David,

Thanks for the props. As far as I know, AA still has the money. If/when they give it back, I'll be quiet. Anyway, my real beef was with Mahablog's "fake debunking."

AS far as the total amout of dollars goes, the Governor of Connecticut was forced to resign because of a sweetheart deal with a contractor worth $25,000 (or was it $2,500). And I think he's in jail.

You are right. And I did not mean to imply that the money was insignificant. It is WAY significant. Like I said, they need to just pay the damned money.

Commissar:

What is your beef with Maha's fake debunking? From what I recall, wasn't she just exposing the echo chamber lockstep nature of the right blogsphere?

I see a couple of other things out there that make me question the veracity of the insinuations you are making about Air America. Especially when those insinuations involve something that took place in the previous calendar year.

It seems to me that all parties agree that, if the alleged events took place, they were the wrong thing to do, and they should be punished. It also sounds to me like AAR has offered to reimburse the monies of anyone wanting to get their donation back. There are quite a few other alleged events that have taken place over the last few years that I would be slightly more interested in examining than the AAR "scandal". Should we not examine them just as carefully? Is this type of scrutiny and action, before guilt has been determined, to be the standard by which we investigate any of those other scandals? Or are you making some sort of case that the AAR "scandal" should be front and center on the agenda of all good citizens?

I think that Maha's point was that the media skews news stories and uses part, but not all, of the truth to twist things so it supports the spin they want to put on the news. And that they cherry-pick news sources in order to reinforce their particular POV.* Your post, linked to here, does not seem to me to address that, but instead brings up a separate issue. Would you say that I am close to the mark on my impressions, and, if so, would you care to address the (IMHO) valid points that I claim Maha has made?

* - maybe the cherry-picking was a little of my own thoughts inspired by Maha's post. But I still think it is a valid part of this valid argument.

David,

The only way this manufactured scandal comes Karl Rove level close to 'diluting' Air America's message, is to ignore the former AA exec to describe the defendant in question!

Despite these Right bloggers best efforts to distract from the Bush administration scandals they'd rather not post about, they could not even get Fox or MSNBC to bite!

Now, if only they could connect Howard Dean with the disappearance of some pretty White girl...

The problem with this story..as Maha so rightly lays out..is that the sourcing is basically a "guy".

There's one guy named Hitchens who seems to be the source for this story. While the story may be true (or not)..it's a problem when there aren't at least two sources. That's basic journalistic ethics/integrity.

AAR has gone out of it's way to make sure that anyone who believes themselves filched will have things made right for them. I see this as antithetical to what conservatives on radio do when they're called out....

Falafel, anyone?

Anyone having a hard time with the ethics of Air America just is not paying attention to how the lefties do business. Capitalist invest, Socialist donate. Go right ahead and donate all your money, no problem with me, but when you steal non profit money from the disadvantaged, well that speaks tons for the righteousness of the Socialist pigs over at AA. What a bunch of blow hard hypocrites,,,jeesh!

Yeah, I shame isnt it. I wonder what Party Ken Lay belonged to, or Mr. Tyco, or Mr. MCI-Worldcom?

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