OK, I’ve been REAL busy doing interviews and then taking care of the care, feeding, and placement of the videos
Sidenote: which means take the video, transfer to the PC, bring it into the editing software, start chopping it up, export each question (making sure to, you know, write the question down), upload to YouTube, make the post on GraniteGrok, and then filling in the “post” on YouTube – not a small amount of time and I just do it as a blogger and not taking the time that a REAL videographer would be taking (ouch!)
and since I’ve been running 4 threads per day for a while, that DOES take up a lot of time prepping. But they’re almost all up and scheduled, so back to writing. Finally. Now to play lots of catchup here.
A horrendous event in Aurora, CO for the midnight screening of Batman. Now, I’m not a movie person and there’s no way that I’m going to a midnight showing of pretty much anything except the “count the sheep” flick (I’m such a fuddy-duddy). But now we have the one of “our national discussions” once again. I have a bunch of things to say but a couple of things real quick.
First, why hasn’t ABC’s “Chief Investigative Reporter” (and using the scare quotes deliberately) been fired yet? You know, bloggers get dumped on all the time by the lazy Mainstream Press all the time because we do not have the “layers of editors and fact checkers” that they do (well, when you have no income from what you do and still have to pay the hosting charges, there is no money for those “layers”). Yet, to say that Brian Ross was irresponsible is to say that a tsunami will give you a bad hair day. Years and years of being the “go to Journalist” allowed he and Democrat hack George Stephanopoulas (also posing as a tried and true journo) breathlessly coming up with fact they wanted “Hey, this guy, this James Holmes, HE’S A TEA PARTY GUY!”. They thought they finally had the clincher to the meme they’ve being trying to make for the last three years – TEA Party folks are violent and gun crazy”. Yet, a simple Google search showed up an entire network’s resources as being worse than being Lefty hacks – in fact, they were just incompetent, untrustworthy, and in the rush to “move the story”, showed their ideological spines under the bright TV lights (in fact, they guy they “found” was in his 50s and not like the shooter who was in his 20s).
Yet, how forthcoming was ABC on issuing an apology? Not far at all, it seems – a “move along, nothing to see here”:
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