I think my disagreement was in the context of the levy, when you were calling for an impossible amount of information to be disseminated. I was, however, too broad in my criticism then.

I do agree that transparency is always better. I think I was caught up in what I thought was an unfair critique on your part.

I'll give you this one. :)

It's interesting that Mr. Doran would choose to call attention to the first story about district negotiations this spring, since it contained a factually incorrect claim about the level of compensation that the district planned to offer teachers next year.

I certainly will not be holding my breath waiting for any in-depth reporting from the Independent Record, and I think most readers have long since given up any hope of expecting that. Once there is an in-depth look that actually examines publicly available information before reporting contradictory claims as fact, I will gladly commend the IR for its work.

In the meantime, I'll expect to keep reading stories and defensive, self-serving excuses like this.

On another note, John, I'm not sure that you're likely to have too many more sources when you decide to 'out' people who didn't end up being in your story. When your reporter sends an e-mail that reads "Would you like to comment?" without any context or even explanation of the story, you might not be getting the best responses, either.

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Your admonition that a person from Montana leave the state to move to California might have more credibility if you were not born and raised in New York. I'm not saying that's a compelling argument, but since the wingnuts always make residency in Montana the issue, you should do better.

On another note, it's been over three months...where is either Mr. Marbut's retraction or proof of his claims?

No, they cleverly think that fascism is liberal. Like communism. And not having enough ice cream. And rain on your wedding day.

All of those things are liberal.

It's a pretty trick ideology to pin down, actually. :)

Can you name one more protest movement that got over 70 promotional segments on Faux?

Michelle Malkin...your sources are actually getting worse.

I think it has been more than adequately proven that Fox News become the official propaganda arm of the Tea Party Kidz.

Just because you choose to ignore the obvious signs of coordination and connection to conservative organizations, doesn't mean they weren't there.

You can choose to pretend what you want; it doesn't change reality. If we didn't learn anything else from the the Bush years, I would hope that we had learned that.

Oh, and one more thing. At the next tea party, could you guys please decide if I am a communist or a fascist?

This is all very confusing.

Wow. That is sure some powerful evidence. If a video produced by someone who spends his free time tracking "communist activities globally, and communist inspirations nationally" isn't objective proof, I don't know what is.

I'm sure that the non-stop coverage from Fox News had nothing to do with anyone attending.

I'm sure that the professionally produced signs and identical slogans at the rallies were the result of cosmic convergence.

Sure, the people who attended chose to be there. That certainly doesn't disprove the fact that they were coordinated and manipulated.

Right. And the video just happened to compare children, who seem pretty happy, in the presence of what appears to be their parents, to schoolchildren in militaristic dress, singing about dying for Hitler.

I mean those are practically identical, aren't they?

Pathetic.

Keep it coming, man. The fact that you chose a video comparing Obama to Hitler is outstanding. That kind of rhetoric is definitely going to play with middle America.