Why can’t lefties hear themselves think? Part 2
Back in January I told you about an article in Columbia Journalism Review titled “Un-American: Have you listened to the right-wing media lately?” by Michael Massing. At the time the article was not available online, but now it is and you can read the whole pot-calling-the-kettle-black article at CJR.
Massing rants and roars about a litany of right-wing writers and talkers, accusing them of “xenophobia, intolerance, and fanaticism.”
He had this to say about some otherwise respected right-leaning writers:
“As for columnists, one could read Michael Barone warning about ‘The Coming Obama Thugocracy,’ Jonah Goldberg jeering about Obama’s ‘pals from the Weather Underground who murdered or celebrated the murder of policemen,’ and Charles Krauthammer lambasting Obama for being a celebrity, a narcissist, a rigid ideologue, a cynical pragmatist, ambitious, mysterious, and underhanded. ‘By the time he’s finished,’ Krauthammer fumed, ‘Obama will have made the Clintons look scrupulous.’ The National Review Online came to resemble a barnyard, in which strutting roosters spent their days hooting and hollering while littering the ground with manure.”
All this without ever offering a shred of evidence that what they were saying was in the least bit untrue. That seemed to be irrelevant. The 11th Commandment in Massing’s political bible is: Thou shalt not speak ill of Obama.
Massing concludes the Obama-phobes should be declared un-American.
Never mind The New York Times front page article hinting John McCain had an affair with a lobbyist. Never mind all the targeting of Sarah Palin and Joe the Plumber. Never mind the tingling legs of Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, Daily Kos and Huffington Post.
