We All Blew It

Huffington Post by Carl Pope | Sep. 7, 2009 (Opinion)

This was a lynch mob and, when it started forming a month ago, we didn't take it seriously enough. When I saw the first Glenn Beck piece on Van Jones and the Apollo Alliance as the new vast left-wing conspiracy, I could not take it seriously. Silence enabled Fox to keep pushing. The statements for which Jones apologized -- the reference to the right as "assholes" and saying that Bush was talking "like a crack-head" were such ordinary political discourse -- ... Full Story »

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Subjects: U.S., Politics, Sci/Tech, Media
Topics: Environment, Media and Politics, Obama Administration, Ethics in Journalism
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Posted by: Posted by Kaizar Campwala - Sep 6, 2009 - 11:02 PM PDT
Reviewed by: Naomi Isler (review), Patricia Blochowiak (review)
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Edited by: Kaizar Campwala - Sep 7, 2009 - 7:21 AM PDT
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 by Naomi Isler - Sep. 8, 2009

It's good in that it pinpoints the role of Fox News and the radical Right in bringing down a White House Advisor - and faults the left for letting it happen without much protest. It is not really a rant, but a challenge.

I refer people to a Bill Moyers broadcast of several months ago in which he played pieces from various right wing commentators - and it was scary. These people are getting air time and other people, lots of them, are believing them. Look at the town hall forums on health care.

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