I was very surprised to read this yesterday on Calculated Risk:
If you need a decoder, CR thinks that Zero Hedge is in cahoots with Rush Limbaugh. He didn't provide any evidence to back up his claim.CalculatedRisk wrote on Mon, 6/4/2012 - 7:32 pm (in reply to...)
TJ and The Bear, I hear Zero is now associated with Rush. Figures.
Last I checked, Zero Hedge is anti-establishment (both left and right) and hates the military/industrial complex. Rush is definitely not anti-establishment (he only hates the left) and he loves the military/industrial complex. Moreover, a number of Zero Hedge contributors are certifiably insane. They've turned the place into a cesspool of bizarre conspiracies and racism, albeit a cesspool that is highly entertaining once you've put on some waders.
Rush is pretty far-right but even he'd be booted off the air if he started ranting like the people over on Zero Hedge.
CR, buddy. Get a grip and quite imbibing in the Kos. I read you because you're pretty good with the charts and stuff. Leave the weird conspiracy tales to others who are more entertaining at it. Like the insane asylum at ZH.
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I was a libtard. Then I was a rightard. During the last decade I came to the conclusion that we're all being played and if you want to get down to the meat of any political issue it's all about the green. Now I have no use for party blowhards. The dozen or so people who still read my stuff have probably reached the same conclusion.
Wow ZH still exists? I can't imagine people still like reading twelve posts about gold every day. Does that crackpot "George Washington" still post there? I forbid myself to check it out - that is why I am asking.
Twelve posts about gold every day. That's about right. :-) Like I said, it's fun to read as long as you wade in with the realization that a lot of the stuff is bullcrap.
Lou, I second your blowhard statement as well as the bunker psychosis of GW, but Zh has some decent contributors like Bruce Krasting, Keen, and Aziz. There's also something Zh provides that folks like Calculated Risk and Yves at Naked Capitalism can't relate to. It feels like Tyler and the community members there arent living in gated communities and giant high rises in the Boston-Washington corridor sipping martinis (or scotch to use your image for each econoblog analogy). Sometimes I want to say to yves and CR that not everyone can afford to move to a gated community secluded from the aftereffects of liberal social policy and welfare.
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