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Well, bloggers hate you too, old man! - Dillon K. Hoops

Long thread on this over here: http://friendfeed.com/e/708f2a... - Ken Sheppardson

He was obviously joking - ♜ Bjorn Tipling

How do you link to a discussion Ken? - ♜ Bjorn Tipling

Oh, I see, the more dropdown - ♜ Bjorn Tipling

These kids today with their blargs! Off my lawn, ya darn kids! - Leon

Bjorn - so? in this day and age where anything a candidate says can be used against them or taken out of context, they need to watch what they say. - Veronica

One short clip taken out of context. Good fuel for the haters in the world. - William Beem

I don't hate McCain, actually. There are worse options out there than McCain. But saying you hate an extremely vocal community isn't good campaigning. - Veronica

Veronica, true, but still I think it's an important thing for us to look at things critically and not be mislead by headlines that don't tell the whole story - ♜ Bjorn Tipling

Why would he, even jokingly, say he "hates the bloggers" if he didn't in some way believe that to be true? It's like an offhand comment, like he thinks no one would even care enough to be bothered by it. So flippant. - Veronica

@Veronica It's impossible to "watch what you say". Everything and anything can be taken out of context to be used against you. - Shey

"I hate such and such" is not a statement that can be taken out of context, imho. - Veronica

It's a short clip designed to highlight ONE comment. What was the context for the conversation? It doesn't matter to the people who are trying to find ways to hate on a man. My guess it's people who do stuff like that who were the topic of his conversation. - William Beem

It was definitely a joke, but bloggers are very easily irritated, so maybe it wasn't the best move. I don't think it will hurt him too bad though. - Harrison Hoffman

We're ornery like that. - Veronica

Just being a devils advocate here, but what if I was recorded saying "I am about to say something I don't mean: 'I hate such and such" and the only thing you saw was the last part of the statement. Don't get me wrong, I am going to vote for Obama, but it seems like he said something trying to be funny that was meant to be taken lighthearted. No reason to see everything the guy says as pure evil. - ♜ Bjorn Tipling

@Veronica ??? What? It doesn't matter what he said. They took it out of the original context. Even then it was obvious he was making a joke. - Shey

the head of the library association said this like 2 years ago and it did not go well for him. - Stefan Hayden

ty shey - it was a joke people - I realize that given his previous regrettable statements about his tech illiteracy that this is the worst joke he could have made in the eyes of this community but for goodness sakes. Between rising energy costs, our economy, the war, Iran, N Korea - we have PLENTY of things that need serious debate right now - do we really need to take a joke and accuse McCain (as I saw on another thread) of jking this way bcause he is agnst the rights of indviuals to freely exprss thmslvs? - Marco (aureliusmaximus)

Stefan, I remember that and I haven't renewed my ALA membership since (I have a library science degree). - ♜ Bjorn Tipling

[Posted this in the parallel conversation over on Scoble's link to the same story. Sigh. I hate FriendFeed] Just dug up this from his Liberty University commencement address back in 2006. Summary: He really does hate bloggers ;-) http://kshep.posterous.com/mcc... - Ken Sheppardson

Well, do you expect anything less from John McCain? Does he know what a blog or blogger is? I mean, he doesn't use a computer much (but then again neither does Richard Branson - so maybe we should not hold that against McCain).... hmm ... But then ... Richard Branson isn't running for US President.... it's OK if he doesn't use a computer - he prob doesn't need to ... but McCain ... he doesn't need a computer either .. but he does need to understand people who do - because a lot of people do. - Marshall Sponder

I'm not particularly fond of McCain, but it sounds like he was just making a joke. He did the melodramatic, exasperated sign when he said it. I'm sure there's some grain of truth to it, but people are acting he's brought out legislation to ban blogging or something. Blogging is protected speech. McCain can't do anything about that. - Jason Huebel

It's a rotten thing to say, but he seemed to connect with those people when he said it. There's a large group of people who are actively shunning new media. Afraid of change, as usual. - David

Has he started up an enemies list yet? - Harry Myhre

He probably thinks bloggers are people from Holland who wear wodden shoes. - Harry Myhre

McCain hates bloggers and Obama hates America. It's lose-lose. - Jim the Tolerable

I had forgotten - Paul Newman was on Nixon's enemies list http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N... - Harry Myhre

Does John McCain even know what a blogger is or does? - Soso Sazesh

i hate to defend the old man, but doesn't it seem like he was trying to get a laugh? albeit a cheap one. - robert steburg

thats ok, I hate McCain so we're equal - Danilo da Silva via twhirl

I imagine the majority of the population saying "bloggers, is that some new kind of terrorist?" so I don't think it will hurt him much. That, and from my informal online research, most bloggers hated the GOP nominee before McCain's name filled in the blank. - Robert Hafer

Ugh, gillmor is on there...now I want to tune out - Bwana

At least there is something to watch on stickam other than scenester kids - Justin Leon

Wow! - ChangeForge | Ken Stewart

Now, now... it's not the size of the HOLY SHIT... nevermind. - l0ckergn0me

It's not fair Chris, it's not fair!!!! :) - Bwana