Comments on: Publicizing Pixie Dust

By: 4jkb4ia

4jkb4ia — Sun, 11 May 2008 11:00:13 +0000

Also it is a safe place for OT sports comments *g*

By: 4jkb4ia

4jkb4ia — Sun, 11 May 2008 10:59:37 +0000

I am proud of EW. This is yet more recognition that what goes on here is “real journalism”. The comments are more important to read than on any other blog I know of, especially those of the crack IT team.

By: whitewidow

whitewidow — Sat, 10 May 2008 19:11:16 +0000

Congrats, ew. That is excellent that you are getting some more recognition. I am a mostly lurker, but I will second the comments. ew has great insight and is the best there is at connecting the dots. I am continually amazed at your ability to keep all these threads in your mind and pull out the relevant.

And the commenters are a very integral and important part of the blog. The collaboration is, I think, the thing that the toobz are best for. The Plame story, the US attorneys, pixie dust and all the maneuverings of OLC, eavesdropping, all of these stories have been investigated by legions of regular citizens, as well as journalists and blogger/journalists. The internet allows all of these brilliant minds, with their own strengths and areas of expertise, to easily compare notes and work out all of this stuff.

It has continually amazed me how far behind much of the traditional media is behind the blogs on a lot of this stuff. Kagro X was so far out in front on the subpoena’s, unitary exec stuff etc. and of course ew has had many scoops. It’s disturbing to me how little some of the so-called experts actually understand, and how little they care.

Nothing y’all don’t already know, but it is what keeps me a junkie for this site.

By: posaune

posaune — Sat, 10 May 2008 18:51:45 +0000

Hey squib @ 54,
absolutely right - ew has no idea the number of lurkers.

believe me, a whole slew of folks slaving away in really interesting places

By: readerOfTeaLeaves

readerOfTeaLeaves — Sat, 10 May 2008 18:29:25 +0000

You give me hope.
I’ll contact my local NPR affiliate, b/c I totally agree with you on how NPR has diminished in quality (except for Warren Olney’s ‘To the Point’).

By: readerOfTeaLeaves

readerOfTeaLeaves — Sat, 10 May 2008 18:25:31 +0000

I still get a feeling that there is something out there that only a few (of the good guys) know and they know the “bad guys” don’t know that they know.

Theoretically, anything is possible. Here’s hoping.

By: klynn

klynn — Sat, 10 May 2008 17:39:06 +0000

I missed that in Feingold’s introduction of Whitehouse…I’ll go back and listen! So, “unpublicized” was a bit of snark plus a bait to the MSM! And, it worked!

Do you think this is due to the Yoo memo only? I still get a feeling that there is something out there that only a few (of the good guys) know and they know the “bad guys” don’t know that they know. This probably does not make sense. Sorry if my thinking out loud lacks specifics at this point. It’s hard to put a cogent connection to all the dots, (although, you are a master at that.)

Sorry about the “good guys vs bad guys”. It just seems to simply have come down to that concept.

By: emptywheel

emptywheel — Sat, 10 May 2008 16:03:34 +0000

I think the hearing came out of the Yoo memo–it was such a perfect example of the abuse of classification. Not sure if you noted, but the first time Feingold introduced Whitehouse, he noted the great work that Whitehouse had done on the Pixie Dust issue.

By: klynn

klynn — Sat, 10 May 2008 15:20:29 +0000

This hearing came out of the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Property Rights… He’s on, what, four subcommittees within Justice?

After full committee hearings on Oversight of U.S. Dept of Justice on 1/30/08 and then full committee regarding Oversight of FBI on March 5, 2008.

I don’t know EW, there’s a “dot” somewhere in this that kicked Russ’ backside to have this hearing. Surely he knew about Whitehouse’s speech. But Whitehouse did not get any MSM coverage on that speech, am I right? Perhaps the word unpublicized was professional “snark” of sorts. A worm dangled for the MSM because they missed it the first time?

By: klynn

klynn — Sat, 10 May 2008 14:50:21 +0000

But that’s okay. Elwood makes it all right!

This opinion involved a secret modification. It involved Iran-Contra.

Boy, that caught my attention. Funny, the House of Death story has been linked to Iran-Contra, Columbia and beyond…Twenty years later my foot…Very interesting that this is addressed now.

Boy I hope Sheldon does not stop. Interesting that Feingold is just catching on. Hmmm…I wonder what has gone down in his judiciary committee to have opened his eyes all of a sudden? And then a raid of OSC? Hmmm…

Just thinking out loud…