http://www.blogpi.net/honorable-mentions-ii-where-the-2008-candidates-stand-today Putting the blogosphere under a magnifying glass Tue, 6 Jan 2009 07:09:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://www.blogpi.net/honorable-mentions-ii-where-the-2008-candidates-stand-today#comment-70421 Blog P.I. 2008 Disclosure Form at Blog P.I. Wed, 06 Jun 2007 22:55:59 +0000 http://www.blogpi.net/honorable-mentions-ii-where-the-2008-candidates-stand-today#comment-70421 <p>[...] Regular readers (I assume you exist) will notice that I have mentioned Thompson a few times in over the past few weeks. For most of that period, I knew it was a possibility that we’d be working for the campaign — though we certainly weren’t being paid. Even so, I only mentioned him where the analysis would suffer for leaving him out. And for what it’s worth, I did write about him before this ever came up. [...]</p> [...] Regular readers (I assume you exist) will notice that I have mentioned Thompson a few times in over the past few weeks. For most of that period, I knew it was a possibility that we’d be working for the campaign — though we certainly weren’t being paid. Even so, I only mentioned him where the analysis would suffer for leaving him out. And for what it’s worth, I did write about him before this ever came up. [...]

]]> http://www.blogpi.net/honorable-mentions-ii-where-the-2008-candidates-stand-today#comment-53995 Bryan Fri, 06 Apr 2007 20:53:06 +0000 http://www.blogpi.net/honorable-mentions-ii-where-the-2008-candidates-stand-today#comment-53995 <p>Lots of good info here. I'm compelled to note that for the analogy between the New York Firefighters Union and the Swift Boat Veterans to hold, the New York Firefighters would need to be either misrepresenting themselves or making demonstrably untrue claims about Giuliani. Were none of the vocal members of the New York Firefighters Union actually working firefighters in New York City under the leadership of Mayor Giuliani? Can the claims they make pertaining to his performance be shown to be fabrications? If so, Giuliani should learn from Kerry's mistake: he should counter those claims early and loudly to defame his defamers before they have a chance to deeply impact the public consciousness. I don't see it happening.</p> Lots of good info here. I’m compelled to note that for the analogy between the New York Firefighters Union and the Swift Boat Veterans to hold, the New York Firefighters would need to be either misrepresenting themselves or making demonstrably untrue claims about Giuliani. Were none of the vocal members of the New York Firefighters Union actually working firefighters in New York City under the leadership of Mayor Giuliani? Can the claims they make pertaining to his performance be shown to be fabrications? If so, Giuliani should learn from Kerry’s mistake: he should counter those claims early and loudly to defame his defamers before they have a chance to deeply impact the public consciousness. I don’t see it happening.

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