"Ethics and Blogging"

For our Northern Virginia readers- don't forget you can check me out live on Thursday night on a Panel about "Ethics and Blogging" in Manassas. 

I am on the panel as the example of ethical blogging.

Click here for all the details. RSVP not required but appreciated, you can email it to the organizers or to me and I will forward it.

UPDATE:  The program starts at 8:15 p.m. (it is too late to come to the dinner) and the program is open to everyone- so please come on out!

Comments

[Grapes]

If you live long enough, nothing surprises you anymore.

[Dorothy]

You the example of ethical blogging? I can't stop laughing....

wow, April 1st came up on us fast.

[ANN C]

NLS prints unpleasant truths, that other blogs neglect.

Knowing that NLS is really tempting the peanut gallery here, maybe they can comment on this story-- the issue of Obama's mentor of many years being a die-hard Communist. The Canada Free Press raises the issue of Frank Davis, Obama’s Communist mentor: http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/1938

You sure it isn't because they wanted an example of how not to be ethical .

[Doug]

It is in Manassas, they may have meant ethnics.

[ANN C]

Hat tip to Ben for bringing up the plagiarism thing after certain people here saids it was not worthwhile.

Has it had an effect in the polls? According to Gallup:

Today's Gallup tracking poll shows the national Democratic race to be a virtual tie between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, a shift from yesterday's numbers that showed Obama's lead to be outside the margin of error:

Obama 46% (-3)
Clinton 45% (+3)

Late Update: Some analysis from Gallup shows that the plagiarism accusations might have had something to do with it, though it's too early to know for sure. Key quote:

Clinton was seven percentage points behind Obama in the Feb. 15-17 average. In Monday night's interviewing, Clinton's percentage of the vote of national voters was higher than Obama's, but there has been fluidity in the nightly tracking numbers over the past several days as Democrats nationally process the intense, often heated, nature of the campaign. [reported at TPM]

[Brian Kirwin]

Ben on ethics?

That's like asking my opinion on Obama's fashion.

outstanding line from Wonkette, discussing the hacking cough Obama has developed:

He stopped his opening remarks at a roundtable discussion on predatory lending to clear his throat, explaining that he’d been campaigning in a climate colder than the mild temperatures of San Antonio. At least once during the discussion he hacked a terrible cough.

This “terrible cough,” according to political insiders, sounds eerily similar to a Deval Patrick speech from 2006.

[Grapes]

It's sorta like asking t to be the keynote speaker at this year's "Queers for Choice" extravganza.

[proudvadem]

Please don't post things like this when I'm drinking coffee, I really hate spitting it out...

[Doug in Mount Vernon]

Don't forget to blog the latest results of general election match-up polling from Survey USA, Ben! Especially the results from right here in VA!

Virginia. 2/15-17. 554 registered voters. MoE 4.2%

McCain 45%
Obama 51%

McCain 48%
Clinton 45%

Looks like the voters in VA knew what they were doing putting Virginia into play in 2008!

[Dem Legislator in Search of Clue]

"THE example of ethical blogging"

And pigs are flying out of my butt....no really.

[dems4dems]

No one has said the word oxymoron.

[Not Larry Sabato]

dems4dems- are you coming?

[Donkey Breath]

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[dems4dems]

Who's Jeremiah Denton III? McCain had a housemate by that name.

[TDH]

Doug in Mt. Vernon:

It may be Obama advocates who are voting against Clinton in these polls.

Anyway, David Brooks in the NYT, usually a big Obama supporter, raises some interesting questions about Obama: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/19/opinion/19brooks.html?_r=2&ref=opinion&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

Obama says he is practicing a new kind of politics, but why has his PAC sloshed $698,000 to the campaigns of the superdelegates, according to the Center for Responsive Politics? Is giving Robert Byrd’s campaign $10,000 the kind of change we can believe in?

How is a 47-year-old novice going to unify highly polarized 70-something committee chairs? What will happen if the nation’s 261,000 lobbyists don’t see the light, even after the laying on of hands? Does The Changemaker have the guts to take on the special interests in his own party — the trial lawyers, the teachers’ unions, the AARP?

Up until now The Chosen One’s speeches had seemed to them less like stretches of words and more like soul sensations that transcended time and space. But those in the grips of Obama Comedown Syndrome began to wonder if His stuff actually made sense. For example, His Hopeness tells rallies that we are the change we have been waiting for, but if we are the change we have been waiting for then why have we been waiting since we’ve been here all along?

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I thought the whole "you are the change" stuff was nonsense. I'm glad at least one of his supporters sees that.

[PM]

The Ayers story is starting to get some traction. MSNBC’s political researcher Domenico Montanaro asks about the newly discovered Obama-William Ayers connection in this brief piece.

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/02/19/679063.aspx

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Does Obama have too many ties to a '60s radical named William Ayers? "The Ayers link, reported on Friday by Bloomberg News, has surfaced in recent days as Mr. Obama tries to add to his lead in the Democratic primary fight. He faces Mrs. Clinton today in a primary in Wisconsin and caucuses in Hawaii, after which they will prepare for critical elections in delegate-rich Ohio and Texas on March 4. Reached at his office in Chicago yesterday, Mr. Ayers declined to comment on his relationship with Mr. Obama."
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I'm really afraid that stuff like this is going to keep popping up after Obama has won the nomination.

[dems4dems]

I see Willie Horton getting pumped for a second act.

[nursejt]

Ben, I believe that you were selected to appear on the Committee of 100 Panel as an example of a blogger - period. The complete title of the program on Thursday night is Blogging, Ethics, and the First Amendment - How Far is Too Far? So as your readers can see, there is much more to the title than your first post suggested.

[I.Publius]

"I am on the panel as the example of ethical blogging."

ROFLMAO!!

Whatever helps you get through your day, sparky.

"I am on the panel as the example of ethical blogging."

ROFLMAO!!

Whatever helps you get through your day, sparky.

[Henry Ryto]

Ben speaking on ethics is like Bill Clinton talking about marital fidelity.

[BudManCubFan]

The editor of the National Enquirer will also be there to talk about ethics in journalism. Be sure you get your tickets now!!