Thursday, June 23, 2005
BLOGSWARMING UPDATE
We finally get around to updating our Blogswarming Scoreboard, the only one of our posts that has ever made the Wikinews:
| Who? | Oops | Apologized? | Fallout | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Mainstream Media. All of those dirty bastards. Also the Bush Administration. And Tony Blair. | Where are the articles on the Downing Street memo? Huh? Huh? And why hasn't Bush been impeached? | MSM: Not really Bush: No Blair: No | Lots of articles, a few say the MSM was asleep at the wheel, others that the memo is not news. More blogs. | |
| Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill) | Said Americans' treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay was like "Nazis, Soviets in their gulags or some mad regime that had no concern for human beings." | Eventually. (1) Day after remarks, Durbin had no plans to apologize--said "administration should apologize to the American people"; (2) two days later came to regret causing "anyone to misunderstand my true feelings"; (3) after a week, tearfully apologized to those who "may believe that my remarks crossed the line"; (4) apologized to vets | None, really. Left now complains Durbin should apologize for the apology. Right uses Durbin as illustration of anti-military sentiment on the left. | |
