Rising Hegemon
Left-wingers who spew hate and violence in this country are found in the anonymous comment sections of blogs and message boards.
Right-wingers who spew hatred and violence, get elected or get underwritten.
This is apparently too much for Matt Bai to comprehend.
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In fairness, almost anything is too much for Bai to comprehend.
to pretend, or hope that folks like Bai are either too stupid / naive is giving them a HUGE pass... this is what he's paid to do... he's a propaganda peddler. He knows what he's peddling is crap, and he does it anyway.
He possibly understands that if he undertakes responsible, factual reporting then he will no longer be a featured writer at the Times. David Gregory, on the other hand, really believes all his own shit. We spend a lot of time trashing Bai and Judy Miller, et al (as we should) but the Times has featured their lies for years. Keller can't be oblivious. He saw what the right did to his predecessor.
their hate is televised.
Too much for Andrea Mitchell to contemplate too, she repeated the "she's dead to me" comment thing. A phrase I heard from my Jewish uncle and knew didn't literally mean DEATH but instead meant "I disown him" but whatever. In the minds of our media betters it is TOTALLY THE SAME as painting cross hairs on Congressional districts beneath the header "don't retreat: RELOAD!"
I just fucking give up.
Matt Taibbi confirms Sukabi's analysis:
Bai is one of those guys -- there are hundreds of them in this business -- who poses as a wonky, Democrat-leaning "centrist" pundit and then makes a career out of drubbing "unrealistic" liberals and progressives with cartoonish Jane Fonda and Hugo Chavez caricatures. This career path is so well-worn in our business, it's like a Great Silk Road of pseudoleft punditry. First step: graduate Harvard or Columbia, buy some clothes at Urban Outfitters, shore up your socially liberal cred by marching in a gay rights rally or something, then get a job at some place like the American Prospect. Then once you're in, spend a few years writing wonky editorials gently chiding Jane Fonda liberals for failing to grasp the obvious wisdom of the WTC or whatever Bob Rubin/Pete Peterson Foundation deficit-reduction horseshit the Democratic Party chiefs happen to be pimping at the time. Once you've got that down, you just sit tight and wait for the New York Times or the Washington Post to call. It won't be long.
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