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| Yglesias equates criticizing Iraq media’s coverage to Nazi ploy |
| 2004-06-09 |
| EFL from TCS ...Unfortunately, even having that debate appears to be too controversial for some. In his article, blogger and American Prospect writer Matthew Yglesias makes a startling charge about those who criticize the media’s coverage of Iraq: ". . . the political purpose of the theory [that everything in Iraq is fine except the media coverage] isn’t hard to grasp. The groundwork is being laid for a new version of the "stab in the back" myth that helped destroy Weimar Germany. No matter how far south things go in Iraq, the blame will be laid not at the feet of the president who initiated and conducted the war, but rather on those who had the temerity to note that it wasn’t working. Rather than the critics having been proven right, or so the story goes, the critics are to blame for the failure of the very policy they were criticizing. It’s an ugly tactic, and as you go down the journalistic food chain, it grows uglier still." The charge is astonishing. If Yglesias isn’t actually accusing those who are critiquing the media of being Nazis, he is accusing them of stealing a page out of the Nazi playbook. -snip |
| Posted by:Super Hose |
| #4 No matter how far south things go in Iraq, the blame will be laid not at the feet of the president who initiated and conducted the war... You have GOT to be shitting me. Apparently this asswipe has yet to read a newspaper during the last year and a half nor has he read his own fucking columns! How do these idiots remember to breathe? |
| Posted by: Chris W. 2004-06-09 11:46:53 AM |
| #3 (uh...do I need sarcasm tags here?) Um, don't think so :-) |
| Posted by: Steve White 2004-06-09 11:02:15 AM |
| #2 Victory cannot be created from defeat no matter how hard this current U.S. regime persists.. Why not? The Arabs do this, so why not us? ;) |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-06-09 10:46:58 AM |
| #1 Yes, Mr. SH...and just who do you think you are? Criticizing journalists who are obviously your betters? You need to know your place, sir. You and the rest of these so-called Rantburgers need to cease and desist with hollow complaints about the media being the problem! Obviously Iraq is a failing proposition. Victory cannot be created from defeat no matter how hard this current U.S. regime persists in flailing at journalists telling their stories of Iraq. Journalists can see this. Journalists have our best interests in mind. Journalists speak from the heart. They know more than we do. Give them their due. (uh...do I need sarcasm tags here?) |
| Posted by: Quana 2004-06-09 9:52:04 AM |