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Self-Professed Bush-Hater Accuses Conservative Journalist of Thuggery

Posted by GayPatriotWest at 5:40 pm - August 22, 2007.
Filed under: Bush-hatred,Conservative Discrimination,Media Bias

Today, in The New Republic, a man who made The Case for Bush Hatred penned a piece accusing a fellow opinion journalist of thuggery.

Well, I guess it’s not thuggery when you hate a Republican president, but it is when you challenge the veracity of a piece published by a soldier skeptical of the war.

Dean Barnett, Roger Simon and Scott Johnson and Pajamas have more.

UPDATE: Charles Johnson Calls Chait’s “hit piece . . .the usual leftist smokescreen; we can summarize it in one whiny sentence: ‘Only a right-wing thug would ever dare suggest we don’t support the troops!” (Via Pajamas).

UP-UPDATE: Ed Morrissey wonders why “the editors of The New Republic” aren’t using “their energy to investigate the collapse of their credibility after publishing a fabulist for at least the second time in the last few years” and suggests Chait “first address the decrepit state of editorial control at TNR before attacking anyone else’s decrepit intellectual state.” Read the whole thing! (Via Pajamas.)

UP-UP-UPDATE: In his post on the Chait piece, not only does Confederate Yankee provide a recapitulation of the criticism of The New Republic for running Beauchamp’s piece, but he also writes that Chait’s attack:

is written with the obvious intent of distracting TNR readers from the editors’ compromised ethics by attacking an ideological opposite.

It is perhaps not the oldest trick in psychology or politics, but it is close: attack a common enemy to shore up your own faltering base.

Now just read the whole thing.

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14 Comments

  1. I like the Stephen Glass puns floating around – like Ed Morrissey’s reference to TNR’s editors living in a “glass house”.

    Comment by ILoveCapitalism — August 22, 2007 @ 6:31 pm - August 22, 2007

  2. And in fairness to Chait: His piece calls the questions raised about Beauchamp “legitimate”. That’s one small step for a man, a giant leap for TNR. Our own Gilda still hasn’t managed it (see the other recent thread).

    Comment by ILoveCapitalism — August 22, 2007 @ 6:39 pm - August 22, 2007

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    Pingback by Politics: 2008 HQ » Blog Archive » Self-Professed Bush-Hater Accuses Conservative Journalist of Thuggery — August 22, 2007 @ 7:42 pm - August 22, 2007

  4. My God, reading the tripe from you people is like falling down the rabbit hole, you are ALL every bit as stooopid as W Bush and that is saying a mouthfull, and another thing quit acting like the Republican party is some sort of Libertarian affair, it is a Facist/corporate military industrial complex organization, always has been always will be, the fact that they snooker poor dumb right wing religious fundamentalists is disgusting but the fact that they have sucked in Gay self professed intellectuals is just plain pathetic, I’m not kidding!

    Comment by Steve — August 22, 2007 @ 8:15 pm - August 22, 2007

  5. Does anyone else find amusement in being mocked as stupid by a post that breaks nearly every grammatical rule in existence and is rife with spelling errors?

    Comment by North Dallas Thirty — August 23, 2007 @ 12:48 am - August 23, 2007

  6. I had missed Dean Barnett’s piece; GPW, thanks for the link. Barnett is in good form.

    …it’s odd that Chait condemns Kristol for thuggery over a dispute in which Kristol was completely correct. TNR did publish a raft of lies that effectively slandered the troops… When you’ve stooped to calling Bill Kristol […names…], you’ve officially jumped the shark.

    Barnett goes on to point out that Andrew Sullivan has, as of today, sneakily abandoned his lonely (except for leftist moonbats) defense of TNR. Sullivan today referred to Beauchamp as a “fabulist”. But as a smokescreen, Sullivan made it a small reference in a ‘well the Right has worse fabulists’ type of attack on… Victor Davis Hanson, of all people. (huh?)

    That would be similar, I think, to Chait conceding today that the questions around Beauchamp are “legitimate” – and as a smokescreen, making it a small reference in a ‘well the Right has worse thugs’ type of attack on Kristol.

    Comment by ILoveCapitalism — August 23, 2007 @ 1:00 am - August 23, 2007

  7. And in fairness to Chait: His piece calls the questions raised about Beauchamp “legitimate.”

    Unfortunately, he then accuses Kristol of “rushing past” these legitimate questions — when, in fact, TNR itself also chose to (b)rush past the same questions early on in the controversy.

    Comment by Throbert McGee — August 23, 2007 @ 1:13 am - August 23, 2007

  8. #5 NDT: I am more amused by the utter lack of relevance to the topic at hand, the casual spewing of cliched left-wing hate speech, and the complete absence of any clever or original thought.

    Just another left-wing Borg drone emerging from its alcove to menace us with his rhetorical pincers. Yawn.

    Comment by V the K — August 23, 2007 @ 8:17 am - August 23, 2007

  9. A “fabulist”? An extra syllable to “Liar”. Rationalizing what are known to be lies of someone else is pretty contemptible (Unless there is a loyalty to the institution that gave both the liar and the aplogizer their ranking in the first place.). TNI rates high on the moral equivalecy scale. (Ethic scale irrelevant)

    Comment by Shawmut — August 23, 2007 @ 1:10 pm - August 23, 2007

  10. #4 Steve opens his post with the words: “My God…….”

    After reading the rest of the words he connected together, I am most interested in knowing more about the deity he calls “My God.”

    Steve, please tell us about your spiritual compass.

    Comment by Heliotrope — August 23, 2007 @ 3:52 pm - August 23, 2007

  11. My God, reading the tripe from you people is like falling down the rabbit hole, you are ALL every bit as stooopid as W Bush and that is saying a mouthfull,

    I suppose if you suffer from Down’s Syndrome, it would be.

    it is a Facist/corporate military industrial complex organization

    If that were true, you’d love Republicans wholeheartedly and would defend it with your dying breath.

    Comment by ThatGayConservative — August 23, 2007 @ 5:10 pm - August 23, 2007

  12. Um, Steve, if you really believe we are as bad as you claim, then instead of engaging in name-calling, you would show how the points I made above amount to tripe.

    Comment by GayPatriotWest — August 23, 2007 @ 6:01 pm - August 23, 2007

  13. VDH is very good at responding to moonbats like Sullivan. Enjoy a good read and a good laugh http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZmYwNDU5NGM2OTI3NDkzMDk0MTY5OWNkY2E3ZWY3OTM=

    Comment by Leah — August 23, 2007 @ 9:25 pm - August 23, 2007

  14. A cute exchange Thursday between Dean Barnett and Mark Steyn, about TNR’s “editors” and their intrepid “investigation” of the Beauchamp matter:

    DB: Well, all we know today is that they’ve all donned their Columbo-like trench coats, and are doggedly investigating this matter as they have been for the past six weeks.

    MS: Yes, and one can’t help feeling that it’s beginning to take on a bit of a whiff of O.J. looking for the real murderers.

    Comment by ILoveCapitalism — August 25, 2007 @ 3:33 am - August 25, 2007

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