tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32800006.post6452607697540790765..comments2023-05-15T02:14:27.684-06:00Comments on Diogenes' six: Scarantino vs Denish, separating the wheat from the chaff.ched macquigghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06433039009492338854noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32800006.post-24669065870684867402009-11-06T15:08:23.704-07:002009-11-06T15:08:23.704-07:00Again, whether Scarantino is part of a group, and ...Again, whether Scarantino is part of a group, and whether that group is right-wing or not, doesn't play.<br /><br />Neither does who he did or did not support, nor how vigorously he supported them.<br /><br />You are talking about apparent prejudice and the credibility issues that that creates.<br /><br />Credibility is only an issue when someone asks you to believe them. A fact or question on the table, has its own inherent credibility which is entirely different from the credibility of the person who offers or asks it.<br /><br />Whatever he says or asks stands alone. By the reasoning you follow, no fact or question could come from an anonymous source.<br /><br />I don't know about his claim to be an investigative reporter. If he indeed does make that claim, then it seems reasonable to assume that he takes upon himself a mantle of implied impartiality.<br /><br />I would feel more comfortable if you pointed to one of the half truths you mentioned, or a scare quote, and I would be happy to dissect it with you.ched macquigghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06433039009492338854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32800006.post-52846879890629723452009-11-06T12:13:21.055-07:002009-11-06T12:13:21.055-07:00Scarantino is part of a right-wing group that oppo...Scarantino is part of a right-wing group that opposes anything put forward by Democrats, let alone just progressives (the Rio Grande Foundation). <br /><br />He calls himself an investigative reporter when he clearly did not do any investigating.<br /><br />He was so opposed to Martin Heinrich's candidacy in 2008 that he might as well have been a member of the Darren White campaign team.<br /><br />He is the very definition of an unreliable source who only seeks to push his own libertarian-agenda (though in many ways it is an anti-progressive agenda more than libertarian as the RGF nearly always criticizes instead of suggesting solutions).<br /><br />Why people got snookered into his report filled with half-truths and scare quotes (without any attempt to dig into those half-truths as a true "investigative reporter" might) is beyond me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com