Ever read comments at the bottom of a youtube video or a popular blog post? Usually pretty lame, huh?
Since last week, there’s been lots of swirl in the political blogging world, over comments left by anonymous users. Are these website operators responsible for what random people say?
Bill O’Reilly’s rant here.
DailyKos’s response here.
More backlash here and here.
This week was a good one. We’ve got dog fights, lighters on planes, and squirrels. What else could you ask for?
More on today’s stories:
Senator Byrd’s entire speech here.
In-depth and well argued criticism of Petraeus’s appearance on the Hugh Hewitt Show here.
The TSA’s self-admitted “security theater” here.
High-tech squirrel spies here.
President Bush’s Executive Order threatening the 5th Amendment here. News coverage has been minimal. Analysis here.
CNN is hosting the upcoming “CNN/YouTube Debates,” starting Monday. But rather than selecting uploaded YouTube video questions at random for the candidates to answer, they are hand-picking them beforehand.
Doesn’t that make the whole YouTube thing irrelevant?
View questions and submit your own here.
(Entry numbers for the questions featured in today’s podcast are, in order: 776
921, 1078, 992, 1147, 113, 857, 995, 1076, 1157)
