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Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it’s always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins. ~Neil Gaiman
Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in. ~Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The road to hell is paved with adverbs. ~Stephen King
The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read. ~Mark Twain
I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way. ~Walter Tevis
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one. ~George R.R. Martin
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Re: Banned from TV
Date: 8/25/12 05:30 am (UTC)Ed Kilgore, from Political Animal, basically rebuts Anderson Cooper's point, and he speaks from experience.
Man, if this is a “gotcha” moment, then the definition of “gotcha” has been debased to the vanishing point. As someone involved in Democratic conventions (including on two occasions the platform process) for a long time, I can confidently assert that it is a fact, of which the entire CNN staff appears ignorant, that not a sparrow falls to the ground in the drafting of a national party platform that is not approved by the nominee and his or her staff. That Team Mitt did not choose to publicly challenge the traditional “constitutional ban with no exceptions other than life of the mother” language does not absolve it of responsibility for it. Romney’s extraordinary “flexibility,” shall we say, on the abortion issue over the years is hardly news, but the basic point that Romney is indeed complicit in an extremist platform if he doesn’t bother to explicitly distance himself from it is sound, even if Anderson Cooper doesn’t “get it.”
Also, since television networks are owned by corporations, and corporations aren't the government (yet), it's hardly "totalitarian" for them to ban anyone they want to. Banning John Sununu and most of the twits on Fox News would greatly improve the truthfulness of the national discourse.