Showing posts with label mark halperin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mark halperin. Show all posts
Monday, April 30, 2007
Mark Halperin, who as of late has been noted for pimping his book to Hugh Hewitt and other right wing talk show hosts, admitting that he takes his lead from Matt Drudge, as well as making a conscious effort to tilt more right to appease conservatives has been hired as an editor at large and senior political analyst at Time Magazine.
The more the merrier I say. His track record has not been exactly stellar the last few years, but apparently as long as you stick to the conventional wisdom, there always is a job for you.
What upsets me after this hire, and after the Bill Kristol hire is that prominent liberals are not being offered the same opportunity. There are high profile, articulate progressives who are not being given these positions. Why is that? How about an Air America host like Thom Hartmann? He is an author, is not a radical bomb thrower, and has depth of knowledge in several areas? What about having Juan Cole write opinion pieces on the middle east? One may disagree with his analysis, but there is no disputing that it is informed? Glenn Greenwald is a great writer.
Bill Kristol and Mark Halperin have been terribly wrong about a lot of things these past six years. Jonah Goldberg gets a job at the LA Times. When will our "liberal media" deign to actually hire liberals?
Yes, this is a rhetorical question.
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
On the drive home about 25 minutes ago, I was listening to the top of the hour ABC news and their coverage of the Libby verdict. First they had on analyst Royal Oakes, who is the ABC legal analyst. He stated, and I am paraphrasing, that this verdict means that you have to be really careful how you remember conversations now when you talk to the FBI, because now you can be prosecuted if you forget what exactly happened.
WTF? This wasn't a slipped memory here. This was bald faced lying. Either Scooter Libby had discussed Valerie Plame with almost 10 people prior to talking to Tim Russert, or he didn't. Bad memory my ass. This spin by Oakes basically stated that Scooter Libby's defense was accurate. It was just different people with different recollections.
Next, came Mark Halperin. He of course has been infamous lately with his declarative statements that he was going to tilt as far as possible to be fair to Republicans. He did not dissapoint. He mentioned three names who were crowing about the verdict and were likely to make political hay out of this. Come on, you probably can pick all three without thinking. That's right, he discussed Howard Dean, Nancy Pelosi, and Teddy Kennedy all being smug and liberal over it. I am surprised he didn't mention Michael Moore for good measure. Halperin did not discuss the fact that the VP's chief of staff lied to the FBI and a grand jury, just those coastal liberal elites who were picking on the poor fellow.
Liberal media?
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