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2005-06-16 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Arch-Druid of Canterbury Denounces the Internet

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Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2005-06-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 damn the heretics! Can't they see I am GOD???

Posted by 2b 2005-06-16 00:17|| 2005-06-16 00:17|| Front Page Top

#2 In a lecture to media professionals, politicians and church leaders at Lambeth Palace in London last night, Dr Williams wondered whether a balance could be struck between the professionalism of the classical media and the relative disorder of online communication.

There is already a balance. And the media are about 20 year overdue with facts. So we are calling them up and demanding facts instead of agenda, and they are late. (Can you tell I do some collections? ;o) )

There is also a balance as well. The media beats us over the head with agenda, and we beat them with facts. Someone is going to lose this fight in a public marketplace of ideas.

Just a hint: It ain't this dhimmi and his dhimmettes in the BBC.

Posted by badanov 2005-06-16 00:28|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2005-06-16 00:28|| Front Page Top

#3 akoy...im confyooserd. thisn bad..good or wat?

guesn it all depends hoo hez talkin bowt. rantburg, kos?

teh mother soopreeme of all that is troo and rite in teh yooniverse fark.com?

hooz he talkin bowt? cal me a litter slo tonite.

Posted by muck4doo 2005-06-16 00:38|| http://meatismurder.blogspot.com/]">[http://meatismurder.blogspot.com/] 2005-06-16 00:38|| Front Page Top

#4 muck - he's probably talking about Instapundit or Michelle Malkin. If he were ever to read Rantburg, his eyes would jump out of their sockets and burst into flames...

Posted by PBMcL 2005-06-16 01:04|| 2005-06-16 01:04|| Front Page Top

#5 PBMcL - Laughing loudly.

The institutional media's business model is collapsing. They are losing ad revenues and serious news consumers in droves. The agenda peddling and malfeasance merely accelerates the process.

Posted by phil_b 2005-06-16 01:55|| 2005-06-16 01:55|| Front Page Top

#6 âclose to that of unpoliced conversationâ
Lol, what do you mean "close"? The net IS "unpoliced conversation", and more the better for it. Who the hell wants "policed conversation"?

Posted by Spot">Spot 2005-06-16 08:49|| 2005-06-16 08:49|| Front Page Top

#7 Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Unus multorum.

Nemo me impune lacessit!

Posted by OldSpook 2005-06-16 09:06|| 2005-06-16 09:06|| Front Page Top

#8 I just spent the last month listening to the "Democratic" Party tell us how eeevil Christians are. So obviously I'm not going to listen to you, Chuckles.

Posted by BH 2005-06-16 09:40|| 2005-06-16 09:40|| Front Page Top

#9 God help him and his church! LOL Concealment as a virtue of sorts? For snipers, submarines, vunerable animals and insects, fraudsters and criminals surely it is needed. Concealment is no virtue to uphold in the public realm although it is a necessary evil in some contexts. To be tolerated but not applauded. Concealment is very often a telling sign of guilt. Journalists are not disliked generally for failing to practice concealment. Quite the opposite, they are roundly criticized for concealing the identity of nonexistent, extremely biased, or misconstrued sources. They are roundly criticized for concealing inconvenient facts that are material to what they are reporting but not consistent with the tenor, opinion or bias of that reporting.

Posted by Tkat 2005-06-16 09:47|| 2005-06-16 09:47|| Front Page Top

#10 I guess since the good Archbishop can't figure out how to keep butts in the pews at the creaky COE, he thought it was good time to start burnishing his credentials as media critic.

Give the man credit, though: you have to really work hard to develop an ear that tone-deaf.

Posted by Dreadnought 2005-06-16 10:51|| 2005-06-16 10:51|| Front Page Top

#11 Look, the guy's a druid, but not a good one since the Druids have not had a single wickerman full of criminals burned since he took office.

This guy's a fake, a pretender, a fool who played one too many games of Dungeons and Dragons and lost his grip. Idiot, Odin, Thor and their Norse berserkers could kick the crap out of your panzy Celtic gods. If you're gonna worship mythology at least find an ass-kicking pantheon you losers.

Posted by rjschwarz">rjschwarz 2005-06-16 10:52|| rjschwarz.com]">[rjschwarz.com] 2005-06-16 10:52|| Front Page Top

#12 Er, um, Mr. Schwarz, one of the problems in Britain is all the people who follow a violent mythology. I don't think we need any more of those.

Posted by Jackal">Jackal 2005-06-16 12:42|| home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2005-06-16 12:42|| Front Page Top

#13 We need MORE! WE NEED A ORGY OF MAD-MAX STYLE OF DEATH AND DESTRUCTION!!!!!

Posted by mmurray821 2005-06-16 13:03|| 2005-06-16 13:03|| Front Page Top

#14 âparanoid fantasy, self-indulgent nonsense and dangerous bigotryâ

Sen . Dick Durbin of Illinois compares the treatmnent of enemy combatants at Guantanomo to Nazi Germany, Soviet Gulags, and Pol Pot...

Maybe archdruid was talking about Dick Durbin?

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Posted by BigEd 2005-06-16 13:13|| 2005-06-16 13:13|| Front Page Top

#15 I go to an Episcopal church (and I disavow any org higher than my parish), and we pray for this guy every week. However, my prayer is always that this guy gets a clue.

Posted by Xbalanke 2005-06-16 13:19|| 2005-06-16 13:19|| Front Page Top

#16 Yeah, well the Internet denounces YOU, Mr. Archdruid guy. How do you like them apples?

Posted by The Internet 2005-06-16 14:38|| 2005-06-16 14:38|| Front Page Top

#17 Blair Broadcasting Company (BBC) can not blame people for not listening anymore, thatâs what eventually happens when someone keeps telling lies and the trouble is once someone gets a name like that it becomes very hard to shake it off

Posted by Justice 2005-06-16 15:01|| 2005-06-16 15:01|| Front Page Top

#18 "Er, um, Mr. Schwarz, one of the problems in Britain is all the people who follow a violent mythology. I don't think we need any more of those"

Um, no. If you act submissive you encourage the strong to make you their b1tch. If you act strong they will look elsewhere. Nobody would call the worshipers of Odin submissive.

Posted by rjschwarz">rjschwarz 2005-06-16 16:59|| rjschwarz.com]">[rjschwarz.com] 2005-06-16 16:59|| Front Page Top

#19 No offense, but where are the Odinites these days? Not exactly an example of a culture that survived.

Posted by BH 2005-06-16 17:02|| 2005-06-16 17:02|| Front Page Top

#20 They've gone here, BH.

Why do you ask? ;-p

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2005-06-16 23:19|| http://www.ariellestjohndesigns.com]">[http://www.ariellestjohndesigns.com] 2005-06-16 23:19|| Front Page Top

#21 They're still around.

Posted by ed 2005-06-16 23:52|| 2005-06-16 23:52|| Front Page Top

#22 Barb

My family (dad's side) were the keepers of Thor's holy grove. The whole bunch were excommunicated from the Church for 100 years before even converting...

Lots of zerkers in the tree too...

Posted by 3dc 2005-06-16 23:55|| 2005-06-16 23:55|| Front Page Top

#23 I believe the Druids disappeared for centuries after the great Roman ass whooping and then they reemerged (I could be wrong but I think about the same time as D&D was invented).

Why could the Odin worshipers not reappear, it's all mythology and self-dillusion anyway.

Posted by RJSchwarz 2005-06-16 23:59|| 2005-06-16 23:59|| Front Page Top

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