I've been thoroughly enjoying the new Aaron Sorkin show on HBO entitled The Newsroom. The show centers around a news anchor named Will Mcavoy who has a Howard Beale like moment at Northwestern University and changes his career path forever. He, along with his ex-girlfriend producer, decide to report the actual news without any of the usual bullshit we see in the media today.
The show is filled with all the atypical, frenetic Sorkin dialogue and last Sunday's episode had a line worth noting as it perfectly sums up the "liberal" media.
If the Republicans tried to pass a law that said the Earth was flat, the headline the next day from the Times would be Democrats and Republicans Debate Shape of Earth.
The Cult of Both Sides perfectly explained by one of the best writers of this generation.
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I kind of figured you'd be enjoying it...
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2012/06/why-newsroom-is-good-news-for.html
Is this the first step of the retreat? Who can say really....
Ah, yes...another right wing blog..must be something in the water this week.
I'm curious as to what goes through your head when you read something like this. Do you take it for the very clear opinion that it is or fact?
What I found most amusing about it was this...
It's the sad and pathetic spectacle of an ideology creating its own fantasy version of its reality in which it won the argument.
combined with this...
jumping in right before the political balance tilted toward the Republicans in the mid-term elections, is the same thing.
Once again, more a self reflection than an accurate representation of reality. The GOP won back the House and...lost a great chance of winning back the Senate because they ran three wingnuts instead of regular conservatives. So, where's that tilt, exactly?
I suppose I should give Daniel a break since he wrote his post before SCOTUS upheld the ACA but I have to ask...where is the death of the liberal dream today?
We've passed health care, chucked DADT, a highway bill/student loan bill, put tighter controls on oil speculators and had the first sitting president say that gay marriage should be legal. I'll take those "losses" any day.
And what are the exact victories that have been won by the right in the last two years? You guys did a great job with the debt ceiling argument.
Of course, the good thing about this site is that it is proof positive of how conservatives view politics...winning the argument/proving Democrats wrong. Not (ahem) implementing sound policy.
Worse, he completely missed the point of the show and, sadly, so have you. It's about taking the media to task for being either ridiculously biased or playing the cult of balance. Perhaps you should watch it before passing judgment. I'm going to post the first ep on here fairly soon as it is available on YouTube. You should watch Mcavoy's rant at the beginning. No doubt, you will find much with which to agree.
So, to answer your question, no, it's not a sign of retreat. Why? Click on the electoral map in the upper right hand corner of my site and check out the numbers. It seems to me that the uphill battle is on your nominee who, b to the w, isn't even conservative!
The death of the liberal dream is this blog! Oh I'm aware that is just one guys opinion. I haven't missed the point of the show - I haven't seen it. Just figured you would be slightly annoyed by it.
Not annoyed, saddened, really for a guy the calls for reflection and yet does none of it himself...yet another conservative doing the exact thing that he erroneously accuses liberals of doing. Or maybe he's just pissed that Bill Maher has been doing "Disparches from the Bubble" now for over a year:)
I dunno, the length of that reply said annoyance. I havw the next two wednesdays off, we should disc golf.
Well, I get bitched at when I don't thoroughly peruse links so I thought I would give a more detailed response.
But you are right. It's more than just sadness. It's very frustrating and the best way to describe is if I came up to you and starting teasing you about being bald. Calling you chrome dome...saying that I can see myself in your gleaming head like a mirror...that sort of thing. We both know that I am bald and you have a very handsome, full head of hair. Can you see how frustrating that might be.
I can play disc golf at 330 on either Wednesday. I have tennis up until that point. Bryant?
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