March 8, 2005
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TUESDAY POLITICS
First Down for Us!
So I looked up at my TV screen and there in living color on MSNBC was the First Blogger to cover the daily press briefings in the White House. And he’s a Liberal!! Here’s a little bio of Garrett Graff:
Garrett Graff is vice president of communications at EchoDitto, Inc., a Washington, D.C.-based technology consulting firm. A Vermont native, he served formerly as deputy national press secretary on Howard Dean’s presidential campaign and, beginning in 1997, was then-Governor Dean’s first webmaster. In college, he was a news writer and executive editor at the Harvard Crimson, Harvard University’s daily newspaper, where he wrote more news articles than any other writer in half-a-century and held internships at ABCNews’ Political Unit and at the Atlantic Monthly. He is also a frequent speaker on blogging and the intersection of politics and technology.
And here’s what he has to say on his blog: click here. Is that the cat’s meow or what?!! On TV he said, with his young fresh intelligent face, that he thinks he will be able to visit regularly (whatever that turns out to mean). He’s got the official credential (unlike the recent fiasco with the conservative activist, James Guckert – who called himself Jeff Gannon – and was suspected of being a Bush plant). Now that’s something we can all celebrate!
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Amazing 9/11 site sent by NickyJett. More will be revealed.
Deep Thought: “Isn’t it funny how one minute life can be such a struggle, and the next minute you’re just driving real fast, swerving back and forth across the road?”
Today I am grateful for: Fine print
Guess the Movie: “Jesus is never mad at us if we live with Him in our hearts!” “I hate to break it to you, but He is – He most definitely is.” Answer: I Heart Huckabees.
The Latest Iraq Horror
Editorial
It is rare for the Bush White House to offer a correct assessment of anything that has happened in Iraq. But White House communications director Dan Bartlett could not have been more right when he acknowledged that the wounding of Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena – and the killing of an Italian secret service agent who shielded her from a spray of bullets fired by U.S. troops – was “horrific.” (Rest of article here.)
End of Day: 8:38 pm
+ = Walking on grass in bare feet again.
- = Mountain blew today – see Volcano cam in sidebar.
Comments (10)
Huzzah for influential bloggers.
Oh, the left-wing blogger is NOT a part-time hooker? Well, that’s cool. Today’s deep thought just made me laugh and laugh.
I don’t even want to THINK that there could be any truth to Sammaratino’s claim. That is just too daggone scary.
How ironic that a California court, in a case involving an Apple lawsuit against a blogger, is probably going to stupidly rule that blogs are not protected by the First Amendment.
Never mind.
I just went here , after leaving your page and now I am thoroughly depressed. Well not thoroughly but really sad.
They LET liberals into the White House?!? I thought they had detectors at the doors….
Deep Thoughts make me happy.
wow. thank you so much for your comment. and i really want to learn more about photoshop too. i’ve been fiddling around with it (as i’ve mentioned here and there), but there’s only so much i can guess by myself. so eventually i want to take a class, or buy a book, or something. but first i think i’m going to take a photography class.
Did you see Mt. St. Helens a couple of days ago? I was up at Silver Lake – the one you pass on the way up to the mountain. Ughh. I’ll be really PO’d of that thing goes off while I’m up in that area!
I just went to his blog…he’s a very good writer! I wonder how he mixes with the politicians and high profile people?
THank you for the compliment on my photography! RYC: I use a little point-nd-shoot – a Nikon. It takes very nice pictures! I htink the meter takes readings from many places in the frame, so the exposure overall is very nice. I use photoshop a bit too..on most shots, I adjust the sharpness and sometimes the color balance. And on those eggs shots, I really needed to crop them quite a bit…it’s hard to take nicely-focused close-up shots with a point and shoot.
Have a good weekend!