From: Adam Flinton 

Mark wrote:
> "Robert G Lewis"  wrote in message
> news:42d9dccc$1{at}w3.nls.net...
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>>I get turned off of the more er  virulent sites. Captains Quarters is on
>>the borderline for me as is Daily Kos and MyDD.
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> I think Capt. Ed is very sincere in the positions he takes (agree or not --
> and I've seen where he's quick to acknowledge error)

Not true (unless he's changed).

Minor errors he may acknowledge. Pointing out major errors gets you banned.

IMHO any site like that that bans posters who are not being abusive or are
offering cheap viagra are just proving themselves to be precious &
delicate dickheads anyway,

> and while I do visit
> there, the huge header and somewhat slow loading because of it (I presume)
> precludes the site from being a favorite. I find Daily Kos to be worth not a
> daily, but an annual visit. I'm not familiar with MyDD.
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>>David Corn of Bushlies is not a bad writer but I could not read more than
>>50 or so pages of his book BushLies .
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> Oh, I think I did know that Corn was behind BushLies, but fairly or not,
> when I see a partisan url like that I'm not likely to bother.

Unless it adopts the same partisan position as you.

>  Capt. Ed, that quickly, and conspicuously, acknowledge error though>
>
So long as the error is minor & thus does not clash with his stated position.

For example a long while back he had posted to the effect that the
Palestinians were massacring Israelis like Herod & the kiddies & I
simply posted the numbers killed on each side (as acknowledged by all).

For that I received a warning & a number of vitriolic posts to the
effect of Arab/Palestinian dead not being comparable to Jewish/Israeli
dead.

So I thought f*ck this for a barrel of monkeys. A while later another link
brought me back & once more I saw some major factual innaccuracies. I
posted the ackonowledged facts (inc by your own gov etc) & promptly
received a ban.

At that point you have to start wondering why he/they are so delicate as to
be not able to handle known knowns.

Adam

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