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The anonymous cruelty of the Web (LEFTY COLUMNISTS FEELING THE HEAT)
Chicago Sun-Times ^ | April 4, 2010 | NEIL STEINBERG Sun-Times Columnist

Posted on 04/04/2010 8:24:03 AM PDT by Chi-townChief

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When you consider the source, this is actually pretty funny.
1 posted on 04/04/2010 8:24:04 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
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“Myself, I struggle not to read the comments posted after my column, because they tend to be long partisan harangues or short personal attacks. But curiosity often overcomes my restraint, and I am invariably rewarded with a nasty slap or two, which, to be honest, sometimes stings.:

Can’t stand the heat? Get outta the kitchen!


2 posted on 04/04/2010 8:27:10 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save the Earth. It's the only planet with Chocolate.)
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I’ll give him credit for advocating the comments stay - most Dem-libs are for shutting down avenues of broad communication that they cannot control. This guy has the marbles to play outside.


3 posted on 04/04/2010 8:30:44 AM PDT by Titus-Maximus (Light from Light)
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"This is called “editing,” and if the column above gets it, why shouldn't the remarks below? If I smirked at a 9-year-old boy hit by a bus, it would never make the paper"

Yeah?
Ed Schultz, MSNBC, says “Hello!”.


“MSNBC’s Schultz Derides NewsBusters, Urges: ‘We Ought to Rip Out’ Cheney

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2010/02/25/msnbcs-schultz-derides-newsbusters-urges-we-ought-rip-out-cheneys-heart#ixzz0k96KtGYD

4 posted on 04/04/2010 8:34:44 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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we have to remember reporters frequent only left wing sites.

Those are vitriol, curse word, heavy sites.


5 posted on 04/04/2010 8:35:25 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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There can be only one solution.

Complete suppression of all free speech.

And a Ministry that decides what is right, and what is wrong. Perhaps we could call it the Ministry of Truth.

6 posted on 04/04/2010 8:35:59 AM PDT by Lazamataz ("We beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them." -- Lazamataz, 2005)
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"This was not exactly the truth, but then, what is, exactly?"
Howell Raines (b. 1943), U. S. Journalist.
From his book Whiskey Man, 1977
7 posted on 04/04/2010 8:43:34 AM PDT by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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When did liberal boys become such girlie men?


8 posted on 04/04/2010 8:45:44 AM PDT by cardinal4 (Dont Tread on Me)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
“Myself, I struggle not to read the comments posted after my column, because they tend to be long partisan harangues or short personal attacks."
9 posted on 04/04/2010 8:47:24 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck (What we really have going on in this country is a MAL-DISTRIBUTION of EFFORT.)
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Neil Steinberg:

Leonard Pitts Jr. wrote a column in the Miami Herald last week calling for an end to the practice of running anonymous comments after articles online.

Hey Neil, That is what FreeRepublic is all about. Make comments to columns in an organized and moderated forum. Sheez!

10 posted on 04/04/2010 8:48:41 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (There is no such thing as a conservative democrat - Rinse - Repeat)
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Just spend 5 minutes at a leftist/marxist/democrat hate speech site like Democratic Underground, MoveOn.Org or Huffington Post.


11 posted on 04/04/2010 8:49:37 AM PDT by FormerACLUmember (The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. - H. L. Menken.)
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The left’s double-standard on print and on-air media is simply astonishing.

Saw where Chris Matthews was all over Limbaugh for calling Obama’s administration a “regime”...likened it to...wait for it...Joe McCarthy.

Check Google for “regime” and Bush...there are over 6,700 hits in eight years. One of which was by...you guessed it...Matthews. Bush’s administration was called a “regime” over 40 times in the...Washington Post.

On and on it goes.


12 posted on 04/04/2010 8:49:56 AM PDT by kjo
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"I am, after all, the most famous drunk in Chicago"

Steinberg was arrested on a domestic-battery charge for striking his wife—for slapping her because she said she was afraid of him and she started to call 911. He was also charged with interfering with the reporting of a domestic battery—that happened when he ripped his kitchen phone off the wall and hurled it across the room. Steinberg was immediately placed on leave from his job. He announced through the Sun-Times that he had been drinking before the domestic-battery incident, and that under court order, he would be entering an alcohol-recovery program.

In less than 24 hours before the incident leading to his arrest, Steinberg had consumed a third of a bottle of Cognac in the early-morning hours, knocked back two vodka tonics and a beer before a 10 a.m. editorial meeting, taken a "long and boozy lunch" with a college friend, had several drinks before boarding his evening Metra train, where he consumed two glasses of wine in the bar car, and then slammed back a drink at a local pizzeria when he picked up the family dinner. He topped the evening off with a snifter of Cognac. Drinking, he admits, is the greatest love of his life.

In his book, Drunkar: A Hard-Drinking Life (from E. P. Dutton) is, by turns, horrifying (Steinberg drinks the bottle of vanilla used for his kids' French toast), exasperating (he turns a speech in New York into a scene from The Lost Weekend), frightening (he leaves his young son Ross alone in the children's section of the Northbrook library so he can run out and buy a pint of bourbon), and funny (home from jail, he wishes he had spent half as much time thinking about his life as he had planning his kitchen renovation).

13 posted on 04/04/2010 8:52:17 AM PDT by kcvl
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Steinberg got arrested for hitting his wife while drunk.


14 posted on 04/04/2010 8:53:44 AM PDT by bfree (The revolution is coming and it will be violent--FUBO)
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There are NO JOURNALISTS left in America... you are all wh0res for satan... all you in the media do is lie and promote the evil that is the left in America today... did I mention that ALL of you so-called journalists are evil?

LLS

15 posted on 04/04/2010 8:56:28 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer ( WOLVERINES!)
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There are NO JOURNALISTS left in America... you are all wh0res for satan... all you in the media do is lie and promote the evil that is the left in America today... did I mention that ALL of you so-called journalists are evil?

LLS

16 posted on 04/04/2010 8:56:33 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer ( WOLVERINES!)
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howeird dean called for the outing of the BUSH REGIME! Burn in hell lefties... oh yes... I know that you will!

LLS


17 posted on 04/04/2010 8:58:28 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer ( WOLVERINES!)
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I agree with you. They are socialist prostitutes who produce mindless drivel to condition the perpetually stupid.


18 posted on 04/04/2010 10:03:50 AM PDT by Luke21
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Steinberg got arrested for hitting his wife while drunk.

He should have know not to drink while hitting his wife.

19 posted on 04/04/2010 10:12:12 AM PDT by HIDEK6
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re: we have to remember reporters frequent only left wing sites. Those are vitriol, curse word, heavy sites.)))

I know--I can barely read a thread at Kos, even when I try every hard. They all sound like that guy who flew the plane into the IRS building.

20 posted on 04/04/2010 10:31:25 AM PDT by Mamzelle (Employers--lay off Obama voters first)
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