http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1846388/posts
Beware the Bloggers’ Bile (Joe Klein blames left-wing blog kookery on RUSH Limbaugh)
Interesting for three reasons.
It indicates the Political Left isn’t willing to hear anything in the “News” that does not validate their emotional based dogmas about Iraq.
That Left leaning Journalists, far from being objective, are subjected to, and respond to, considerable pressure to tow the party line on Iraq.
That the Left is serious stuck in denial about the impact of their own favorite debate tactics on the nation's political discourse.
What Klein is objecting to is the normal type of discourse directed at anyone who disagreed with the Left during the 1960s-1970-1980 etc. Anyone who either went to College in that time frame or lived thru the Reagan era knows this debate tactic has been the standard operating procedure of the Left long before Rush showed up on the scene.
Thanks. Joe Klein is an intelligent journalist. Problem is, as like anyone else he is also a liberal, so he naturally include RUSH Limbaugh to “even hand” his thesis on whatever he talks about. He is one of those who realize that Conservatives are intelligent & liberals just angry on everything Conservatives doing.
Joe Klein blames left-wing blog kookery on RUSH Limbaugh
Don’t cockroaches act the same way when the light is turned on?
Joe Klein is a liberal, but a reasonable one.
Consequently, he gets attacked by lefties for not smearing the right and has to conclude the ‘eat your own’ venom of the left is a novelty:
1. It’s somehow the fault of a conservative somewhere.
2. It’s never happened to a conservative before (because he doesnt stop to ask conservatives how the left has treated *US* for the past generation).
“IT’S ALL RUSH’S/BUSH’S FAULT!”