The Hall of Mirrors

Today the Anti-Defamation League, the US’s largest Jewish civil rights organization, sided with the bigots who oppose the construction of a muslim community center in Lower Manhattan. Apparently discrimination is bad and all that, but these bigots are really mad, and we should try not to hurt their feelings. We don’t want to cause pain to these bigots who don’t even live or work in New York (only 36% of New Yorkers oppose the construction), so we’ll just give them what they want. I’m sure they’ll stop being dickheads then.

Most Americans are like me. They are as scared of the right-wing extremists vilifying Obama as they were of the leftists vilifying Bush.

That’s Joe Scarborough on Twitter today. Joe Scarborough, cable news celebrity, former member of Congress, multi-millionaire. He’s just like the average people who were afraid of leftists vilifying former President Bush.

Does he not know that Bush’s disapproval rating was at or above 60% for the last year of his presidency? Or does he just think that most Americans are leftists?

The obvious answer is both. To get on cable news, you don’t have to actually know anything at all. You just have to talk to “influential” and “important” people. How can you tell who is influential and important? They’re on cable news. (continue reading…)

I still pay money to have a blog at my own domain? Why?