Left Imitates Right

The Daily Howler: 'Handshake Wars' --- "...To state the obvious, none of this was worth discussing—especially after a ninety-minute debate about foreign wars and financial disaster. But increasingly, the liberal web feeds on the culture of childish grievance, just as conservative talk has always done. And so, people like Marshall were quickly involved in bugling up the handshake wars. As hacks like Sean Hannity have always done, Josh 1) seized on a matter of total trivia; 2) got his basic facts crashingly wrong; then 3) continued to claim of grievance even after it was clear that he had been crashingly wrong. In Josh’s suburb of Hannity World, McCain had still “snubbed him [Obama] and then r[u]n off in a huff”—even after it was clear that this hadn’t, in fact, really happened.

In part, we’re in the messes we’re in today because of the intellectual bankruptcy of mainstream journalistic elites (examples below). All through the nineties, they played the fool, serving the capital’s growing Republican dominance; at the end of the decade, they invented a pleasing fairy tale about McCain, and vicious demon tales about Gore. Back then—indeed, for several years after—Josh played along with all that crap, as toilet-trained “liberals” seemed to know they must do. Today, he behaves much like our own Hannity, driving democracy down..."