Awesome!

You need to make a Mad-Libs version, where you can insert the canards in a random manner along with a few verbs and write your own "Robert Scheer" columns!

Like this:

http://www.mikesilverman.com/2003_05_18_log_archive.html#200323908

Wonderfully useful work indeed! I have quietly fumed at Scheer's amateurishly repetitive blatherings for some time now, and had hoped somebody would publicly call him out. My own letters to the LAT in response have gone unpublished.

How about taking it a step further and starting a blog that chronicles all of the LAT's daily exhibits of hopeless leftwing bias and outright lies, like has been done with the NYT? I would start such a blog myself, but there are so many problems with each issue that it would be exhaustively time-consuming. Besides, I canceled my daily subscription months ago.

Surely somebody out there has both the time and inclination for such a worthwhile project?

I agree - Scheer's columns all run together like sewage. I thought them perfect for a Babble analysis. Babble is a cool old program that analyzes text and can then belch out similar text. It's DOS-only, so it can't engulf all of Scheer's lunacy over the past four months, but here's a sample of what it produced for some of February's columns:

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February 4, 2048

You also keeps us from being able to hasten to charm
his way through the inevitable stench of imperial
ambition turning rancid. But let's let me tell you
about the state of intelligence does not age well.
Nevertheless, apparently believing that questionable
ends justify questionable means, 2604, said the U.N.
's chief nuclear weapons. And found a painted
amazingly, 2462

Here's the wealthy while standing in redrawin the map
of a painted amazingly, when they could be the belief
last week by a war

Let Colin Powell, me worry? president to mistrust and
you know what, we just don't think we're stupid. This
shameful canard molds a few cruise missiles into
"What his doubts as to their morality, me worry?"
president to war with fundamentalist Iran. This
shameful canard molds a painted later it or leave it.

You about the state of the union: It's lousy. The
problem is whether Iraq has revived its condition --
so much that our enlightened talk-show hosts we just
don't think it's lousy. The only real threat to U.S.
economy since the problem, though: It's lousy. The
only real threat.

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Sound familiar?

g.

Right now, I feel like the hero/ heroine of one of those "Disease of the Week" TV Movies, after the scene when they go to a support group and find people who are just like them. I am overwhelmed with emotion to discover there are people out there who detest Scheer and his amateurish and fradulent writings with every fiber in their body. Finally! I know I am not alone!

Quickly, Shark, patent the Canard-O-Matic!

The next step is subjecting the writing of such -- ahem -- worthies as Maureen Dowd, Bob Herbert, former Enron advisor Paul Krugman, the distinguished military prognosticator R.W. (Johnny) Apple and the rest of the gang of fakers, fantasists and fabulists at the alleged "Newspaper of Record" on West 43rd Street (including the editorials of Chief Mooseketeer Howell Raines) to the same type of rigorous analysis of their high B.S. and leftist cliche counts.

And don't limit it to the Times Travelers either. Imagine what you could find scrutinizing the screeds of Jonathan Alter and the scribblings of that Crazy Old Bag Lady of American Journalism, Helen Thomas!

Good lord, I've been having these bizarre arguments about Bush with a long term friend of mine in SF (nice guy, but he's so liberal he's incapacitated) and now I realise where he's been getting all his talking points!
Man, I'm sending him this link RIGHT NOW. Stefan, I owe you lunch.

I am a writer specializing in scandals at the LA Times. As a scandal is concerned, nothing Scheer has done by himself compares, for sheer (no pun intended) mendacity to the Times' 1999 campaign waged against the Jewish community by in revenge for its opposition to the appointment of Salam al-Marayati to a national anti-terrorism panel. The reason: Three separate departments in the times and perhaps a dozen staffers were involved in a conspiracy to produce hostile news stories, op-ed pieces, and editorials AND to withhold specific information damaging to their position.

That being said, it would be nice to have a copy of Scheer's first great scandal, a series of articles in which he concluded, essentially, that the only good Jew was a communist. (May the cholera take him.)

Anyone have it?

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