Shuster Slams 'Anonymous Sources' Talking points

[travelingtypist]

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"You don't graduate summe from Princeton because you're Puerto Rican." Oh, snap.

[Eric J in MN]

1. A reporter could find twenty-somethings in any organization...

...who think their elders there are idiots.

Big whoop if the twenty-somethings at the Second Circuit think Judge Sonia Sotomayor is an idiot.

Thirty years from now, those twenty-somethings will be fifty-somethings, and the twenty-somethings of tomorrow will think they're idiots.

[droidamus2]

2. What about this

Okay I want to smear somebody but I don't want to look like an asshole doing it so what do I do? I claim that the quote I use comes from an anonymous source. Technically I am telling the truth because I want to stay anonymous as far as the smear goes. Of course, it is totally misleading because it makes it sound like you received the information from another source. In the end I think there are many times that when talking heads cite anonymous sources that they basically just made it up so they could make a particular point.

[Karenina]

4. I experienced his diatribe as RASSISMUS PUR!

:puke:

[cooolandrew]

3. This is one of the awesome President Obama moments. May we have many more alongside.

[underpants]

5. His first "point" about her NOT being a nominee of Poppy Bush-Orrin Hatch said the same thing

cutting off Andrea Mitchell to say that it was a Democratic majority in the Senate at the time so it doesn't count-it really wasn't a Bush nominee

I expect to hear a lot of this, dare I speaketh the word, nuance in the future

[SemperEadem]

6. so, the anonymous sources are cowards, and therefore they've earned the privaledge to be quoted?

if they aren't willing to stand in their truth and take their asswhippin' for their beliefs, then they ain't shit. These cowards who said what they said without standing by what they said should be afraid to go before her bench.

Good for Shuster for shutting that mess down.

[babylonsister]

7. One blogger, Jeffery Rosen, poisoned the blogosphere. And others.

This could be a lesson.