My bold--Op-Ed Columnist - Can CNN Be Saved? - NYTimes.com:..."But not the “Crossfire” of 2004. CNN overreacted to Jon Stewart’s jeremiad, but he wasn’t entirely wrong. The show was years removed from its Michael Kinsley/Pat Buchanan glory days, and its liberal hosts at the time, Begala and James Carville, really were Democratic Party hacks. (The conservatives, Carlson and Robert Novak, were much more independent-minded, but the constant need to rebut partisan talking points took its toll on them as well.)"...
Humph. Methinks somebody either is a GOP operative or has highly flexible definitions of partisanship. Novak was the Prince of Darkness, a walking, talking mouthpiece for all things Bush; his rebut to every argument was "Bush Basher! Bush Basher!" And Tucker Carlson? He dressed up the Republican agenda in stylish yuppie dweebness but it was still the same old antebellum South that routinely spews from the GOP right.
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