Ethics

Balko on Ed Schultz

By Ed Brayton

Balko listens to Ed Schultz' radio show. His reaction:

Along the way, I listened to some left-wing talk radio, specifically Ed Schultz. And wow. The left's blathering idiots really are just a mirror image of the right's, aren't they? Cognitive dissonance, disingenuous bullshitting, demagoguery, and hateful invective all over the place. It was really something to behold.

Apparently without the slightest hint of irony, Schultz started by casting off the tea party protesters as "un-American" and "unpatriotic." Yep. Bush has been out of office for all of three months, and the left has already adopted the "people who disagree with us hate America" crap. He then characterized tea partiers exercising their right to free speech and protest as "trying to overturn the results of an election." Another page ripped from the right-wing playbook. Just substitute "anti-war protests" for "tea parties."

My sentiments exactly. The left should not be trying to emulate the worst elements of the right. We don't need our own Rush Limbaugh or Ann Coulter. We need people who think clearly and reasonably.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on April 19, 2009 (boomark / email).