John, not Juan

[capriccio]

Cole that is. He has a Rightwing blog (yes, Rightwing) called balloon juice, and I've just read a long, excellent post he's written on how the Right is using the Newsweek SNAFU to amp up charges of anti-military bias by the media. Not only does he conclude that this is a phony charge, but a dangerous one.

I highly recommend the piece on its merits alone to everyone, but especially for those of us with a monolithic view of both the Right and the MSM.

Here's an excerpt from his recent defense of his piece just to give you a taste:

"So let's stop these generic attacks on the media...And while we are at it, can we conservatives please stop this laughable cult of victimology? We have the Presidency...We control the Senate...We control the House...We have dismissed or dismantled virtually every institutional check in order to limit opposition debate and increase institutional control, regardless how short-sighted that might be. We are ramming through just about every judge we wanted, and are about to reload the Supreme Court with Antonin Scalia at the helm.

"We control dozens of governors offices and an equal number of state legislatures. We have hundreds of think tanks, hundreds of talk show hosts, hundreds of conservative columnists, millions of bloggers. We have dozens of partisan magazines and pundits, legions of 527's and grass-roots organizations.... We have, ostensibly, our own damned cable news channel and so many right leaning editorial boards of newspapers I can't even begin to count them. Memes that start in obscure blogs find their way onto the front page of allegedly liberal newspapers in the matter of two days.

"We may be a lot of things, but persecuted victims we are not. To assert otherwise is to engage in a self-defeating flight of fancy that should be met with nothing short of outright ridicule."

http://www.balloon-juice.com/

[tech3149]

1. Jeez John

Thanks for tellin' the truth, I respect that!

[lady lib]

2. Balloon-juice is the only conservative blog

that I read. John Cole is more of an old school conservative and he's not afraid to tell the Republicans when he thinks they're behaving like idiots/hypocrites/etc.

BTW, I sure as hell don't always agree with him.

[Qanisqineq]

3. Cult of Victimology

I like that. It is the perfect description for how conservatives act when discussing the media. Although, there are days where I think us liberals are guilty of the same thing... only seeing the bad in everything and crying "woe is me!" :D

[peacetalksforall]

4. I thought he was supposed to play liberal on Fox. We? At least he is

more honest that the others. He uses the word we as in we conservatives?

Brit Hume is surrounded with degreed conservatives. Degreedas as in being one decgree more conservative that the other when
they are all lined up.

Unfortunately, I think Williams is not a self-declared religious nut -therefore, his words will fall on many deaf ears.