These are two guys with permanent seats at the Beltway Cool Kids table, but they can publish an entire chapter — and cite my friend Eric Alterman in doing so — on how conservatives “work the refs.”
This is in a book in which Tucker Carlson is “a good guy.” And Gary Bauer is “a good guy.”
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Crossfire is — or, rather, was — the problem. Remember that Begala was as gobsmacked as Carlson was when Jon Stewart declined to play his assigned role. Being the opposing meat puppet to Bob Novak, a truly evil presence in American journalism, isn’t engaging the issues. It’s being an accessory.
These people, and their Democrat hack colleagues, are irrelevant. I don’t care how much institutional knowledge they claim to have; the institution keeps losing elections. This is one place to throw the baby out with the bath water and start all over again.
(Crossposted at my blog Left in Lowell.)
