Michelle Malkin is upset because Josh Marshall has a column on Time.com. Malkin claims that Ana Marie Cox (who derided Kerry for the better part of a year as an element of her Wonkette shtick) and Andrew Sullivan (who for a few years called anyone who would question the wisdom of Bush a “fifth columnist”) are not conservative enough for her and her attendant loons.
But then you look at Time, the actual print magazine.
* Joe Klein, who hates liberals
* Charles Krauthammer, who said Al Gore needed to be medicated
* Andrew Sullivan, who declared “The middle part of the country - the great red zone that voted for Bush - is clearly ready for war. The decadent Left in its enclaves on the coasts is not dead - and may well mount what amounts to a fifth column.”
All of a sudden, an honest liberal like Josh Marshall is clearly the exception to the norm. But this doesn’t matter to Malkin and company. The fact that Times columnists don’t regularly call for the internment of illegals and for the killing of judges whose rulings aren’t to their likings is reason enough to raise the “liberal media” canard once again.
It’s what the cons do, it’s their whole scheme.
I guess since Malkin has been taking Rove & Bush to task for 5 years now, that makes her (using Oliver’s logic) a full-fledged liberal!
She’s been “taking them to task” for not being insane enough. And when push comes to shove, its clear what team Malkin & Co. play for.
It’s also clear where Anna Marie Cox, Andrew Sullivan, and Joe Klien stand. Didn’t stop you from describing as something they’re not.
Someone should stuff Malkin down Ann Coulter’s throat, so they can choke on each other.
Worthless human beings. Both of them.
Cox stands wherever the spotlight is, willing to trash anyone for a laugh.
Klein finds the left odious and Bush awesome.
Sullivan thinks we’re third columnists.
Yes, where they stand is clear.
Is he one of the “truth bloggers” that you say don’t exist?
Well actiually Malkin seems to be complaining about a lefty tilt at Time (bloggers). I agree. If the now unconservative Andy Sullivan is your righty, you’re left (think of us using Zell Miller as our liberal - buying that piece of pudding?).
Time is of course perfectly free to hire whomever it wants and then claim its balanced - and we are free to dispute that.
Dugger, A Conservative for whom Andrew Sullivan does not speak
Who said anything about the “liberal media?” Allah is 100% correct. You guys threw a hissy fit of epic proportions when Ben Domenech was hired by the Washington Post. Now, a big time liberal gets hired by Time (something you claim doesn’t happen) and somebody wants to know, like you guys did, when Time is going to hire a conservative blogger to balance it out.
And please. Enough with the Andrew Sullivan 5th column nonsense. He’s been on an anti-Bush jihad for almost 2 years now and endorsed John Kerry in 2004.
Time already has more than enough conservatives on board, as I showed above. It’s Marshall versus at least two movement cons, plus a “liberal” like Klein who… hates liberals. And don’t you feel its a bit pathetic that the con blogger the Post hired was a serial plagiarist and apparent racist?
Why don’t we just demand that these publications only hire columnists who tell the truth? Oh right, because then there’d be even less right wing pundits.
Oh please. Joe Klein and Andrew Sullivan are not conservatives. One doesn’t have to echo the viewpoints of Nancy Pelosi to be a liberal.
As for Domenech, the WaPo apparently had no idea about his plagiarism. You make it sound as if they knew and hired him anyway. They should have checked his work, but then if Stephen Glass could make up 27 stories he wrote for TNR either in part or entirely, it’s not difficult to see how the WaPo didn’t pick up on some pieces Domenech wrote in college.
And stop it with the racist nonsense. That’s a chickenshit move designed simply to shut down debate and it’s not true at all.
You know what? I’m sorry. That was out of line. I meant “even fewer right wing pundits.”
Jay C -
But does one have to echo the viewpoints of Bush to be a conservative?
As always, the greatest hindrance to understanding the question of media bias is in the relative perceptions of the right and left about what is right and left.
Thats why I say we’ll never agree about bias. In my book, Andy Sullivan used to be a very moderate conservative, now he’s a moderate liberal.
You take your half, and we’ll take our half; and lets not argue about content. Say what you want to say. Report what you want to report. Give the middle to Brian Lamb.
Dugger