Shaun Kenney

So I clicked on this

from BlogNetNews and noticed the hullabaloo over CNN yanking their copyrighted content from YouTube. It appears as if some folks are taking this as a bit of cover for the reporter’s clear bias against the “Tea Party” protests last week.

Fair enough. Given some of the vitriol and invective that many bloggers with original content would spew (and rightly) at MSM reporters who steal their breaking stories or content, I can’t blame CNN for wanting to protect their intellectual property one bit.

What kills me is this — a blogger on site was able to get some of the aftermath of CNN’s reporting and some of the questions hurled… this is worth four minutes of your life to watch:

Now you tell me whether this reporter was harassed or not? You tell me whether this is precisely the sort of vitriol we rejected in 2003 during the liberation of Iraq?

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NBC 12’s Ryan Nobles performs a little navel gazing regarding charges of negativity amongst the Virginia Democratic gubernatorial nominees:

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I have to admit, each time the e-mail comes across with a harsh accusation (which they are getting just a bit more harsh as the days before June 9th begin to tick down) I get the urge to run to the computer and post something right away. But I always take a deep breath and ask myself: How much does the average voter really care?

My mandate is a bit different than most political bloggers in that I work for a news organization that covers everything. Rarely, if ever, do most of the things I post about here get on NBC12. So when I pitch a story for the evening newscast, I have to really convince my bosses that a political story merits air time. Attacks, counter-attacks and the defense of them never meets that muster.

But since we are on the topic let’s set the record straight. All three of the democratic candidates for governor have been negative at one point or another. It comes in many different forms: radio-ads, blog posts, “on background” e-mails, twitter updates and YouTube clips. They have all taken the opportunity, either themselves or through their closely associated supporters, to highlight differences in their policies and positions.

It is just part of the process.

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One should immediately add the following:  MSM outlets do precious little to sort out the nonsense.  In fact, some MSM seem to revel in the caricatures we love to draw of public officials, as the WaPo’s Anita Kumar uncharacteristically gets her hands a bit dirty:

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Just one, which leads me to believe this is Radar’s batch of kittens and not Belle’s — but there is a black and orange kitten hiding in the garage that looks to be about two weeks old.  The kitten is a slight bit tempermental, but will let the kids hold her (or him) before scurrying away.

No clue on names yet, but feel free to offer ideas below.

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Punch Out is back for the Wii, sans the Mike Tyson.  

This is definitely a BUY!

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Proving once again that the Society of Jesus are still the intellectual “shock troops” of the Catholic Church, Fr. Oakes performs an amazing exegesis of Obama’s position on abortion, and the distant-yet-firm hope that maybe… just maybe it was Alan Keyes who showed the way:

Needless to say, Mr. Obama’s campaign staff advised him to ignore his opponent completely. But that proved impossible because, like Abraham Lincoln

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in his campaign for the U.S. Senate against Stephen Douglas in 1858 (who also initially refused to debate Lincoln), Mr. Keyes followed Mr. Obama’s every campaign stop and then made use of this free publicity to badger his opponent with news-making sound-bites.

And just as Douglas finally had to take notice of Lincoln’s ceaseless hammering away at Douglas’s “pro-choice” platform (which said, in effect, “I’m personally opposed to slavery but can’t impose my choice on other states, including other Northern

states.”), so too Mr. Obama could not help feeling stung by the same argument when applied to him.

Excellent work.  Read it all.

A two-fer! Not only do you get highlights the McDonnell and Bolling kick-off in Hampton Roads, Bearing Drift has the audio!

It’s coming. Jim Hoeft over at Bearing Drift is working on the details.

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I saw this link followed by the back and forth between the bloggers/reporters on NRO Online.  

The basis of the day long argument survey from August 1984 of books every high school graduate should read before moving on to college.  The list included such notables as Shakespeare, the Bible, Huck Finn, and the Declaration of Independence.  Weightier books made the list as well — Aristotle’s Politics, Plato’s Republic, de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, Virgil’s Aeneid and others.

Two comments are worth sharing, and neither of them favorable to what I would call a rather light list.  The first from the esteemed Ramesh Ponnuru:

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Virginia Democrats have no illusions as to whom the real threat to their hegemony in Richmond is, as liberal Democrat Steve Shannon takes aim at State Senator Ken Cuccinelli .

Bearing Drift astutely points out:

All in all, the evidence points to Democrats making a concerted effort to pin this on McDonnell and House Republicans. Only the Democratic candidate for AG, Shannon, found it helpful to mention Cuccinelli — that has to mean something.

Could this be the endorsement Cuccinelli has been waiting for?

No doubt the Democrats are starting to feel the heat between the sagging popularity of Barack Obama and the absolutely terrible numbers showing all of the Virginia Democratic gubernatorial nominees polling with negatives in the mid-30s or higher.

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Holy Saturday typically has all the pinnings of anticipation for Easter Sunday, but for the Eastern Orthodox there is a tradition which goes back to at least the 9th Century and perhaps further — The Miracle of Holy Fire:

The miracle is not confined to what actually happens inside the little tomb, where the Patriarch prays. What may be even more significant, is that the blue light is reported to appear and be active outside the tomb. Every year many believers claim that this miraculous light ignites candles, which they hold in their hands, of its own initiative. All in the church wait with candles in the hope that they may ignite spontaneously. Often unlit oil lamps catch light by themselves before the eyes of the pilgrims. The blue flame is seen to move in different places in the Church.

 A number of signed testimonies by pilgrims, whose candles lit spontaneously, attest to the validity of these ignitions. The person who experiences the miracle from close up by having the fire on the candle or seeing the blue light usually leaves Jerusalem changed, and for everyone having attended the ceremony, there is always a “before and after” the miracle of the Holy Fire in Jerusalem.

Now I have never been in Jerusalem to witness this event, but there are thousands who swear by it. 

Of course, good old Wikipedia is there to debunk the myth of the Holy Fire:

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