Countrywoman Have you looked up all of the sources or asked for sources on all the info that you state or agree with that could be lies about repubs? I doubt it. Have you asked for sources about Palin or McCain to find out if someone is lying? From most posters I see agreement and then throw in a dose of “I can’t stand them either for those reasons. Oh yeah, don’t forget this evil thing as well!” Or something like that. You say you don’t believe everything, and you know talking heads are asses, but do you only want to have repubs or indies to site what you don’t agree with? If we want fairness, then it would seem to me we would also have to have others site their sources regarding negative postings about the repubs. If you want to raise the standard of discourse, then you have to emulate or be the higher standard, or ask everyone where they got their source. I have seen sources posted that were just opinion pieces that were taken as gospel. Not hard journalism pieces (although there are some of those as well), but mostly opinion pieces. The internet is full of information, you have to take many articles apart, chase sources and data they have used and see what it means. I read an article that someone posted and it had several linked sidebars, and all of the sidebars (I think there were 6) were washed over corrections of what he had stated in his article. I think it was from Slate, which I enjoy, but I took the time to look up the articles he quoted and he had so blatantly misquoted to “fit” what he wanted to say, it was ridiculous, hence he had many people rebuttal it and he had to correct it. It was obvious the person who posted the article as a source hadn’t read everything. After the Jason Blair article, the Reuters setting up posed shots in Iraq, the AP touching up smoke in photos to make them look worse, and the Dan Rather debacle I think we are all a little wary. When I read what Marjorie had posted, I wondered about source, but was also disappointed in the fact that fellow citizens just take it for fact that Obama is raising all of that money in $100 or less amounts when he had received over a hundred thousand from fannie and freddie and no one was questioning it, (in fact, I think it was closer to the $200,000 mark) or where big money was coming from and where it was going. You don’t think Michelle doesn’t have a stylist paid for by the campaign. I doubt if she has paid as much as the McCain campaign, but it has long been considered a campaign expense because they are on the trail. Obama raised $150 million in September, you know that is not just small amounts from citizens. Where is is tall coming from? For either campaign. That is a legitimate question to ask. Crashers of sites are what our friend Suzanne does at times. Jump in and post everywhere they can to destroy any conversations of an opposing viewpoint. They will interject posts in may places and slam people in order to upset the flow of a site and get people mad. It happens on many sites. We get some at times Sometimes they come looking, and other times they are linked. Yes the other other one that actually crash sites are the clever ones. How about the congressman’s son that got into Palin’s email account? Some people made fun of what was on there and tried to make a big ta do about it, instead of the fact that someone had broken into her private account. So go figure. I think that is why Marjorie is upset.