Legal Commentary

Document The Atrocities

By Big Tent Democrat

On Saturday nights, Atrios invariably gave a listing of the guests expected on the Sunday shows and he would title that post "Document The Atrocities." Have you noticed how the Left blogs no longer document those atrocities anymore?

Bob Somerby still does:

Russert assembled a jury of six angry scribes—and not one juror spoke for Clinton! He didn’t have Romano there—Romano, who had conducted the interview. He didn’t have Marie Cocco there—Cocco, who had written a biting piece about the misogyny for the Washington Post. Were Cocco or Romano invited? We don’t know. (We e-mailed Cocco; she hasn’t answered.) But surely, Russert could have located someone to assert the Clinton view. Instead, he had a jury of six—and they all trashed Clinton for everything.

No one seemed to have any idea what the two Clintons were talking about. Matthews, Shuster, Olbermann, Carlson? Such names slipped all jurors’ minds.

Left blogs used to be outraged about this sort of thng. Not anymore. I wonder why. Nah, I know why.

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on May 29, 2008 (boomark / email).