Comments on: The wrong bag gets punched http://gearino.com/index.php/2010/02/28/the-wrong-bag-gets-punched/ Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:12:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 by: Locomotive Breath http://gearino.com/index.php/2010/02/28/the-wrong-bag-gets-punched/#comment-37148 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:00:40 +0000 http://gearino.com/index.php/2010/02/28/the-wrong-bag-gets-punched/#comment-37148 Yep - same Loco. I met J in C face to face once or twice. Nice guy. I think "life happened" and he found out that blogging was not that high of a priority. Yep - same Loco.

I met J in C face to face once or twice. Nice guy. I think “life happened” and he found out that blogging was not that high of a priority.

]]> by: InTheArena http://gearino.com/index.php/2010/02/28/the-wrong-bag-gets-punched/#comment-37145 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:32:27 +0000 http://gearino.com/index.php/2010/02/28/the-wrong-bag-gets-punched/#comment-37145 Loco, are you the same loco of John in Carolina fame, or is that a different John? And what happened to John by the way? Did he follow Deborah? I have so many questions, and no good way to get the answers that are so important to me. Loco, are you the same loco of John in Carolina fame, or is that a different John? And what happened to John by the way? Did he follow Deborah? I have so many questions, and no good way to get the answers that are so important to me.

]]> by: Locomotive Breath http://gearino.com/index.php/2010/02/28/the-wrong-bag-gets-punched/#comment-37134 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:31:56 +0000 http://gearino.com/index.php/2010/02/28/the-wrong-bag-gets-punched/#comment-37134 Looks like the N&O is all set to get scooped. AGAIN. http://www.nationalenquirer.com/grand_jury_indictment_john_edwards_hunter_coverup/celebrity/68250 I guess the National Enquirer is "The New Reliable". Looks like the N&O is all set to get scooped. AGAIN.

http://www.nationalenquirer.com/grand_jury_indictment_john_edwards_hunter_coverup/celebrity/68250

I guess the National Enquirer is “The New Reliable”.

]]> by: InTheArena http://gearino.com/index.php/2010/02/28/the-wrong-bag-gets-punched/#comment-36906 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:51:13 +0000 http://gearino.com/index.php/2010/02/28/the-wrong-bag-gets-punched/#comment-36906 G.D., I too have friends who voted for Obama. They're nice people, and I also find myself deferring to their erroneous thinking. Going any further and overreaching into underlying motivation is always a dubious effort, best left to anonymous web bloggers (and isolated sociopaths, but its not that important). Bias is a relative vantage point. I believe for a good many in Carrboro, it is an honest and accurate belief that the N&O is a conservative rag, pandering to the Palinites among us. From the vantage of myself and many others in this right-of-center nation, McClatchy is a liberal California Corporation, promoting it's social and political agenda via its various mouthpieces such as the N&O. Perhaps Mr. Christianson is nothing more than an unsuspecting rube, but I give him more credit than that. He knows who paid for the band, and he fiddles to the pleasure of his owners. The N&O had a vested interest in the success of John Edwards just as it did in the guilt of the Duke Lacrosse players. I don't doubt the accuracy of Mr. Christianson's character, but I would suggest that he minimizes his abilities because, as Bonnie Raitt says, he's "been at the fair too long." BTW, glad to see you read the comments section. Agree of disagree, that's where a good deal of the dialogue, substantive and ridiculous, occurs in Wake County. A real journalistic Cirque de Sol. G.D., I too have friends who voted for Obama. They’re nice people, and I also find myself deferring to their erroneous thinking. Going any further and overreaching into underlying motivation is always a dubious effort, best left to anonymous web bloggers (and isolated sociopaths, but its not that important).

Bias is a relative vantage point. I believe for a good many in Carrboro, it is an honest and accurate belief that the N&O is a conservative rag, pandering to the Palinites among us.

From the vantage of myself and many others in this right-of-center nation, McClatchy is a liberal California Corporation, promoting it’s social and political agenda via its various mouthpieces such as the N&O. Perhaps Mr. Christianson is nothing more than an unsuspecting rube, but I give him more credit than that. He knows who paid for the band, and he fiddles to the pleasure of his owners. The N&O had a vested interest in the success of John Edwards just as it did in the guilt of the Duke Lacrosse players. I don’t doubt the accuracy of Mr. Christianson’s character, but I would suggest that he minimizes his abilities because, as Bonnie Raitt says, he’s “been at the fair too long.”

BTW, glad to see you read the comments section. Agree of disagree, that’s where a good deal of the dialogue, substantive and ridiculous, occurs in Wake County. A real journalistic Cirque de Sol.

]]> by: Locomotive Breath http://gearino.com/index.php/2010/02/28/the-wrong-bag-gets-punched/#comment-36905 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:41:10 +0000 http://gearino.com/index.php/2010/02/28/the-wrong-bag-gets-punched/#comment-36905 "The Enquirer was also willing to spend big money in pursuit of the story. It had a lengthy paparazzi-style stakeout in Chapel Hill to get a photograph of the pregnant Hunter. They waited days for her to leave her gated community to visit a doctor's office." Ding, ding, ding. We have a winner. I guess it was just too hard for the N&O to keep an eye on Edwards in Chapel Hill 'cause it's so far away from Raleigh. They just didn't want to know. “The Enquirer was also willing to spend big money in pursuit of the story. It had a lengthy paparazzi-style stakeout in Chapel Hill to get a photograph of the pregnant Hunter. They waited days for her to leave her gated community to visit a doctor’s office.”

Ding, ding, ding. We have a winner. I guess it was just too hard for the N&O to keep an eye on Edwards in Chapel Hill ’cause it’s so far away from Raleigh. They just didn’t want to know.

]]> by: Bob http://gearino.com/index.php/2010/02/28/the-wrong-bag-gets-punched/#comment-36903 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:54:28 +0000 http://gearino.com/index.php/2010/02/28/the-wrong-bag-gets-punched/#comment-36903 Might be that Rob is non-partisan and a good reporter, but the bottom line here is that the entire N&O crew got beat badly on this story. A story in their own back yard and that adds to the belief that the N&O either did not look hard enough or just wanted the bad news to go away. Any of us working at the N&O at the time know the head people kept pushing Edwards stories to help circulation. Might be that Rob is non-partisan and a good reporter, but the bottom line here is that the entire N&O crew got beat badly on this story. A story in their own back yard and that adds to the belief that the N&O either did not look hard enough or just wanted the bad news to go away. Any of us working at the N&O at the time know the head people kept pushing Edwards stories to help circulation.

]]> by: Walter Abbott http://gearino.com/index.php/2010/02/28/the-wrong-bag-gets-punched/#comment-36896 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:03:40 +0000 http://gearino.com/index.php/2010/02/28/the-wrong-bag-gets-punched/#comment-36896 Very good point, Dan. If I were you, I would call up Christensen and ask him that very question and then tell us what he said. Very good point, Dan. If I were you, I would call up Christensen and ask him that very question and then tell us what he said.

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