News in Brief: Wonkette vs. Miers & the NY Times Select
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Am now a Miers devotee. Just visit her blog and peruse the proof of her erudition to assure yourself that she should join the ranks of SCOTUS. Favorite commentary, actually, is that of Wonkette, who said "Whatever you think now, the black robe will be an improvement"
Is a woman who's lived a life outside of libraries and litigation more or less dangerous that a man who's never really lived the law but only studied, read, and handed it down? Then again, idolatry of President Bush can scarcely be topped for danger. Not even his most fervent supporters venture to call GWB the most brilliant man they've ever met.
New York Times joins Scalia and Santorum in a quest to hinder Progressives. This Times Select business is obscene. It's preventing liberal voices from reaching the populace--okay, mind you, the NYT-reading populace--right as conservatives' spending on media coverage has peaked, the culmination of 40 years of exorbitant spending on getting the message out and keeping the bright young ones in, writing those messages. The Republicans have just built a megalithic con-palace with full apartments for over 100 interns. They get swank, cash, and housing. The last thing we need is the silencing of M. Dowd in the name of N. Times profits.
Is a woman who's lived a life outside of libraries and litigation more or less dangerous that a man who's never really lived the law but only studied, read, and handed it down? Then again, idolatry of President Bush can scarcely be topped for danger. Not even his most fervent supporters venture to call GWB the most brilliant man they've ever met.
New York Times joins Scalia and Santorum in a quest to hinder Progressives. This Times Select business is obscene. It's preventing liberal voices from reaching the populace--okay, mind you, the NYT-reading populace--right as conservatives' spending on media coverage has peaked, the culmination of 40 years of exorbitant spending on getting the message out and keeping the bright young ones in, writing those messages. The Republicans have just built a megalithic con-palace with full apartments for over 100 interns. They get swank, cash, and housing. The last thing we need is the silencing of M. Dowd in the name of N. Times profits.
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Call her what she is.
Shrill.
The NYT op-ed page is pretty clearly split between liberals and conservatives. It isn't, nor should it be, a House Organ of the left.
Whether conservative voices are also subject to the NY Times Select policy is irrelevant as is the political composition of the editorial staff in regard to my post. The point is, the liberal voices now behind the iron bars of the Times Select policy are vital. Dowd regularly topped the "Most Emailed" list before the Select policy (and occasionally still does).
The balance you pointed out, one I do not contest, is another strong reason to discard the Select policy. Keeping one popular balanced news source accessible might prevent people from seeking out one-sided media coverage, which is increasingly easy to depend upon--a phenomenon George Stephanopoulos recently blamed for increasingly polarized partisan politics. (Enough Ps?).
Of course, you might just read your columnists of choice, thus defeating this argument. Even if that were the case, even disregarding the above argument and even aside from any personal feelings about Columnist A or B, these columnists have well-established followings and possess the public cache to influence and unite Progressives.
Furthermore, in defense of Dowd, I like her, find her brilliant, funny, and, yes, cutting. She is a Progressive voice. And, by virtue of her Pulitzer Prize and publication in the New York Times, I would endeavor to call her an important one.
This was the most ridiculous thing you've posted since your (now pulled) diary criticizing Harriet Miers for what she wrote on "her" blog earlier today.
What you are doing now is bitching about a frame, insulting my ideological dedication, and overall acting like a whiny parody of a campus activist.
If you want to do a side-by-side of what the two of us have done to promote equality in America, you're going to be ashamed by the time we're done. My sister and her girlfriend have had me working on this stuff for some time. The progressive campaigns I've worked all backed equal marriage rights for everyone, as well as equal adoption rights and equal rights of service. And that's not even getting into the contributions I can't afford to HRC every time they ask.
Now, if you want to play "holier-than-thou" on gay rights (give it a rest: go type "gay rights" into Google and see if the top 3 responses are for progressive groups or conservative ones) that's fine, but pick your targets better, and pick your words better.