Worst part of the Hitler-comparisons

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Monday July 19, 2010 · 5:29 PM PDT

2010/07/19 · 17:29

I found this screenshot of someone's facebook on Reddit, and it killed my otherwise good mood. In a Facebook-debate, someone named Aaron makes the following comment about Obama: (picture of the entire thing after break, due to semi-obscene followup)

People compare him to hitler and and people like you still support him..(sic)

I'm sure people like Aaron are out of reach anyways, but it WAS Hitler who said that "if you repeat a lie often enough, it will be believed" - apparently he wasn't wrong with that one. :(

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Saturday July 17, 2010 · 6:22 PM PDT

2010/07/17 · 18:22

Shouldn't we have a liberal website to counter all the lies about Social Security that gets put out there? Seems to me like most of the debate is based off of right wing talking points, and that just isn't very productive...

LarzJG

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Wednesday July 07, 2010 · 3:55 PM PDT

2010/07/07 · 15:55

I don't like that Markos was banned from MSNBC, it's hypocritical and one-sided. But as much as I want to be outraged, I'm more worried that it's a fight that will weaken us rather than strengthen us and that there's really no way Markos comes out of it looking very good.

The 'Dead Intern' quip to Joe Scarborough was probably over the top. While there's some similarity between the sitations for Joe and Gary Condit, there are some fairly serious differences too. Condit was having an affair with the intern, and as far as I could find out that was not the case for Scarborough. If we're looking for the reason the two were covered differently, that's where we need to look before we go to conspiracy theories.

The snotty response from Scarborough was unwise, I think I would have waved at that one and moved on - but isn't that also the wise move from Markos at this point? I'm not sure what is left to be gained from further hyping this battle with one of the few progressive-friendly stations over something where there isn't a clear cut bad guy. Our energy is way better spent elsewhere, especially in an election year.

Thinking new in polling methods

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Tuesday June 29, 2010 · 6:58 PM PDT

2010/06/29 · 18:58

The apparent fraud with Research 2000 polls made me think about the way that polls are conducted. Polling is so much of an art form and the profession is full of secrets when it comes to the methods a pollster uses that it is almost impossible for any outsider to verify the results. So in every poll, the pollster's name and reputation is the only reason we trust their work or not, and we shouldn't really have had to wait for a scandal like this to know that trusting people with a totally unverifiable product based on their name alone is a BAD idea.

So let's look at the profession, and look for ways in which we can improve the transparency of the polling process, and add further checks to the process to ensure more trustworthy polls.

Split the job into two parts: Data Gathering and Analysis
The main financial incentive for a fraud on R2K's part - if any such fraud occurred - is to save on the costs on gathering data. Gathering a sample size of 1200 people means they would have to make about 4000 calls, since most people hang up on pollsters, and that takes a lot of people and a lot of calls which in turn raises your costs. So let's make sure that there are two companies involved...

LarzJG

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Tuesday June 01, 2010 · 11:29 AM PDT

2010/06/01 · 11:29

A quick hit on the Al and Tipper seperation.

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Wednesday May 05, 2010 · 2:44 AM PDT

2010/05/05 · 02:44

Since Obama read the audio book of Dreams From my Father, he also said the swear-quotes in the book. This stuff is about to go massively viral.

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Friday April 16, 2010 · 9:07 AM PDT

2010/04/16 · 09:07

Here's what I learned after playing devil's advocate on Social Security...

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Wednesday April 14, 2010 · 3:08 PM PDT

2010/04/14 · 15:08

I've got trouble following the debate on social security, and here's why...

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Thursday January 28, 2010 · 7:15 AM PST

2010/01/28 · 07:15

I found this Associated Press "Fact Check" on news.yahoo.com, and it really is one massive hatchet job on the State of the union.

Throughout the piece, Woodward's fact check reads a lot like the Tea Party Express rebuttal to the State of the Union, and it really has no business being called a Fact Check. To have it come from the AP makes it all the more troublesome.

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Thursday January 21, 2010 · 3:22 PM PST

2010/01/21 · 15:22

Looking at what Democrats must do to get out of the muck and back in control.

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Worst part of the Hitler-comparisons

Let's do a Social Security website

Doubtful benefits of the MSNBC brouhaha

Thinking new in polling methods

Wanted: Vegas and some time travel

Obama will call you an ignorant m*f, Rush

Revisiting Social Security

Social Security and the retirement age

Hatchet job from AP is called Fact Check

Picking a fight