Ailes Brings Out Classic Lefty Pathologies
I'm reading Charles Krauthammer's new book (which is really great) and in the last day or so I read one of the pieces in it that talks about the all the leftists who simply can't take conservatives arguments in good faith because they just know that we are all evil. This is betrayed by the occasional admission by a lefty that they once met a conservative or Republican who wasn't all that bad (you know, he went at least a couple hours without biting the head off a puppy or starving a small child!).
We have a modest example of the genre in the reporting on the new book about Roger Ailes. The Hollywood Reporter:
"Warm and droll for a man often vilified by Hollywood liberals..."
He's warm! Holy shit, no way!
As if following the formula for the required lefty media blind spots, THR goes on:
He's "divisive." Um, no, he's not, he's merely broken off from the ideologically monolithic news business. Fox News is normal, what a news organization ought to be, rather than all the rest, which are hopelessly off the reservation and have been for years.
Fox News "isn't known for change." (Let's ignore the fact that Fox News just instituted some substantial changes.) Why is change an intrinsic good? In business, when you are kicking your competition's ass all over the playing field, change should not be a priority. When winning requires change, then change, until then, don't mess with what's working beautifully.
It's a standard of the genre. We're going to approach the cage of this conservative, let's proceed with caution because they're all the things that we elitists think are bad (and that we never exhibit) - inflexible, controversial, divisive. We don't understand for a moment how such a person could be successful (after all he hired Sarah Palin), but, inexplicably, they are and so we are required to write about it once in a while. Shockingly, we found our subject to be rather normal, with an actual family that we presume is not a Potemkin ruse (because us Hollywood people are exemplars of familial bliss).
Too funny.
We have a modest example of the genre in the reporting on the new book about Roger Ailes. The Hollywood Reporter:
"Warm and droll for a man often vilified by Hollywood liberals..."
He's warm! Holy shit, no way!
As if following the formula for the required lefty media blind spots, THR goes on:
He's "divisive." Um, no, he's not, he's merely broken off from the ideologically monolithic news business. Fox News is normal, what a news organization ought to be, rather than all the rest, which are hopelessly off the reservation and have been for years.
Fox News "isn't known for change." (Let's ignore the fact that Fox News just instituted some substantial changes.) Why is change an intrinsic good? In business, when you are kicking your competition's ass all over the playing field, change should not be a priority. When winning requires change, then change, until then, don't mess with what's working beautifully.
It's a standard of the genre. We're going to approach the cage of this conservative, let's proceed with caution because they're all the things that we elitists think are bad (and that we never exhibit) - inflexible, controversial, divisive. We don't understand for a moment how such a person could be successful (after all he hired Sarah Palin), but, inexplicably, they are and so we are required to write about it once in a while. Shockingly, we found our subject to be rather normal, with an actual family that we presume is not a Potemkin ruse (because us Hollywood people are exemplars of familial bliss).
Too funny.
posted by Donny Baseball at 11:37 AM
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