Reason Writers on Election Day: Matt Welch Talks Republican Waves, Prop. 19, and Media Bias on Bloggingheads.tv and Russia Today

Before the gong struck midnight on the Permanent Democratic Majority, Reason Editor in Chief talked with lawprof-blogger Ann Althouse about Russ Feingold, Tea Party politics, Prop. 19 and more:

Comments

[Max]

Why does Matt Welch look like a fucking rodent? Is that a special makeup?

[Matt Welch]

Genetics and life choices, mostly.

[Max]

Geez, I didn't expect you to answer directly. I was just trying to tweek the zombies. Now I feel terrible. You look just fine.

[Rhayader]

Yeah man, Welch will mix it up more than most, I've had him respond to my dickheadishness before too.

[joshua corning]

Now I feel terrible. You look just fine.

Could this be the begining of a Liberaltarian golden age on hit and run!?!?

Also I always thought Mr Frisby was a very handsome mouse.

[Slap the Enlightened!]

Oh, I don't think he looks like a rodent. I'd say he looks more like he could play Jimmy Olsen in the next Superman movie...

[-]

Wide-angle lenses can be cruel.

[Old Mexican]

Re: Max,

Max, H&R's pet yorkie.

Here boy! Here, go fetch! That's a good boy! Yeah!

[Matt Welch]

YOU'RE BLOWING YOUR COVER. There exists in the world a hoo-larious picture of me posing next to a stuffed guinea pig in the small Oregon/California town of Half.com (yes, a town sold its name to a dot-com company way back when) ... and let's just say the resemblance was uncanny.

[Matt Welch]

Reply-fail to Max.

[joshua corning]

The anti-threaded post brigade will remember this Welch.

They never forgot.

[Special Sauce]

Hey Matt, if I have sex with my mom and tout the virtues of Marxism like Max, will you also respond directly to my posts?

[wylie]

I think it's just proof that our resident trolls work at Reason.

[joshua corning]

Weigel/Joe left a long time ago...I suspect after that episode they would not want to repeat it.

[Fist of Etiquette]

What is up with the cameraman? Was he being paid by the mile?

Also, why won't that very lovely lady let Matt finish a thought? It's not like he's rambling.

[Episiarch]

Ha, that's funny that you called Althouse very lovely...wait, you were serious?

[Fist of Etiquette]

IT WILL BE A COLD DAY IN HELL BEFORE I EVEN ACKNOWLEDGE BLOGGINGHEADS.

(Except for right there.)

[Satan]

Is that... snow?

[Rhayader]

The RT lady was indeed very lovely, and yes, seemed dedicated to interrupting Matt with inaccurate summaries of what he was trying to say.

[NoStar]

The bias begins in journalism schools. The progressive default starts with the godfather of modern journalism, Walter Lippman.

Most journalist were against Bush's Wars, but are suddenly less concerned with the wars or willing to make excuses now that Obama is running the show (even if he follows Bush's timetables.)

The journalist talking with Matt did not let one thing he said infiltrate her point of view which is that liberal bias cannot be shown to be overt regarding her handpicked issues, so illustrating that the bias is more subtle than that has no bearing on her opinion. She then recaps by restating her opening opinion smugly thinking Matt proved her point.

So Matt, do you feel like you've been used?

[Episiarch]

NoStar, dude, Althouse is a law professor, not a journalist (other than being a blogger).

[NoStar]

Episiarch,
I was referring to the girl with more boobs than brains in the second video.

[Episiarch]

Whoops, sorry. But are you saying more boobs than brains is bad?!?

[Jason]

Stupid does get boring after a while.

[NoStar]

I'm saying in the long run, brains are more important. Brains can overcome a deficiency in boobage, but boobs can only distract from a lack of brains for a short while.

[joshua corning]

What I find interesting is the RT lady's resemblance to O'Connell.

It would be awesome if someone pointed out the resemblance on air in an interview.

She would freak the fuck out though and who ever did it probably would not be returning to her show.

[Almanian]

Could the RT woman's boobs be any bigger? I think not. Thanks, RT!

Also, Matt, I'm pretty sure you probably did a good job. I think. I'll have to watch again for "content".

PS and in the vid cap for the BhTV, I was kind of thinking it looked like you'd just been struck in The Resistance, but that can happen to any of us...

[jacob]

Thanks to your post I went back and watched the second video.

[Irresponsible Hater]

Is there a way to mute the Althouse side of the screen?

[Old Mexican]

Welch chewed on Radley Balko's thesis that Prop. 19 coverage shows media bias is more statist than liberal[.]

In the past 80 years or so, "liberal" has come to mean "statist," and not "pro-freedom."

But it is still more accurate to say that the news media (journalists and editorialists) is statist than [classical] liberal.

[Special Sauce]

^^^ THIS ^^^

[Rhayader]

But it is still more accurate to say that the news media (journalists and editorialists) is statist than [classical] liberal.

It's amazing how angry this obvious truth made everyone the other day in Balko's post.

[Tanya]

Matt does just fine. Ann...keeps staring at notes on her lower-right. Yikes. It's like watching my mom Skype.

[sloopyinca]

Matt needs to put one side of his collar inside his sweater every few questions when the camera is off him and answer like a retard.

It's the Adam/Stuart Chandler All My Children dynamic. Do it next time on bloggerheads with one of those morons. They'd never know what was up because when you're talking they're usually smelling their own farts.

[sage]

Heh.

[R C Dean]

The establishment media is probably most accurately described as "apparatchik". Which means that what they say is statist/authoritarian, nearly all the time.

But not because they have deeply held principles or anything. Nah, they're apparatchiks for the same reason anyone ever is: personal advancement and social standing, and be damned to human decency.

[sage]

TEH COCKTAIL PARTEEEEZ!

[Tanya]

*snicker* "Michael C. Moynihan finally has one vote for DC City Council."

[joshua corning]

I really like these blogging heads videos but judging from the amount of comments they don't generate i am in the minority.

adding the RT video will probably help this one...but i think more needs to be done to generate interest in them.

My suggestion would be to link to articles along with the Blogginghead video from the reason staff and from the person they are talking with...even better if the articles are on the subjects you guys are talking about.

[Rhayader]

The bloggingheads stuff is interesting, but they are usually too long for the slack-off-at-work types like myself. Also, I think they would benefit from going with embedded YouTube vids, which always load better than anything else on my shitty work DSL.

[ola]

what is this liberal hack's problem? maybe she should just use the same argument about med mj for her pet project gay marriage. does she think the states that have gay marriage shouldn't be allowed because there is no federal recognition? how do she think federal overreach gets stopped? when has federal overreach in any area been stopped except without the states' finally saying "i mad as hell and not going to take it anymore". if she thinks the federal overlords can dictate anything they want why dont we have a national real id? because some states said fuck off. just cause she doesn't recognize the med use of mj, i guess all the med users can fuck off too.

[nfl jerseys]

too

[Joshua Corning]

Ann!!!

If you need fresh air from Madison Wisconsin left wing sprawl do not go for Rush Limbaugh...

That is the equivalent of a switch from breathing carbon monoxide to breathing pure carbon dioxide...

If you want a real fresh air it can be found at Reason. Its like breathing pure oxygen chilled in the Arctic atop an alpine forest.

[Deathof Neolibwaffle]

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