Friday, July 30, 2010

Shame is only for when your price hasn't been met

Fred Barnes, FoxNews pitch man and author of the seminal (literally) work on George W. Bush, is outraged, OUTRAGED, about the whole Journolist thing, the greatest scandal ever.

As a conservative, I normally write more favorably about Republicans than Democrats and I routinely treat conservative ideas as superior to liberal ones. But I've never been part of a discussion with conservative writers about how we could most help the Republican or the conservative team."


But enough about ignoring the entire premise of "The Beltway Boys", Joe Conason finds a fertile field of Barnes' laughable hypocrisy. It appears that like the swallows returning to Capistrano, the Buzzards returning to Hinckley, and Peggy Noonan returning to rut around on Reagan's grave au naturale, Fred Barnes annually pockets thousands from Republicans to make some asinine, partisan speech. In the name of journalism, of course, or prostitution.

[cross-posted at Firedoglake]

4 comments:

StonyPillow said...

An organ does not exist to discuss. An organ does what it's told to do.

Fred and all of the Beck Network is comfortable with that truth.

Olives and Arrows said...

...hmmm

wonder if the JournoList scandal will be even more damaging to leftist causes than the climategate scandal is?

Tough call.... in the longer run both scandals will take a place in a history that moves toward the inevitable. Freedom for humanity is always advancing and the far left is always losing ground, these scandals do probably have an effect on speeding the demise of leftist oppression.

Montag said...

Hmm. If the above is any indication, we're plumbing new depths of superciliousness.

pansypoo said...

too stupid to see the vast forest.