the Wild, pushes politics on his website, and is a hit on the USO tour with country's Toby Keith . His message: Be passionate and educated about politics. "Voting is the most important decision a free man can indulge in..."
- Voting is an important decision, and so is staying off that gun crazy nut's lawn.
- Teenagers voting without thinking about it all the way through? Why, that would be like teenagers being shipped off to a country full of terror mongers, handing them guns and hoping it all turns out okay.
- What is with comparing young peple voting to throwing a cinderblock at a drowning man? Maybe our soldiers should just throw cinderblocks at the terrorists.
More Nugent Quotes:
- Voting for Kerry, that's would be like trying to saddle up a hamster and ride him in a Peace March.
- Young people making decisions for themselves? Why not just cut the wings off a butterfly glue 'em to your head and jump off the Golden Gate bridge you Hippie freaks?!
- Guns don't kill people. Strike that, guns don't kill ENOUGH people.
- I love my country like a love the taste of a Napalm. When the Nugent forest gets a little too overgrown -- I have my friends at the Detroit Air patrol call in an small scale airstrike and Napalm my back yard. Then I invite all my neighbors (that are still alive that is) over for some barbecue. You ain't lived til you've tasted Barbecue Badger
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