The moment is ripe for someone to call “bullshit.” ~Jane Hamsher

Well, Glenn certainly has called “bullshit” and heck, so did Jane. But who is this “someone” we’re waiting for?

Jane is also right when she says this:

We don’t have a “left wing attack machine,” we’ve got a few bloggers, a couple of radio personalities, a handful of authors and journalists and some candidates who have the spotlight at the moment.

Frankly, I don’t want a “left wing attack machine” that mirrors the thugishness of the right – let Malkin go after other peoples’ children and stalk their homes and businesses.

“Bullshit” has already been called, it’s just that no one has heard it.

I can’t help but think of Dr. Seuss’ book Horton Hears a Who! that was published right after the Army-McCarthy hearings:

Horton tells the Whos that they needed to make themselves heard to the other animals, lest they end up as part of "beezlenut stew", which they finally accomplish. The Whos finally make themselves heard by ensuring that all members of their society play their part. In the end it is the smallest Who of all, Jo-Jo, who provides the last volume lift to be heard, thus reinforcing the moral of "a person's a person no matter how small".

Just “who” are we waiting to hear from?

http://tinyurl.com/2d4sly

They hire, reward, and promote the worst, most dishonest purveyors of outright propaganda.

Let’s be very clear about where this “outright propaganda” led us and is leading us: War. Permanent war abroad and a “security state” at home where there are no limits on executive power or police power.

This is propaganda with a purpose. First, it enabled the Bush administration to go to war in Iraq and it’s setting the stage for war with Iran and Syria.

Yes, it is distorting the public discourse in a “Limbaugh-like direction” but what, exactly, does that mean?

A recent story from Orlando and the treatment of young women wearing “peace” T-shirts provides a pretty a clear indication of that direction.

After promoting “peace” the young girls could no longer walk down the halls of their school with obscenities being yelled at them. Their peace signs on their lockers were defaced with swastikas and “white power” slogans. It means taping a “I love Bush sign” over someone elses “wage peace” sign. That’s the direction.

That “direction” caused other students to confront the girls wearing “peace” shirts with their own shirts festooned with Confederate flags and sayings like, “This is America, get used to it,” and “If peace is the answer; it must be a stupid question.” The Confederate flags no longer symbolized racism, but, rather, “support for the troops.”

The girls were told they couldn’t “support the troops” and say “peace” at the same time. This is our public discourse in under a “Limbaugh-like direction.”

Perhaps that direction is best summed up in a sign put up over one girls “peace” sign. It is the embodiment of all the propaganda, all the “weak” vs. “strong” subliminal messages sent by Klein and our media that promotes and glorifies a “Limbaugh-like direction” :

“I love America, Because America Loves War”

http://www.local6.com/news/14650138/detail.html

Doesn't it go without saying: if Klein doesn't have the time or background to understand what he's writing about, then he ought not to write about it? Doesn't anyone at Time agree with that? ~GG

No.

Your post earlier today made that very clear.

What isn’t clear yet is whether your very detailed, methodical and concise exposition of Klein’s incompetence to opine on this subject (reaffirmed by a wide variety of experts with both the time and background to know what they’re talking about) will actually affect Time’s and Klein’s lackadaisical journalism.

“Shameful ‘Journalism’” is not a phrase that will go unnoticed in the dark bowels of Time Inc. where they might not care that much about journalism, but “brand” is still a marketing concept that means something to them.

And it is in this realm that Glenn has drawn blood. Although he used basic good reporting, common sense, and a legal scalpel with surgical precision, the wound he left – the embarrassment – was a blunt one indeed.

It will leave a scar.