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A day rarely passes in this campaign without someone's taking grave offense to something.

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  • Posted By: mattie against MSM bias @ 08/17/2008 4:10:53 PM

    Hi Kelly Browning. I'm so glad you're still around. We'd love for you to come and carry the blog in the present until we can get the old stuff transferred. If you want that is. We've given up trying to transfer the hundreds and hundreds of old posts because they had good tips. We'll find them but we've been at it three weeks. Word Press didn't work. We're not very technical as you can see and should have just opened that one to the public. We have to keep up-to-date.. Obama said some interesting things in that .forum last night that puts his Iraq fairy tale in perspective.

    Right now it's still private so if you leave an email address we can send you an invite and you can co-author.. If you don't want to use your regular email address - get a google account - you're going to need one anyway - and then you can change it once you get in. I'll check back. If you're not interested let me know. We thought of you first. Thanks. .

    • Posted By: KellyBrowning @ 08/18/2008 9:05:53 AM

      Dear Mattie, Oh yes. I'm still around waiting for Mr. Alter to apologize. Thank goodness I didn't hold my breath. I tried to log on to at least request an invite, but it didn't work. You can reach me at KellyB4GOP@gmail.com. I'd love a chance to contribute to your forum. We need to inform these people that Obama has been getting pretty much a free pass on everything, although it's going to cost him in the end.

  • Posted By: KellyBrowning @ 08/13/2008 8:29:40 AM

    Jonathan, I heard from a friend of a friend at Newsweak, that you are coming off a bad week. I heard you spilled your coffee, had a flat tire and that your computer system crashed. Wow! your Kharma must be lousy these days. I guess what goes around comes around, doesn't it?

  • Posted By: Etta Mae @ 08/10/2008 8:51:29 PM

    Pardon me. It's Citizens Against Pro-Obama Media Bias.

    Hope to see you soon!

    • Posted By: KellyBrowning @ 08/11/2008 8:25:24 AM

      Dear Ms. Jenkins:

      Thank you for the information. I'll have to check it out, now that I've come out from behind my rock ;-) I'd love to be a contributor, if you have the need. All the best to you and yours.

      Kelly Browning

  • Posted By: Etta Mae @ 08/10/2008 8:47:37 PM

    Dear Ms Browning:

    I hope you are doing well. You will be pleased to know that a new blog has opened: Citizens Against Media Bias to document evidence of media bias. There you should be able to voice freely. I hope to read more of your writing soon.

    God Bless,
    Etta Mae Jenkins

    http://citizensagainstproobamamediabias.blogspot.com/
    (Ms Mattie said it might take a few days.)

    The specifics are outlined at Mr Alter's newest article: "A Catharsis in Denver"
    http://www.newsweek.com/id/151388/output/comments

  • Posted By: 3riverspress @ 08/01/2008 7:02:02 AM

    Hi Kelly Browning if you're still out there. You rock sista! Starting a blog is very easy with Google.

    1 Go to Google Home page
    2 On top left click on MORE than scroll down to EVEN MORE and click
    3 You should see an orange BLOGGER - click on it
    4 The Blogger Home page should come up. Click the orange arrow on the bottom and follow the steps. Takes five minutes - literally. You'll have to get a free gmail account to sign in. You can use your present email address. And if you so desire, you can have your email forwarded to your gmail account. Google Docs will let you compose documents, spreadsheets, etc online.

    Forgive me if you know this already.

    I know citizens against media bias is starting a blog and you can post there. All Alter "fans" are welcome I'm sure. I'll check back to see if you got this and hopefully I'll have their link for you. Or if you set up your own blog let us know.
    I really can't believe they kicked you off. Methinks they doth protest too much.

    • Posted By: KellyBrowning @ 08/04/2008 2:58:55 PM

      Hi 3riverspress! Thank you for the shout-out! Seriously, I have no idea what goes into beginning a blog. I read something you posted the other day about citizens against media bias and I Googled it and came up with nothing I thought could be related to them. Hmmm. If you come up with a link, I'd appreciate it.

      On another note, Mr. Alter (if you are actually reading this), I think you might want to read a few books about unbiased journalism, if there is such a thing anymore. You really need to get out more and realize that it's a great big world out there and there is more than 1 side to a story. It's a shame that you view the world as revolving around yourself and your Messiah. There is a lot more to life than the two of you.

      • Posted By: ludicrous @ 08/07/2008 9:21:17 PM

        Hey Kelly. They are setting up a public blog for people to post their proof of pro-Obama media bias. Facts and opinions--nobody else is listening. They had been compiling proof and have run across so many people who have proof--a lot from here-- that they wanted to provide a public square. The new name is: Citizens Against Pro-Obama Media Bias. It should be up in the next few days because they have to transfer over the old posts. I'll be back if you're still out there. good thing you *left* that place. Now you'll be compiling evidence of Alter's bias. Sweet isn't it?

  • Posted By: JamesTz @ 08/02/2008 11:26:14 PM

    Hello there Jonathan!

    It has been one week since my last comment, and I see no evidence by others about the extent of your lack of research. Let me inform you. You reported on KellyB signature line in the Tony Snow article on Politico and provided no direct link. FYI the same signature line was used in the Ted Kennedy surgery thread Jun. 2, 2008 and the Ted Kennedy tumor announcement thread May 20, 2008. You neglected to mention this. This would indicate Politico did not find that signature line offensive for approximately 30 days.

    • Posted By: JamesTz @ 08/04/2008 1:03:26 PM

      Update:: Finalized search, and the signature line began being used APRIL 2, 2008. Jonathan, Jonathan, Jonathan. And that was something a research assistant could have found for you. So the bottom line is the signature was USED FOR MORE THAN THREE MONTHS in advance of the Tony Snow article. IT WAS NOT AMENDED. Indeed, after three months at a new employer, I doubt that you check the address on your letterhead is accurate, or that your email signature is accurate with every email you send. Unless of course you do not want that information to go to the recipient. Hmmmmm.

  • Posted By: 3riverspress @ 08/01/2008 6:29:21 AM

    Mr Alter, did you see what you did? You caused KellyB to be kicked off politico. Does it make you feel better? Does it make you feel powerful? Or does it make you feel bad as a journalist...someone who should value free speech and protect sources? Honestly, how far are you willing to go to put Obama in the White House? Have you thought of stepping back and looking at yourself? Would your journalism professor (I presume you are a real journalist.) be proud of your words? Do you think your granddaughter will be proud of you when she looks up granddad's articles about Senator and Chelsea Clinton?

    When will your apology be forthcoming? If you do not apologize to KellyB - it will say even more about you than your words. How about you defend your own unfair comments about KellyB?

  • Posted By: KellyBrowning @ 07/30/2008 2:13:09 PM

    Comment: Dear Mrs. Jenkins:

    I am very humbled by your kind words. You have much writing talent and it should be YOU that starts a blog. It is unfortunate that with this groundbreaking and historic election cycle, most of the media can not objectively state the news of this. Their bias is showing very distinctly and it is a shame that so many people are buying this hook, line and sinker. Mr. Alter is only one of many journalists who have thrown in with Obama. I find it unfortunate as well that Senator Obama could make one of his speeches to the German people, but could not (or would not) visit the injured troops. I'll keep this short, but Mrs. Jenkins, I am humbled by you and may God bless you and your family.

    Kelly Browning

    • Posted By: KellyB from Politico @ 07/30/2008 7:46:17 PM

      Hi Kelly. I hope I didn't offend you or force your hand to come forward. (I didn't know if you actually existed--it's Alter afterall.) I was sticking up for you and I think you're 100% correct about everything I read here. I don't bother with politico, slate, kos, the root....Alter and NEWSWEEK as we know are in a swoon spin for the messiah. Hope you're doing ok. Seems like you have some fans here and probably a lot of other places. And I agree - you should start your own blog. I won't be using this name again and will go back to my regular one. I only used it these two times here. Forgive me, if I gave you any extra heat. And, for the record, they are the official water carrier and this is the Barry Obama Propaganda Newsletter. Is there anything I can do to help? It was meant as a joke. Gotta give it to you girl - you have more cojones than Alter - coming to confront him like you did. He had no right. And if he has any vestige of journalistic integrity, he will apologize to you in his next "article" or somewhere publicly. This is mine. Take care and keep rocking the free word - we're not all blind cult followers.

      Kelly Bradenton from Chicago

      • Posted By: KellyBrowning @ 07/31/2008 8:24:12 AM

        Kelly from Chicago. No, you didn't offend me, I just wanted to "come from behind my rock" to defend myself against Alter's offensive article. I know you were "sticking up" for me and I appreciate it. I truly do. I've been humbled by people and their kind words and know now that I wasn't being overly sensitive by the article as some people have told me. I'd love to start my own blog, since I've been kicked off of Politico, but wouldn't have the time or know-how to do so. I have no idea how one would go about it. I sent a letter to the editor with my name, address and phone number and have yet to have received an apology. What a shocker, huh? Anyway, thanks for your kind words, they leave me humbled.

        Kelly Browning

  • Posted By: jon-jon alter @ 07/30/2008 10:30:33 PM

    Yo jonjon how goes it? I haven't been by lately, but the citizens against media bias gave me a shout out. I see, as per usual, your adoring fans have come byto worship at the Alter-ed Reality Altar of the Messiah. Seems the incense of mancrush fever hasn't cleared and is now making you whine and cry. I'm so sorry for your distress and umbrage-taking. I do believe Freud would call that projection, stemming from a certain male type of envy.

    "They still usually prefer to shoot from behind a rock of anonymity. That way KellyB doesn't have to defend her (or his YEAH RIGHT, WHY DIDN'T YOU PICK A JONATHON OR ROGER OR ANDRE?) unfair rap against Politico.com. Until this changes and the culture of the Web demands that people identify themselves..."

    Operative words *unfair* and *defend*. It was not in any way unfair--that's your opinion--as that was hers. (Which i agree with and which is 100% true.) As you can see, most of your readers don't agree with your opinions and how often do you defend them to us? Is *defending* part of the terms and agreements at Politico?

    AND WHAT GAVE YOU THE RIGHT TO USE KELLYB IN YOUR ARTICLE AS AN EXAMPLE?

    You defeated your own *argument*. You said something about someone without giving her a chance to defend herself. And guess what? She called your bluff and totally annihilated your whole rant. Gotta love it!

    ps If you find my words unfair and/or in need of defending - or want my full legal name - give me a shout out when you apologize to KellyB.

  • Posted By: jon-jon alter @ 07/30/2008 10:11:22 PM

    You go, Kelly Browning! Your words about Tony Snow were very nice and shouldn't have been twisted and used like that. I really don't want to give politico's website a hit to read your writing...get yourself a blog!

  • Posted By: luxembourg @ 07/22/2008 9:17:39 PM

    Alter seems to be bothered by the competition from those with lesswriting skills. The complaint about Politicio could have been equally directed towards Newsweek, the NYT, or Fox (for McCain). Mainstream press seems to think it should tell the rest of us how to think, and they spend more time lecturing than informing. Newspapers and magazines will continue to decline with that attitude.

    • Posted By: Etta Mae @ 07/30/2008 11:44:34 AM

      I agree, luxembourg. The posts in this section are much more well-written and informative than Mr Alter's biased, defensive whinings. I wonder how much he gets paid per word? I liked the straightforward energy of truth in KellyB (Ms Browning's) post here. I'm off to politico to read more of her writing. I hope it is still there and that Mr Alter's inexcusable, adolescent behavior has not caused it to be destroyed.

  • Posted By: Etta Mae @ 07/30/2008 11:29:16 AM

    Mr Alter, shame on you!

  • Posted By: KellyBrowning @ 07/29/2008 9:27:42 AM

    Well, David. I'd like to clear something up. While someone posted a comment further down the post, using my former screen name at Politico.com of KellyB, I would like to say that while it was amusing, it was not my own. I have come out from "behind my rock" to post here that you may want to look into another profession, because I think that print media is passing you by. You used to be a writer that even my father read, but is now so disgusted with you, I doubt he'll read any of your little "articles" again. Actually, he's cancelling his subscription, which is something I did years back. Before you took offense to my posting on the Tony Snow funeral, did it occur to you to look at my profile first, or any of the other comments I had made on an assortment of issues? Had you done so, I think that maybe you would have come away with a different image of me. Also, had you gone onto other sites to do some more research, you actually could have done a better job (with less bias) on this article, instead of just calling me out. If you'd like to be the "Official Water Carrier of Barack Obama's Campaign", I have no problem with that, just warn your readers that you are a totally unobjective and biased writer. By the way, my name is Kelly Browning (aka KellyB) and I am the "real KellyB". Have a nice day.

    • Posted By: KellyBrowning @ 07/30/2008 8:56:58 AM

      Excuse my error. I was so surprised to see someone posting as David Gergen that I started my comment off as "Well, David". What I meant to say was, well, Jonathan. Please excuse that.

      • Posted By: Etta Mae @ 07/30/2008 11:22:06 AM

        Dear Ms Browning:

        You are a brave woman to come defend yourself - which should never have been necessary. Mr Alter's comments were as puerile in their protection of Mr Obama, as they always are. Have you noticed how few comments are positive under his rants? This has been ongoing since the Primaries started and will go on forever it seems. The level of abnormal attraction and glazed hypnotized eyes of Mr Obama supporters is alarming. I've seen those kind of eyes before and great evil resulted from that egomaniac's media-controlled propaganda.

        Mr Obama talks about "Change!". Yes, he is changing his positions on issues that "won" him the presumptive nomination so that he can win the general election. Why no one finds this alarming, I'll never know. And how are his words so inspiring? They have no meat and are naive rantings of an egomaniac.

        How did our injured and maimed troops feel watching him pontificate in front of a sea of Germans and then refuse to see them? I imagine that many of their eyes were glazed over--not with rapturous delirium--but with tears of disappointment. How many loved ones at home were expecting a cellphone picture or video of Mr Obama's planned visit?

        How does a man who seeks to be Commander-in-Chief find this acceptable or defensible in any fashion? And the MSM making excuses for him and calling Mr McCain, a former POW, unspeakable names? Would Mr McCain have chosen to speak to foreign citizens or to our brave and courageous troops, who lay broken and perhaps even dying, in a foreign hospital? Would he have been stopped? Allowed himself to be stopped? Absolutely not.

        I'm sorry, Ms Browning. I want to congratulate you for coming forward (One wonders why he didn't pick an obviously male name to unfairly attack.) and to urge you to start your own blog. I do believe you would have many visitors who feel the same way. I also think that what you wrote about Mr Snow was lovely and very thoughtful and got lost in all this.

        Please know that more are on your side than against you. You sound like a wonderful woman and writer, so please don't let this--confirmed by his own words and actions--little man ruin your day. He is the one who needs to look inward.

        Integrity begins at home, and a man who cannot admit (despite numerous and consistent requests by his readers) to his obvious bias and love of Mr Obama, so that his words are in proper context, is not worthy of your ire.

        This election process is historic--not because of the candidates--but because the MSM/DNC have been completely corrupted and the Primary results forever tainted because negotiations were made behind closed doors - a direct violation of policy and the promises made by the DNC.

        So, for what it's worth, I think you're awesome, as my grandchildren say. Smile and have a great day. Your words affected me positively in a place where the words are consistently negative.

        Thank you,
        Etta Mae Jenkins

  • Posted By: KellyB from Politico @ 07/25/2008 8:03:45 PM

    And your point is? "Politico.com???The Official Water Carrier of Barack H. Obama's Campaign." is absolutely correct. Roger Simon on MSNBC sits goo-goo eyed like a teenage boy and gushes about Obama. Similar to how you look alter and wolffe and fineman (he looks scarily infatuated) and hirsch and olbermann and he gives me a chill down my leg matthews and....Thanks for the publicity, though. Newsweek.com -- The Official Barry Obama Newsletter. Featuring Jon Alter -- The Official Jockstrap Carrier of The Messiah. Wanna T-shirt?

    Kelly B

    • Posted By: 12waz @ 07/28/2008 5:59:20 PM

      KellyB, you have your own blog?

      • Posted By: KellyBrowning @ 07/29/2008 9:49:27 AM

        As the real KellyB, no I do not have a blog.

  • Posted By: davidgergen @ 07/28/2008 12:39:22 PM

    Hello Comrade-in-Propaganda!

    I hear an undertone of whining, which in itself is not unusual, but I also detect a whiff of personal animus toward KelllyB. Is it because she's female? Clearly you think she is and then added *or he*. Reminiscent of barry talking about his VP choice yesterday. He said *he* and then tried to add *or she*.

    It's very clear it'll be a man and has been so from the beginning. Hillary chicks aren't THAT stupid.

    Was KellyB one of your many weekly fans who respond here with their decided frustration and disgust at your words? Perhaps she was fed up with the messiah mancrush tone of your writing? Our fellow comrades are starting to turn on barry--me included.

    Let's face facts. We really didn't WANT barry as much as he was the alternative to Hillary and the only way to get rid of Hillary was to promote barry. I had no idea so many of us would fall in love with him. So much so, we blurred the reality between fact/fiction and have chosen blindly to believe what our chosen one has been feeding to us.

    Have you heard how they laugh at us at the end of the day?

    How funny they think it is that we are such cult following morons?

    Did you hear how angry barry is that some of us are actually starting to do our jobs, since our venomous hate towards Hillary is wearing off? That the effects of the Kool-Aid and Barack Obama Soda are losing their grip on our messianic ecstasy? And that because we are getting so board with John, we're actually looking into the absolute fiction spewed from the savior's lips?

    I'm such a misogynist that I'll settle for a lying inexperienced egomaniac, who has no interest in helping regular Americans. But you? I sense you will never knock the messiah off his MSM-built platform and will whine, spin (I can't say lie to a fellow *journalist*), twist and shout so that maybe he will notice you.

    A word of advice: He doesn't care. He cares about himself and nothing more. Egomaniacs are like that. I'm sorry you used your mother like he used his typical white woman grandmother in the campaign of hate towards Hillary. Have to admit the old broad almost pulled it off - even with the entire MSM against her and barry's Arab money-filled coiffures outspending her as much as 5:1. Our boy barry couldn't have survived the onslaught - look how he's whimpering and whining already. I had no idea how great his need for adulation.

    I'm much too old to kowtow to a man who is not qualified to run a state or the Senate. (Besides I'm worried my combover might get loose!)

    You know where to find me. Maybe we can chat about how the savior of the universe found time for non-voting Germans but not our injured and maimed troops. Wasn't that why he went over there? To hear how things are on the ground? Oh that's right - it was a photo op for the ages.

    Where's the next presidential birthplace? Seems there aren't any in West Virginia.

    • Posted By: 12waz @ 07/28/2008 5:42:14 PM

      Why, David, I had no idea you had such a sense of humor. Your post is hysterical. Thank you.

  • Posted By: 12waz @ 07/28/2008 5:31:35 PM

    Jonathan, do you realize how unmanly it is to whine so much? One thing's for sure. You won't have to worry about Jonathan nutcrackers. Do they have Jesse Jackson ones? His comments were strange in that he thought Obama had some. Sure haven't seen any.

    Are the posters getting to you, Jonathan, because they aren't hypnotized by--as Wright refers to him--Black Jesus? All you have to do is become a Republican. Then you can cozy up to Bush like you have Obama and listen to the wire taps. Oh, that's right...Obama's his own tap-dancing wire-tapper.

    Have to admire Obama's no-shame approach to abandoning what got him the (presumptive) nomination aided by the adoring sycophants of the baaa-baaa Obaaa-ma MSM and DNC. Wonder how long it will take to conquer the world once he gets officially coronated?

    You know, Jonathan, some people who do have their legal names attached to their writing might be better off anonymous. You know what I mean? That way the venom and falsehoods of their not-so-private love journals wouldn't be exposed when Obama makes his first "bone-headed mistake" at the expense of his employers...the American people.

    And would you do me a favor, please, Jonathon? Would you remind Obama that he would be getting paid by the American people to be president--not by Arabs to be their puppet? Hmm....I wonder how much money can fit on an official campaign...Oh c'mon now, Jonathon, It would be rather unattractive of you to pretend you don't know Arab money runs Chicago/Cook County/Illinois politics. And if you didn't know, what would it say about your investigative skills (or lack there of)?

    Oh well. I would like to once again share with you that Obama is a complete and utter fraud and that the MSM has been his propaganda outlet. And that's why the Internet is so important. It will provide a wonderful retrospective view. Don't you think, Jonathon?

  • Posted By: JamesTz @ 07/26/2008 11:46:43 AM

    Jonathan,

    While the essence of your message is clear, the degree of research on the issue of KellyB's signature line is severely lacking. Had you actually read more of the posts in the "Tony Snow" thread, and then looked at the similar thread regarding "Ted Kennedy" and had talked to an objective individual about the issue, you would have found uneven application of standards at Politico. This has been an ongoing discussion at Politico, and actually requires real-time participation to see the changes, or lack thereof, in the threads. It is obvious you did none of this.

    And the allegation that "Kellyb does not have to defend her unfair rap at Politico" is totally an error. The rap is not "unfair' within the context of the comparator threads you neglected to look at - which you are unaware of because of your inability to probe into the underlying issue. "The Emperor Has No Clothes" does not stand at Politico - it is clothing optional, but all warts are seen and commented on.

    Further on the absurdity scale is the 'not have to defend'. How about 'no opportunity to defend' when Politico makes a judgment on offense without context, just as you have just done? Get real.

    And it should be incumbent on reasonable reporters to also indicate that the anonymity goes more than one way. Owners can refuse to discuss or apply their standards, without notifying their users clearly, if at all. Users cannot delete Reporters articles simply because they disagree with them.They can only point out errors - directly to the reporter, or via the board.

    And reporters are protected within their cozy spheres, so that a deriding comment about , say, Mr Alter, has little effect on Mr. Alter. And yet, your recent piece has led to the suspension of the poster in question. In advance of the publication date. Looks like someone is running scared - perhaps that is Politico.

  • Posted By: jjkk @ 07/25/2008 8:31:25 PM

    NEWSWEEK BLOGGER JONATHAN ALTER:

    "The second irony is that people often prefer rumors to facts. They so distrust the mainstream media that they may believe....over the careful reporting of a reputable news outlet.

    Name me one reputable news outlet. And what is "careful reporting"?

    I remember when "reputable" and "careful" and factcheck.com weren't necessary. It was called journalism. Remember? NEWSWEEK stopped being reputable, objective, newsworthy and honest once Obama came on the scene. Now there's forever proof of it on the Internet. A very good thing.

    Remember the adage about people in glass houses...?

  • Posted By: dick kay @ 07/25/2008 7:24:29 PM

    haha this is rich coming from you of all people Jonnyboy. When was the last time you wrote something that didn't massage yours and your mancrush Barry's ego? What do you know about "reporting"? Your articles were completely disgusting in their venom and jealousy (and non-facts) about Sen Clinton and glowingly positive about NEWSWEEK's (and all MSM's) chosen messiah. Blogs? Internet? You wrote a book about FDR that I wouldn't recommend to anyone because of your words here. How much fact-finding have you done while shagging basketballs for Barry? And I find it hysterical (but not at all surprised) that the example you used was about Barry's media coverage. Hit a sore spot?

  • Posted By: dpost @ 07/25/2008 2:54:32 PM

    Jonathan, just read your all umbrage all the time, I'm sure reporting is expensive, one of the reasons is tv networks and newsmagzines are paying exorbitant salaries to folks like you. And the reason so many of us prefer the blogs to your "reporting" is that the reporting is all one sided. If you are as fair and unbias as you would have us believe why don't all of you just put your political preference right under your name at the beginning of the piece. At least then we could decide for ourselves how much of what you write we want to believe. Wait, I know that we should just assume you are all well to the left of center but I, for one, would just like to see it in writing.

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