Day: August 9, 2004

Media Matters shows just how dull and inside the box it is with this predictable take on Fox’s Stuart Varney’s exchange with a Disney rep. over content filters on a new Disney-branded computer.

Disney is touting the fact that its computer is pre-loaded with content filters. Here’s the exchange between Stuart Varney and Disney presidnet Robert Iger,

IGER: It’s easy to set up, easy to use, compact, it doesn’t take much room, and most importantly it has what’s called ContentWatch built in.

VARNEY: Well, you know, I — exactly. I mean, in June you have “Gay Days” at your theme parks. You got any ‘Gay Days’ on the Mickey computer?

IGER: Well, this has built into it all kinds of protective devices that protects the kid, or the child from internet sites that a parent wouldn’t deem appropriate. Also, the fact —

VARNEY: Well, you don’t protect the kids from “Gay Days” at the theme parks, do you? Why do you have to protect them in the computer?

IGER: No, we don’t sponsor — we don’t sponsor “Gay Days.” You know, we are a company that lets anyone who is willing to pay through our gates.

Media Matters devotes its commentary largely to addressing Iger’s non-sequiter — that Disney doesn’t sponsor Gay and Lesbian Day. But, of course, Varney never said or implied it did, anymore than he suggested that Disney sponsored the objectionable content that it blocks with its Content Watch filter.

But Iger sidesteps the actual question which is the apparent hypocrisy that Disney allows anyone through its gates, including the Gay Day folks, but at the same time is selling a computer system that out-of-the-box will likely block the Gay and Lesbian Day web site.

I’d like to hear Iger answer Varney’s question about why children need to be protected from gay and lesbian web sites.

Source:

FOX’s Your World sub host Varney obsessed with ‘Gay Days’. August 6, 2004.

Okay, if you’re going to call your blog Anti-Media and have your tagline as, “Dedicated to exposing what the media lies about, what they won’t tell you and what they don’t want you to hear,” it doesn’t help to make stupid mistakes like this,

According to Tom Maguire, an internet researcher has uncovered an AP article from 1992 in which Kerry claims to have served six months in Vietnam instead of four. . .

But for Kerry, who spent six violent months commanding a patrol boat on the Mekong River, there’s always been a ring of truth to allegations of abandoned Americans. By Christmas 1968, part of Kerry’s patrol extended across the border of South Vietnam into Cambodia . . . .

Kerry, of course, never says that he spent six months in Vietnam — that statement is made by the Associated Press reporter without any sort of attribution by Kerry or anyone else.

This blogger aptly titles his post “Beware the Internet”, to which he should have appended “Because I’ve got to get this post out now and I don’t have time to actually read the excerpt I’m quoting.”

As most of my regular readers know, I’m no fan of Kerry and if I actually get off my lazy ass to vote this year, it will probably be for Bush, but a lot of the anti-Kerry stuff is beginning to mirror the absurdities of some of the anti-Bush stuff.