Raise a glass to Tom Shales!

[bossfish]

Of the Washington Post...

Puts a big bitchslap on the media at the DNC...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17005-2004Jul27.html

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People in the crowded hall held up lights or candles or matches. This all made a mockery of Fox anchor Neal Cavuto's imbecilic statement earlier in the day, as he sat in the foreground of the hall, that "there's a lot of hatred in this room behind me." He said the convention would be "predictably partisan." Gosh! Does that mean the Democrats wouldn't give equal time to Republicans? Heaven help us if the November elections are partisan, too.

"Some of the prime-time lineup appears to be very partisan," CNN pretty-boy Bill Hemmer told commentator Jeff Greenfield on the network's morning show. Insights like these are so dazzling you really have to step back from the set to avoid having your eyebrows singed.

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[MO_Dem]

1. I'll drink

to that! Here's to ya, Tom! (and bossfish, too! thanks!)

[Feanorcurufinwe]

2. I join you in appluading a good article

I like this:

Everybody likened it to an "infomercial," a comparison that people have been making for years now and is meaningless. Yes, the role of the political convention has changed, and television changed it years and years ago, and no, it's not likely major decisions will be made on live TV in front of the American people. But we've got enough "reality TV" now. How about letting the parties put on their shows and sitting back to see which one does the better job? Like there's some insidious harm or danger in that or something.

[kskiska]

3. Reminds me of when Hannity said

"The Democrats are politicizing the election." Duh.