Legal Commentary

Logrolling In Our Time: Part 2

By Big Tent Democrat

aimai wrote:

Time was a journalist wanted to be read, and remembered for what he'd written. A “public intellectual?” Even more so. But to want that is to be determined to stand behind what you've written or what you've said. . . . But Klein doesn't want to do that—he's said too many stupid things at this point. Too many venial, corrupt, weak, vile, bought and paid for political puff balls. He said things he knew his interlocutor wanted him to say. He's said things he knew one party wanted him to say although he knew that they were untrue, or dangerous, or foolish, or just partial. He's not a public intellectual—he's a [effing] wind sock. And he knows it.

Markos wrote:

Kennedy historians think it's bulls[p]it that he'd compromise the public option, as some have idiotically suggested.

(Emphasis supplied.) Funny how no one ever mentions that "some" include Ezra Klein, Matt Yglesias and others like them.

aimai expresses a wonderful sentiment, but "progressive" blogs never focus their "accountability" on their own. This is logrolling in our time.

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on September 01, 2009 (boomark / email).