katwoman, please go to Google and type in define: homoscedastic. You can blame those horrible mathematicians for fabricating that word. I cannot take credit.

I certainly love how assumptions are flying around about me. It’s assumed that I am a writer (Iam not), that I have a job that involves tenure (no), and that I am a liberal (nope).

Take a good look at my name……I’m a superhero’s girlfriend.

It’s been fun playing with you. Resume your regularly scheduled pissing matches.

Mary Jane…you get an F.

Perhaps you’ll connect with a few elitests in their ivory towers of tenure humming how “great we art”, but the folks here, the ones on whose backs America runs, speak a bit differently.

Kat connects.

Should kat and Ravo be expected to sit mutely, or respond with patience and kindness to Mary Jane now? And if they express ‘anger’ in response, will only kat and Ravo’s comments be deleted because they/we aren’t liberals? *THAT* is the scenario which played out last night. And those of us who defended kat *also* got deleted.

What’s fair? What’s just? Who is to be treated without respect by being *deleted* [on top of it]?

Are a few of us ‘peeved’ as a result? You bet.

EverKarl, it ‘would’ be hard to comment on posts you didn’t get a chance to read. There were (give or take 1) 13 deleted posts by 5 commenters, 4 of whom are conservatives. 11 of the deleted posts were written by conservatives.

If only one conservative poster here had objected to what he/she deemed to be unjust treatment regarding another conservative poster, Jeff, would you have merely considered that your treatment was fair and ignored it? Have you ever been *deleted* by a blog owner as a commenter, Jeff? I appreciate that comment you left of mine. That originally was followed by a few/several other deleted comments…which left it directly followed by RightNumberOne’s. At that point your Enough! sounds reasonable I suppose……. Editing comments allows bloggers to paint many impressions. I do *not* suggest you did so by design. But was it wrong of 4 of us to speak up? Maybe. Maybe not.

If commenters here are the recipient of venom, cussing and epithets are they expected to sit mutely in response, or be accepting and kind in return, (only) if they’re of the ‘wrong’ political persuasion?

Obviously there are no easy answers. Most of us reach a ‘limit’ in response to receiving harsh or insulting invective. Most of us will speak out about injustice when we see it. And how we ‘define’ injustice is, imo, what caused a deleted conversation to (not) occur.

Prayers for all who will be affected by Rita.

It’s foolhardy to claim that either yourself or katwoman are very practiced thinkers. Undoubtedly, it appears that you both wed yourselves to a veritable mission appeal and remain stiff impervious to your respective environments.

Certainly the suggestion that writing ability is permanently equitable to deception is not only perposturous, but indicative of the terrified mind.

But if you prefer to link hands and skip in rhythm then far be it from me to dissuade you. But I cannot help but wonder if your homoscedastic estimation of events is obtusely contrived or imminently imposed upon you. It’s impossible to tell.

Yeah, Kat hasn’t learned how to mislead yet.

Definitely venemous, but not very clever. Especially since a veneer, by definition, is false.

I can tell you don’t write for a living.

DLoye….don’t hold your breath for news. The media and politicians started this campaign off with race baiting and then the media did their sob story parked in front of the Dome. The story was 70 miles up the road. Each day I waited for at least ONE of them to go up there and find out 1)who was stopping the food and water from traveling into the city and 2)who was stopping Baton Rouge from sending down their own school buses.

They never reported the news. Not one time but we found a lot of emotional finger pointers. Great theatre.

Thanks.

Some of the complaints remind me of the old Borscht Belt joke when someone was asked how they liked their meal – “the food is terrible – and the portions are so small.”

I will note, however, that JJ generally puts forth a great deal of effort to not have a “side,” in the sense of an ideological or partisan checkbox.

Indeed, the very post we are ostensibly discussing proves the point. From my perspective, JJ’s earlier Katrina-related posts tended to fall into the category of “There’s-plenty-of-blame-to-go-around-but-I’m-only-going-to-focus-on-FEMA” that you tended to see around the ’sphere (Joe Gandelman, anyone?).

But I think he has moved much more toward recognizing the failures that occurred at the state and local level. Moreover, his posts also suggest to me that he has come to realize that people looking at the flaws in the media coverage are not doing so to diminish the tragedy, but are at least in part concerned that shoddy media coverage may lead to shoddy public policy and future tragedies.

The folks peeved with Jeff here — with whom I think it is safe to say I am in general agreement more often than not — should ask themselves whether Meet The Press will have a correction on the TV show itself as prominent as JJ made his in his space. Or whether MTP or the NBC Nightly News will do a segment on the degree to which urban legend got repeated as fact in this episode.

I would be surprised if the answers to those questions were ‘yes.” Those issues are being discussed here. I think it’s easily provable that JJ is far more willing to consider an opposing view and even change his mind than the MSM. But I have observed that demanding that JJ join a “side” is among the least effective ways of getting him to do so.

Thanks again for your comments. I think you’ve hit on one of the major reasons why newspapers who view themselves as “liberal”, such as the NY Times, whose ombudsman came right out and admitted that they are a “liberal newspaper,” are laying off their staff by the hundreds.

It’s pretty obvious that what Jeff wants here is an echo chamber. If anyone disagrees with him, or questions one of his posts, they are to be chastised as comment trolls and post-hijackers, or their comments get moderated or deleted. His intention is that they go away.

He’s no better than the editor at the NY Times who gets to decide which letter gets printed the next day.

I haven’t gone away. I still read this blog. I’ve just stopped rewarding Jeff with traffic, to punish him.

If he posts any more lies, which he did when he latched onto Aaron Broussard’s hoax and headlined it by alleging there was some sort of “cover-up,” I’ll expose them … but I’ll do it on my own blog, rather than give Jeff the gift of eyeballs that he can then sell to his advertisers and get speaking engagements on CNN and consulting jobs in the MSM.

For Jeff, it seems, i’s all about the Benjaman’s, and his own ego.

The NY Times isn’t the only liberal organ that can have its ass fact-checked. Jeff Jarvis can have his checked too. That’s the beauty of the blogosphere. A simple man, living a simple life, can debunk the powerful, speaking truth to their power, all while sitting at home in his pajamas and not even breaking a sweat.

http://chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=16900

Boy, I miss preview

And now, thanks to the non-governing of the government of one moronic state, fed powers are to be enlarged. Will be disappointed in Bush if he doesn’t limit it to the first few days of a disaster only.

“Giving the federal government the power to declare martial law over a state by decree, without asking the consent of the state’s governor, would be a betrayal of much of the freedom for which our forefathers fought”.

“Now we’ve come to a point where we’re actually considering whether to cede state control to a vastly more powerful central government than our founders could have envisioned.”

Then again, they could not have envisioned anything like the elected officials of NO and LA trying to run things.

I say this after observing at least three episodes of clamping down on the conservatives who comment here in the last three weeks, either through chastising them to the point that they permanently leave (RightNumberOne) or killing their comments. I see the numbers of posters here dwindling all ’round.

FREE SPEECH FOR ONLY THE LEFT! Yay? That would be the way of the dinosaur MSM, Jeff. Are you better than them or just part ‘n parcel?

It is your home, Jeff. With all due respect, the way in which you are monitoring your site suggests to me that you don’t much ‘care’ about the conservatives who breathe such life here. For example, I guess you missed the fact that kat was the commenter who blew up the Broussard lie a few days ago, citing authority for it – right here. I guess you needed MSNBC to tell you instead of some ‘citizen journalist’ like kat, whose comment you instead ‘killed’.