If the association you are pretending not to make is not true, this couldn't be news. The value of the post hinges on the guilt by association. Otherwise, what does your audience get from it?
If the association you are pretending not to make is not true, this couldn't be news. The value of the post hinges on the guilt by association. Otherwise, what does your audience get from it?
This kind of tarring and feathering is called “guilt by association”; it is considered an argumentative fallacy. I know better than to hope that conservatives or Kaczynski would think fallacious reasoning is a problem, but thought I'd point it out to the rest of you.
I, too, have been very critical of Buzzfeed Politics' work so far; some of these pieces have been written as though they approved of Republican-pushed doublethink. But this post was not one of those pieces. McKay posted one of the Romney campaign's videos and told us what it was trying to do. McKay didn't claim it was good. McKay didn't push one of those ridiculously over-tagged “Romney Campaign Serves Obama with Brutal Counter-Punch” headlines. Let's reserve our push-back for the times when bad media coverage deserves admonishment.
No Ed Wood?
So many questions… Why is the base so much bigger than the floating section? Why couldn't you go bigger than a twin bed? Is it more comfortable than a regular mattress in some way, or is this merely an (admittedly awesome) aesthetic decision?
Dear Buzzfeed Politics, Posting your reactions to GOP press releases and talking points doesn't seem like journalism. Have you considered taking Buzzfeed in the direction of, say, news? Better yet, relevance generally?
Green Arrow, obviously (his last name is Queen).
Attention gentlemen: When next you tear up for a favorite athlete entering retirement, please close your eyes and remember you are hypocrites. That is all.
Kaczynski—you have convinced me that you can be an idiot when covering both parties, not just Obama's. Any chance you'd care to cover the issues?
Catholic Church Enemies List (updated for 21st Century):
—Gays
—Women Who Want to Control Their Own Bodies
—The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
—Girl Scouts
—Girls on Boys' Baseball Teams Still Okay in Church's Book:
—Pedophile Priests Who Rape Children