Glen Greenwald opens a can of WHOOP-ASS on the WaPo blog hitpiece!

[BlooInBloo]

What a gem he is. Check out the whole thing if you haven't already!


"It is just astonishing to have to read an endless article from the Post about the supposed rage and anger on the "Left" -- all based on the sought-out, most extreme sentiments of people with little or no real influence -- while the eliminationist and traitor rhetoric that has been a central rhetorical tool of the Right's primary power centers for decades is mentioned only in passing, only by way of explaining how the Right used to engage in this sort of rage-driven politics until the Left took over. But anyone who listens on any given day to Rush Limbaugh or Bill O'Reilly, or who reads the hate-mongering and treason-accusing screeds of Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin and Powerline, know how fundamentally false that picture is."

http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2006/04/mistaking-caricature-and.html

[rodeodance]

1. I stand with her--PROUD to be ANGRY-spitting angry at that!

[BlooInBloo]

2. I had that kind of feeling in response to reading Greenwald too...

... sorta Gloria Steinem style - I don't need to be ashamed of being angry - it's not a criticism - it's my goddammed right, my obligation even, to be angry at all the jackass bullshit that's been done over the last 15 years.

Which is not to say that Greenwald's approach isn't also good. :)

[lostexpectation]

3. The only purpose was to boost that REAL journalists ego.

shes been had

[kentuck]

4. I agree with Glen...

<snip>
The crude tactics employed by this article are easily dismissed, but the objective of this article -- to destroy the credibility of the blogosphere and what we do here, mostly because it is so threatening to the establishment media's dying monopoly over the flow of information, news, opinion and analysis -- should be taken very seriously. This is not some isolated hit piece. The Washington Post alone has published several articles in the last couple months which suggest, imply or outright state that the blogosphere generally, and the liberal blogosphere in particular, is irresponsible and filled with raged-driven radicals who are as extreme as they are irrelevant. Thus, one can and should ignore what it produces, because it is nothing more elevated than bitter, reckless, and hate-filled rants.

[Rose Siding]

5. Jane Hamsher's a little less direct in her reaction

I can't be *certain* the blogger article is entirely responsible -Howell has let go with another "Howeller"- but Jane unloads both barrels at both she and Hiatt this afternoon.

And that's really what the whole battle is about; The Post is pushing back at some very effective critics. They just took a weasely way around it by picking on a less widely read, and understandably angry woman (who was too trusting of the reporter, imo)

http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/04/15/deborah-howell-and-fred-hiatt-fact-free-and-loving-it/

a snip>

I go back and forth on the Deborah Howell conundrum — ignorant or craven? I always find myself touching down on the Upton Sinclair quote:

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

And so we find ourselves with Lil’ Debbie, failing to disappoint with this week’s excuses about last week’s Fred Hiatt column:

The Post editorially has supported the war, and the purpose of the editorial — headlined "A Good Leak" — was to support that leak as necessary to show that the president had reason to believe that Iraq was seeking uranium.

Yes, we know you have a lot invested in your warmongering. It has no doubt paid the giant cocktail weenie bill for years. But the fact is that there was no reason for the president to believe Iraq was seeking uranium at the time. Do we have to go through this again? I guess so. Joe Wilson’s oped appeared on July 6, 2003. Five days later, on July 11 2003, George Tenet had to admit Wilson was right and there was no credible reason to believe as of January, 2003 when the President gave the State of the Union address that the 16 words had any validity; indeed, that’s why Tenet said they never should have been included in the first place.
......MORE.....

[BlooInBloo]

6. Just read that!

LOL - that Sinclair quote should be the new campaign finance reform motto.

They'll never understand as long as their salaries depend on them not understanding.

:rofl:

[Rose Siding]

7. Don't you figure she's giving the knife an extra twist or two

after the front page piece today? I think she'd enjoy that! ;)

[BlooInBloo]

8. Totally! lolol

[kentuck]

9. K & R !

Worth keeping near the top, imo...

[BlooInBloo]

10. Isn't it just AMAZING the depth of disrespect SO MANY have...

... for the truth?

[xxqqqzme]

11. I guess wapo is pissed

their little divinely chosen red stater blogger was just dishonest & corrupt as all the others we are so 'angry about!