Random Points: Saturday, June 28, 2003

Saturday, June 28, 2003

Thanks to Calpundit for this. It has become apparent that the dominant press in this country are suffering from an "emperor's new clothes" problem: none of them are telling the truth about what's going on either domestically or in Iraq. Eric Alterman has a great exposition about what has happened to the media and what is needed here.

I want to quote this paragraph of Eric's here because I love it:

Just about the only thing liberals have going for them these days is that most Americans agree with them on the issues. This is partly due to the annexation of the Republican Party by its Taliban faction. It is also likely a product of the relative conservatism of today's liberals, present company included. Today, "liberal" is just another word for "not nuts." Don't go around invading countries that do not pose a threat and lie to the world to justify it; don't destroy the nation's fiscal health in order to give trillion-dollar gifts to the wealthy; don't gratuitously insult countries whose help we need to maintain world peace and security; don't shred the Constitution at every opportunity, etc., etc.

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