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| Mark Steyn: Going, . . . going, . . . |
| 2010-06-08 |
| ...Helen Thomas was an unreadable and unread columnist, and the only time she generates so much traffic that it crashes the site is the announcement that her career's self-destructed. That tells you a lot about American newspapering right there. Good thing two columnists didn't say something dumb or the site could have been out for weeks.... ...A guy with a flip camera just took out one of the most storied names in American journalism. Presumably US newspaper managements have been assured by Obama, Pelosi, Frank et al that that bailout's a-comin' any day now. The alternative is that they're inept timeserving mediocrities too dullwitted even to know they're going over the falls.... |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #4 Thank you, logi_cal. I just published it -- you were indeed the first. I'm going to save your post, so next time I might be able to do it myself. :-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-06-08 18:07 |
| #3 TW- I just now threw up a post embedding the video...not sure if someone else beat me to it. To embed, if the embed code is not visible, mouseover the arrow in the lower-right corner of the player & click on the icon above to expose the embed code, copy the full code, paste into the RB window & preview to verify. If I'm missing some RB parameters to correctly do this, someone please correct me...I've seen no comments to the contrary regarding my embeds. Knowing the desired size parameters would be helpful, as opposed to always relying on that which was encoded in the original. |
| Posted by: logi_cal 2010-06-08 17:02 |
| #2 This story is one of Andrew Breitbart's Big Journalism plays. Friday morning I received an email from a friend, Rabbi David Nessenoff which provided me my first look at the video of the now famous explosive interview with Helen Thomas. David had sent the video to a friend at a newspaper who didnÂ’t think it was a big story. My response to David was, give me a few hours and the video would become viral, and given some luck the video would have a half of million views before the end of the weekend (there were a million). I quickly posted it on my site The Lid, wrote it up for Big Journalism, gave it to Scott Baker who posted it on Breitbart TV , and sent out tweets and emails to most of the large sites. Before I left on a five hour car ride to my brotherÂ’s house for the weekend the video was posted on the Big sites on the net. By the end of the day it was on radio and TV and the calls ThomasÂ’ head were all over the place. And for the curious, here is the interview in full -- all almost two minutes of it -- not just the exerpt we and Mr. Steyn have seen. It was posted last night just before midnight. I'm afraid I don't know how to post YouTube videos. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-06-08 12:21 |
| #1 You see how fast it happened? She made the statements and was recorded saying them with her picture talking... right there. And then bingo she's gone back to Poland in what...three days, was it? It can happen that fast and the MSM gets it under the belt deep and quick. And their guts drop on their shoes. That fast. It can happen to you. It can happen to Obama just as quick if he slips and someone records it and you cant deny it happened or shut the camera off. Elites dont control things, the MSM isnt all powerful, and all it takes is in and out and get an artery. They got Helen Thomas in an artery. But it can happen to anyone up there in the private halls of power....there are more of us than there are of them. |
| Posted by: Ulerelet Squank8927 2010-06-08 08:34 |