Hacktacular!
Glenn Reynolds, breathlessly touting the latest in a series of pathetic no-there-there stories about JournoList at Tucker Carlson’s web rag, buys the claim that “journalists called for Fox News to be shut down” and then asserts:
Stalinist by instinct, aren’t they?
Obvious problem: the story quotes no journalist calling for the closing of Fox News. It did feature a law professor asking a question, which apparently generated not a single response indicating that shutting down Fox News would be a good idea. Heckuva job, Glennie! Really, Tucker needs to fold up shop; Reynolds has long elevated hackery to an art form.
This may be obvious, but doesn’t Reynolds’s writing style (“Indeed” etc.) give the impression that he doesn’t read half the things he links to?
Is that meant to be an excuse or an inditement?
Indictment
You know, with the way guys like Michael Steele are able to suck the guts out of the RNC to the tune of a cool $7 million, and the Tea Bagger Express gets in shit flinging contests with its sister organizations, I really do wonder how the Republicans would stand up to an administration that actually tried to shut them up.
I just feel like we’re getting swatted around by a paper tiger. They can’t keep their own house in order. If you mobilized progressives toward a legitimate aggressive action – like a petition to the FCC to shut down the network or fine them heavily and repeatedly, or getting some state law passed that would make broadcasting impossible – would that strengthen their spines, or would they just collapse in a weeping pile of fail?
Your feeling is wrong. Our president is simply above such plebeian concerns as partisan conflict. He transcends left and right, don’t you know.
Just a quick question on a related topic, why hasn’t there been any real attempts to reintroduce the Fairness Doctrine?
It is remarkable how many otherwise-intelligent people argue against the reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine. As Erma Bombeck said of the ERA, it’s one of the most misunderstood sets of words since “One Size Fits All”.
Careful. The wingnuts will take talk like this as evidence of a dangerous liberal/socialist/communist ACORN/New Black Panther Party plot to shut down talk radio. Just you watch.
B-b-but Reynolds is “one of the most interesting thinkers of my generation and today’s Internet age.” Randy Barnett said so!
“Tucker needs to fold up shop”
Stalinist!
If you’ve ever said anything like, “I don’t feel like watching Fox News today,” then you called for the shutting down of Fox News. Because if nobody felt like watching them, what would they have to do? Shut down, that’s what!
OTOH, if, like Ann Coulter, you had called for terrorists to blow up the New York Times building, that would just prove your commitment to a diversity of voices.