Josh Marshall on the ABC debate:
[M]embers of the prestige press appear to see … a positive journalistic obligation to engage in their own organized campaign of falsehood, distortion and smear on the reasoning that it anticipates the eventual one to be mounted by Republicans. In other words, we’ve gotten past the debatable rationale that journalists have no choice but to cover smears and distortions once they’re floated into the mainstream debate to thinking that journalists need to seek out and air smears and distortions on the grounds of electability, as though the mid-summer GOP Swiftboating was another de facto part of the election process like primaries, conventions and debates.
They’re just modeling themselves on FOX News. I don’t think you’ll see them treating John McCain this way.
Spink Nogales | 20-Apr-08 at 12:21 am | Permalink
Not every voter is as well informed and jaded as you, Mr. Quixote, but somehow their imperfect vote counts the same as yours.
In your perfect world, Keith Olbermann would be knighted by Michelle Obama, and your 23 year old wife would look like a playboy centerfold and have the intellect of Maya Angelou and she never gets old. And of course she loves only you. Like a character from a 1950’s TV sitcom.
wake up. Wake Up. WAKE UP!