Anonymous WTNH Blogger Reaches Stratospheric Levels of Dumb (Updated)

It's the liberal fruitloop candyasses fault (0.00 / 0)

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Gary from Seymour... You nailed it. As long as Connecticut continues to support scum like Dodd, Michael Lawlor, Andrew McDonald, Steve Fontana or anyone with the (D) label by their name. They are all career politicians who have tenure and money and connections. Things will never change Because there are too many brain dead lemmings who are just totally retarded and do whatever Connecticut Citizen Action Group, My Left Nutmeg, The Connecticut Democratic Party, Democracy For America and all the other liberal fruitloop candya** groups tell them to do.
07/21/09 @ 17:42

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by: Scarce @ Tue Jul 21, 2009 at 18:15:45 PM CDT

Yeah, That Was A Funny One (0.00 / 1)

Too bad he's partly right. Now, i'll admit that I don't know who the other names after Mr. Dodd are, but I get the feeling that in earlier times Chris wouldn't be doing the things he is now that his career in the Senate is likely coming to an end. Here's a link:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

"If those in charge of our society...can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves." ~~Howard Zinn

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by: lakezoarian @ Tue Jul 21, 2009 at 18:42:16 PM CDT

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Stick to 9-11 conspiracy theory (3.00 / 1)

because if you don't know who those other names are after Dodds you really should just lurk until you have enough knowledge to make comment here that doesn't deserve a big fat zero.

I guess I should have expected we'd attract the equivelent of the "Birthers" here but was hoping against hope you weren't that equivelent.

It sucks you've proven me wrong but you have.

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by: ctkeith @ Tue Jul 21, 2009 at 18:56:40 PM CDT

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C'mon Man (0.00 / 0)

Did you explore the link I put there? I'm skeptical about WAPO, but still..

We Deserve the truth about 9/11, because the hysteria spawned so many things that should not have happened since.

Please Keith, questioning the propaganda around 9/11 is so different than "birthers", "Moon Landing Deniers", Holocaust Deniers", "Bigfoot", etc. You sound like a neocon saying that, and I don't think you are. Here's another link to a hit piece put out by a Boston tabloid on this very subject:

http://www.examiner.com/x-1051...

"If those in charge of our society...can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves." ~~Howard Zinn

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by: lakezoarian @ Tue Jul 21, 2009 at 19:36:24 PM CDT

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Don't forget (0.00 / 0)

vaccines cause autism. Jenny McCarthy says so, and she seems to be on the ball. All the "scientific medical studies" that demonstrate no significant causal relationship between vaccines and autism is only further PROOF that the pharma industry, entire medical community and Congress are in on the con. /snark

I read that examiner link, and I have to say I completely agree with its logic. (Emphasis in original)

Evolution is taught in schools because, like it or not, it suffers from the condition of being supported by factual data. It doesn't require belief. Belief is something that is done in absence of facts.

Eugenie Scott, one of the great defenders of evolution against intelligent design-creationism, likes to say in her talks that she does not believe in evolution (here the audience titters with shock) - for precisely the reason outlined above. As a biologist, and perhaps a future biology teacher, I also do not believe in evolution. It's not one of those things that require belief. When you get a PhD, you don't have to swear to a credo of belief in Darwin (or Mayer or Gould). It's a completely different way of operating in the world.

I always thought your Kierkegaard quote was kind of funny for that reason. If something is true -- actually, instead of the word "true" I would say, consistently verifiable among a community of observers, not as cute of a soundbyte, but I digress... As I was saying - if something is true, I am not compelled to "believe" it, and there is in fact no reason for me to say "I believe in evolution" or "I believe in a heliocentric universe" - because belief is what you do when you don't have enough evidence to know something.

The rest of the time, and on most issues - especially ones as emotional and meaningful as 9-11 or autism, I make a concerted effort to remain agnostic. I like to say "I don't know". Once in a while, for fun I will make a wild-ass-guess, or I may go with my gut for some truthiness, but I try to reserve that for sports prognostications and watching LOST. Also, my gut is not as gutty as Colbert's.  

"I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to it."

-Lawrence Summers

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by: joesaho @ Tue Jul 21, 2009 at 23:26:59 PM CDT

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Thanks (0.00 / 0)

Thanks for remaining agnostic. Because this story is about Dodd, I won't waste the space here discussing the state of 9/11 research. That would be better done in a new Diary, which I shall write soon. And perhaps it's time for a new tagline too.

"If those in charge of our society...can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves." ~~Howard Zinn

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by: lakezoarian @ Wed Jul 22, 2009 at 08:03:43 AM CDT

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I love you (0.00 / 0)

tparty. This is too hysterical.  

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by: Sue @ Tue Jul 21, 2009 at 18:18:25 PM CDT

No Doubt (4.00 / 1)

This anonymous blogger will be working for the Hartford Courant within a very short period of time and  if this "blogger" is a young,goodlooking female with certain "assets" she'll be replacing Shelly Sindland on the Sunday political show on the Courants new partner TV outlet, FOX 61.

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by: ctkeith @ Tue Jul 21, 2009 at 18:36:43 PM CDT

The real question (0.00 / 0)

(spin)
is how many residents of Dodd's hometown are part of that list of 465 individual contributors. And then, how many of those hometown residents are neighbors.

I bet we're talking near zero here.

Rob on the other hand has received no individual contributions outside Connecticut.

(/spin)

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by: notcho @ Tue Jul 21, 2009 at 19:56:30 PM CDT

Crap research (4.00 / 2)

...will always yield crap results.

I'm saddened that WTNH has sunk to a level of journalism that simply uses the cut and paste function of their computers to reprint conservative slander.  

Jeez, even a simple Google search would have corrected their lazy reporting.  I guess that would have involved actual effort, though.


Connecticut Bob

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by: Bob Adams @ Tue Jul 21, 2009 at 20:46:27 PM CDT

From WTNH (4.00 / 6)

My name is Jeff Bailey. I work at WTNH and have been there since 1993. I am responsible for the "Stratospheric Levels of Dumb' posted on ConnPolitics.tv cited above.

Yep, I made an incorrect assumption that a link marked "itemized individual contributions" available on Sen. Dodd's FEC page was up to date. It was not. I should have looked more closely at the dates on the FEC query. I didn't. And I should have left comments open. There should also have been a 'Contact' link. I'll rectify that when I'm done typing here.

In all, a pretty fair criticism here.

ctkeith, while I am blonde, I'm a he, I have little hair left, no "assets" so to speak, and I have no desire to move to another TV station/paper/web site.

notcho, I recall seeing one donation record for East Haddam, and one for Chester in the second quarter document. Remember, donations under a certain amount don't have to be reported with names and towns.

Bob Adams, you're absolutely right. I blew it in this case. Bad research on my part, not a bad cut-and-paste job. I'm much better than this example would indicate.

Thank you for your time.

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by: JBailey-WTNH.com @ Wed Jul 22, 2009 at 06:54:17 AM CDT

Thank you, Jeff (4.00 / 5)

I appreciate your candor and the way you're taking responsibility for the error.  It's all too common in online journalism for people to make egregious mistakes and fail to properly follow up on them.  In your case, you've done an admirable job owning up to it.  I admire your character for appearing here to make amends.

Thanks.

Connecticut Bob

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by: Bob Adams @ Wed Jul 22, 2009 at 07:14:04 AM CDT

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