Scott Johnson at Powerline argues that liberal opinion journal The New Republic really needs a grown-up in charge to clean up the magazine's act:
Although the -- I believe the correct word is "venerable" -- Martin Peretz is nominally the editor-in-chief of the New Republic, the lack of adult supervision at the magazine has become painfully apparent in the course of the magazine's continuing Beauchamp disgrace. When are "the editors" going to render their verdict on their Baghdad Fabulist, anyway?
The lack of adult supervision at the magazine is apparent beyond the Beauchamp disgrace. Here the juvenile TNR staffer Joshua Patashnik does little more than direct sarcasm at the New York Times's relatively favorable review (by Carl Cannon) of Stephen Hayes's book on Vice President Cheney. Unlike Patashnik, Cannon actually shows evidence of having read Hayes's book. At the end of the post, Patashnik disparages Hayes by linking to Jason Zengerle's column (subscribers only) on Hayes's reporting about the relationship of the former Iraqi regime with al Qaeda.
NewsBusters has covered the aforementioned Beauchamp scandal here.















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The New Republic really
September 5, 2007 - 18:07 ET by bigtimerThe New Republic really needs a grown-up in charge to clean up the magazine's act:
I for one am not gonna' hold my breath...
Molotov Mob
September 5, 2007 - 18:37 ET by Lame CherryIn a short conversation, I had last year with a national journalist who had his identity stolen by another "reporter" to interview people or better to con them into making statements on things this "reporter" was making up, I coined the phrase Molotov Mob which better explains than Limbaugh's Drive by Media.
There are certain people now as the above reveals somehow in mass have gained place at news outlets. They care nothing for facts nor even a story........they simply make things up for attention.
That is the key in this that this mob runs around throwing fire cocktails at subjects, attempting to start an inferno, flee the scene as a shattered life is investigated and are starting a new story fire for more headline attention.
I will point to a featured Keith Olberman here yesterday as a prime example of the Molotov Mob. He makes things up, jumps to conclusions and then had the fire cocktail aimed at President Bush telling him to resign. None of which will happen, but it appeals to the anarchists of the American culture like Jeff Rense, Steve Quayle and Alex Jones who constantly feature this nonsense influencing minds too inept to discern what is Truth.
Look at the number of stories the Times have had to recant. Newsweek and the flushing Koran, Capitol Hill Blues with 20 plus indictments on the Bush White House........the list goes on, but one can no longer in the liberal media tell the difference from the nut case yellow journalism and the people who live in Manhattan.
It is worth repeating that ABC's Bob Woodruff's wife, Lee, wrote on Huffington Post that her cure for sexual perverts was to hand out Penthouse and Playboy.
Newsbusters features this Molotov Mob daily and it is getting worse like George Orwell's 1984 when the animals looking into the house could not tell the pigs dressed up in suits from the humans exploiting the animals dressed up in suits. You have people like Robert Shearer thinking it is satire slamming Rove and Bush as having oral sex to the continual not too bright Hollywood types blogging in Baldwin and Webber sounding like they are all stoned.
Joe Klein even raised his lying head this past week speaking for Jesus in being clueless on Jesus came to fulfill the entire Law, the Torah, which is news to Klein as he was thinking Dr. J never spoke about sodomy.
The entire mob lies. They bang away on keyboards for headlines that will hit Drudge and propell them to stardom or stardumb on their resume. CNN screams in the Green Zone that Iraq is not working..........and yet safely CNN sits in Iraq not loosing one propagandist.
The entire Molotov Mob from Katie Couric to Chris Matthews to Keith Olberman to David Gregory have all become MEDIA TERRORISTS. None of them care a thing about Truth, but only their seating at the next dinner party and their name featured in stories "broken".
By God's grace I have broken more stories bigger than Watergate in the past year than all the media combined in 50 years. Not bragging in any of that, but while people are looking at media terrorist Beauchamp there is the People's Liberation Army pouring money out of China once again into the Hillary Clinton campaign. The real stories are not being pounded, because the mob adores the liberal cause which brings even more anarchy for them to feed.
The best solution is to marginalize the New Republic for the nothing it is and simply drive the news stories until Drudge picks them up, Limbaugh is forced to feature them and then the MSM will drag along yawning about imprisoning one of their own.
Until the dinosaur media is complete in becoming the fossil media the Molotov Beauchamp mob will continue to have a haven to lie in as this is what the MSM wants to believe in is lies.
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Let Me Guess...
September 5, 2007 - 18:47 ET by Del DolemonteWas the reporter's identity-stealer the infamous left wing nutbar Jason Leopold?
LMAO... Good one
September 5, 2007 - 18:53 ET by bigtimerLMAO...
Good one Del...good one!