Even FactCheck.org has had it with the level of inanity coming from opponents to health care reform. The normally dispassionate site is addressing a ridiculous email (which so far, I haven’t gotten, praise Allah!) written by a rightwing blogger who posts the famous “Joker” picture of Obama on his home page.

The first publicly announced offer is in, and, while it sounds intriguing, it’s probably an on-camera sex act too far for Levi. And even if not, his advisers will likely suggest he reject it or at least encourage the bidders to sharpen their pencil quite a bit.

As the Quote du Jour and Jon’s post about Palin exploiting her children to distort Democratic health care reform point out, there is a lot of misinformation making the rounds on the topic. Enter the White House, which has launched a new site to set things straight. Health Insurance Reform Reality Check dispels such rumors [...]

The new social media environment is rich in opportunities to connect, communicate, create a sense of community and, occasionally, to produce the odd awkward moment. As a marketing communications practitioner, however, I had no choice but to dive into the social media maelstrom.
I admit I did hesitate at first, not because I am averse [...]

Rubio’s twitter profile pic
Love twitter, hate twitter, or just wish people understood the difference between status updates on facebook and tweets, and didn’t post the identical thing in both places. But. Whatever you feel about twitter, you have to admit that something very brief can provide huge insight.
Take Marco Rubio for example, or should I [...]

Because it makes them sound even less eloquent than usual.
NBC political editor Chuck Todd offered this in his “first Read” column this morning.
[President] Obama devoted his Saturday radio address — even while he was overseas — to the topic of health care. “All across America, our families are making hard choices when it [...]

I like the term “Web 2.0″ about as much as the word “blogosphere.” So it was with some glee that I encountered bullshitr beta, which automatically generates bullshit phrases straight out of the Web 2.0 playbook. A few examples:

beta-test rss-capable folksonomies
integrate podcasting communities
remix rss-capable ecologies
integrate authentic web services
integrate data-driven life-hacks
aggregate semantic communities

So go here and [...]

You know blogging has gone mainstream when two members of Bush’s cabinet start doing it.
Yes, I now have something in common with Michael Leavitt, Secretary of Health and Human Services, and Michael Chertoff, Secretary of Homeland Defense. Welcome to the internets tubes, guys!
The men take very different approaches with their blogs.

Leavitt says he writes [...]

I guess I should have known that Leonard Nimoy was a flaming liberal. It’s pretty clear, based on whose campaigns he has contributed to over the years. A new Web site, PoliticalBase.com, has a tool that enables you to search public records and find out who received dough (and we can assume support) from whom. [...]

Man, Joe Mansueto must have really rattled the Wildmons, American Family Association’s head henchmen, when he responded by e-mail to all the AFA drones who sent him an e-mail through the AFA site criticizing his company for not taking an ad from Faith Financial, as we reported earlier. See, most organizations who are slimed by [...]