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Bloggers, No Longer Allowed to Be Opinionated

The Plain Dealer introduced a political blog over the summer that featured two right-wingers and two left-wingers getting their rant on. As uneventful, and ultimately common, as this sounds The Free Times reports on how one of the liberal bloggers was fired because of his contributions to a liberal candidate. Now while this is a policy used by The Plain Dealer to make sure that reporters stay impartial, should someone who was hired to have a specific bias be punished for demonstrating that bias? Thankfully The Free Times was willing to ask the same question, and they’ve got much more time to answer it. Let me pass you along.

Speaking of Politics…

…there was an election yesterday – one that MyFriendCleveland has yet to give any insight on – so rather than mess up that perfect record, I’ll let The Plain Dealer give you their Election wrap up. Believe me, it’s enthralling!

And the Nation Laughs at Dennis Kucinich Once More

Oh, Dennis, what zany fun do you have for us now!? In April (you waited seven years to do this?) Dennis Kucinich proposed a bill to impeach Dick Cheney. No, seriously. Kucinich felt that the lies (did he just recently hear about this?) from Bush and Cheney that led to war in Iraq needed to be punished. The Democrats didn’t seem too excited by Kucinich’s wacky proposal and in an attempt to have it simply go away, passed it on to the House Judiciary Committee. Now fast forward a bit. The bill was about to be dropped when a number of Republicans (that is not a typo) stepped up and changed their votes to support the bill and save it. Now before you get too excited about crazy opinion changes, lets make something clear. This is merely a political move to make the Democrats look bad. Of course in true Kucinich fashion, Dennis is unable to see these tactics for what they are. Instead he is strapping on one of those big dumb smiles and getting excited about the fact that his bill will now gain more attention (aka laughter) from the American people and lead to hearings in Congress. Some day you will understand how this works, Dennis, some day.

Taking it Back to School

Allow me to leave you with more election tidbit to mull over. Channel 3 offers a break down of how different school districts faired in the election. Ok, so maybe it’s not that exciting, but you clowns need to be informed! Knowledge is just a click away.