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Monday, June 25, 2012
Why The Newsroom is Good News for Republicans
The Newsroom is Sorkin's sad attempt to win an argument by rewriting history and coming up with all the comebacks that his side couldn't think of two years ago. It's the sad and pathetic spectacle of an ideology creating its own fantasy version of its reality in which it won the argument.
Unlike The West Wing, The Newsroom isn't set in an alternate world in which the universe innately favors liberals. Instead it's set in an alternate version of the past, in which liberals were smarter and won all the arguments that they ended up losing here. And the existence of The Newsroom is the greatest possible concession that the argument was lost.
There's no reason for Republicans to look down on The Newsroom. It's a safer outlet for liberal anger than Occupy Wall Street. It's a miniature universe in which they are smarter, nobler and better than everyone else. Children have fantasy worlds like that. There's no reason that liberals shouldn't. Not only does it give them the security of believing that they really were superior, but it prevents them from learning any useful lessons from their defeat.
It's never a bad thing when your enemies escape into a delusional state, to a world of their making in which they are in complete control of everything. It makes it more likely that they will cede at least some control over the real world. And it's not only an admission of defeat, but of emotional and mental fragility. Adults don't need to build fantasy worlds to escape the effects of their failures on their precious self-esteem. That's for overgrown children who are used to getting trophies for just showing up.
The Newsroom is the kid that everyone hated losing his race for class president and creating a fantasy world in which he won the election and everyone cheered his obnoxious tantrums. It may not be good for him, but it's good for us because it means he hasn't learned to win. All that he's learned to do is manage the emotional experience of defeat through delusional tantrums of superiority.
Propaganda that tells you that you won, when you actually lost, is corrosive; it inhibits any serious self-evaluation. And without some soul-searching and error-checking, the same mistakes are bound to be repeated over and over again. Seventeen years after the Clinton Presidency was nearly torpedoed by universal health care, his party's successor, who defeated the woman who shaped the initiative, went down the same road, but with much less caution.
That kind of stupidity would not have been possible if the winners had learned any lessons from the past. But the winners had been living on The West Wing, in which liberal speeches and principles are all it takes to win. Where the good guys never lose, because the scripts are written that way. Rather than living in the real Clinton Years, many of them had been living in the imaginary version. Now, rather than remembering the actual Obama Years, they will remember The Newsroom's fictional version of them. And they will make the same mistakes all over again.
When the real-life Republicans are just too scary, the good liberal viewer flees to HBO, where the Republicans are just waiting to be deflated with a smarmy line about school prayer, science or terrorism. Just as the family sitcom reassured viewers about the state of the nuclear family, HBO reassures liberals about the state of their ideology, nurturing them and coddling them, until they are ready to reemerge at the next political rally.
The message that The Newsroom feeds to liberals is that they didn't have enough self-esteem, they weren't as self-confident, as abrasive and as biased as they should have been last time around. And that's a welcome thing, not for anyone who still harbors hope that a sane two-party system will prevail, but those who want to see liberals destroy themselves, their institutions and their ambitions.
If liberals acted in public life the way that they do on The Newsroom, they would be signing their own political death warrant. The Newsroom's message to the media is to be more openly biased. And who wouldn't welcome that? The media's last shreds of credibility come from its pretense that it is neutral. The day that news anchors routinely take to the air, announce their political affiliation and begin to rant about Republicans is the day that the last pieces of their empire come crumbling down. The day that every news channel is MSNBC is the day that they will all have to divide the MSNBC audience among themselves.
The liberal media is already following that path, and their newspapers, magazines and news shows are turning into ghettos because of it. The Newsroom berates them for not following it quickly enough. And the faster they go down that road, the less influence they will retain. If I wanted to destroy the liberal media, I would encourage them to follow The Newsroom's model. And while they won't listen to me... they will listen to Aaron Sorkin.
The real topic of The Newsroom is egotism and it's the perfect mirror for the destruction of the administrations of two egotistical Democratic chiefs who self-destructed because they had as little impulse control as The Newsroom's protagonist. The celebration of self-destructive behavior is self-destructive and it programs the Democrats to seek out the next cycle of egotistical, self-destructive politicians.
A failure to recognize one's own flaws means an inability to change. Hell is being trapped in one's own flaws forever. And that is The Newsroom, it is a hell that liberals have made for themselves, a Sisyphean exercise in which they roll the boulder endlessly up the hill, only to be flattened by it, and then resume the same exercise without having learned anything in the process except to push the boulder even faster next time.
The Newsroom reeks of its own smugness. It is entirely self-reflective. Its politics are a matter of identity. And that identity creates its own universe. There are universes like that already in cloistered urban centers, in ideologically-gated communities and in academia. And when their inhabitants mistake the larger world outside as being no different than their universe, the contest between the ideology and the world begins.
With The Newsroom, the cycle continues as, anticipating defeat, liberals retreat to a safe place in an imaginary version of the past, in which they can line up all their enemies and knock them down like rows of toy soldiers, in which everything seems clear and certain, and their side always wins. Their hibernation is a good sign. It's a sign that they are afraid they are about to lose.
Bears leave hibernation in the spring, but, since the spring, liberals have begun crawling into their own caves, arranging the cushions, closing the blinds and shutting away the world, for the better world glowing from their television screens.
56 comments:
- LemonLimeMoon said...
Interesting piece
- 26/6/12
- American Genie said...
Yes, it is a very interesting piece.
Now if we could convince all conservatives to unplug their TV sets the world would be a much more intelligent, and happy place.
I've not watched TV in many years, and when I relocated last September I did not even purchase a TV set for my new home.
I haven't missed it one bit. It's a rather liberating experience.
- 26/6/12
- Brett_McS said...
Following the logic of the post, though, we should be watching these shows to keep the bubble floating!
Value to shareholders doesn't seem to be high on the priority list of these organisations. Do GE still sink money into the NBC money pit?
There is a kerfuffle in Australia at the moment because a (politically conservative) mining magnate has bought a big load of shares in a rather leftist newspaper chain, and the luvies don't want to let her have representation on the board. They'd rather go down the drain.
- 26/6/12
- Anonymous said...
Dear Mr. Greenberg,
While the premise of your article is sound, I am just amazed that how few conservative pundits have explicitly stated that Sorkin's political shows are liberal fantasies whose aim is to make those liberals feel like winners -- no matter the election returns. And your point that such shows allow liberals to overlook their own faults and foibles is excellent. In which regard, I have been telling my friends for the last 12 years that the liberal bias of the media is a two-edged sword: yes, 20 years ago, when the media had a thin veneer of objectivity, I believe that the liberal bias hurt the GOP; now, after Rathergate, NBC doctoring the Zimmerman tape, I am beginning to believe that the media, despite their best efforts, is harming the Dems.
But I have to disagree with you about Bill Clinton being self-destructive (of course, Obama is). What got Bill Clinton in trouble was not having sex with an intern, but not listening to his lawyers. I know many top lawyers, sharks who prey on sharks, and every one has said the same thing: they would have told Clinton to settle with Paula Jones, to pay her 500k, 1 million, even more. so as not to have to take the stand (leak to the media: Clinton had nothing to do with Paula Jones, but he is no saint, and so had to pay her off to avoid testifying about other things; actually, this is almost believable). So why didn't he, a very intelligent man - and a lawyer, listen to such sound advice? Because Hillary*, she-demon and castrating harpy, would NOT hear of it! Yes, she almost did him in re her healthcare plan in 93-94, and she almost did him in re Monica Lewinksy. By the way: I consider Clinton to have been a poor to mediocre President, but light years better than LBJ, Carter, and Barack Hussein Obama.
Sidenote: I do not quite what to make of both Obama and Hillary fawning over the Moslem Brotherhood, save that it makes me sick. Nor do I understand why Obama considers Erdogan, P.M. of Turkey, such a good friend (CondI Rice and the excrrable Karen Jones fell for him too), when the man is both anti U.S. -- and viciously anti-Semitic. 25 years ago, I spent two months traveling around Turkey -- and loved it. Whenever I engaged a Turk, especially those on the General Staff (Reagan was still President, so I had some political connections at the time),in serious conversation, I would volunteer that I was Jewish; I read people well, and not once did I feel any negative feedback for my being Jewish (I can't say the same of Greece in the late 6o's, or at the Oxbridge High Tables even to this very day). Alas, today I would not even set foot in Van or Diyarbakir, let alone Konya [In many ways the religious capital of Turkey; it contains Rumi's (Mevlana's) tomb, and is the headquarters of the Dervish order. the Dervishes took to me, and allowed me to watch their dancers -- it was wonderful; they also asked to me to be a judge in Turkey's national riddle contest (I speak no Turkish!)]. In re my questioning why Obama is so friendly with Erdogan, I am being a little disingenuous: I believe that one bond between them is a hatred of Jews and Israel.
Respectfully, Parchellan
*When I publish a book of political poems, I shall be sure to send you my poem about Hillary. Yes, you are wise to the ways of the world -- still, it will shock you.
- 26/6/12
- Keliata said...
This is an interesting article, but also on a personal note, a very sad one for me.
The Hollywood elite liberals do want to have the last word and revise history. They want to create a world that does not exist. Well, only in their imaginations.
Why do they persist? For all of the reasons you cite but also another--revenge. A newspaper editor (offline) had a public dispute over a stupid situation that was his fault. It was nothing and something a normal person would have pitched a fit for a time and let it go.
He didn't. The explanation? "But I own a newspaper." He could keep it going on and on for as long as he pleased. That's the advantage of having control over the media.
Then again, there's a saying that freedom of the press exists only for those who own the presses. B'H the Internet has changed things.
Virtually everyone owns a news outlet.
- 26/6/12
- Keliata said...
Sad parts of your brilliant article:
"On an episode of Seinfeld, George is stung by an insult but is unable to think of a retort, so he spends days trying to come up with the perfect comeback, until he finally thinks of it and travels around the country to get the chance to deliver it"
I agree with you about the liberals trying to get revenge for insults and search for places to deliver their messages to get back at people/cultures/political parties.
From a Conservative perspective...sigh. Sometimes it is impossible to get your message out and do search for someone to listen.
Or you can sit back and pretend the country is the same just because it looks the same.
- 26/6/12
- namaste said...
daniel, awesome post! all art and media can be traced to politics. you've laid out an excellent analysis of the liberal motive for faux-entertainment. you have a knack for showing how truly linked - in dialogue, art, actions, etc. - we all are in this world. your posts are compelling because you underscore the threaded patterns. you have a gift, that's for sure!
i am heartened by the concept of the left-leaning media engine imploding. they may have to go back to basics and actually do their job as reporters. what a dream!
btw, thanks for linking my recent post! :)
- 26/6/12
- Anonymous said...
"Now if we could convince all conservatives to unplug their TV sets"
I gave away my TV 2 years ago. I can access garbage on the Internet. Who needs a television.
Keliata, Liberals DO live in a fantasy world. They live in a fantasy theoretical world where everyone is equal. Where every body gets there "fair share." Where all Israel has to do is really want peace enough to sit down with murderers and talk real nice. Maybe give them a token concession. Then everything can be wrapped up in 30 minutes. And voila! Peace will break out all over the world! See how easy it is?
- 26/6/12
- Anonymous said...
Rush Limbaugh brought me here
- 26/6/12
- MidnightWatcher's Blogspot said...
Great article. Seems that even Rush agrees!
- 26/6/12
- MissVickAZ said...
Nice job, Greenfield. You made it on Rush. May there be many more days for you just like this one.
- 26/6/12
- Samson Simpson said...
Fantastic !!!!!!
- 26/6/12
- lgstarr said...
Wow--congrats on having Rush read your article on the air just now!
Can't believe he'd not heard about you before, but I'll bet he's going to become a fan.
You are perspicacity plus!
- 26/6/12
- Redwine said...
I can't believe that it took so much time for Rush to find you. Glad that he did. Excellent observations on liberal media propaganda.
- 26/6/12
- Anonymous said...
I don't know how many people will visit your blog today, but as many as 20 million people just heard this post read on the radio.
That's because Rush Limbaugh gave this post a dramatic reading. From what I can tell, he only skipped over about two paragraphs, so he seems to agree whole heartedly both with your review of the show and your view about liberalism in general. Congrats. -- SCOTT
- 26/6/12
- Anonymous said...
Rush brought me here too
- 26/6/12
- Dan Freeman said...
Great analysis of Liberal Hollywood.
- 26/6/12
- Anonymous said...
My website, "A Hollywood Republican" had a similar article dealing with "The Newsroom" yesterday only from a different viewpoint. Check it out at:
- 26/6/12
- Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog said...
Welcome everyone and thanks
it's a great honor to have my article read by Rush
- 26/6/12
- NeeNee said...
Daniel, you need to consider compiling these brilliant essays into a book. Along with David Horowitz and Jonah Goldberg, you write cogently on a variety of world political topics. I would personally feel armed to the hilt with such a book, ready to take on liberalism with new vigor.
And yes, sometimes it takes Rush awhile to "get up to speed" (as he is wont to say) when it comes to discovering new conservative authors.
- 26/6/12
- Finley McKinney said...
A most excellent article! I found you from Rush's site as well.
- 26/6/12
- Anonymous said...
Congrats on Rush's reading of your newsroom review today. Have been reading you for several years. Just clicked on the Amazon Kindle link and am disappointed that as a Canadian I can't subscribe to your blog. Lots of us up here admire you Daniel, for so many reasons. Thank you for what we learn from your generous sharing of your point of view.
- 26/6/12
- Harry Pate said...
What a great study on Liberals' mindset.
To use Rush's phrase in reverse: "I hope Sorkin SUCCEEDS" in cheer-leading the real life media commit a harakiri.
All Conservatives who has HBO on their TV should flock to "The Newsroom" and give artificially high rating.
An excited Sorkin would cheer-lead the real media with more enthusiasm.
- 26/6/12
- Keliata said...
Kol HaKavod Daniel! As someone who truly has been a long-time reader of your blog I can say that your recognition and praise doesn't come as a surprise in the least:)
Your words have the beauty and strenth and truth to make the American Eagle soar proudly once again.
Toda raba:) :) :) :) :)
- 26/6/12
- Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog said...
Hmm I'm not sure why that is. But it seems like Kindle blogs are only open for the US and UK. It's Amazon's decision not mine. If there's an alternative way to do it, I would love to.
- 26/6/12
- Anonymous said...
Rush Limbaugh turned me on to this too. It's really a great analysis. Conservatives sense that something like this is at work with liberals but your post ties the different elements all together in a very insightful way. Congrats.
- 26/6/12
- M] said...
My wife are big fans and just tickled spitless Rush read your essay today. I link your pieces all the time but never get any response which makes me fear that no one is paying attention, or worse - they don't care!
Congratulations! You couldn't hope for any more exposure than today.
Keep up the good work.
- 26/6/12
- penfold said...
I came for Rush.
I'll stay for the writing.
- 26/6/12
- Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog said...
Penfold, that's the perfect comment.
Anon, thank you
MJ, I think that sometimes too, but then surprisingly something like this happens
- 26/6/12
- Anonymous said...
I am so glad to discover in the comment section that Rush has found you. I have posted your blog on my facebook many times, almost never a response. Like one of the posts above, no one is reading them, or they just don't care. Keep on writing, you are living up to your name! Shalom.
- 26/6/12
- Scott Lindholm said...
Excellent post. I met these people years ago as a debater in high school and college, the ones that live in the world of fiat vs. common sense or economic realities.
I'm halfway through vol. 4 of Caro's biography of Lyndon Johnson ("The Passage of Power"), and it makes me so sad to see how the Democratic party devolved into what it is today, one based on class warfare and envy. I strongly suspect that many Democrats of that era, particularly JFK, most likely RFK, LBJ, Richard Russell and others would be completely lost with what the Democrat Party is today.
- 26/6/12
- mindRider said...
Sultan, thanks to your excellent writing and the discovery of such by Rush, you'll likely be catapulted into becoming the "Tom Paine" of conservative America. A justified position!
- 27/6/12
- Anonymous said...
Just visited your site after it was featured by Rush. Love your work and just bookmarked it. Hope to keep up on your latest pieces.
- 27/6/12
- Anonymous said...
What you yearn to find when you read a piece is "insight". It's the most rare of commodities. This article had it in industrial quantities.
Then, if you really get lucky, you find that the "insight" is delivered in a package that includes a forceful writing style, with wit, focus, economy and without pretension. We got all that too.
I'm British and write for a couple of football (soccer, to you Yanks) blogs and my pen-name is Churchill. I mention this only to explain that I am using the anonymous route to post this because I'm not sure I can get any of the other routes to work and I really did want to come on here and congratulate you.
And, yes, I came here via Rush.
- 27/6/12
- Anonymous said...
Excellent article! You hit all the right points; liberals ARE children, intolerant of intellectual diversity, self absorbed, and delusional. And the line about splitting the MsNBC viewership? That's exactly what happened to CNN.
If you think liberals are going to be holed up in their woman-caves glued to HBO, just wait until Obama is shellacked in November. They'll be trying to re-write Carter II as some sort of heroic crusader brought down by evil corporations and, of course, racism. HBO will be tripping over themselves to produce such a fantasy in 2013.
- 27/6/12
- mmercier said...
Another home run Daniel.
I think you are going to need more bandwith after yrsterday.
Our friends over at the freep have the Rush transcript up too.
- 27/6/12
- mmercier said...
Another home run Daniel.
I think you are going to need more bandwith after yrsterday.
Our friends over at the freep have the Rush transcript up too.
- 27/6/12
- Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog said...
anon, thank you
Scott, the Dems were always corrupt but under the influence of the left, they fused that corruption with radical politics whose goal was the transformation/destruction of the country, for a truly toxic mix
Churchill, thank you. That's high praise indeed. Does Rush air in the UK?
Paul, last time around when Bush won the Times was running articles on their need for therapy after.
mmercier, thank you, for now Google provides my bandwidth
- 27/6/12
- Anonymous said...
Daniel, Yes, Rush is available in the UK and I've been a subscriber for about 7/8 years.
Like Rush, I first read your stuff this week, and can't really understand why it never got on my radar sooner. I've just read "The Cult of Obama" and once again I am mightily impressed. It is, at least, as good as the two pieces that followed it and the perceptive quality of the notions contained in it are enormously revealing.
Sorry to keep blowing smoke up your ass, old boy. I'll try to be more retrained henceforth, but I can't issue a guarantee with this.
- 27/6/12
- Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog said...
The internet is a big place and lots of writers out there. But I'm glad you liked the recent articles and hope you'll stick around even when the occasional article isn't to your taste. I try to do a lot of different things.
- 27/6/12
- Anonymous said...
aren't you doing the same thing because Obama won?
- 27/6/12
- Doug said...
Rush sent me too. I liked it, bookmarked it, and will definitely be back.
- 27/6/12
- Anonymous Contractor said...
Well said. Much better than I did here:
Sorkin Follies
All I did was dissect the trailer with some facts. I
- 27/6/12
- jeannebodine said...
Oh, I have been reading you for years, you are one of favorites, you offer so much insight it is remarkable. But even for you, this one is a stunner.
- 27/6/12
- Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog said...
Thank you Jeanne, glad you're still with us
- 27/6/12
- Anonymous said...
The liberals are playing a long term game here like they did with infiltrating and subverting education. They produce tv shows,movies and books that mix historical facts with their skewed versions of the truth. They know that over time people wil mix what they've seen on the news with what they've seen on the sitcoms. Many people will swear that Sarah Palin said something they saw spoken by Tina Fey on Saturday Night Live.
How long will it be before teachers are showing The Newsroom in history class?
- 27/6/12
- Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog said...
I'm sure they're probably already showing it in journalism classes. But culture has always been their weapon. Common sense has been ours.
- 27/6/12
- 17R3W said...
When I came across this article in Google News, I assumed it would address the topic of Jeff Daniels' roles as the Republican protagonist; Will McAvoy.
Aaron Sorkin spent time at Fox News* to research the show and the it takes Will McAvoy less than 5 minutes to ask "if liberals are so smart why do they lose so often?". ****
I was hoping to see if Daniel Greenfield thought Will McAvoy was a good (albeit moderate ***) Republican role model, or just a failed liberal attempt at writing one.
And yet, Daniel Greenfield addresses none of that. In fact, he almost seems to ignore the issue. Instead the article is just a (not so thinly veiled) insult to liberals. This would be fine if Greenfield actually used an example from the show, but other then mentioning it's set in 2010**, and the mention of impulse control, there is very little about "the newsroom" in an article about "the newsroom".
I have little faith that Greenfield actually watched the show, he demonizes. That's the real reflection of today's medium, judge first, ask questions later (if at all).
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying the show doesn't have a liberal bias, but in my tiny response I've been able to give more examples to the contrary than Daniel gave in his entire article.
* See wikipedia
** the pilot episode takes place during Presidents Obama's biggest failure, the "spill here, spill now" disaster of bp's deepwater horizon.
*** In one of the trailers Will McAvoy remarks - "I'm a registered Republican, I only seem liberal because I believe that hurricanes are caused by high barometric pressure and not gay marriage."
**** That line is literally in the opening scene.
- 29/6/12
- Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog said...
This blog isn't syndicated in Google News.
And why would I waste time taking seriously the premise that a liberal spokesman is a Republican because the show uses that disingenuous premise?
How is someone who has nothing in common with Republicans supposed to be a model for them?
- 29/6/12
- Samson Simpson said...
Heard again on Best of Rush on WRDU. Congrats!!! New career in the making.
- 1/7/12
- 17R3W said...
Hey Daniel, thanks for your feed back!
"This blog isn't syndicated in Google News."
It's syndicated on other sites that are syndicated on Google News, and I came back to the source to leave a comment.
Search Google News for your title, it's listed several times.
"And why would I waste time taking seriously the premise that a liberal spokesman is a Republican because the show uses that disingenuous premise?"
One of the things about the West Wing is that the Republicans were "good guys". Sure they opposed the protagonists in the White House, but they were always smart, noble and principled (with few exceptions).
They weren't the party of the real world who's "for the mandates, before we're against them". They were principled.
Take for example John Goodman who played Speaker of the house turned President, Glen Allen Walken.
On the West Wing he stepped up to the the Presidency during a crisis in which the President's daughter was kid napped by terrorists, and the Democratic President could no longer lead.
The concern was that that President Walken was too good, and people may not want the liberal Bartlet back.
The fantasy element of the West Wing wasn't just that the good guys won, but that the bad guys weren't bad guys.
Republicans (on the west wing) were conservatives, and not neo-liberals.
"How is someone who has nothing in common with Republicans supposed to be a model for them?"
Without having seen the show, how do you know he has nothing in common with them?
As I mentioned, he based on (among others) Fox News hosts.
Aaron Sorkin can (and does) write people other than Liberal atheists. I always like the character of Harriet Hayes (studio 60: On the sunset strip), who was a right wing Christian.
She went to church on Sunday, appeared on the 700 club, and even (While not hostile to gays) opposed gay marriage. Sorkin wrote her wonderfully.
I also wanted to know why Now in an election year, we wouldn't take this chance to discuss the past two years?
- 2/7/12
- 17R3W said...
I was wondering if you had watched this week's episode?
The main plot revolves around the Arizona immigration law, which our protagonist; Will Mcavoy (Jeff Daniels) supports.
Granted, there are liberals on the show, who oppose it, but our hero is in favor of it.
Additionally, there is a sub-plot where Will (out of concern of being called a R.i.n.o) catches a grenade for Sarah Palin.
When she makes a mistake on Fox News, Will Mcavoy tries to clarify here statement, and re-enforce her main point.
- 4/7/12
- Anonymous said...
Ditto to an earlier commenter:
I came because of Rush but I'll stay for the writing. My amendment?
I'll stay for the thinking behind the writing.
Super glad to have you in my RSS feed.
- 5/7/12
- Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog said...
Samspson and Sarah, thanks. Glad you're sticking around. The wiring of the mind has to drive the writing.
17R3W. "our hero" is a stand in for Sorkin, who is not a moderate Republican, but well to the left. The show would be more honest if it admitted that.
Your opinions are not reflected even by reviews of liberal critics which find the show too cloyingly liberal.
The usual attacks on the Tea Party as a Koch Brothers conspiracy are exactly what people expect from Sorkin and exactly what he delivers.
- 9/7/12
- Anonymous said...
Hi, everybody! *waving wildly*. It is an honor to be here. Sorkin's idea of a "moderate" Republican is a liberal. I can't quite figure out where McAvoy expresses any conservatism. Would a thoughtful Republican frame the abortion debate in the way that Debbie Wasserman-Schultz would? The whole thing is a farce and Sorkin's belief that his real intentions aren't transparent shows how lost in his delusional world he is. And, as usual, liberals seem to be free from any real criticism from this so-called Republican. George H. W. Bush would laugh at this guy and his claim that he once worked for him.
- 4/9/12
- James Drohan said...
Hey, came across the article via google...just wanted to add 2 cents in.
First up, hands in the air, will admit to being a sucker for Sorkin's writing. However preachy, he can always pull a laugh and roll a story.
Interesting reading everyone's feedback on this. As a Brit, it's always weird hearing people using the term 'Liberal' in such a dirty way. I guess we have different meanings.
I think the show is massively faulted on many levels and quite clearly acts as a mouth piece for Sorkin's ideology. That said, one thing I don't feel your article deals with here squarely is that there quite clearly IS a problem with the way the media represents itself.
A running joke here in the UK is that our news papers are bat shit and our TV is pretty solid. The flip side of that joke is that the US papers are pretty together and the US TV news is mostly nuts,
Yes it's having it's cake and eating it and yes, without a doubt the characters are over drawn but I do struggle with the fact that no one seems to be at least ARGUING with that idea.
Tis all y'all
- 24/4/13


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Denver Broncos' running back Knowshon Moreno is wrapping up the best season of his professional career.
It could be his last with the Broncos.
According to Ian Rapoport of NFL.com, Moreno is likely to be a salary cap casualty after this season. With rookie Montee Ball showing toughness and reliability behind Moreno, Denver could feel more comfortable letting Moreno walk as a free agent.
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Our covers with wording add an effortlessly casual, natural, farmhouse, vintage style to any room in your home. They look fabulous amongst a vignette of our covers with wording, and pair beautifully with our accent cover collection as well. The neutral color pairs perfectly with pretty much any color palette.
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Selecting your size
- For all sizes except for 24x24 and 16x26, select a pillow cover based on the size insert you are using.
16x16, use a 16x16 down insert
18x18, use an 18x18 down insert
20x20, use a 20x20 down insert
16x26, use a 16x26 down insert
For 16x24, use a 16x26 down insert
for 24x24, use a 26x26 down insert
- 20x20 covers are sewn at 19x19. Otherwise, the fabric will hang on the cover and look sloppy. This is to ensure the best look- full overstuffed and cozy as pictured in all my listings. All covers pictured in square sizes are sewn this way and stuffed with a 20x20 insert. Lumbar pillows pictured are sewn at 16x24 and stuffed with a 16x26 insert.
For information on where to purchase inserts, please continue reading below
{for more information and the why behind our sizing, we highly encourage you to follow us along on instagram and watch our styling highlighted videos, where I explain this in great detail!}
Pillow inserts
-This is a pillow cover. I do have down pillow inserts available for purchase. You can find them here. I sell 20x20 and 16x26 inserts, as these tend to be my most popular size and I am able to find the best price and quality at these sizes.
-I only recommend using down inserts to achieve the best look.
-IKEA sells fantastic down pillow inserts. I highly recommend the FJÄDRAR down inserts. I also recommend Crate and Barrel for all sizing. Crate and Barrel also sells fantastic down-alternative inserts for those with allergy concerns.
Fabric details
We use the same material on all of our covers with wording, and use this material for backs on all of our accent covers. We treat it 100% in house to give it our trademark soft, nubby, vintage/ industrial look. It is a very natural material with a percentage of recycled fibers, which gives it variation in tone and texture. The color is not white, there is quite a bit of variation in the very light linen tone, which is part of the vintage/ industrial "look". It is not meant to be perfect.
This material is incredibly durable.
We cannot customize fabric.
YES!!!! These are machine washable. We recommend cold, gentle cycle and tumble dry low. We've treated your patches to prevent further fraying, if any stray frays appear simply snip them away.
The back has a generous envelope enclosure for easy removal and cleaning.
Text on pillow covers
-I hand paint all pillow covers. I do not use a silk screen or vinyl heat transfer. This allows for the writing to fully absorb in the fibers and then fade slightly, adding to a vintage look.
- want to have us make something just for you? Please visit our custom section.
-All pillows are handmade and no two are alike, patches may very.
-To order a pillow without patches, select the "no patches" option.
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Budd Nedreck (referred to only as "Budd" in-game") is an adventurer who wanders Azeroth with his group.
World of WarcraftEdit
Burning CrusadeEditThis section concerns content exclusive to The Burning Crusade. Located in Hatchet Hills[16.3, 48.1] in the blood elf territory of Ghostlands, he leads the neutral outpost there for Zul'Aman quests.
- [70] Oooh, Shinies! (optional, breadcrumb quest)
- [70R] Promises, Promises...
- [70R] X Marks... Your Doom!
- [70R] Hex Lord? Hah!
- [70R] Blood of the Warlord
Wrath of the Lich KingEditThis section concerns content exclusive to Wrath of the Lich King.
In World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, Budd and his band of treasure seekers and troll slayers have moved camp to Grizzly Hills in search of new profits, but ever since his encounter with Zul'jin, Budd he seems to have lost his sanity and now believes he is a troll complete with a troll mask. He is now used as troll bait and an aid in capturing live ice trolls in the quest Filling the Cages. He is actually thinking he is playing "Troll Tag" which basically means knocking someone out by hitting their head with a frying pan.
CataclysmEditThis section concerns content exclusive to Cataclysm.
With the coming of World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, Budd makes an appearance at the opening sequence to the Vashj'ir zone, where he inexplicably leaps into the water from his mercenary vessel, which carries adventurers, before it is sunk by Ozumat. He ends up at Budd's Dig in Kelp'thar Forest. He is cursed digging up some cursed treasure and asks the player to help relieve the curse. Once he is cured he waves goodbye and apparently escapes Vashj'ir.He also appears in Thistleshrub Valley[30.4, 65.6] of Tanaris near the entrance to Uldum, along with Adarrah. Budd and the others are planning to drive a caravan into Uldum to search for artifacts. Unluckily, the caravan is ambushed by pygmy mercenaries that were hired by the tol'vir to kill any intruders. Budd offers a crazy plan to get the team and a Ramkahen prince out of the Tol´vir city which, despite Budd's somewhat questionable intellect, works quite well. He later continues on to stay within the Ramkahen village of Mar'at[50, 40].
Since Patch 4.2.0, there is a chance for Budd to make an appearance during the Firelands Invasion quest The Protectors of Hyjal as "one of Azeroth's greatest heroes", one of many heroes that have a chance to spawn and assist players while on the quest. He makes various comments, and his weapon of choice is a frying pan.
- Kelp'thar Forest
- [81] A Bone to Pick
- [81] Decisions, Decisions
- Uldum
- [83] Budd's Plan
Mount Hyjal quotes Edit
- Spawn
Budd says: Ahoy!
- In Combat
Budd says: I'm fiiiighting! Budd says: Bonk! Yes sir! Budd says: Weee!
- Despawn
Budd says: Toodly-doo!
His last name is an obvious play on "Redneck," switching the N and the R in his name.
External linksEdit
|Budd's many lives
|Hatchet Hills
|Granite Springs
|Budd's Dig
|Mount Hyjal


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Hamels, Phils unable to stifle Braves' power game
ATLANTA -- Chase Utley offered some perspective late Monday night inside a quiet Phillies clubhouse at Turner Field.
His team finished last season a distant third in the National League East following a franchise-record 102 victories in 2011, snapping its run of five consecutive division championships. But the Phillies entered this spring optimistic a healthy roster would provide better results, and almost nothing that happened in Florida over the last month of Spring Training changed their thinking. So it would have been ideal for them to start the season with a crisply played game and a victory over the Braves.
Instead, they lost on Opening Day, 7-5.
"Listen, obviously you want to win the first game," Utley said, "but I think we have a few more to go."
That is the good news. The Phillies have 161 to play, and they certainly expect Cole Hamels to pitch better than he did. He allowed seven hits, five runs, one walk and three home runs against the Braves.
They also expect better from their offense and more from a revamped bullpen.
"We're going to be able to come back in games," Phillies manager Charlie Manuel promised. "We need to have things click for us. We need to play consistent baseball and good. Tonight, I felt like we did cut some runs down on the infield. We could have scored more. It was a good game, but at the same time, we could never catch them."
Hamels, who made his first Opening Day start, put the Phillies in a hole immediately.
He walked Jason Heyward on five pitches with one out in the first, and two batters later, Freddie Freeman crushed a 2-1 fastball to right field for a two-run home run to hand the Braves a 2-0 lead. Hamels then threw a 3-0 fastball to Dan Uggla to start the second, and he hit that pitch to left field for a home run to make it 3-0.
Hamels had thrown 26 pitches to that point and just 12 strikes, with two of those strikes leaving the ballpark in a hurry.
Hamels simply wasn't sharp. He allowed a leadoff double to Andrelton Simmons in the third. Freeman then laced a two-out single to right to hand the Braves a 4-0 lead.
"You have to be able to establish the fastball down in the zone, and I wasn't able to do that as much as I'd like," Hamels said. "Most of the pitches that were hit out were fastballs up in the zone. I want to claim that's uncharacteristic, but there are times when you have to be able to make the adjustment and I wasn't able to make the adjustment fast enough."
He indicated he might have been too pumped.
"You get the excitement going. You have to settle in," he said. "That's the tough part. You have to control your emotions. It's a sold-out crowd. It's Opening Day. You want to win. I wasn't able to execute."
But the Phillies chipped away at the lead. Utley hit a solo home run -- the 200th of his career -- to center field in the fourth to make it 4-1. Hamels hit a one-out single to right in the fifth. Ben Revere then worked an 11-pitch at-bat into a walk, which seemed to sap the energy from Braves right-hander Tim Hudson. Jimmy Rollins singled to right to load the bases, and Utley followed with a single to right to score two runs to make it 4-3.
Utley tripled and scored in the seventh to finish the day 3-for-5 with two runs and three RBIs -- and a double shy of the cycle.
"That was classic Chase," Ryan Howard said.
"I worked hard this offseason to get to this point," said Utley, who missed the previous two Opening Days because of injured knees.
But Hamels continued to fall prey to the Braves' powerful lineup when Justin Upton crushed a homer to left-center in the fifth to make it 5-3. Phillies right-hander Chad Durbin started the sixth, allowing two runs to make it 7-3.
The Phillies got within two, but they ran into Braves closer Craig Kimbrel in the ninth.
Game over.
"Hopefully, that is just the beginning," said Freeman, who went 3-for-4 with three RBIs. "We've got a very balanced lineup one through eight. It's going to be tough for pitchers to get through us."
Hamels lived it Monday, but he expects better next time. So do the Phillies. They hope to start Wednesday.


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How does Daniel Craig's James Bond stack up against Pierce Brosnan's? Or Roger Moore's? Or Mr. Connery's? Who is the best Bond?
Everyone has an opinion, what nobody has is an objective way of measuring such a thing. That is unless you choose to do so in units of martinis consumed (you alcoholic!), women seduced (you misogynist!), or people killed (you bloodthirsty monster!). In which case, The Economist has a chart they'd like you to see.
From the print edition:
Data compiled by The Economist show that of the six Bonds, Pierce Brosnan was the most bloodthirsty, bumping off an average of 19 baddies per film. The short-lived George Lazenby, it turns out, was the Bond for the babes, whereas Daniel Craig, the latest, is notably less successful. Maybe that's because he drinks the most martinis. Still, all that risks being shortlived. In the new Bond film, "Skyfall"... Heineken has paid to ensure the hero only drinks beer.
Oof. Really, Craig? A beer that's a joke, even in its native Holland? You just came down a few pegs on my totally subjective leader board.


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 Note: The Department of Distance Learning is revamping its Website, so some of these links will change. You can always navigate through http://www2.cfcc.edu/dl to locate content.
It's that time again, time to make sure your courses are ready for the Fall semester. If you teach Internet or Hybrid courses, your course shell is automatically created in Blackboard. You will then either 1) copy content from an existing course into the shell or 2) copy template information into the shell or 3) start from scratch. Information about copying content or uploading the template can be found on the DL Faculty Resource page.
You might end up with duplicate menu items. Items that link to tools will contain the same information and duplicates can be removed.
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Check the following items before your course goes live:
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- Check your Grade Center to make sure you are using the correct grading schema, that all graded items are in the Grade Center with appropriate point values and are properly categorized if using weighting. Please refer to the Grade Center Check document (pdf).
- Correct display problems in the course. The Teaching with Blackboard 9 page has a number of resources listed, including Resolving Invalid HTML Errors and Bb Text Display Errors .
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By Gordon L. Pedrow
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The state legislative session has ended, with oil and gas drilling impacts on our communities still largely unaddressed — in no small part due to the active resistance of Gov. John Hickenlooper's administration. Even more concerning, the Governor continues to actively undermine the efforts of local governments to respond to the growing citizen outcry against fracking and other industrial activities in their neighborhoods.
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Longmont didn't take the task of adopting new oil and gas rules lightly. The City Council acted because state rules under the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) were insufficient to protect our community. The council carefully crafted an ordinance that would safeguard the health and welfare of Longmont citizens and promote industry accountability and responsibility. Working with its most active oil and gas company, the city negotiated an operator agreement that went beyond COGCC requirements. Notably, while the governor sued Longmont for its new rules, the local oil and gas operator did not.


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- Placement location: Cuyutlan
- Role: Work in sea turtle hatcheries, with captive breeding crocodiles and wildlife research
- Main Research Focus: Conservation of sea turtles, crocodiles and native birds
- Local Environment: Coastal
- Accommodation: Volunteer house near to the beach
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- What's included? Food, accommodation, transfers to and from our specified airport, transport to and from work where required, insurance, personal webpage, induction and orientation, 24/7 support
- What's not included? Flights, visa costs, spending money
- Length of placement: From 1 week
- Start dates: Flexible
Our Conservation & Environment Project in Mexico is a unique placement that offers you the chance to work alongside local experts on a variety of conservation and environmental projects. You can get involved in working with sea turtles, help to protect their nests and eggs, and contribute directly to the conservation of these increasingly endangered creatures. Volunteers also have the opportunity to work closely with crocodiles and iguanas, and participate in important biodiversity studies whose data is used by researchers across the Americas.
This project would be ideal for anyone with an interest in nature and adventure. You will get to perform real hands-on work and learn about some fascinating wildlife, all the while making a positive impact in the field of conservation. You do not need previous experience to take part in this project. Volunteers are welcome on a gap year, a career break, for university research, or as part of a summer holiday.
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- Turtle conservation: The turtle conservation project is based at the El Tortugario Centro Ecológico de Cuyutlan, located next to a lagoon where biodiversity studies are conducted. Volunteers will take part in night patrols along a 30 km stretch of beach to identify new turtle nests, collect sea turtle eggs in order to relocate them to a safe place, and keep an eye out for poaching activity. You will also collect information about the in situ or poached nests for research and statistical purposes. Volunteers will monitor the nests where the relocated eggs have been placed, and once the baby turtles have hatched, help clean the nests and release the hatchlings into the sea. Other duties include the cleaning of adult and hatchling sea turtle tanks, the cleaning of adult turtles and generally looking after their well-being - ensuring that they are well fed, unstressed, uninjured and measured and weighed once a month.
- Assisting at a crocodile park: Volunteers will visit La Colorada Crocodile Center, in Cofradia de Morelos, once a week, and help to clean and maintain the pens, and the centre's facilities. You will also be involved in taking biometric data and marking the crocodiles in nearby lagoons.
- Caring for iguanas: Volunteers will help to feed baby and adult green iguanas, and maintain their enclosures.
- Biodiversity studies: You will be required to monitor the presence and condition of wildlife in the Palo Verde estuary and El Chupadero lagoon, and maintain a register through direct observation and trap cameras for night surveillance. Volunteers will also monitor and collect data on the state of nearby mangrove forests, help grow mangrove seedlings in a greenhouse, and reforest areas where the mangrove forest has been damaged or removed.
- Educational and environmental outreach: Volunteers will take part in environmental education initiatives by visiting schools and running environmental awareness campaigns in nearby communities.
- Community beach clean-ups: You will spend some afternoons collecting rubbish and debris from the beaches.
What are the aims of this Conservation & Environment project?
The aims and objectives of this project involve the conservation and reintroduction of various species of wildlife. We are also involved in biodiversity studies. Conservation sites in Mexico are protected by SEMARNAT (The Department of Environmental Affairs and Natural Resources). In recognition of our commitment to conservation we have been entrusted to manage a section of coastline stretching 24km.
One of the conditions of our agreement with SEMARNAT is that we undertake significant scientific research on the coastline. We have a wide range of established and new projects which survive thanks to our volunteers. The three main species we work to conserve are Olive Ridley turtles, American crocodiles and Morelet's crocodiles.
Since 2006 we have also been working at a lagoon called "El Chupadero". Following several years of data collection by the volunteers the area was declared a Ramsar site in March 2009. A Ramsar site is awarded by the Ramsar Convention. They recognise wetlands as ecosystems that are extremely important for biodiversity. This is one of the most important titles a protected area can receive. It is testament to the hard work and effort put in by volunteers and staff.
You can read more detailed information about the aims of the project in our Mexico Conservation Management Plan.
Where will I live on this project?
Volunteers will be accommodated in a shared house close to both the town centre and the beach. Interestingly enough, the beach has black sand due to volcanic activity. The accomodation is situated about 1 km from the turtle conservation centre, making for an easy commute to work, and is also a few kilometres away from a small resort town. In your time off, you will have a chance to experience all that Mexico has to offer. The house has several single and shared bedrooms, as well as a communal kitchen and a swimming pool. You will be required to help with some basic maintenance and cleaning at the house.
You can join the Conservation & Environment project in Mexico for one, two or three weeks if you don't have time to join us for four weeks or more. This project has been selected by our local colleagues as being suitable for short term volunteering for both the host community and the volunteer. Although you will gain a valuable cultural insight and work intensely on a variety of conservation activities please be aware that you may not be able to make the same impact as someone volunteering for a longer period. Volunteers joining the Conservation & Environment project for just one week should arrive at a weekend.


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Measuring Healer Performance
I started to write a longish post about using stats – WWS in particular – to evaluate your healing. I realized, however, that we don't really have a good measure. In a lot of ways, most healers are stuck at the same stage as a lot of DPSers who don't study — the only thing that is measured and considered is gross results. For them, "did I kill the mob without dying" is sufficient. For us, "Did anyone die? No? Then that's the only measure that matters." Yes, in the end, it is. And yet, what we want to do is to look at our performance so that we're READY in the event we hit, well, the nasty pulls and Big Bosses.
I think that there isn't yet a tool out there that will really help us, but I might be wrong. I think that it might be possible to develop such an analysis, but I might be wrong. I can't know whether I'm right or wrong about either of these possibilities until I have decided what I – and I hope WE – need. Therefore I'm going to ask the Egotistical Priest's question again, only this time intentionally searching for quantifiable measures that can be used to obtain the qualitative truth she identified. It's going to be a long slog, so take a moment to get comfortable and, hopefully, be ready to add your insights.
Let me begin with the absolute with which everyone agrees. A GREAT healer is one who never lets a party member die. Which points out a major difficulty of our measures — compared to all other roles, the healer role is massively dependent on the performance of others. Get an extraordinarily geared tank and you can practically sleep. Get a warlock and a mage competing for top of the damage meters without concern for the tank's aggro and you can see death after death even before the first mob. Thus I think we have our first caveat — our first uncontrollable conditional against which all quantifiable measures must be considered: the group. I'll probably be returning to that element. But let's get back to quantifiable elements. Specific in this case: Deaths.
When we look at player deaths, we need to identify not why they died, but whether we could have saved them. Which basically means we need to know two things: How long did it take them to die, and what were we doing in that time?
I have identified my first stats to be parsed. I want a tool that will show people's health – as a percentage, I think – over time in chart form. And on it, I want all my healing casts shown. Probably it should show ALL heals, identified, so I can pick up on when my PoM (or other classes' unattributed healing) is the cause. hmmm, more complex than that – I need it to show things like shield, too.) Better put on a "Died" indicator so I can tell fairly easily whether they died and were battle rezzed or if it was a feign death or 1% situation.
Another major issue is mana management. I think I should have another line on that same chart – extractable as a separate, perhaps – that shows my mana percentage. Most of the spells I cast are there already, I need to know when and how I'm gaining mana, too.
Huh. I've just identified a 'better than good' element for measure. Mana management. Assuming you don't let people die, how ready are you to keep going? Yes, overheals play a part here, but far from the sole element. PoM or a PoH that brings 4 people up from 50% and is 100% overheal on the fifth are examples of where we just don't care. Though… the first chart will show some of this, too.
Which means one of the steps of getting "better" is learning to be not-too-quick on the trigger. You want to maintain player's health at levels high enough that they won't die to a heavy attack before you can heal, but other than that… let them bandage. And again, it's quantifiable. Not just overheals, but how often do you heal to 100%? 90%? 80%?
In fact, let's add this as a statistical, quantifiable measure of worth. What proportion of your heals go off at under 20% of the target's health (bad), and what proportion take your target over 90% (possible mana waste)? (and for comment from you all — is 80% a better measure?)
Statistical measures: party health % and healer mana status at end of battle. "Perfect" is both at 100%. Hmm. Add tank health % to that, I think. I suspect there's a valid ratio or proportion in there, and since dead tank is absolute bad it's probably better expressed somewhat better as health remaining per mana remaining — but lom with 100% health is also bad. I'm going to guess this is a multiplicative value – that is, 100%*100%=100% is excellent, while 1%*100% = 1% is, well, bad. I suspect there's a better weighting but the H*M value has good potential and is relatively easy to calculate. I'm absolutely certain a tool can be made, and 99% certain one doesn't already exist.
I think… I think I want another 'waste' calculator as well, though this one is potentially going to be used to beat other players about the head and shoulders. I want a tool that measures total healing delivered over the target's max health. In most circumstances the top number should belong to the tank. If another player is 'too high', we may be wasting heals. Or they may be abusing the threatmeter. Or we may be doing the right thing as the mage is AoE pulling a bunch of adds. Still, I think the distribution curve will give us a better tool for analyzing our performance on a quantifiable basis — especially if it can be made to count overheals by target.
Yes. Yes, I want that too for statistics. Which players did I overheal and with what spells? If it's the tank, I really don't care. If it's due to group heals (as already mentioned earlier) saving part of the group while wasted on the rest, I don't really care. If I'm doing repetitive overheals on the hunter… am I getting caught by his feign death? Panicked by how fast he drops on the rare situations he DOES take damage? Need to downrank for his heal? I can't even ask the questions if I don't realize HE is my overheal target.
So, let's recapitulate and summarize, shall we? The stats and reports that will help us become better healers include:
H*M – percent of health remaining * percent of mana remaining at the end of a fight, with an improved version being the (as yet undetermined) weighting of the elements. H*M is needed for both party and for the tank – the latter meaning I should be able to apply it against single members of the party.
Differentiation of overhealing by both spell AND target.
Related – proportion of heals that kick in when target is under 20%, and proportion that heal to over 90% (with discussion as to whether 80% might be a better target).
GRAPHIC DISPLAY of players' health over time of the battle plus my mana, all on a percentile chart, with events indicated – healing spells (preferably with a cast-time bar so I can see I didn't heal X because I was still casting GH on the tank) and events (bandages, pots, etc) and mana events ( at least restorations, possibly mana drains).
So what separates a good priest (qualitative value per Ego's post and the discussion) from a better priest (good plus)? Or maybe… what are the quantitative factors that help you become a good priest? How effectively and efficiently do you heal, I think. Timing and mana efficiency. No deaths, and enough mana at the end that if something DOES go wrong (which in an instance happens sooner or later), you're ready to cope.
OK, I've rambled. Thought – not just on what I've written but your own quantitative factors? Remember, I agree completely with Ego that a good priest is a measure of quality – of overall performance. This is an attempt to identify what measurable factors matter. Because if they're measurable, we can work to improve them – but only if they matter. Your turn.
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You know, that's a good point. I've been looking at this from a "What can current meters tell us" instead of an "if I could use any battle data, what would I want to measure" angle.
And sometimes building wishlists like that is a good idea. I may take your article here and create my own, though you may have covered everything I can think of. =]
[…] hand, measuring a healer's performance is a bit more ethereal, as discussed in depth today on Priestly Endeavors. Of course, you can watch the healing meters, but they don't tell the entire story of a good […]
[…] hand, measuring a healer's performance is a bit more ethereal, as discussed in depth today on Priestly Endeavors. Of course, you can watch the healing meters, but they don't tell the entire story of a good […]
Nice post Kirk, you've obviously given this a lot of thought. I can't help but wonder if you're overcomplicating things a little bit though.
Since the problem you're addressing is not necessarily that the healing meters (as they exist today) can be inaccurate but that a simple healing total is insufficient to reflect healing skill or efficiency I'll assume for a second that we have a magical healing meter than can give a completely accurate total for each healer.
I would argue that most of your metrics are rolled into that healing total, at least on fights where it matters. If the fight warrants efficiency then the inefficient healer's numbers are going to flag as the fight progresses and he runs out of mana. If the fight warrants burst healing and the healer's timing is off then more of his healing will be registered as overhealing. If that healer was assigned a target then his healing on that particular target should be considered (or at least more heavily weighted), not his total raid healing.
I also wonder about a situation where the amount of healing necessary exceeds what the healers can output efficiently, forcing at least one healer to switch to a much more inefficient heal rotation to account for the extra damage. This might blow their mana pool and cause them to appear inefficient in any isolated measurement compared to the healers maintaining a more sustainable hps, yet their transition was necessary and helped the raid by allowing the other healers to conserve mana.
Get Recount, it's a ace2 damage meter that also tracks a ton of other stuff. It's quite as in depth as you are wanting, but pretty damn close.
I've been spending a lot of quality time with combat logs recently (developing these kinds of tools for measuring tank performance). The main problem is that you can't calculate health or mana %s from the combat logs. Tools that run in game, like Recount, know how much everyone's total health and mana are, but none of this data is reflected in the logs.
So wouldn't the solution be an addon that ran during the fights, which added health/mana/other data points to the comabat log (or its own log), and which also had an offline component that read the data and translated it into the proper break down similar to WWS. I think from doing some addon programming, that addons cannot write to text files outside of the game… except for at logoff…so that maybe a limitation you would have to work around. I'm not sure if you can add lines to the combat log and then have that logged out of game, but there should be some way to do this.
Kirk, great blog…I am a new 70 pally healer, but I find the general articles and healing discussion very helpful.
[…] hand, measuring a healer's performance is a bit more ethereal, as discussed in depth today on Priestly Endeavors. Of course, you can watch the healing meters, but they don't tell the entire story of a good […]
[…] a year and a half ago, Priestly Endeavors did a post about measuring healer performance. This is a great post, and I encourage everyone to read it. Perhaps it is time to reflect on […]


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Come, ye souls by sin afflicted,
Bowed with fruitless sorrow down;
By the broken law convicted,
Through the cross behold the crown;
Look to Jesus;
Mercy flows through him alone.
Take his easy yoke and wear it;
Love will make obedience sweet;
Christ will give you strength to bear it,
While his wisdom guides your feet
Safe to glory,
Where his ransomed captives meet.
Blessed are the eyes that see him,
Blest the ears that hear his voice;
Blessed are the souls that trust him,
And in him alone rejoice:
His commandments
Then become their happy choice.
Sweet as home to pilgrim's weary,
Light to newly opened eyes,
Or full springs in deserts dreary,
Is the rest the cross supplies:
All who taste it
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