Bush supporters' aftermath thread

Just like a good Democrat. Confident and wrong in knee jerk assumption.

<nods>

I have never read a right wing, left wing or otherwise wing blog. I don't enjoy the style of writing. I get enough slant in the MSM... I can understand why some may read them for entertainment value.

The term is widely used.

Acting as though JW is flaunting a new toy reveals that you are just not up to date.

Why don't you stop stereotyping and assuming, and gather a few facts?

Oh yeah. Democrat...

The MSM is getting a whopping 24% confidence vote these days...no wonder people are turning more and more to the blogosphere for news. Like anything else, some are better than others.

I found a hilarious article this morning that I meant to post on the SCOTUS/Marijuana thread. Okay, it's a lefty blog, but funny is funny

<Oops...is SCOTUS code used by right-wing bloggers?>

I don't know, but what's important is it is 6 letters!!!!!

ROFLMAO!!!!!!

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http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson200506100747.asp

Another must read by VDH.

Is VDH considered part of the MSM?

I don't know, but some of my best work has been disappeared.

<shakes head, wistfully recalls my 4-lettered acronym...>

SNAFUBAR

Heh.

Sorry, but we have only your word for that.


Apparently you do, because you are using a term only found there.



And do your thinking in the WC....




Widely used among right wing bloggers and their fans. Not widely used or understood anywhere else.



Or, more likely, that JW is flaunting a new toy.



The fact is that nobody talks about "the MSM" except right wing bloggers and their fans.


I wouldn't have it any other way. I'd hate to be one of those who go around babbling gibberish like "the MSM" and pretending that all the In People know what it means.

That's just weird.

Acronyms usually don't have that affect on people.

Will someone volunteer to teach keltic current slang?

This issue if having a FUBAR affect on him.

A term "only found there"???

Only if you count the Wall Street Journal as a "right-wing" blog. Or is it The New Yorker Magazine that is a right-wing blog??? Or is it the New York Times?

Apparently the term is found in more places than you thought. If you had bothered to do a search of A2K for the term you would find that it's been used numerous times here over the last 6 months and one of the first people to post anything using it was nimh - hardly steadfast right-winger by anyone's measure.

Yes, it is a widely used and widely understood abbreviation.

There and among the denizens of it's immediate ideological environment. Like Lash and Just Wonders, for instance.

[quote="fishin'"Only if you count the Wall Street Journal as a "right-wing" blog. [/quote]
A) The Opinion Journal is very right leaning, and is in ideological harmony with the right wing blogs. Moreover, Peggy Noonan is a very conservative writer whose opinions find much ageement among the blogs. She too is a denizen of the ideological environs of the blogs. Yes, she is a recognized member of the journalistic establishment, has published best selling books and her articles are seen in more or less normal newspapers. But ideologically, she is a heroine of the right wing blog world.

Moreover, the article was about Dan Rather and the false papers about Bush's National Guard service. Noonan was praising the blogs. It would not be hard to see how, if she praises them, she would adopt their jargon. That hardly means the population at large has adopted it, or even knows what it means.



Huh????

I went to your link, read the article and did a CTRL_F search. Nowhere in that article does the acronym "MSM" appear.



The article is about the blogworld. It even gives a translation of "MSM" for normal people!

Here's the quote.


If "MSM" had general acceptance, the NY Times article would not have to give the reader a translation now, would it. Sheesh.



Your own quotes demonstrate quite clearly it is not. Unless you want to count super-conservative Peggy Noonan as proving anything. She's super conservative, most blogs are super conservative-what a surprise that Blogspeak makes it's way into her columns.

Then why is the New York Times giving translations of it in it's article on blogs?

It's widely understood all right-understood to everyone in the right wing blog world. To the rest of us, it's unknown.

Laughing. Every day it becomes a bit more clear why the Dems lost

As usual, a valueless, content-free post from Just Wonders which adds little to the subject at hand.

It seems kind of strange that my 16 year old daughter, who has never read a blog in her life, knows what MSM is. She showed me 3 of her teen magazines that it used in articles, and I am quite sure none of them are right wing mags. First time I saw it used was in the Sacramento Bee, which is about as far left of a newspaper you can get.

Wait a minute.

I thought teen magazines were those things you see on newstands with covers full of pictures of teenage singers or TV stars, etc. and had names like Teen Beat and Teen Life.

What chance would an acronym for mainstream media have to find it's way into one of those things?

By teen magazines, I was refering to Teen People, Seventeen and ones like those. I will get the exact list for you in the morning. Believe it or not, they have actual articles and interviews, and even once in awhile, even talk about current events, and use some of the lingo that goes with it.

<When I saw MSM first, I misread it as MSN. Then I did an online serch, found things like an "American feminist magazine", "Mechanically separated meat", "Men who have sex with men", "Methylsulfonylmethane" .... and am glad, to have got the answer now here.>

But the point wasn't the teen mags, but the fact that a 16 year old, who only pays enough attention to current affairs to make sure it won't change her immediate world, knew what the term was. You may be correct in assuming it got it's start in the blogs, but it is quite a bit more mainstream than you might like to admit.