First, You'd Have To Find An Honest Journalist...

(Still ragging on ya, Matt.)

Said the whore about the madam:

One question has tugged at my professional conscience throughout the year-long congressional debate over health-care reform, and it has nothing to do with the public option, portability or medical malpractice. It is this: Why haven't America's old-school news organizations blown the whistle on Roger Ailes, chief of Fox News, for using the network to conduct a propaganda campaign against the Obama administration -- a campaign without precedent in our modern political history?

Wow. Professional conscience? There are two words I never thought I'd see Howell Raines string together.

By the way, remember Howell Raines? The Democratic establishment's chief propagandist par excellence until tripped up by his own professional incompetence? The man who gave the New York Times - and us - Jayson Blair? And he's worried about lack of professionalism and objectivity at Fox News?

You've got to be kidding me.

Anyway, Raines' point is this: Obama's presidency, and his legislative initiatives, aren't failing because of incompetence or unpopularity, they are failing because Fox News is propagandizing against them. Which is strange, because less than a week ago progressive super-genius Matthew Yglesias was telling us (and me in particular), that nobody actually watches cable news.

So, evidently, what we have here is the Obama Administration being brought to its knees by a propaganda campaign without precedent in our modern political history that absolutely nobody is watching.

Amazing.

Comments

[Randy Rager]

Well there you go again, insisting Leftwingnuts be all logical and stuff. Haven't you learned by now that they simply can't?

[David]

Guilt-ridden, affirmative-action enabling, socially crusading, southern white male ex-editors-in-chief of the Times certainly have refreshing and thoughtful views on the important issues of the day! I haven't forgotten Howell Raines either, and am glad you took the opportunity to remind your readers what a worthless knob he is.

A just society would have something akin to ostracism to rid ourselves of pricks like Howell Raines. That, or death by slow disembowelment. But I'm old-fashioned.

[Hot Pants]

hahaha! I love it! "Brought to its knees by propaganda no one is watching! God, you can be funny (and accurate) And just when I had almost decided that you were just plain mean. Now I have to keep reading you.

[JeffS]

Sounds like the lefties don't have their talking points coordinated very well. They used to do better than this.

[richard mcenroe]

I have to agree with Matthew on this one Dennis. Surely an impassioned unbiased journalist like Charles Gibson, who only 'forgot' to mention his paid position on the board of the nonprofit that laundered $800K of illegal campaign money from Obama to ACORN before he accepted the Palin interview, is just the man to call Aisles to account...

[Allen]

Raines doesn't give a damn about standards, that's self-evident. What really bothers him is that people are calling what he's trying to sell, bullshit.

His feelings are hurt.

[Mike Myers]

A campaign without precedent in our modern history?

Howell has Alzheimers. That can be the only reason why he forgot the New York Times campaign against the Bush Administration--while he was in charge.

What a bullshit artist.

[debi912]

I wonder if obamacare covers cranial-anal inversion therapy, if so the msm will bankrupt the system in the first month. Happy Friday!

[Eric Blair]

It used to be that people could be contradictory like Mr. Raines and very few would catch it, because people like Mr. Raines were both gate-keepers and disseminators of information--it was just much more difficult to recognize the cognitive dissonance going on, when everything was just print or on pre-cable TV.

People like Dennis might have noticed it then, (because, like, accountants are all about the details), but outside of their immediate circle, nobody would ever have heard about it.

Now we get an ongoing analysis that's every bit as good as the old talking heads ever were, and I tend to think that there's a cumulative effect occuring. Not to mention we get to comment too!!

People like Matty would never have broken into the business in the first place.

[Eric Blair]

So, evidently, what we have here is the Obama Administration being brought to its knees by a propaganda campaign without precedent in our modern political history that absolutely nobody is watching.

And this needs to read said aloud ala' Strother Martin.

[just passin by]

A shining example of NYT "professional conscience" was the daily sermon that the Bush admin had lied about Iraq's possession of WMD...except the one day that the Bush admin was incompetent for letting WMD materials be smuggled out of Iraq.

[Wishing Obama Was Gone]

"...less than a week ago progressive super-genius Matthew Yglesias was telling us (and me in particular), that nobody actually watches cable news."

What he meant was nobody watches what HE considers to be cable news, namely CNN. People do watch Fox but Matthew Y's lord and master Obama has already said that's not a real news channel.

Howell Raines, wasn't he the pompous windbag on Gilligan's Island?

[Dennis the Peasant]

That was Thurston Howell III. He was the one that found Howell Raines to be a pompous windbag.

[Dennis the Peasant]

Hot Pants-

I am just plain mean.

I can provide references if you like.

[diogenes1960]

hey ...do you know about fcablog...the counterbalance to ritchie for uk accountants

[Dennis the Peasant]

D1960-

I'll check it out.