Choosing Sides
Maybe the right-wing scripts should have been recorded on something other than toilet paper. The internecine sniping seems to be increasing:
Andrew Sullivan catches a wingnut being stupid:
Sullivan's new attentiveness to the wacko right is kind of adorable. (It's kind of like watching a two year old discover what he makes in his nappy.)
The really funny thing is that comparing Savage and Coulter to Olbermann and Matthews is actually an improvement on their long standing liberal media critique. It wasn't long ago that Savage and Coulter were considered to be the answer to Dan Rather and Katie Couric. Baby steps.
(It's even funnier, by the way, to read the whining on the right about the left's fearsome message machine and well-funded infrastructure. Booga-booga.)
As for me, there's no way Matthews is on the Olbermann squad. Maybe they work out of the same gym, but Matthews in general is far more of a soul-mate from what I can tell for Savage and the Fox crew. There's no way his record justifies any possible consideration of him as a critic of the Iraq war, anything beyond the meekest questioner of the bush administration (no cajones for that in Chris), or anything resembling even a true centrist. He's unquestionably one of the poster-children of the corporate-owned, administration-supporting apparatchik. From what I have seen, he has always been at best a pathetic patsy and administration toady for many years.
We need to re-choose these teams. Coulter, Matthews, and Savage vs., say, Olbermann, Greenwald, and Krugman.
Now that's a reasonable match-up.
Andrew Sullivan catches a wingnut being stupid:
You begin to glimpse the mindset of the far right reading a say-anything apparatchik like Hewitt:
We have Ann Coulter and Michael Savage. They have Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews.
Leave aside the idiotic right-left, us-them crapola. Are we really supposed to believe that Chris Matthews is equatable with Michael Savage? That Olbermann, however partisan and shrill he can be, is the equivalent of the fag-baiting, Hitler-equating bigot, Coulter?
Sullivan's new attentiveness to the wacko right is kind of adorable. (It's kind of like watching a two year old discover what he makes in his nappy.)
The really funny thing is that comparing Savage and Coulter to Olbermann and Matthews is actually an improvement on their long standing liberal media critique. It wasn't long ago that Savage and Coulter were considered to be the answer to Dan Rather and Katie Couric. Baby steps.
(It's even funnier, by the way, to read the whining on the right about the left's fearsome message machine and well-funded infrastructure. Booga-booga.)
As for me, there's no way Matthews is on the Olbermann squad. Maybe they work out of the same gym, but Matthews in general is far more of a soul-mate from what I can tell for Savage and the Fox crew. There's no way his record justifies any possible consideration of him as a critic of the Iraq war, anything beyond the meekest questioner of the bush administration (no cajones for that in Chris), or anything resembling even a true centrist. He's unquestionably one of the poster-children of the corporate-owned, administration-supporting apparatchik. From what I have seen, he has always been at best a pathetic patsy and administration toady for many years.
We need to re-choose these teams. Coulter, Matthews, and Savage vs., say, Olbermann, Greenwald, and Krugman.
Now that's a reasonable match-up.
posted by Sir Gumbo at 10:42 PM
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