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Self described 'journalists' who use phrases like 'might have', or 'could have' get appropriately stuffed into my recycle bin. That's laziness...and a lack of interviewing access. Sorry, there's too much good professional journalism out there to bother with the amateurs. The problem isn't a lack of good journalism - its an overwhelming flood of bad or non-journalism, such as the blog post from this OP, and a lazy unwillingness on the part of readers to discern the difference. But what do I know? I'm just a fuckwhit talkin' out my ass.

Well, since no one knows who left the bomb, perhaps further investigation will reveal an Arab MO and the media will go nuts. Or a major Right Wing Conspiracy will be uncovered and the media will go nuts. Or it was left by some random jaggoff and the media will go nuts. Or they'll never find out who left it and....

That quote should be really easy for you to find. Basic facts. They get bullshitters every time.

liar. You claimed that it wasn't true that Spokane wasn't reported like other terrorist attempts Can you quote me on that? Nope, didn't think so. But such an observation is irrelevant, as the event was reported on most media outlets appropriately. It's just not a very complicated story yet...since the investigation has yet to reveal anything (they still don't know who left the bomb). Plus, the investigation just started and the story is ongoing. A bit too early to cry 'cover up!!!!'...unless you need to.

The first thing I do in any controversy is check the basic claims. This one took about 30 seconds to debunk. It usually doesn't usually need to go any further than that. The first thing people do after an even like this is to start making shit up.

Funny thing is, in the top 3 stories I read, the term 'domestic terrorism' is used over and over again. Am I...missing something here? Perhaps I should dribble free trade organic lemon juice over my monitor to reveal the hidden subtext....

I've made no claims other than your originally posted blogurd was crap. Attributing strawmen opinions to your critics...well, that's Faux's bread and butter, isn't it? You're not fighting the problem, you're part of it, DOOD.

Wow. My googling revealed tens of stories about the bombing - including the WA Post, NYT, WSJ...pretty much all of the biggies, as well as all the local boys, too. I continue to be ever vigilant for a cover up, however.

And have hime get me two 99 cent bean burritos while he's at it. Who orders anything with beef in it from Taco Bell? Of course that shit is unidentifiable. Now, on to Chicken McNuggets....

Funny, but I seem to recall j_b just informing us that the major media outlets DID run the Spokane story. The cover up must have been covered up.

Or, it just might be that one event was a major historical one and one was not. Just maybe....

Most bloggers write about themselves and not much else. "I think this MAY have happened or COULD HAVE happened." Their overly complicated conjecture, often fantastical, given the general disorganization and incompetence of the human condition, is about how smart they are in ferreting out possible conspiracies that they...er...have absolutely no evidence of cuz they haven't gotten out of their PJs in weeks. Their followers, like Faux Nooz idjits, lap it up because it makes them feel right about things as well, and titillates their required sense of outrage. Me? I don't need made up shit to fire me up. There's enough real, meticulously well documented shit out there to keep busy.

It COULD have happened!!!!

FACT: RIGHT WING GOONS THREATENED THE NYT AND MATT DRUDGE INTO SHUTTING UP FOR 24 WHOLE HOURS. HOLY SHIT WHERE IS THIS COUNTRY GOING????

IT'S SOOO INTENSE!!!

OMFG that is EARTH SHATTERING. WHY WEREN'T PLANES SCRAMBLED????!!!! 24 HOURS!!!!! WHAT DOES IT MEAN?????

Well I didn't get called a Dead Ender, only an End Talker. more non sequitur from you, but still no facts. Yes, still no facts, my thesis exactly. What facts would you like me to make up today? What would make you feel more...validated?

You're not one for taking real data, are you? Cool. You're in good company. Most of America doesn't require it, either.

Since when is the lack of 'hyped coverage' a bad thing? And here all the time I thought your kind hated 'hype' (Not).

Well I didn't get called a Dead Ender, only an End Talker.

DID Biden call it a BFD? Did Drudge actually lose his firearms license? If not...alluding to it is the kind of manipulation that Faux is so practiced at. Oh, and citing one's credentials (30 years...) - a sure sign of a weak or nonexistent thesis. This is all fine - this person isn't a journalist, they're just another blogger in a sea of bloggers, most of whom basically post their emotional mood for the day. Why not just have a Facebook page instead of a blog? You want cheap Chinese made plastic crap? You go to Walmart. You want shit, unvetted conjecture? You read crap like this.

How can you know that? You'd have to compare to nearly identical events (and even that would produce an insignificant sample size). Pure crap. Here's where I get called a Dead Ender or some such shit....

The article is pure crap in attempted to create causality for why something didn't happen. The mechanisms of this great 'silencing' are, of course, not made clear. They never are. It's also a lie, as googling 'spokane attempted bombing' will quickly reveal. Finally, expecting a failed amateur bomb plot to get as much coverage as the assassination of a congresswoman and mass killing of several others is pure fantasy. Sorry, but two thumbs down for disseminating this kind of crap - which employs all the same trix as Faux Nooz. The reality of the media is that most journalists are lazy as shit. Spoon feed them a story packaged in a manner they can cut and paste and it gets run as intended. Good media handlers from all viewpoints know how to play this game. Bad ones don't, and pay the price for it.

Promoting true power to the people and egalitarianism has always met with strong, occasionally violent resistance from the Thumpers, who insist that the Great Big Fuzzy Kitty Way Up In The Sky must remain in charge of it all, lest chaos (drug fueled chaos. Humans usually a bit more boring than all that. Freethinkers who realize this get to enjoy the hobby of beating these primitives back from the hallowed halls of secular public policy.

Big Man Wu!