Jonathan Strong - The Daily Caller
If you were one of the 400 members of the listserv Journolist, perhaps one of the most vicious insults you could hurl at a colleague is: Youre just like Bill OReilly and Sean Hannity. If the reader holds neutral or even positive views about the Fox News hosts, the insult may not sting. But in the cloistered world of liberal listserv enclaves, Hannityism is a cardinal sin. After all, Fox is a dangerous, deranged cesspool that, possibly, the FCC should be investigating.
The feelings against MSNBC host Keith Olbermann, then, must run deep.
They smile in your face/all the time they wanna take your place/the back-stabbers...
The Nations Katha Pollitt began the groups rant. He and Michael Musto did this whole long riff about beauty contestant Carrie opposite marriage Prejeans breast implants, stupidity, breast implants, tacky clothes, earrings, breast implants. They went on and on about how she was part plastic and pathetic. Youd think they were celibate vegans who spent their lives zen meditating. It was just a whole TV humiliation of her, and it made me feel sorry for her, which wasnt easy, Pollitt said....
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