Through a mirror
March 25th 2010 01:57
Peter Boehlert of Media Matters for America has been watching and reading opponents of the Obamacare bill react to Sunday’s vote, and he is not pleased. He finds them to be “loopy,” “hysterical,” “unhinged.” He places them “beyond sore loserdom,” and scoffs that “apparently when conservatives lose consecutive nationwide election cycles, thereby allowing Democrats to set the legislative agenda, conservatives' objections render passing bills a criminal act.” He sheds rhetorical tears for the conservatives’ supposedly misguided followers, led as they are by “cultish” TV hosts.
He’s a pretty good writer, I’ll give him that. So, where was he in late 2007 when The Nation publicly wondered if there was even going to be an election in the next year or whether Dick Cheney would declare himself president for life? Where was he in 2005 when several left-leaning Hollywood actors publicly threatened to move to Canada? Where was he since about 2002 as various editorialists described George W. Bush’s religion as “Dark Ages theology” or even “dangerous lunacy?”
Media Matters for America’s one-sentence introduction describes the organization as “A non-profit progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.” I suppose they deliver what they promise in some very literal sense, as their dedication to fighting right-wing spin comes at the cost of completely ignoring left-wing spin. The unfortunate implication is that one side of politics has a monopoly on harmful rhetoric – or that one side’s extreme behavior is harmful but the other side’s is beneficial. Do you know what it’s called when one political party is always right and the others are always wrong? Stalin did.
He’s a pretty good writer, I’ll give him that. So, where was he in late 2007 when The Nation publicly wondered if there was even going to be an election in the next year or whether Dick Cheney would declare himself president for life? Where was he in 2005 when several left-leaning Hollywood actors publicly threatened to move to Canada? Where was he since about 2002 as various editorialists described George W. Bush’s religion as “Dark Ages theology” or even “dangerous lunacy?”
Media Matters for America’s one-sentence introduction describes the organization as “A non-profit progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.” I suppose they deliver what they promise in some very literal sense, as their dedication to fighting right-wing spin comes at the cost of completely ignoring left-wing spin. The unfortunate implication is that one side of politics has a monopoly on harmful rhetoric – or that one side’s extreme behavior is harmful but the other side’s is beneficial. Do you know what it’s called when one political party is always right and the others are always wrong? Stalin did.
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