I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
so Rush admits she is part of the VRWC? Or is he reacting to all the attention she's been getting lately from our side?
Oh, by the way...
unelectable.com
Nedra Pickler defended by Headcase Pickled. They're the perfect pair.
Drug addled neo-cons support Pickler. What a surprise.
One might think that a pigboy endorsement isn't quite as exciting now as it might have been in the past.
Interesting anagrams:
Crank Replied
Replace Drink
Learned Prick
Panderer Lick
Crap Rekindle
Sounds like AP's being flooded with complaints, and not just from irate readers.
Who on earth is she??
we will expose their lies one by one until we take back this country!
(applause.....................roarofthecrowd......
..balloonsfallfromtheceiling........whistling.....
applause.......airrrrrrr...horrrrrrns.............
.................applaussssssssssssee.............
.......)
Save yourself first, Rushlie. Your dittodicks depend on you. Don't waste what few brain cells you have left on that little twat.
Slightly OT (for Ms. Pickler, at least): the Associated Press posts its Code of Ethics at http://www.apme.com/about/
code_e...de_ethics.shtml Like all good codes, the AP's code sounds great, full of the high principles that would draw idealistic undergraduates to the profession. However, I wonder if AP reporters such as Ms. Pickler are required to read it, let alone think about its implications for their work. I also wonder about WaPO and AP editors.
I think that my favorite Code paragraph is: "The newspaper should serve as a constructive critic of all segments of society. It should reasonably reflect, in staffing and coverage, its diverse constituencies. It should vigorously expose wrongdoing, duplicity or misuse of power, public or private. Editorially, it should advocate needed reform and innovation in the public interest. News sources should be disclosed unless there is a clear reason not to do so. When it is necessary to protect the confidentiality of a source, the reason should be explained."
[Homework assignment for the student: Select any paragraph of the code, then describe in 100 words or less the most blatant violation of the code by a US journalist in the last year. It won't take you very long, even if you exclude employees of Fox News....]
Tangentially related to this (in a media criticsm sort of way): I just finished listening to NPR's "On the Media" and the first segement was an interview with Ted Koppel regarding all of his bullshit process questions during the debate.
Brooke Gladstone hit all the major points we have already seen discussed at length here and elsewhere. Koppel cam off sounding defensive and somewhat diparaging of the criticisms, predictibly implying that they are coming from party elites, and that the everyman out in TV-Land really wants to hear about party insider stuff.
If you're wondering why the brownshirts are frightened so (from the Dean campaign blog):
On Tuesday, we put up the bat and asked you to raise $500,000 to thank Vice President Gore for his endorsement of our campaign.
And tonight, 8,859 Americans have raised an incredible $695,658 in honor of the Vice President and our campaign.
You have shown that in 2004, the grassroots have the power to take on the special interests. And together, we will take our country back.
Nedra! Help!!!
tinyurl.com. Pretty please.
What's worse, being attacked by sleep-deprived, caffeinated liberals or being defended by Rush?
Dude, if he was on my side, I'd be worried about my immortal soul.
A.
So by Nedran Rules Oratory, or Big Pickling, in order to mention any fact (A) you must not fail to point out a tangentially or, sometimes, not related other fact (Q). Incidentally, Talking Barbie finds math to be "so hard".
Thus:
According to some communists, racism is just wrong (A), but Tito's Yugoslavia was not a complete paradise(Q).
George W. Bush is either habitually or willfully uinformed or a congenital liar (A) but then again haven't we all lied at some time or another (Q)?
sorry about above, hadn't seen comments for post below (11:11)
George W. Bush is either habitually or willfully uinformed or a congenital liar...
No, he's simply unelectable.
That's unelectable, unelectable, unelectable!
For the doomers and gloomers among you, consider this:
Outside of Eschaton, I've never heard of Nedra Pickler.
But Rush has raised her to "celebrity" status. Why? What's grumbling at the ground level that's suddenly attracted his attention? It's not like she's the "Ashleigh Banfield" of FoxNews, or something. she's just a faceless AP reporter.
Interesting that the "VRWC" is so worried. Very interesting.
She sure is hacktacular, isn't she?
From the flintclub.com website:
Nedra Pickler was born in Flint, but the family moved to Arkansas to run a catfish farm when she was four years old. Her family returned to the area in 1984 and settled in Burton. Nedra graduated from Bentley High School in 1994 and went to Michigan State University. She earned a bachelor's degree in journalism in 1998 and spent her last semester living on a ship, traveling to 10 foreign countries with the Semester at Sea program. Nedra now covers the nation's capital for The Associated Press. She lives in Washington with her younger sister, Anna, but the Pickler girls still consider Flint their real home and go back to visit their mother and friends as often as they can. In 2001, Nedra started the Marcy Pickler Scholarship to honor her mother and support Bentley graduates who go to college.
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Maybe the time in Arkansas on a catfish farm soured her on Democratic politics.
I've sent my ever-so-slightly sarcastic email to the AP, anyway.
keep writing the letters to the AP and the papers that reprint the articles. I think this is a good sign--someone is noticing. Also either Limbaugh has a mole in the AP or maybe Limbaugh monitors Atrios. I suspect the latter.
You're going to make her famous, Atrios. Will she ever thank you? Don't wait up nights.
Also either Limbaugh has a mole in the AP or maybe Limbaugh monitors Atrios. I suspect the latter.
In one of the WH'ho discussions s/he said, what I took at the time to be facetiously, that "AP is owned by Karl Rove." I think that was the 'ho's first appearance. Subsequently, another journalist on this list, skippy?, said that the national managing editor was a prominent Bush operative (paraphrasing here.)
Given the slant of their coverage, my theory is that the pill-popping gasbag is reading his nationally distributed talking points, along with the Associated Press. The corn-fed Nedra-'ho is just a conduit. Not talented enough to thinly veil her hackery.
My question is: Who the hell is Nedra's editor? And why is he or she uable or unwilling to do his or her job? I guess AP has given her a blog with a byline. Damn liberal media.
Speaking of Nedra Pickler fun, I sent her an email several days ago about her debate "story." I got the following reply (it's probably a form letter, so maybe someone else has posted it):
"Thanks for sending me your thoughts. It's always helpful for me to get
feedback from readers.
I understand that you have disagreements with the article, but I would
like to point out a couple things that may help you understand that it
was not written out of any partisan bias, but a desire to show the other
side of the story that viewers of a Democratic debate do not get.
If you search an archive of AP stories from previous elections, you will
see that we have also done these fact checking stories on the debate
performances of George Bush and other Republicans, including their
mischaracterizations of the Clinton record. And once President Bush
participates in the debates next year, we will also point out
misstatements that he makes.
Also, please realize that this article was written as a sidebar to a
much longer story that we had about the debate, telling the positions
and statements made by the Democratic candidates. This story was not
designed to be the complete picture of the debate, but the two were
written as a package.
Sincerely,
Nedra Pickler"
So it's Rush who's Big Pharma now, not La Sullivan?
Well, Rush is physically bigger than Andy, I reckon...
Check out the last paragraph of Rush's diatribe. I'm not making this up.
But stop and think, my friends. What else has been going on during this Supreme Court term? Sodomy, my friends. Sodomy is a constitutionally protected right now. Free speech, political speech, is not constitutionally protected. I'm sure, I am confident that's what the Founding Fathers and the framers of the Constitution intended and had in mind, right? Sodomy protected by the Constitution, free speech not. So the question now is, you cannot run a commercial, a candidate cannot run commercials 60 or 30 days before a primary or general election, but sodomy is legal throughout the country. The question now is: "Can a candidate be sodomized 60 days before a general election."
yeah, but Andy has powerful gluttocks (correct sp.?) that can milk white loads quite effectively, or at least I have heard...
In a story yesterday (find it via Google News), Pickler wrote
"But when he criticises Bush's links to Lay, Dean never mentions that Enron's mismanagement was not the result of the president's tax-cut package."
Uh-huh.
Nedra would be 27 or so. Is this young for a major pressbeat from a big wire service?
Also read about a month or so ago of a very recent lower tier journalism school grad who was named to a top slot in CNN management. This may be "deploying political correctness" (young Black journalists?) to further right wing causes.
Agent,
Nedra the APGOP operative is a young white corn-fed queen.
Nedra grew up in Arkansas? Time to blame an encounter with the Clenis™1
Don't forget that Peter Jennings is a high-school dropout. Nedra is probably overqualified for her job. After all, critical thinking skills only get in the way of spin and lies.
Rush should be worried about her job, a first year high school journalist student wouldn't come up with such preposterous conclusions.
She should be fired, and so should her editor. Morons.
Rush and Nedra sitting in a tree...
The question now is: "Can a candidate be sodomized 60 days before a general election."
why not? In 2000, the whole country was sodomized after the election by the Supreme Court.
kansasred77: it's probably a form email, but who knows? I emailed her a few hours after her debate 'article' was posted and received an email back that was a bit less 'formy'.
Love it love it love it love it...Nedra goodbye and take Limbo with...
"The question now is: "Can a candidate be sodomized 60 days before a general election."'
With the likes of Ms. Pickler handling the campaign coverage, it should be no problem. She works for AP, so the ban would not apply. And she has shown a proclivity for Rush's type of sodmoy already by repeatedly reaming the Dem candidates and sucking up to GWB in the most obscene manner yet seen this election season ... by any so called 'mainstream' reporter.
I suspect they are a bit unnerved that we have pounded on her with such ferocity and she has just barely begun to dispense her poison.
"Time to blame an encounter with the Clenis™"
Of course! The Ignorance In Broadcasting network is nothing without the Clenis™. If Rush can blame the Clintons for the flu vaccine shortage (which I heard him do), why not this?
I have the best idea for a Rush Limbaugh game (several actually); I think I need to get Flash...
I actually have wondered whether Nedra isn't Sully. Note the near anagram of the first name. And with a last name like "Pickler," I'm not surprised Rush is worried about her free speech.
One way or another, I am convinced she's a joke being played on us by Karl Rove.
September 11, 2003 Rush says
I think the honeymoon with the press and Howard Dean is over. This is a story by Nedra Pickler (quickly becoming my favorite name in all of the media) The Associated Press: "Democrat Howard Dean's claim that he's the only white politician who talks about race to white audiences drew criticism yesterday from his presidential rivals." ........The next line is, "Dean was wrong." This is not an editorial. This is not an analysis piece. This is a news story, and here you've got a reporter interjecting her thought on a political claim, in essence verifying a political claim. They just don't do it. ......Howard Dean makes the claim that he's the only white politician that ever talks about race in front of white audiences, and here comes Nedra Pickler saying he's wrong. Edwards urges racial tolerance in nearly every - and here comes the verification - this reporter, this whole story is to prove Dean wrong. You never see this.
I think it's obvious that when the complaints started coming in AP, Nedra, sent an email to Rush.
That last paragraph of Rush's is pure incoherent stream of consciouness. Is he back on the blues?
First of all, what honeymoon between Dean and the press? The coverage of John McCain was much more fawning during his honeymoon period ( I adored every word, too ).
And, Don't forget that Peter Jennings is a high-school dropout. Also a god among anchors, who still does his own reporting and kicks ass six ways from Sunday. Peter Jennings is the antithesis of the overeducated, ruined-by-journalism-school "journalist." In Peter I Trust.
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