Comments on: Tiahrt ad quotes software, not a site

By: Phantom

Phantom — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 06:42:08 +0000

If it’s been printed it must be true.

By: wichhick

wichhick — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:08:39 +0000

pedant…..so how will you decide who to vote for

By: wichhick

wichhick — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:06:54 +0000

linda………so how will you decide who to vote for…….

By: wichhick

wichhick — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:05:49 +0000

linda.i can’t find in dictionary……..PLZ help me

By: writerdog

writerdog — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:22:43 +0000

The GOP is losing the vote of the higher educated as it moved away from financial soundness and to the social issues as the driving force within the party. Conservative no longer means being conservative it mean ridged and ideological. Blind to the real world and the conditions on the ground, willing to sacrifice the country and the wealth for some ideological concept. To deny facts and information in favor of fairytales and disinformation that supports the ideology.

By: lindainks55

lindainks55 — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:52:37 +0000

Was it at KSU or WSU you learned to use ellipsis?

By: wichhick

wichhick — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 16:17:57 +0000

pedant…………wrong……i went to KSU and graduated from WSU……..but i will decide based on what they offer and what is in the best interest of kansas…….not what school i went to……and you?

By: writerdog

writerdog — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:36:04 +0000

If the truth does not matter to you then any source is good enough if it supports your thoughts.
Point of order is that Tiahrt is not running against President Obama he is running against Moran.
Whether it is true or not does not matter and is just a sideshow to distract voters from the issues.

By: Pedant

Pedant — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:23:07 +0000

Raptor
Posted July 5, 2009 at 10:11 am | Permalink
A staffer made a mistake. People do that…sort of like bho claiming there are 57 states. Mistakes happen…unless you happen to be perfect. Anyone maknig that claim here?
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Could be, but I doubt it.

I doubt it because I looked at the ad, which is overtly trying to link President Obama to the loss of 2.19 million jobs.

I think it’s more likely that Tiahrt’s staff knew it was more puffery than fact, and just fudged the attribution.

By: Pedant

Pedant — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:20:57 +0000

crap.

winteryknight.wordpress.com, with a “y” on the end of winter.

By: Pedant

Pedant — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:20:25 +0000

No, the source was actually winterknight.wordpress.com. Tiahrt’s staff just left off the only attribution that matters.

By: Raptor

Raptor — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:15:12 +0000

Is it at all possible the source was ‘WORLDPRESS.com” and one letter got missed?

By: Raptor

Raptor — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:12:50 +0000

“maknig” = “making”

By: Raptor

Raptor — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:11:13 +0000

A staffer made a mistake. People do that…sort of like bho claiming there are 57 states. Mistakes happen…unless you happen to be perfect. Anyone maknig that claim here?

By: Pedant

Pedant — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:02:36 +0000

Translation: Tiahrt and his staff know that they won’t get the KU/KSU/WSU/ESU/PSU/FSU graduates’ votes. They’re the only ones who’ll care that he cited wordpress.com as a source for news. They’re more likely to vote for Rep. Moran because Rep. Moran is a traditional GOP candidate.

If you ask me, Tiahrt is telegraphing his political strategy with these kinds of television ads. It’s just another version of, say, nominating Sarah Palin in hopes it will drive the eggheads nuts. Like the rest of the GOP today, he’s running as a populist and saying to he11 with the old guard GOP. Let Rep. Moran have ‘em, Rep. Tiahrt is aiming for the conservative NASCAR vote.

If you ask me, this just further marks the transformation the GOP is currently going through nationwide: a retreat to the South and conservative Southern populism.

By: Phantom

Phantom — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:52:34 +0000

No doubt your christian group was citing the same source as Tiahrt, or perhaps tiahrt himself. We saw how the repubs start a bogus statement then quote as a source someone that has picked up what they originally put out. It’s a con thing.
Tiahrt’s an Idiot.
What’s next, he’ll be quoting something written on weblog?

By: Hud

Hud — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 13:02:43 +0000

Check out the caliber of the shotgun used.???????

Shot fired at Towne East; no one injured

http://www.kansas.com/news/breaking/story/879349.html

By: Regular

Regular — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 12:31:31 +0000

Or…use proper search parameters and operators like “*” and “+” etc. :)

By: Maggotpunk

Maggotpunk — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 12:00:11 +0000

Oh, if you just do the regular search engine then you can turn up anything. I put in 2.19 million jobs michael jackson snuggy and got results. So 2.19 million jobs were because Michael Jackson wore a snuggy?

That’s why anyone with common sense realized that Weigel was using the news search feature.

By: Regular

Regular — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 11:51:14 +0000

2.19 million…

By: Regular

Regular — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 11:50:40 +0000

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Maggotpunk
Posted July 5, 2009 at 6:45 am | Permalink

Funny, I used the same words on a news search and only turned up Weigel’s article. Perhaps you’re using some other search engine other than Google.
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Nope, used Google search engine – found a reference to an EN.wordpress blog about Labor and statistics, a Christian Website and others reference the 2.19 lost jobs.

By: Maggotpunk

Maggotpunk — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 11:45:57 +0000

Funny, I used the same words on a news search and only turned up Weigel’s article. Perhaps you’re using some other search engine other than Google.

By: Regular

Regular — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 11:43:23 +0000

Perhaps David Weigel would like me to teach him how to use a search engine. I found several entries that matched Wordpress.com + 2.19 million jobs.

Of course, blogging independent reporters aren’t really that smart. :)

Most likely an error by a staffer on Tiahrt’s team who left out the first portion of the URL.

Nothing really to see here folks – move along now….

By: Maggotpunk

Maggotpunk — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 11:34:49 +0000

Here’s the ad:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/politics_nation/2009/06/ks_sen_tiahrt_ad_champions_ant.html

Tanker Todd pretending that he’s a fiscal conservative. I guess some yokels still believe that.

By: Maggotpunk

Maggotpunk — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 11:27:25 +0000

Tiahrt heard about the series of tubes known as the internet from Ted Stevens. They called each other on soup cans connected by a string.

Tiahrt is infamous for his stupidity. Someone hands him talking points and he’ll rehash them without having a clue as to what he’s talking about. Bush should have picked him as VP to make himself look more intelligent.