Here's something you don't see every day: a well-known liberal journalist slamming the owner of Daily Kos, Markos Moulitsas.
Yet, that's what happened on Wednesday's "Hannity & Colmes" when NPR's Juan Williams was invited on to discuss the recent hiring of Moulitsas by Newsweek.
In a rather stunning turn of events, Williams seemed absolutely disgusted by the announcement (video available here, relevant section begins at minute 3:37):
Well, the question is what kind of job they're hiring him for, and from what I've heard you say, they're hiring him as some kind of a contributor who would deal in what's coming off of the Web to try to capture opinion, capture some of the energy that's on the blogs.
But the fact is that he's not a journalist in terms of someone who knows how to do reporting, someone who reflects balance in what he portrays. To the contrary, he engages in the kind of hyperbole and extreme statements that's represented by that crass and, I think, offensive statement he made about those dead people.
But you know what? I think that's just what's going on in journalism. I think that, you know, there's more and more opinion, less and less people who know how to do the job. All you've got to do is shout, say something on the blog that offends and attacks the other side, and suddenly, you have the credentials, and you're said to be a journalist. I think it's a great lie.
You gotta love it. Of course, for another great lie, rewind the video to minute 2:40 to see Alan Colmes say:
By the way, he's for free trade, Kos is. He's for balanced budgets. He's really - he's not a far left liberal as he has been portrayed.
Honestly, you can't make this stuff up.
—Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters.
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Delicious. Great find,
November 15, 2007 - 19:33 ET by wiwfDelicious. Great find, Noel!
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The shaggy dog does not run with the blue bloods
November 15, 2007 - 19:38 ET by Lame CherryKos is a shaggy dog and the pedigreed MSM does not like mongrels off the street coming into their arena.
Charlie Rose lifted his leg and gave it to Marco in the face ..........Marcos did not figure it out.
Williams is doing the same thing in marking boundaries. Liberals have a caste system like India and Marcos is from the D'Souza black hole who is never allowed to play with elite no matter how many benefactors are buying his way into the mainstream left.
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Of course, Colmes would
November 15, 2007 - 19:45 ET by Chris NormanOf course, Colmes would find a way to defend Satan, if he was a Democrat...
Of course...
November 15, 2007 - 20:31 ET by neighbHE IS!!
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Chris, Satan IS a democrat.
November 15, 2007 - 20:36 ET by Dave RAnd for all we know, he might even be Alan Colmes.
My late uncle Jim, Chair
November 16, 2007 - 10:45 ET by pbanks7My late uncle Jim, Chair of his local Right to Life chapter, used to say, "There are no Democrats in Heaven," because of that one commandment about killing or something.
Ignorance is bliss. It's easier to repeat a mindless slogan than to do some actual research.
The left side blogs were
November 15, 2007 - 20:06 ET by Right2thePointThe left side blogs were tearing up and spining to explain William to their followers all day today.
They varied from having little success to no success puting together a consistent story and just hoped no body would notice.
At risk of repeating
November 15, 2007 - 20:11 ET by Right2thePointAt risk of repeating myself
Kos was brought on as a political election analyst, not a journalist.
He was something like 0-18 going into 06 with Lamont his largest crash and burn.
In the 06 elections he desperately jumped on coat tails to try to claim assists in the elections.
His candidates of choice for this year except one or two are at best outside chances.
Even with all his followers he takes weeks to raise what Ron Paul took 30 minutes to do.
What's going on here?
November 15, 2007 - 21:22 ET by motherbeltWhat's going on here? First defending Bill O'Reilly, and now slamming Kos???
Someone needs to find out who this person is, and what he has done with Juan Williams!!
I LIKE JUAN WILLIAMS...
November 16, 2007 - 13:18 ET by danybhoyI like Williams, even though I often disagree with him. He is 1 of the more objective people in the media today. He will rip those who most people would think he would/should support, & he's not afraid of being slammed for speaking his mind.
The deal with Kos should'nt be too shocking, Juan, like O'Reilly, understands who is hurting the cause of the left in America today. He knows that Kos & the other kook-left bloggers are doing real damage to the left. The same goes for the race pimps who go overboard all the time, they do some good, but try to make mountains out of molehills so often they hurt themselves, & America as a whole. Williams & O'Reilly care about Americans, & they see who is damaging them from all sides. I respect them for that, even if I don't go along with all of their views.
"Some of us are wise, some of us are otherwise" Mark Levin
What I find amusing is the
November 15, 2007 - 22:56 ET by MikeBWhat I find amusing is the video the link points to is titled "DailyKos Smeared Again on Hannity & Colmes". I watched the entire video and neither DailyKos nor Markos Moulitsas were smeared.
And, if Moulitsas' apology for his "screw them" remark runs to liberal form, it went something like this: "I'm sorry if anyone was offended." That is not an apology. An apology would be something like, "what I said was inappropriate and wrong. I apologize for having said it."
I must say that Alan, when he said that "...he's not a far left liberal as he has been portrayed" made an accurate statement from Alan's point of view. What Colmes doesn't realize is that he is so far left that most everybody else, including Kos, is to his right. Kos is far left relative to most of the people in this country. He is mainstream to the loons at DU and HuffPo and his own site, but that doesn't mean he is mainstream to the mainstream of the country.
"A communist is someone who reads Marx. An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx." Ronald Reagan
Juan Williams had better be
November 16, 2007 - 02:38 ET by drillanwrJuan Williams had better be very careful ...
The liberals/left are well known for removing a person's blackness over things like this.
Ask Sec. Rice, Michael Steel ... etc., etc., etc....
Freedom is Never Free I
November 16, 2007 - 03:27 ET by PershingSirFreedom is Never Free
I know mr Moulitsas was a lance missle operator in Europe...So he has never really got over the Little Pecker Syndrome..Pershing Pukes never thought much of Lance Missle operators.They were always falling into rivers,driving into Homes, skidding off the roads...didnt meet too many Lancers i 'd want in my foxhole..Screw Them!
Odder still...
November 16, 2007 - 05:42 ET by heldmyw...is the so-called 'balance' that Karl Rove v. Markos Moulitsas is supposed to offer in Newsweek.
Seriously? Darth Rove and a Cindy Sheehan-class lefty duking it out?
Is Newsweek looking for a way to tack right? Fast?
Juan's right. Markos flat does not have the ballast, intellect or experience to play with the big dogs.
Colmes?
November 16, 2007 - 10:15 ET by candancewanting a balanced budget doesn't make someone a moderate. every liberal wants a balanced budget - they'll just raise more taxes for the money.
Colmes couldn't find one real moderate credential so he had to go with that. it's like saying "well my friend likes to drink cold water, so he's just a common sense moderate like you"
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edhenry Don't discout the
November 16, 2007 - 11:51 ET by Edhenryedhenry
Don't discout the left's (Newsweek) real intent which is to raise the status of KOS by placing it/him next to K Rove. Poor judgement by KR to accept the juxtapostion.
MM is otherwise a fringe element. A loud, crude, incorrect, anti-american element, but fringe without some credibility handed to him.
As Liberal as he is, Juan
November 16, 2007 - 11:44 ET by mattmAs Liberal as he is, Juan Williams is unusually honest and reasonable as far as journalists go, from what I've heard.
It's this reasonableness that has the Kos-ite's panties in a bunch...