Comments on: Slate editor Jacob Weisberg on editing: “What?”

By: Jon Koppenhoefer

Jon Koppenhoefer — Tue, 30 May 2006 02:13:02 +0000

It’s funny that so many of the rhetorical habits of the right-wing have historical roots.

One GOP legislator once said–in the context of the Nixon impeachment hearings–’my mind’s made up; don’t confuse me with the facts.’

By: Fred Fnord

Fred Fnord — Mon, 29 May 2006 18:30:18 +0000

In my second piece I called somebody “the late” so-and-so, when that person was very much alive.

Thus continuing the proud tradition started by Mark Twain who convinced quite a large number of people that one of his rivals was dead. (Note to self: maybe I should look and make sure it was Twain? Naaah… someone will point out if I’m wrong…)

-fred

By: Sonic

Sonic — Mon, 29 May 2006 04:32:10 +0000

Thanks

http://christopherhitchenswatch.blogspot.com/2006/05/slated.html

By: Murph

Murph — Sun, 28 May 2006 17:58:11 +0000

Don’t you guys understand the premise behind Slate? It’s “slate,” as in, a rock tablet, as in, what we write cannot be changed, addended, corrected, or erased. They chisel their web columns into HTML for all eternity, exposed to the elements. Unless the elements erode those cyber tablets into fine dust, the writings stand.

You people are so last century, so out of touch with the Christian American mainstream. Slate gives the people what they want, pure, oblivious, unadulterated channeling of the mysterious and unprovable, written in stone, for the cyber age.

By: B12 Partners Solipsism

B12 Partners Solipsism — Sun, 28 May 2006 17:05:00 +0000

Slate Sucks part the 3423

Media Matters provides perhaps too much detail on why that’s so: if you want the short course, it’s because Easterbrook finished reviewing the film in the second paragraph and filled out the rest of the column with factual errors and some truly biz…