Matt Stoller Sorts Out The Jill Carroll Controversy For Us
It’s got nothing to do with blogs – it’s because all people on the right are racist. Make sense? Do I exaggerate?
The Carroll thing is a fairly standard storyline that predates blogs. Right-wingers tend to hate a free media. Right-wingers tend to say creepy and racist things. Right-wingers tend to hate reporters who say that all isn’t apple pie in Iraq. This is true on the AM talk radio circuit, at the RNC, in the Oval Office, and on right-wing blogs. I mean the GOP.com blog even has a tag ‘good news from Iraq’.
This has NOTHING to do with blogs. Zero. This has to do with a flat-out racist and warmongering right-wing movement that doesn’t like a woman whose survival cuts against their narrative.
I tell you, I just don’t understand why these calm, rational progressives can’t win any elections!
Thanks a lot, Matt! You’ve really converted – well, Atrios, at least (who, when reached for further comment, replied “Open Thread”)…
UPDATE 11:05 a.m.: Leon H puts the shoe on the other foot…
UPDATE 2 4:45 p.m.:Add mcjoan at DKos to the broad brush screaming crew:
On the same topic, Joe at The Moderate Voice is being way too moderate in calling the Jill Carroll affair a black eye to blogging. No, Joe, this is a black eye to the crazy, racist, right wing, hating blogosphere. Don’t lump all of us in together on that one. Yes, we’re partisan, yes we’re on occasion shrill. We’re not liars. We’re not racist. And we won’t be dragged down into the mud pit occupied by the likes of Little Green Footballs and Free Republic just because we occupy the same cyberspace.
OK, even if you accept the notion that those of us on the right are a bunch of white racists, how would the reaction to the words of a white woman demostrate this?
And we hate free media? Is this Non Sequitur day at MyDD?
Truly an argument as incoherent as it is ridiculous…
What an idiot. Lefty bloggers pushed Carrolls statement as FACT too, praising the brave truth and celebrated that truth because it comported with their world-view that terrorists are not despicable bastards but really nice hosts to their captives.
…and, “so what” if they lop off the occasional head…
You people really scare me. I lurk at DailyKos, RedState, Atrios et cetera. This whole business with Caroll has brought out the worst in all of you.
Being a political junkie, I can’t seem to give these blogs up. But if I don’t stop soon, I’m going to need therapy. I’m beginning to think that…
1. I am racist.
2. I hate women.
3. I hate America.
4. I am a terrorist sympathizer.
5. I am in fact a terrorist.
6. I am a Communist.
7. I am small in the pants.
Seriously guys. It’s not that bad. Really. I’ve actually been to Iraq. It sucked a**, I never ever want to go back. But it wasn’t that bad. Certainly nothing going on there or anywhere else justifies the sort of commentary appearing on these political blogs the past few days. I suspect that deep down you all know better.
Let’s play a game. It’s called “Get a life”. We all go out and get lives. The last one to do so turns out the lights. For me, life will have to wait until the morning, but I’m at least going to go and take a shower.
Isn’t it a bit ironic that you’re singling out Mr. Stoller’s inflammatory rhetoric, when the rhetoric he was critiquing (Imus) was so much more disturbing. It seems to me that Mr. Stoller is right to have his hackles raised by that odiousness.
Read the excerpt from Matt Stoller again and tell me that he was just talking about Don Imus. It won’t wash…