The NYT gives free range to the head blogginghead of the
Daily Kos, Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, so he can sell his new book:
NYT: The strongest part of your book argues that Democrats are in desperate need of savvier consultants, their own Karl Rove, to help them build a political majority. Why would you want them to be more like Republicans?
KOS: To get their message out, the Republicans created this entire conservative noise machine. They have Fox News and The Washington Times and the 700 Club and just about the entire talk-radio dial. They have this incredible ability to promote whatever the big issue of the day is. There is no partisan liberal media that is working in concert with the Democratic Party in order to sell whatever the party is selling.
So here's this rank lie, this classic bit of tired propaganda, the old "Fox News isn't the highest-rated cable news channel in the country, it's actually just a vanity station created in the basement of a Republican think-tank" again. So does Times writer Deborah Solomon correct him? Oh, she corrects him, all right--in the politically-correct way:
NYT: That's not true. The liberal media has you and Michael Moore. Think of the endless volume of verbiage you guys produce.
Do you think the NYT ever gets a little self-conscious about being such slapstick-y, Monty-Python-level bad joke excuse for journalists? Yeah, me neither.
