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• 16Sep 08

  Submit Questions for My Interview with Jennifer Hale

  A little over seven weeks ago, I wrote a Soapbox Blog titled Searching for Jennifer Hale.
  
  Imagine my surprise when Jennifer Hale ended up finding me.
  
  Hale, in an astonishing show of fan appreciation, took the time to register on Gamespot to personally send me a PM thanking me for my article.
  
  Now, I know what you may be thinking. How do we really know that it is Hale and not an unethical impersonator who sent me the PM? Well, I politely asked for some verification on her identity as well. She in turn asked me for my suggestions on how she might do so, and today followed through on one of them by quoting my article on her personal website.
  
  Furthermore, she has agreed to sit for an interview with me and answer questions. While the details on what format the interview will take and how many questions will be allowed are still being worked out, I thought that a nice "thank you" to my blog readers would be to let you folks submit questions as well rather than hogging them all for myself.
  
  Now, keep in mind that I don't know how many questions we'll get to ask, but if any of you out there are fans of Hale's work and have ever wanted to ask her a question or two, now is the time to do so.
  
  If you do submit a question and don't get it answered or even asked, my apologies in advance.
  • Posted Sep 16, 2008 4:16 pm PT
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• 9Sep 08

  To be fair: Factchecking Sarah Palin Rumors

  Hokies1313 recently put a link in my comments section to a Newsweek article that takes a critical look at some of the Sarah Palin rumors.
  
  Since I do believe in some degree of fairness, despite my definite bias, I'm going to link the article here right at the beginning of this blog. I hate retractions being on page 63.
  
  That aside, I think this may be an example of where many of these stories may be getting the small details wrong, but the overall message correct. For example, one of the "Internet smears" going around was that Sarah Palin endorsed Pat Buchanan, a very conservative man, as he ran for the presidency. (Incidentally, how unpopular is the Republican brand when saying they supported a conservative Republican qualifies as a "smear"?)
  
  According to the Factcheck link, Palin actually supported Forbes...a very conservative Republican! This is what I mean when the details may be wrong, but that it doesn't really completely invalidate the overall story.
  
  These pseudo-scandals/rumors are all attempting to paint a picture of Sarah Palin being a dangerous ideologue. The fear about Sarah Palin among many people is that her views place her outside of the mainstream. The very things that make her very attractive to deeply conservative people are what makes her scary to others like myself.
  
  The biggest failures of the Bush Administration have been failures of putting ideology over basic competence. They've been failures of sticking stubbornly to preconceived beliefs in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. To me, this is the big worry that I have with a McCain/Palin administration. When you listen to their speeches, it isn't, generally speaking, a departure from what the Bush years were. Sure they make some genuflections in the direction of being "mavericks", but as McCain himself said, on the transcendental issues of their time they still think that Bush/Cheney got things right. Or, as Steven Colbert put it:
  
  It's no secret that one of John McCain's biggest challenges as a candidate is distinguishing himself from President Bush. I'm not sure why he's eager to spurn President Bush's supporters. I mean, that's walking away from almost 29% of the American electorate and nearly half the Bush children. But he's so different from Bush already. The only issues they agree on are education, immigration, Iraq, abortion, Supreme Court judges, Social Security, tax breaks for the wealthy, wiretapping, trade, healthcare, the Middle East, same sex marriage and Medicare.
  • Posted Sep 9, 2008 2:39 pm PT
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• 5Sep 08

  Quickie Blog: God Bless Jon Stewart 2

  First off, why on earth can't mainstream media members do the kind of reporting that Jon Stewart does? I'm talking about the hard hitting reporting where you compare and contrast what someone said before to what they're saying when events change and point out the rank and nauseating hypocrisy? Oh...wait...most of those ARE the mainstream U.S. media figures in Stewart's video clips. Nevermind.
  
  Oh well, at least it points out how completely misleading the job title of "political commentator" is for some of these people when a more correct phrasing would be "partisan schmuck".
  
  In other news, Alaska's largest paper accuses their chief executive of stonewalling the investigation into whether she misused her office for personal gain to stall the results until after the election and calls for subpoenas. As McCain might say, "That's not change we can believe in!"
  
  Between this and Librarian Gate I wonder if we're still supposed to believe that the Palin pick was real and thoroughly vetted.
  • Posted Sep 5, 2008 10:11 am PT
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