Posted by
Always To The Right on Saturday, September 06, 2008 7:46:15 PM
I mentioned this on Tuesday
but it’s worth repeating: As much as we’d all like to believe it’s dKos
holding the hoops through which these morons jump, I’m convinced it’s
Sullivan whom they’re taking their cues from. Yes, most of the media is
liberal, and yes, many of them read Kos and don’t read right-wing blogs
where they’d have access to debunkery; Ace has been writing about that
all week and it’s true as far as it goes. But I don’t buy that they’re
so cocooned that they’re unaware Kos has a credibility problem. It’s
Sullivan, with his TNR pedigree and his reputation — to this day — for
being “right-leaning” and therefore, ahem, impartial who lends credibility to the rumors by stamping them with the Atlantic’s imprimatur. Surely a serious pundit wouldn’t post smears about Trig Palin being Bristol Palin’s child. There simply must be something to it.
. . . How important is Sullivan in “mainstreaming” the most repulsive smears
for big media consumption? The media knows his name and his credentials
at TNR and The Atlantic and therefore assumes that if something
filthy’s being “aired” at the Daily Dish, there must be something to it. (Big mistake.) Howard Kurtz actually still thinks he’s “right-leaning”
even though he voted Democrat last time, will vote Democrat again now,
and spends an overwhelmingly disproportionate amount of his time
defending Obama and attacking the right.. . .