I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
"When Atrios declared Monday 'Write Like Nedra Pickler Day,' he forgot she'll soon be delivering spoken commentary on Faux News."
Wait, that's not a non-sequitor... ok, I got 'til Monday...
The Democrats, who negelected to admit they were the cause of all evil in the world, showed their true colors today while ...
While Atrios declares that December 15 is Nedra Pickler day, he fails to point out that Howard Dean has nude hot tob parties with Ken Lay and Osama bin Laden.
I guess she's just a drag racing pickle maker - or just needs a tickle with a pickle.
NEDRA: National Electric Drag Racing Association.
Pickler: One who makes pickles.
declared pickler day
but is not himself ned pickler
unfair!
But when Nerda criticizes the Democratic candidates, she never mentions that Preznit giv her turkee.
When Atrios declared "Write Like Nedra Pickler Day," he forgot to mention she is hopelessly insane and should be institutionalized instead of writing for a newspaper.
Oops, that doesn't really work.
I really need to stop being reasonable by Monday or I'll be disqualified.
At the debate, some Democrats openly questioned the President's policies but failed to mention that the 1st Amendment is widely considered to be outdated and useless.
when nedra pontificates, she knows her "liberal" editors and the "liberal" pundits won't point out her incompetant, clumsy bias, and will indeed act like she's a real journalist.
...wait a minute, that's not funny at all...
At the December 9 debate, the Democrat Party candidates failed to mention that their policies were objectively pro-Saddam.
I want extra points for using "democrat party"!!
Nedra Pickler? Audrey Farber? Betty Jo Bialovski?
Ha, ha, ha!!
I will be working for FOX in 2004!! And you will be bitching about my fascist bias. Ha, ha, ha!!!
When Atrios declared Monday December 15, write like Nedra Pickler day, he failed to mention that Bush's energy policy is not the cause of snow in December.
wow that's a great non-sequitor, four legs good! nice one.
silly Atriosians. Lies only matter when they are told by Democrats. Even if said Democrats didn't actually lie. Because, they were probably thinking about lying. Q.E.D.
Aye aye, Cap'n. Southpaw will comply.
BTW, we'd love a link from Eschaton...
"Although Dean is seen by some as running the type of insurgency campaign that could unseat President Bush, others believe he is too angry and too liberal to appeal to the moderate voters needed to win. When asked about Dean's elecatbility in a debate last week, all eight of the other democrats running agreed that Dean would have no chance of defeating President Bush in the general election next year."
OT, but really fine piece on the Bushflash situation
http://tinyurl.com/z3xl
Thank you Dan- too bad she's such an easy target.
When Faux news announced they had hired Nedra Pickler they failed to publicize the fact they she would co-host with pickle-face Ceci . Headline: FAUX PICKS A PAIR OF PICKLERS.
Speaking of Nedra Pickler, did anyone hear the interview by Bill Moyers last night on NOW with Dorothy Rabinowitz, WSJ? She trashed Coulter, well, mildly, but she's obviously an old-fashioned lady who hates to speak ill of anyone!!!
Rabinowitz: ... we certainly believe that there were Communists in Hollywood, et cetera, et cetera. And Bob Bartley certainly had the same loathing for Senator McCarthy that I did. And I think it's a great mistake to connect Ann Coulter with the kind of thing that we do or think. I mean…
MOYERS: What[!!!!]… explain that to me.
RABINOWITZ: I don't mean to demonize her because she says many things that are true and many things that one agrees with. But there are certain things that you cannot in your extremist....Being a commentator and being a commentator on television now, you know, the brassy kind of extremists, pushes you into extremes of… and I think in a kind of cynical way, saying things that you think are perfectly okay. But they're not. And one of them is to say that Senator McCarthy was a great hero. Which, of course, he was not.
It was better on tv. You have to read between the lines. But she's not a fan of Coulter's.
Transcript
When President George W. Bush announced that he had a plan to halve the deficit in five years, he failed to point out that he did not actually have such a plan.
Oh, wait...
I can't help myself-
When Dean criticizes the President's environmental policy, he fails to mention that the recent large solar flares were not caused by the president's position on global warming.
Dan in Chicago: He did so have a plan. It looked like this:
Step 1: Cut taxes by a half trillion dollars.
. . . . .
Step 3: Cut the deficit in half in 5 years!
touche, underpants gnomes (man, I gotta get me one of those names. Dan in Chicago just don't cut it no more)
When George Bush boasted, "We will leave no child behind", and further, "Is our children learning?", Satan was preparing an eternity of third grade with Laura for Georgie.
Underpants gnome- 
that was one of my favorite episodes by the way.
Howard Dean this week came under criticsm for suggesting that Bush is responsible for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. In his campaign speeches, Gov. Dean fails to mention his status as the 20th hijacker.
When President George W. Bush announced that he had a plan to halve the deficit in five years, he failed to mention the fact that his projection had been prepared by Kennth Fastow and certified by Arthur Anderson, and had also been studiously reviewed by graduates of the No Child Left Behind math program.
Hey, I'm in.
It'll take me a whole day to come up with the appropriate tone.
Mebbe if I take a big ton o'drugs tomorrow, I'll be in Pickler form by Monday.
stranger: if it's realism you're going for, just soak some turkee in about 800 hits of LSD. That's how it works in Washington, methinks.
While Howard Dean mentioned that this country has lost over 3 million jobs since Bush took office, he failed to mention that Bush did not personally fire the vast majority of those laid off.
While Howard Dean describes himself as a centrist in his campaign literature, he fails to mention that "he's so far left he only uses his left hand." (1)
(Do I get extra points for using Coulterish footnoting style?)
Dan in Chicago: bam!
But when Gwen Ifill cashes her check, she never mentions that National Security Advisor Condi Rice enjoys Ifill's "home cookin'".
Dan, good one
Howard Dean consistently declares that this time "the candidate with the most votes will win", an obvious reference to VP Gore's popular vote margin in the 2000 election. What Dean omits is that in the very same presidential election, Dean himself failed to garner a single vote.
When Dean criticizes Bush's economic policy, he fails to mention that the loss of 3 million jobs is not a result of the republican plan to put Reagan's face on the dime.
Last one, I promise.
I don't want a Pickler.
I just wanna ride on my motorsickler.
When the Democrats criticized President Bush's policies on Iraq, they failed to mention that the President whistles out his ass.
Hey, am I the only one who wants her hired by FOX, rrrrrright now!, so that she can leave her job at AP, to be taken up by a competant person, perhaps?
When Donald Rumsfeld recently claimed that certain liberals were giving aid and comfort to the enemy, he failed to mention that those aforementioned liberals had not shaken hands with former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
When Preznit George W. Bush announced that he had a plan to halve the deficit in five years, he failed to mention that the savings would then be used to fund a study to determine once and for all if the moon was made of green cheese. Members of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association and the National Dairy Association were said to be front runners for the no-bid jumping cow competition
Damn, meant to say, "... he failed to mention that those aforementioned liberals had not sold chemical and biological weapons to former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein."
While Nedra Pickler recently pulled her head out of her ass and rubbed the shit from her eyes, she failed to mention that she was unable to find her own ass even with both hands and a flashlight.
Monday?
"Write like Nedra day?"
What did you leave out?
When Dean criticises Bush's economic policies, he fails to mention that soon we will put men on the moon.
Good one, Evan!
When Clark criticizes the President's war in Iraq, he fails to mention that he has waged war himself.
Democratic front-runner Howard Dean of Vermont acknowledged that Al 'Qaeda' Gore's endorsement has "been beneficial", while neglecting to add that if it wasn't for Ben Franklin's experiments with electricity, his internet success would never have gotten off the ground.
Nick: awesome! best one yet, IMO
Dan, yours is a gem as well.
Yes, the Chicago guys have to do the heavy lifting here.
Howard Dean goes around the nation, talking about how he wants to take back America. What he fails to mention is that Columbus discovered America.
OT: Newsweek: Dean rising in polls
Damm, just when I was going to give up my blog surfing habit.
Get ready for Monday.
Do you mean "Old Painty-Can Nedra?"
While Howard Dean proclaims that he wants to "take back America," he neglects to mention that he's doing this on behalf of the Indians.
While the Democrats criticize President Bush for not doing anything positive for the environment, they neglect to mention that he has cleared a great deal of brush on his ranch in Texas.
Ann Coulter's primary talking point is that liberals hate America; however, she forgets to point out that they hate America because they're liberals.
The democrats seem to miss no opportunity to criticize John Ashcroft and the Patriot Act, although they have yet to acknowledge that a falafel sandwich makes a very tasty lunch.
Senator Kerry often touts his military experience and war wounds as evidence of his ability to be commander and chief; he never mentions that these were only flesh wounds.
Why bother trying to write like her - go to Instapundit, and to his links, and you'll find the same stuff, but better written.
picture of nedra is here (scroll down)
I'll play along with this one, but only if we also get to have a David Brooks Saturday before the end of January.
A Charles Krauthammer Thursday also has some charms.
eschaton prompts all to write like pickler but neglects to mention she was not even alive in 1939
Egads, agent 1040! A smiling potato with hair!
Hey agent 1040, how about a little warning before linking to the FReetards, huh?
Lysergic Turkee is a holiday staple at the BlakNo1 household. Wait until you get to the mushroom stuffing!YUM!
neo-lib: Thanks for the Newsweek link. My favorite part of the whole article, though, was the bit where they referred to Bush's trip to Iraq as a "PR stunt".
Whoops, that was me - forgot to switch back after my Underpants Gnomes postings today.
When Atrios declared the 15th write like Leaden Pickle day, he failed to mention that his posters are rabid traitors and couldn't possibly read a calendar.
Hard left-wing anonymous blogger "Atrios" implored his unquestioning followers to ape the distinctive writing style of one of the Associated Press's premier pencilists on December 15. Typically, they responded to that clarion call two days too soon, negating the impact of the entire exercise and, like Democrat candidate Howard Dean, peaking too early for their own good.
I'm Nedra Pickler - and you're NOT!
Apparently, two years ago, someone already copied the poor Ms. Pickler identity.
When William Saletan rails on and on about Gore's stupidity and even treachery in his Dean endorsement he forgets to mention that Gore is the Al in Al Qaeda.
Evil blogger Atrios played trickses on precious journalist Nedra Pickler this weekend, neglecting to mention that he is tricksy, and we hate him.
When Budman claimed that Atrios's posters were rabid traitors, he failed to mention that his ignorance and malice were not a result of rational thought.
When Nedra Pickler woke up from anxious dreams, she neglected to mention that she had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug.
Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2003 5:53 AM
To: Nedra Pickler
Subject: Question about your article "Surging
Front-Runner Dean..." (Dec. 12)
Ms. Pickler,
I read your article in the Washington Post titled "Surging Front-Runner Dean Under Attack." I was quite confused by this sentence you wrote:
"...But when he criticizes Bush's links to Lay, Dean never mentions that Enron's mismanagement was not the result of the president's tax-cut package."
There is no logic to this sentence. This is an example of a post hoc fallacy, also known as a post-hoc, ergo propter hoc fallacy. In other words, the second clause is a non-sequitur, especially in the context of the article. I am amazed that your editor didn't cut this sentence, if not for its fallaciousness then for its needless editorializing.
I've looked up some other articles you've written and have noticed that there is a definite, hopefully unintentional, right-wing bias in much of your coverage of the campaign thus far. You would be well advised for your own credibility's sake to accurately and objectively report the facts, instead of injecting your own views into your reporting.
When Atrios declared the 15th write like Leaden Pickle day, he failed to mention that his posters are rabid traitors and couldn't possibly read a calendar.
BudMan | Email | Homepage | 12.13.03 - 9:07 pm | #
Ha, ha, excellent point, but I couldn’t resist going early myself, it’s too easy and besides Tommy is shedding the faux-looking tears tonite, so might as well.
.....
--- Nedra Pickler wrote:
Thanks for writing, Mr. XXXXXX.
Dean's rivals are accusing him of giving special breaks to Enron, which he did. But as I included in my story, Enron's corporate wrongdoing had nothing to do with Vermont law. Dean accuses Bush of giving tax breaks to Ken Lay and the boys at Enron, which is true. But those tax breaks also had nothing to do with Enron's corporate wrongdoing.
It's interesting that I get e-mail from some readers who accuse me of having a liberal bias, and some who accuse me of having a conservative bias. It's my goal to tell both sides of the story and let the voters decide.
Sincerely,
Nedra Pickler
Plus the chick is pretty scary looking but less scary than a few Lady Macbeth types with the cold, vicious eyes who show up periodically on news cable, yikes, couple of them just spit out the mortality news like old chewing gum, way to go, ladies, best recruiting agents for the anti-Bush folks.
The little Dotty Rabinowitz riff looks strictly flim flam for the benefit of us rubes and regular folks in the communities.
Yeah and about the Nedra Pickler style, here goes: Tom Friedman chokes back a lump in the throat over a soldier and his kids but he forgets to mention he exhorted Bush to let’s just go into Iraq and get it over with and he was the one who thought Crazier than You was some kind of good foreign policy and he was the one what made some kind of goofy case about Driving without a Steering wheel.
The lump in the throat woulda been darn more appropriate way back then, dude.
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To: Nedra Pickler
Subject: Re: Question about your article "Surging Front-Runner Dean..." (Dec. 12)
Ms. Pickler,
If you're still living in fantasyland and think that your right-wing bias isn't obvious, take a look at this. Rush Limbaugh is a big fan of yours:
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/
home...u_so.guest.html
How long until you accept your job at Fox News or Rush Limbaugh?
But those tax breaks also had nothing to do with Enron's corporate wrongdoing.
Well, Nedra admits wrongdoing on the part of Enron. That's a good thing.
Nedra, why hasn't anyone at Enron's corporate office been convicted of wrongdoing? How long has it been since the story broke? (We were supposed to feel sorry for his wife 'cause she had to sell stuff. Oh, they had to sell a property or two.)
Gosh, those Houston employees must still be kinda angry. Some lost their retirement savings and had to go back to work.
*Too bad for you.*
This isn't about Nedra. They love that you are focusing on her. All your outrage is wasted. The real story here is US media ownership.
The key fact here is that the AP editors haven't challenged her writing. It is impossible to imagine this sort of writing being allowed over the course of numerous stories under AP's previous ownership.
Always they test the limits, break the rules, find out how far they can go before outrage sets in. When they do go a little too far they quickly apologize and withdraw, but immediately, subtlely, they start testing the limits again.
First it was Rush, then his clones. The newspaper columnists began to be replaced by those with more extreme viewpoints (how many liberals get represented in syndicated columns today versus conservatives?) Fox showed up on cable about the same time Grodin got replaced by Matthews as part of MSNBC's shift to the right. Gannett takes over local papers and gently shifts the story selection of the front pages.
All of this makes me think about the words of Boots Riley of The Coup: "I slang rocks, Palestine-style."
Although Atrios allegedly leans to the left, he has an unhealthy obsession with AP reporter Nedra Pickler. Sources say that he plays "Marriage" in his basement, with a bag of flour in a dress posing as the obviously right-wing "journalist".
To be perfectly fair and balanced, although Ann Coulter claims things about the left being crazy, she neglects the fact that SHE IS ACTUALLY A HE! That's no turkee between her legs, I tell you!
Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.
Evil blogger Atrios played trickses on precious journalist Nedra Pickler this weekend, neglecting to mention that he is tricksy, and we hate him.
David Neiwert
Just perfect. A sentence this good makes me proud to be an American and Lee Greenwood can eat my ass.
Nerd Pickles is being obstuse. Her answer doesn't make any sense. When Dean criticizes Bush for giving away tax breaks to Kenny Lay and the boys and Enron, he's talking about corporate America, using an example that is understandable to most people. And I don't think Dean has ever stated that Enron's financial fraud, which were a part of the company for years, began with the Bush tax cuts.
Is she stupid? Or does drug-hustler Rush know a good right-winger when he sees one?
Hey could someone post Nerd Pickles' contact info again?
when Wesley Clark said "I'm not critical of Bush because he's 'attacking the terrorists' -- I'm critical of him because he's NOT attacking the terrorists." for failed to acknowlege that Bush has in fact been fighting democrats his entire Presidency.
love the emails to and from ms. pickler. old hat is on the money, though the second email is a little more childish than the first. my guess is that ms. pickler is in deep denial about the non-sequitor karate-chops she likes to sneak into her "reporting."
i will save my entry for monday ...
When President Bush, during a new conference in Poland, claimed that "we have found the weapons of ass destruction," he failed to remember that he had been lying about that issue for several months already.
All this attention lavished on someone who ten years ago was still in high school?
Move along folks.
I would love for Ms. Pickler to show the articles she wrote that made someone accuse her of liberal bias.
While it is true that about 3 million jobs were lost during the early months of the Bush presidency, the administration has recently deployed special search teams to find them and bring them back. Dean and the Democrats also conveniently ignore the unequivocal fact that maybe President Clinton hid them somewhere or shipped them out of the country.
That's no turkee between her legs, I tell you!
Why does Ann Coulter's cock hate America?
npickler@ap.com
Yeah I agree the bukakke on Nerd Pickles is kind of a waste of time. But good sport, no?
When Rush Limbaugh refers to Howard Dean as a communist and calls him Nikita Dean, he neglects to mention that Dean's budger record is far better than George W. Bush's.
When the Bush campaign claimed that counting the Florida votes by hand would be "less accurate" than machine vote counting and would "distort" the results, they ignored the fact that Bush signed a Texas law that requires counting the votes by hand because that is more accurate than machine counts.
everyone knew her as nancy, zizka.
A name like Nedra Pickler is so goddamned hard to take seriously that I am starting to wonder if this is all part of some metanarrative preparing us for the emergence of superheroes or something.
When God created the Heavens and the Earth, He instructed George W. Bush to make the Sun rise and set. God also made Bush responsible for making puppies and kittens adorable. Does the Sun not rise and set? Are puppies and kittens not adorable? Yet, as obvious as these facts are, no liberal will ever mention them.
Have I mentioned that liberals sporting slightly disapproving glances at Bush are engaging in "hate speech"? Well, they are. I'd say we should shoot them, but only someone as pretty as Ann Coulter could get away with that, and I'm not exactly a prom queen (although my college boyfriend called me "cute and spunky"). Liberals don't ever call me pretty, either. If a liberal would just hug me and call me "pumpkin", I wouldn't have to do this.
I have chosen to use my powers for evil, rather than good. That's what supervillians do.
Bush Talks About Faith at Prayer Breakfast
Shouldn't this "reporter" have investigated whom & how Bush really worships? his god is lucifer, anyone with a few minutes can see our leaders sacrifice an "alledged effigy" of child while wearing black & red druid style robes, carrying torches through the redwoods they burn the effigy upon a 40ft tall stone owl, aka, the annual cremation of care ceremony at the bohemian grove here in ca. check it out for yourself www.infowars.com
I guess thats the difference between an investigative reporter, vs just a reporter
This morning, I just read Nedra Pickler's Article, in the Miami Herald, on Gov. of New Mexico, Bill Richardson. Having watched the televised speech she is reporting on, Richardson's "New Realism" speech at CSIS, and then reading the opening paragraph of Pickler's article, I was shocked. I was shocked at how a sentence could be written, about factual statements made throughout the progress of ? an hour of intelligent speaking, in such a way that three specific issues, and statements made on those issues, could be so misrepresented. They are set up in a very pointed way as to direct clear reactions to hot issues in a very singular way. I am not surprised. Of course this is the way most of discussion and debate is presented and many people seem to be trained to think like this. It is so clear, that I think you could use this in some unversities' journalist curriculum as an example of how statements are created with bias or for various cause or effect. Seriously, without any political favor, purely as an academic exercise sit yourself down and watch the speech and then read her opening paragraph. The article as a whole has a much more valid reporting quality but the opening paragraph is clearly the effect the AP has on our public debate. Here are the links. Please watch and read for yourself first. Then I would be happy to explain what picture I find the paragraph to be painting about this politicians positions. The easiest place to find the video happens to be on this political website. Tell me what you think?
http://www.americaforrichardson.org/
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamihe...ld/
16662839.htm
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