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Friday, July 15, 2005

Lies lies lies yeah

Week in and week out the best columnist in America is, as Eric Alterman once said, a guy with a day job. Read the whole thing:

John Gibson of Fox News says that Karl Rove should be given a medal. I agree: Mr. Rove should receive a medal from the American Political Science Association for his pioneering discoveries about modern American politics. The medal can, if necessary, be delivered to his prison cell.
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What Mr. Rove understood, long before the rest of us, is that we're not living in the America of the past, where even partisans sometimes changed their views when faced with the facts. Instead, we're living in a country in which there is no longer such a thing as nonpolitical truth. In particular, there are now few, if any, limits to what conservative politicians can get away with: the faithful will follow the twists and turns of the party line with a loyalty that would have pleased the Comintern.
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Mr. Rove also understands, better than anyone else in American politics, the power of smear tactics. Attacks on someone who contradicts the official line don't have to be true, or even plausible, to undermine that person's effectiveness. All they have to do is get a lot of media play, and they'll create the sense that there must be something wrong with the guy.

Krugman says all the things we left leaning bloggers say (well, many of the things) only he says them from right smack dab in the middle of the most important publication in the country. We're lucky to have him around.

[Did I really stoop so low as to make a Thompson Twins reference in the title of this post?]