Irony Alert
Headline at the top of TPM home page, right above a large picture of Lynn Chaney.
Why Does Media Keep Giving
Isn't that giving her a media platform?
My question, increasingly lately, is why does TPM spend so much time and effort calling our attention to the baying from the frothing fringe dwellers?
Why Does Media Keep Giving
Liz Cheney A Platform?
Isn't that giving her a media platform?
My question, increasingly lately, is why does TPM spend so much time and effort calling our attention to the baying from the frothing fringe dwellers?
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June 4, 2009 7:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
You are right, of course, but I wanted a way to rant about her, and Huffington Post is not worth even logging in to. Oh, what a circular argument!
If you ignore her and she continues to get innumerable interviews, then it is at if she is doing it with everyone's tacit agreement that she is an expert, worthy of all the attention
If you make cogent arguments about her lack of credibility and her absurd hubris in saying how she would have "preferred" Obama's speech to be, then you are giving her more publicity.
Damn! I just have this to say: If that bitch Liz Cheney has better ideas for a speech, let her call Cairo University and offer to give her own speech. I wonder how many people would show up for that one?
June 4, 2009 8:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
It just drives me crazy how much bandwidth is consumed by progressive blogs and news sites providing additional exposure to the commentaries of the frothing fringe dwellers. Or when progressive bloggers fulminate about what some nut has had to say and include links to the nut's site, thereby driving more traffic and revenue to the nut.
I remember when the billion dollar Clinton hate industry unleashed on Clinton's book, "It Takes a Village", sales of the book skyrocketed. The same holds true, I assume, when progressive bloggers call attention to the latest Coulter, O'Reilly, et al offering.
It just seems there are more important matters to which attend. Dogging Liz Cheney's tracks ain't Polk Award worthy.
June 4, 2009 9:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
From a journalistic perspective, one would suppose that her views on what her father did as V.P. are; A) an obviously biased funnel for family propaganda, and B) rantings of a non-witness to the facts. I know, journalism has nothing to do with TV news anymore.
June 4, 2009 10:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
And journalism has increasingly less to do with print "news" media as well.
June 4, 2009 11:23 PM | Reply | Permalink