This is an interesting article for nothing to do with the point of the article, which is roughly this:
An anonymous blogger who posted pro-Bob Rae and anti-Michael Ignatieff messages on the Internet works for a high-profile Montreal advertising firm, leading to allegations the Rae camp was involved in a “smear campaign” against Mr. Ignatieff.But then the article goes on to include some funny statements like these:
- "The blogosphere is supposed to be an environment for grassroots Liberals to come together and discuss politics": I thought it was a place for workers to come together when the clutch is fully engaged. A place to watch videos of squirrels eat cookies bigger than their heads.
- "We don't pay bloggers": Why not? What is so sacred about blogs that you can send out some well placed cheques for well placed comments. If I am, as I appear to be, Canada's gentleman blogger, then I think it is time to state clearly that it is OK to pay bloggers.
- "'Vote for him at your peril,' the blog said": why is it that a statement on a blog like this is news at all? Can't one now find any statement one wants for any point of view sourced reliably to any person on the planet? Isn't that the whole point of wikiality, that it is all made up now, that everything is equally authorized and authoritative so nothing is news? And when do I not vote at my peril anyway?
Comments
gorthos - November 25, 2006 9:48 AM
Kennedy hasn't mailed me so much as a free coffee coupon.. sheesh!
I'll take bribery.
I'm not so proud as to deny the power of filty lucre.
ha ha!
Flea - November 25, 2006 10:52 AM
Qui bono, gentlemen. Qui bono.
Flea - November 25, 2006 10:53 AM
Also, que sera sera.
Alan - November 25, 2006 11:01 AM
Doris Day <i>ROCKS!</i>
gorthos - November 25, 2006 11:12 AM
si post fata venit gloria non propero
gorthos - November 25, 2006 11:14 AM
Also Cave Canum
Marian - November 25, 2006 1:19 PM
Seize the dog?!!! Oh, sorry...
gorthos - November 25, 2006 3:54 PM
That would be carpe canum, Marian
:)
Jay Currie - November 25, 2006 6:53 PM
Getting paid to blog can occur...but it shifts the process somehow. All of a sudden you are looking for stories rather than flipping a bit of snark here and a snip of policy there.
I rather like carpe canum. Depending, of course, on the canum in quare.
cm - November 26, 2006 12:16 PM
Could someone please carpe the canum across the hall who yip and yap at my comings and goings? Also the one upstairs that scritch scritch scritches across the floor at all hours?
Ben (The Tiger) - November 26, 2006 11:03 PM
Should note that "canis" is third declension, therefore it should be "cave canem" if one is being wary and "carpe canem" if one is being greedy.
brian - November 27, 2006 6:27 AM
"<i>The blogosphere is supposed to be an environment for grassroots Liberals to come together and discuss politics</i>"
Oh, it is??? That's funny, because I'm not a liberal, and I suppose that having a blog makes me part of the so-called "blogosphere." Or maybe my being conservative/moderate automatically makes me NOT part of the blogosphere.
That said, where's my check?
Alan - November 27, 2006 9:00 AM
You know, I am very pleased having a college boy classicist conservative as well as US military kindly Christian conservatives ready (aye ready) to heed the call for diversified perspective. I wonder - is Brian stateside for Yule?
brian - November 27, 2006 9:32 AM
Brian will indeed be stateside for Yule... Perhaps even stateside within a week! Certainly can't miss Boxing Day!
Also, thanks for the comment on my blog. The Chaplain was an amazing man.