Comments on: She’s a ______ http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/04/09/shes-a-______/ by Jeff Jarvis Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:09:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Amy Alkon http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/04/09/shes-a-______/#comment-38117 Amy Alkon Wed, 12 Apr 2006 22:47:49 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/04/09/shes-a-______/#comment-38117 <i>"I had a choice of working midnight-shift in Chicago or dayside in Detroit. I chose midnights in Chicago."</i> A wise choice! I was an intern at WDIV in Detroit, and then at UPI in D.C. (when it was still in its heyday). Always enjoy your blog and your passion for free speech, which I share. Another question for you: Do you feel journalism school (I'm suspecting you went to grad school) was worthwhile, or do you feel young journos can get the training they need by getting their butt kicked by a good editor for a few years? “I had a choice of working midnight-shift in Chicago or dayside in Detroit. I chose midnights in Chicago.”

A wise choice! I was an intern at WDIV in Detroit, and then at UPI in D.C. (when it was still in its heyday).

Always enjoy your blog and your passion for free speech, which I share.

Another question for you: Do you feel journalism school (I’m suspecting you went to grad school) was worthwhile, or do you feel young journos can get the training they need by getting their butt kicked by a good editor for a few years?

]]> By: Angelos http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/04/09/shes-a-______/#comment-37989 Angelos Wed, 12 Apr 2006 14:03:46 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/04/09/shes-a-______/#comment-37989 Ah yes, the reasoned response of the simpleton. Stumbling over the complete sentences again? Here, let's try this: Heh, heh, you see, I don't know that, heh, heh, you know, heh, need another drink, heh, ... Ah yes, the reasoned response of the simpleton. Stumbling over the complete sentences again?

Here, let’s try this:

Heh, heh, you see, I don’t know that, heh, heh, you know, heh, need another drink, heh, …

]]> By: sam http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/04/09/shes-a-______/#comment-37984 sam Wed, 12 Apr 2006 13:41:17 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/04/09/shes-a-______/#comment-37984 Jon Chait needs to untwist his underwear and you need to have a double seltzer and calm down. Jon Chait needs to untwist his underwear and you need to have a double seltzer and calm down.

]]> By: Angelos http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/04/09/shes-a-______/#comment-37971 Angelos Wed, 12 Apr 2006 12:52:23 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/04/09/shes-a-______/#comment-37971 To a simpleton, an intelligent man using complete sentences sounds like a "blowhard" I guess. To people who want a president who won't destroy 230 years of history in just 8 years, we kind of look for those smart people who care about America. As a friend of mine wrote: <i>...Jon Chait has a great piece in the New Republic about Red State Elitism. Chait dares to wonder in print how our culture has decided that people with education, adventurous tastes, progressive values and a preference for city living are somehow presumptively arrogant and elitist, while giving a free pass to Red Staters with their smug certainty in their own patriotism, righteous values, and eventual salvation. Since when did rednecks, sexophobes, bible thumpers, gun owners, Fox News watchers and folks who pay so little attention to public affairs that they still believe Iraq was behind the 9/11 attack get a greater claim to "authenticity" as it relates to our political discourse than their fellow Americans living on the coasts, in university towns or in old union cities who happen to have different views and lifestyles? This is an important question, since some newspaper editors seem to have internalized this upside down view of elitism and are unduly intimidated by complaints that appear to come from these more "authentic" Americans.</i> Remember sam, smart is a good thing, not a bad one. As you can see in Bush's every action and every public utterance, stupid is a bad, bad thing. To a simpleton, an intelligent man using complete sentences sounds like a “blowhard” I guess. To people who want a president who won’t destroy 230 years of history in just 8 years, we kind of look for those smart people who care about America.

As a friend of mine wrote:
…Jon Chait has a great piece in the New Republic about Red State Elitism. Chait dares to wonder in print how our culture has decided that people with education, adventurous tastes, progressive values and a preference for city living are somehow presumptively arrogant and elitist, while giving a free pass to Red Staters with their smug certainty in their own patriotism, righteous values, and eventual salvation. Since when did rednecks, sexophobes, bible thumpers, gun owners, Fox News watchers and folks who pay so little attention to public affairs that they still believe Iraq was behind the 9/11 attack get a greater claim to “authenticity” as it relates to our political discourse than their fellow Americans living on the coasts, in university towns or in old union cities who happen to have different views and lifestyles? This is an important question, since some newspaper editors seem to have internalized this upside down view of elitism and are unduly intimidated by complaints that appear to come from these more “authentic” Americans.

Remember sam, smart is a good thing, not a bad one. As you can see in Bush’s every action and every public utterance, stupid is a bad, bad thing.

]]> By: sam http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/04/09/shes-a-______/#comment-37549 sam Tue, 11 Apr 2006 13:14:55 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/04/09/shes-a-______/#comment-37549 Not criticizing Kerry for pandering to religious interests...but his statement is so transparent that it's ludicrous. And that's the problem with John Kerry, he's a blowhard. All talk, all pomposity. Not criticizing Kerry for pandering to religious interests…but his statement is so transparent that it’s ludicrous. And that’s the problem with John Kerry, he’s a blowhard. All talk, all pomposity.

]]> By: Angelos http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/04/09/shes-a-______/#comment-37544 Angelos Tue, 11 Apr 2006 13:03:30 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/04/09/shes-a-______/#comment-37544 He can't answer ANY question. He never has! And he's a leader? He might be qualified to manage the night shift at my local Sunoco. <i>Might...</i> Please don't tell me you're criticizing Kerry for pandering to religious interests, as if he were alone. But last I checked, he was a practicing Catholic. Not a pseudo-religious cokehead using Jesus's name whenever it was convenient for campaigning, who woulnd't understand the philosophies espoused by "Jesus" if they were spelled out with crayon in words no longer than 2 syllables. He can’t answer ANY question. He never has! And he’s a leader? He might be qualified to manage the night shift at my local Sunoco. Might…

Please don’t tell me you’re criticizing Kerry for pandering to religious interests, as if he were alone. But last I checked, he was a practicing Catholic. Not a pseudo-religious cokehead using Jesus’s name whenever it was convenient for campaigning, who woulnd’t understand the philosophies espoused by “Jesus” if they were spelled out with crayon in words no longer than 2 syllables.

]]> By: sam http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/04/09/shes-a-______/#comment-37417 sam Tue, 11 Apr 2006 04:48:42 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/04/09/shes-a-______/#comment-37417 Big deal, Angelos, he couldn't answer a question. I thank our lucky stars every single day that that blowhard Kerry isn't our president. http://www.tnr.com/blog/theplank?pid=13168. To excerpt from Marty Peretz's column in TNR referenced above: "The Times alluded to Kerry's well-known verbosity. So it wasn't surprising that he also went off and said, "Not in one phrase uttered and reported by the Lord Jesus Christ, can you find anything that suggests that there is a virtue in cutting children from Medicare...Kerry asserted that "the Koran, the Torah, the Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles had influenced a social conscience that he exercised in politics." My God, what bullshit politicians feel obliged to utter! Or maybe the bullshit is already second nature, or even first. But since Kerry raised it, let me ask: What hadith of the Prophet influenced him the most, and why? And here I have a personal interest: Which of the injunctions of Leviticus and who among the Prophets have the most meaning for him? Ordinarily, of course, I wouldn't ask such personal questions of a politician. In the spirit of Jesus, Kerry will certainly forgive me for doing so. " Big deal, Angelos, he couldn’t answer a question. I thank our lucky stars every single day that that blowhard Kerry isn’t our president. http://www.tnr.com/blog/theplank?pid=13168. To excerpt from Marty Peretz’s column in TNR referenced above: “The Times alluded to Kerry’s well-known verbosity. So it wasn’t surprising that he also went off and said, “Not in one phrase uttered and reported by the Lord Jesus Christ, can you find anything that suggests that there is a virtue in cutting children from Medicare…Kerry asserted that “the Koran, the Torah, the Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles had influenced a social conscience that he exercised in politics.” My God, what bullshit politicians feel obliged to utter! Or maybe the bullshit is already second nature, or even first. But since Kerry raised it, let me ask: What hadith of the Prophet influenced him the most, and why? And here I have a personal interest: Which of the injunctions of Leviticus and who among the Prophets have the most meaning for him? Ordinarily, of course, I wouldn’t ask such personal questions of a politician. In the spirit of Jesus, Kerry will certainly forgive me for doing so. “

]]> By: Angelos http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/04/09/shes-a-______/#comment-37388 Angelos Tue, 11 Apr 2006 02:41:04 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/04/09/shes-a-______/#comment-37388 Pardon the typo, most of the blogs I visit have Preview on the right, and I clicked too soon... Pardon the typo, most of the blogs I visit have Preview on the right, and I clicked too soon…

]]> By: Angelos http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/04/09/shes-a-______/#comment-37387 Angelos Tue, 11 Apr 2006 02:38:24 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/04/09/shes-a-______/#comment-37387 Oh, and Sam, this is how you're supposed to "take that": you're president is an idiot. <a href="http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2006/04/unbelievable-video-of-bush.html" rel="nofollow">Case in point...</a> Oh, and Sam, this is how you’re supposed to “take that”: you’re president is an idiot.

Case in point…

]]> By: Angelos http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/04/09/shes-a-______/#comment-37286 Angelos Mon, 10 Apr 2006 19:42:31 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/04/09/shes-a-______/#comment-37286 Including all the Number 3s? You're buying that too? Including all the Number 3s?

You’re buying that too?

]]> By: Undertoad http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/04/09/shes-a-______/#comment-37274 Undertoad Mon, 10 Apr 2006 18:59:04 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/04/09/shes-a-______/#comment-37274 Fine, then let's go to criterion of success #2: 75% of AQ leadership killed or captured. Fine, then let’s go to criterion of success #2: 75% of AQ leadership killed or captured.

]]> By: Angelos http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/04/09/shes-a-______/#comment-37243 Angelos Mon, 10 Apr 2006 17:30:43 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/04/09/shes-a-______/#comment-37243 And no city-drowning hurricanes since Katrina either... Your answer defies all logic. Which explains everything. And no city-drowning hurricanes since Katrina either…

Your answer defies all logic. Which explains everything.

]]> By: Undertoad http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/04/09/shes-a-______/#comment-37208 Undertoad Mon, 10 Apr 2006 15:37:36 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/04/09/shes-a-______/#comment-37208 I'm sure one can snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, or vice versa depending on which narrative you read. But no new attacks on US soil is criterion #1, and to hell with criteria #2 through #100, when I personally judge whether "it's working" or not. I’m sure one can snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, or vice versa depending on which narrative you read. But no new attacks on US soil is criterion #1, and to hell with criteria #2 through #100, when I personally judge whether “it’s working” or not.

]]> By: Angelos http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/04/09/shes-a-______/#comment-37187 Angelos Mon, 10 Apr 2006 15:14:48 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/04/09/shes-a-______/#comment-37187 Um, who's ass did we kick? Really, what successes are you pointing to here, toad? Um, who’s ass did we kick?

Really, what successes are you pointing to here, toad?

]]> By: deb markham http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/04/09/shes-a-______/#comment-37185 deb markham Mon, 10 Apr 2006 15:06:45 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/04/09/shes-a-______/#comment-37185 Couric is a great face for the Today show. "Real, serious" news coming from her chubby cheecks and bouncy bob, however, is a hard sell. News is news, so that goes without saying. Couric's name is cache. Nonetheless, isn't there a better newswoman out there? Maybe I'm just too judgemental, sexist and plain hard on women. Couric is a great face for the Today show. “Real, serious” news coming from her chubby cheecks and bouncy bob, however, is a hard sell. News is news, so that goes without saying. Couric’s name is cache. Nonetheless, isn’t there a better newswoman out there? Maybe I’m just too judgemental, sexist and plain hard on women.

]]> By: JohnnyL http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/04/09/shes-a-______/#comment-37157 JohnnyL Mon, 10 Apr 2006 13:56:53 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/04/09/shes-a-______/#comment-37157 Is there still an evening news on TV? Its been so long since I watched that I just assumed it no longer existed. Is there still an evening news on TV? Its been so long since I watched that I just assumed it no longer existed.

]]> By: Undertoad http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/04/09/shes-a-______/#comment-37152 Undertoad Mon, 10 Apr 2006 13:51:32 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/04/09/shes-a-______/#comment-37152 We're ready for a smart government, partisanism aside, but I'm sure the enemy does not take much shelter in the idea that this rather dumb one has kicked their asses nine different ways so far. We’re ready for a smart government, partisanism aside, but I’m sure the enemy does not take much shelter in the idea that this rather dumb one has kicked their asses nine different ways so far.

]]> By: tigh http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/04/09/shes-a-______/#comment-37107 tigh Mon, 10 Apr 2006 12:00:50 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/04/09/shes-a-______/#comment-37107 Well, I for one am looking forward to the renewal of synergy in the media. Colonectamies don for Columbine Survivors... It has it all; Katie, Colons and Columbine with a twitch of Survivor just to round it all off... Well, I for one am looking forward to the renewal of synergy in the media. Colonectamies don for Columbine Survivors… It has it all; Katie, Colons and Columbine with a twitch of Survivor just to round it all off…

]]> By: CaptiousNut http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/04/09/shes-a-______/#comment-37106 CaptiousNut Mon, 10 Apr 2006 11:58:57 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/04/09/shes-a-______/#comment-37106 More than anything we need Congressional reform with term limits, etc. More than anything we need Congressional reform with term limits, etc.

]]> By: sam http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/04/09/shes-a-______/#comment-36998 sam Mon, 10 Apr 2006 04:03:30 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/04/09/shes-a-______/#comment-36998 Sorry, Jeff, but when you say, "We’re ready for a smart President," and we only have one president at a time, how am I supposed to take that comment? Sorry, Jeff, but when you say, “We’re ready for a smart President,” and we only have one president at a time, how am I supposed to take that comment?

]]> By: Jeff Jarvis http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/04/09/shes-a-______/#comment-36979 Jeff Jarvis Mon, 10 Apr 2006 02:39:49 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/04/09/shes-a-______/#comment-36979 Sam, Methinks ye doth protest too much. I didn't say anything about this president. You're projecting. Sam,
Methinks ye doth protest too much. I didn’t say anything about this president. You’re projecting.

]]> By: sam http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/04/09/shes-a-______/#comment-36950 sam Mon, 10 Apr 2006 01:13:04 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/04/09/shes-a-______/#comment-36950 Jeff, for the most part I enjoy reading your comments, even when I don't agree, but I'm really sick and tired of the media factotums, liberals in general, and you taking gratuitous -- not to mention out of context -- swipes at the president. He's got a tough job and, believe it or not, we are at war with an enemy the likes of which we have never met before. (Go back and review the videotape of 9/11 which has largely been hidden from view the past few years). This constant unjustified drumbeat that the prez is an idiot that is broadcast around the world ultimately serves to undermine him when dealing with psycopaths like Hamas or the Saudi monarchy. You may not agree with him, and he may not be as articulate and smooth as Bill Clinton, or as worldly as Madeline Albright who debased herself and her country by running after Yasser Arafat when he walked out of a meeting, but I wouldn't play poker with that guy unless I really knew what I was doing. In Texas, he beat incumbent Ann Richards, thought to be shoe-in for for a 2nd term; beat incumbent vp Al Gore (the election was his to loose--and is NO braniac, despite the popular wisdom of the press); beat John Kerry; got most of his agenda through Congress; and while the Eurosnots whine about the American cowboy, has the new democracies of Eastern Europe solidly on his side. Bush has, if nothing else, commanded the attention of the Arab despots who respect strength and resolution even in their adversaries. The constant carping diminishes you more than him. Jeff, for the most part I enjoy reading your comments, even when I don’t agree, but I’m really sick and tired of the media factotums, liberals in general, and you taking gratuitous — not to mention out of context — swipes at the president. He’s got a tough job and, believe it or not, we are at war with an enemy the likes of which we have never met before. (Go back and review the videotape of 9/11 which has largely been hidden from view the past few years). This constant unjustified drumbeat that the prez is an idiot that is broadcast around the world ultimately serves to undermine him when dealing with psycopaths like Hamas or the Saudi monarchy. You may not agree with him, and he may not be as articulate and smooth as Bill Clinton, or as worldly as Madeline Albright who debased herself and her country by running after Yasser Arafat when he walked out of a meeting, but I wouldn’t play poker with that guy unless I really knew what I was doing. In Texas, he beat incumbent Ann Richards, thought to be shoe-in for for a 2nd term; beat incumbent vp Al Gore (the election was his to loose–and is NO braniac, despite the popular wisdom of the press); beat John Kerry; got most of his agenda through Congress; and while the Eurosnots whine about the American cowboy, has the new democracies of Eastern Europe solidly on his side. Bush has, if nothing else, commanded the attention of the Arab despots who respect strength and resolution even in their adversaries. The constant carping diminishes you more than him.

]]> By: Hafner http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/04/09/shes-a-______/#comment-36906 Hafner Sun, 09 Apr 2006 23:00:23 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/04/09/shes-a-______/#comment-36906 An excellent female lawyer leaving her criminal practice for a quiet lifetime job on the bench told me, "Law is not a meritocracy. I'll never be invited to play golf with the judges, and that's where the deals are made." It's not the theory but the customs that stand in the way of nonchalant equality. An excellent female lawyer leaving her criminal practice for a quiet lifetime job on the bench told me, “Law is not a meritocracy. I’ll never be invited to play golf with the judges, and that’s where the deals are made.”

It’s not the theory but the customs that stand in the way of nonchalant equality.

]]> By: steve baker http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/04/09/shes-a-______/#comment-36885 steve baker Sun, 09 Apr 2006 22:03:15 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/04/09/shes-a-______/#comment-36885 "So what?" is certainly my response to Couric's assignment. I'd imagine that plenty of women in the country hold more important jobs. “So what?” is certainly my response to Couric’s assignment. I’d imagine that plenty of women in the country hold more important jobs.

]]> By: Diane Ensey http://www.buzzmachine.com/2006/04/09/shes-a-______/#comment-36879 Diane Ensey Sun, 09 Apr 2006 21:45:49 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/04/09/shes-a-______/#comment-36879 We are only now getting to the point where it is not unusual to see women in high-level jobs. Give it another 5 years and the "first woman to ___" will be obsolete. We are only now getting to the point where it is not unusual to see women in high-level jobs. Give it another 5 years and the “first woman to ___” will be obsolete.

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