September 30, 2004
From the desk of Jane Galt:Yes, sir, we can hear everything you're saying
Reason #1,249 not to have long conversations on your cell phone in public places: you never know who might be listening.
A highly placed source close to Asymmetrical Information was riding back from Washington D.C. on the train today, sitting behind some chap with a cell phone who spent the entire trip yammering away. This gent apparently worked for MoveOn/George Soros, and used his enforced train confinement to elaborate their plans for a co-ordinated push on the lefty blogs tomorrow. The focus of this multi-blog push is to be a Joe Klein article in Time magazine, which argues that the Bush administration is deceiving the country about how well Iraq is going. Presumably this is the article in question, but maybe there's some blockbuster piece coming in next week's magazine. Certainly the article I linked doesn't seem to present anything revolutionary enough to warrant a full court press.
Our source is a Democrat himself, but not so much of one that he could resist giving this scoop to AI. So if you see a big spate of stories tomorrow, or over the weekend, about this Joe Klein piece, you'll know that it's the murderous hand of the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy at work, aiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Memo to Soros: Not everyone who rides the Acela first class car is a liberal activist. It just seems that way. Train trips are a good time to fold up your mobile and break out the cribbage board.
Impact this "scoop" will have: none, I'm sure. It's not exactly news that MoveOn loves the internet, and liberal bloggers love MoveOn. Or that both sides of the political spectrum are looking to spin the debates. But I'm a journalist, and it's the first time I've gotten any sort of scoop at all, except for when I predicted the fast food lawsuits. So important or not, I'm going to enjoy it just the same.
Posted by Jane Galt at September 30, 2004 4:25 PM | TrackBack | Technorati inbound linksJane, I didn't know you played cribbage! We should get together some time and play a game or seven.
I think the use of cell phones in confined spaces for anything other than emergencies or the quick "honey, I'm on my way" should be illegal. Yes, I know it's unenforceable and just one more of those regulations that does no one any good, but I don't care. I want to become a cell-phone vigilante!
I don't believe in legislating morals but I do believe in legislating manners!
Kate -- attempting to enforce her own skewed beliefs on the world since 1971.
A journalist? Jane. You write a blog now. You're an ankle-biter. A pajama dweller.
Sorry, but you've been kicked out of the Real Journalists(TM) club!
(/sarcasm)
What Kate said about cribbage. ('Cept I'm a long ways from NYC, a matter of manifold misfortune.)
Nine years on the Web and I finally found someone else who'll say on their site that they play.
'Bout time.
Loose lips sink ships. (What an idiot.)
I hope not -- it's a Real Magazine(TM) that signs my paychecks every month!
Yes, but I given that the dreadful state of journalism is becoming more and more obvious these days, you probably oughtta be distancing yourself from journalism and proudly aligning yourself more closely to the ranks of the pajama-clad.
Unlike that elitist egomaniac, Yglesias. :)
A Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy!
So it is out there. Who knew.
More evidence for Democrat dirty tricks. Sure, dirty tricks annoy me, but why do Democrats pretend that only Republicans do them? Most Republicans I know will admit that both sides are guilty, while Democrats will say that only Republicans are. Who are they trying to kid?
And another thing - why do I only get spammed by Democrats? Have others received Republican spam, or am I especially targeted by the Dems for some reason?
Amazing how many cribbage players are out there. I found one on a plane in mid-Pacific once and played the rest of the way to the Philippines. Of course I happened to have a cribbage board with me. Doesn't everyone carry one around just in case? ;)
PJ: why do Democrats pretend that only Republicans do them?
Same reason Republicans pretend that only Kerry is the flip-flopper, not Dubya. Partisan spin and/or cognitive bias.
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