Effective in the New Year, Black Ink and your humble ink-stained wretch will join MinnPost.com.
Black Ink will become a page on MinnPost’s site and my scribbling (or a link to it) will appear on MinnPost’s cover.
I am parting on good and friendly terms with the Minnesota Monitor, where my work over the past months has been published, and I wish my esteemed colleagues there the very best.
I’ve always meant to write piece titled “Who Pays Me?” Never got around to it. But if I had, I would have said that I was working under a contract with the Center for Independent Media (CIM), a Wasington-based non-profit, which is the parent organization of the Monitor and three other similar state-based sites. And I would have said that the silly attack meme of some conservative bloggers that the Monitor was staffed by George Soros sock puppets was nonsense. Soros’ foundation is one of several that contribute to the CIM so I guess I have some Soros money in my checking account, but I was never asked, pressured or even encouraged to promote any particular point of view and the same goes for the Monitor’s other writers.
MinnPost is a noble experiment to produce civil, substantive, thoughtful and honest journalism. I hope Black Ink regulars will join me over there. I apologize in advance for any inconvenience, in case your have to reregister in order to comment or set up new RSS feeds or whatever. I’m taking a break from blogging for the remainder of the holiday season. So Happy New Year in advance. I feel privileged and fortunate to have connected with you in 2007. Let’s all have a great 2008. See you then.
Have a great holiday season. See you in 2008. Hasta luego.
So those rascally conservative bloggers have been perpetuating one of those nasty, fact based memes. Uh huh.
I congratulate you on your new position Eric. You have to be very happy at last not to have to shuffle the dirt and mumble when the subject of who your employer is comes up.
I guess the truth hurts Eric. Hope 2008 brings more to you than just being a sock puppet.
Oh BTW.
No one ever suggested that the MiniMoni sock puppet checks were signed by Georgie himself.
We are fully aware of the cryptoclastic streams Soros channels his money to avoid having his various enterprises tainted by association. But there is not enough “laundries” on the planet to lend a scrap of legitimacy to all of the puppet theaters in the Sorossphere.
Again, enjoy your new gig with the forthrighly outed lefty media. I think that Minnpost is a pretty good source of news from the left’s perspective and visit often.
[…] Black and his “Black Ink” blog are picking up and moving over to MinnPost.com - but not without leaving an answer we’ve been looking for for a very long time - something I asked him (in his interview on the NARN last March, when he left the Strib), as well […]
So the “silly” “attack” meme was…true, then?
A year’s worth of misdirection and denial (albeit not from you, per se, Erik) were, in the end, baked wind after all?
I don’t feel so “silly” at all!
Oh, and congrats on the move.
(Cue the “Jeffersons” theme).
“sock puppets”, “Sorosphere”, “puppet theatres”, what a load of propagandist sloganeering that passes for “thought” in the deranged Right Wing mind.
As Krugman has remarked, the authoritarian right’s comic obsession with the demonic Trilateralist Soros demonstrates that they think that the world of the Left runs the way the the world of the Right actually does…..
what a load of propagandist sloganeering that passes for “thought” in the deranged Right Wing mind.
Mommy? Mommy? Is that you?
Tell me the truth - are you Mommy?
As Krugman has remarked,
…which, alone, is ample reason to write off everything you’ve ever written, even if the limp pseudonym wasn’t.
the authoritarian right’s comic obsession with the demonic Trilateralist Soros demonstrates that they think that the world of the Left runs the way the the world of the Right actually does
Ah, yeah, the old “I Know You Are, But What Am I?” response. Hard to beat that oldie but goodie.
When people tell me what I really think, it’s time to break out the party-size gift bags of Thorazine; reason is redundant.
Eric, I look forward to your arrival at the Post. Happy Holidays until then.
I still don’t get what the big deal with George Soros is.
You thing Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes are any better?
I still don’t get what the big deal with George Soros is.
He’s a currency speculator; he’s made his billions from manipulating currency, causing untold misery around the world.
You thing Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes are any better?
This isn’t actually a question of “Better” or “Worse”; merely disclosure. We conservative bloggers knew that Soros/Media Matters had a link to the Center for “Independent” Media - MM’s parent organization. But nobody at the Monitor - until this post - ever confirmed it. Now if you found out that Roger Ailes were bankrolling Powerline, you’d scratch your head and think “heyyyy, they’re not independent at all!”, right?
But since you want to put it in terms of “better” or “worse” - yes, Murdoch and Ailes are better human beings than Soros. Soros’ currency manipulations have caused untold pain, suffering and misery in struggling economies around the world. Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes have done no such thing; their biggest “crime” is enabling dissent against the mainstream media culture. If you think “dissent” and “causing boundless suffering” are the same, then discussion might seem fruitless to the casual observer.
All you have to do is mention George Soros, and the conservatives start foaming at the mouth.
“Soros’ currency manipulations have caused untold pain, suffering and misery”
Pain, suffering AND misery? Holy Crap!
Since when have conservatives become concerned about “pain, misery and suffering” around the world or here at home? And Murdoch and Ailes “enablng dissent”? Do you mean like firing reporters who uncover Monsanto Corporation’s repression of farmers and dairies who want to advertise rghB/rgh free milk? etc. etc. Do conservatives have a special brainwashing spa they must attend to believe this nonsense or is this self-administered?
LOL. I’ll have to watch the next Republican debate to see where the candidates stand on ending “pain, misery and suffering” in the world.
Ha-ha, now free marketeering global currency markets are evils in the conservative mind, although only if a lib’rul billionaire is (allegedly) involved.
If Soros just made his piles of dough and kept it out of lib’rul causes, I doubt the hypocritical “mitch berg” conservative clown-bot would have much complaint, or “know” anything about the matter. Certainly he wouldn’t be hearing anything about the issue from the online coaches of Team Conservative.
But perhaps some international (or just US) regulation of the global capital markets is needed? Applicable only to those of certain political persuasions, of course….get Treas Sec Paulsen on the job immediately!
BTW mitch, do you actually think the lame, incoherent crap you write is “witty”? Another white male conservative twerp who received way, way too much excess praise from Gramma on his crayon drawings and high school newspaper articles….
Hey, your’e the Man, Eric! None tells you what to write, eh? But, you WERE vetted. Your spots are plain to see.
But hey, your indepenedet, right? You WRITE WHAT YOU THINK. Da man don’t tell you what to say!
But try this, that I saw on a tv show once…write some pro-conservative, pro-right columns. Say the anti-immigration folks have a point. Praise Bush’s handling of some aspect of the war. Point out what a crypt keeper Hillary is. Let’s see how long your “independence” lasts then, big guy! You big phony! On the show, it got the guy some cement overshoes, so be careful out there! No chance you will ever try it, it takes GUTS.
It’s always interesting to hear a good conservative putting down Capitalism.
Or do you think that CAPITALism is about anything other than accumulating capital through manipulating currency?
“Soros’ currency manipulations have caused untold pain, suffering and misery”
Can you say Neil Bush?
To the bloggers above: “Now, now, children…
To Eric: I wish you well in your new home.
Holy feces! Been reading your posts for a long time, Eric, but this is the first time I’ve waded into the comments. You certainly attract a vitriolic crowd. Welcome to troll kingdom. All of that says to me that you’re doing something right (well, left, actually). Having the capacity to draw the rightwing Golloms out of the swamp is no small thing. Love MinnPost. Glad you’ll be affiliated with it. You go, humble, ink-stained wretch!
Virtually the entire right wing media, except for FOX news, are staffed by products of nepotism and cronyism getting wingnut welfare from people like Richard Melon Scaife who inherited his money and has used it mainly for drinking, philandering and supporting right wing crackpot projects. Read David Brock’s Blinded by the Right for an insider’s view.
George Soros made his fortune by observing the monetary and fiscal policies of various governments and correctly betting on the effect those policies would have on the value of that countries currency. For example, in George W. Bush’s first 6 years, with a Republican Controlled Congress, the combination of tax cuts and spending increases generated $3 Trillion in Federal Debt, a 50% increase. That debt has to be financed and the Fed (Greenspan) was more than happy to finance it (keeping interest rates low while increasing the money supply). The result has been a 50% drop in the value of the U.S. dollar (since 2002) and higher inflation (as anyone that has bought food, gas, or most everything else can tell you). All George Soros does is bet on the obvious conclusion of governments economic policies. George Bush running up the debt has made George Soros a lot of money.