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So I use my friends' list as an RSS list. I read a number of progressive blogs this way -- The Sideshow, Crooks and Liars, Atrios, Digby, calitics -- a few others. (I dropped DailyKos because I can't keep up with it). I also have RSS feeds to some science blogs and The Scientific American, and so on.
Increasingly, I notice that there are right-wing political ads sprinkled through out my friends' list. I finally got around to complaining. I don't know if they are inserted at the LJ level or by whoever does the RSS feeds but it pisses me off that the content of my reading is dishonestly coupled with its opposite, in frequently misleading or disingenuous ways.
I'd like ti if everyone who sees this happen even once also complains.
We need to call the creeps on every little trick of theirs and not let them get away with anything,. And no, these aren't just freedom-of-speech ads, they're, as I said, misleading little squibs that don't make their case honestly and by putting them on progressive blogs like they the implication is that whatever weird position is being pushed by the ad is consistent with the argument in the blog.
Speaking of dishonesty and not making a straightforward case, I listened to an aggregate ten minutes of the debate between Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman today. The woman is more devil the more I know about her. She committed maybe ten lies in her four minutes of the time, and failed to directly address any of the questions. Whereas Jerry Brown -- who is definitely not a left-winger, okay? -- came off as an honest bureaucrat with honest workaday procedural responses to real problems of governance. I think I actually respect Brown now: I've had my doubts at various times in the past, though I can't think of a time when he was running for something I could vote for that I didn't vote for him. So even if it wasn't that horrible, horrible, mean-spirited, dishonest, irresponsible woman he was running against,. I'd vote for him.
Increasingly, I notice that there are right-wing political ads sprinkled through out my friends' list. I finally got around to complaining. I don't know if they are inserted at the LJ level or by whoever does the RSS feeds but it pisses me off that the content of my reading is dishonestly coupled with its opposite, in frequently misleading or disingenuous ways.
I'd like ti if everyone who sees this happen even once also complains.
We need to call the creeps on every little trick of theirs and not let them get away with anything,. And no, these aren't just freedom-of-speech ads, they're, as I said, misleading little squibs that don't make their case honestly and by putting them on progressive blogs like they the implication is that whatever weird position is being pushed by the ad is consistent with the argument in the blog.
Speaking of dishonesty and not making a straightforward case, I listened to an aggregate ten minutes of the debate between Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman today. The woman is more devil the more I know about her. She committed maybe ten lies in her four minutes of the time, and failed to directly address any of the questions. Whereas Jerry Brown -- who is definitely not a left-winger, okay? -- came off as an honest bureaucrat with honest workaday procedural responses to real problems of governance. I think I actually respect Brown now: I've had my doubts at various times in the past, though I can't think of a time when he was running for something I could vote for that I didn't vote for him. So even if it wasn't that horrible, horrible, mean-spirited, dishonest, irresponsible woman he was running against,. I'd vote for him.
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