Joan Walsh attacks Ezra Klein for honest reporting on O-care debacle
http://twitter.com/#!/Taxfree1031/status/392737228528431104
It’s on!
While many of us were baffled by President ShamWow’s bizarre Obamacare infomercial yesterday, Salon’s Joan Walsh was much more worried about the liberal media — but not in the way you might hope:
http://twitter.com/#!/joanwalsh/status/392316355371737088
That’s right. Walsh is concerned about usually-reliable liberal lapdogs making Obamacare look bad with honest coverage:
http://twitter.com/#!/Salon/status/392389616873267200
From the piece linked above:
As predictably as night follows day, on Monday the media establishment pivoted away from obsessing about GOP extremism and the party’s alleged “civil war” to the “train wreck” that is, allegedly, the Affordable Care Act.
And liberals helped lead the pivot.
She proceeds to single out WaPo’s Ezra Klein, an unapologetic lefty, for describing his experiences with the Healthcare.gov “glitches” and subsequently making President Obama’s job more difficult:
The president is also frustrated, of course, because people who hate the ACA are heartened by its Web troubles, and he had a word for them, too. “It’s time for folks to stop rooting for its failure, because hardworking middle-class families are rooting for its success.” Later he added, “Nobody is madder than me that the website isn’t working the way it should, which means it’s going to get fixed.”
He’s frustrated, you guys! So cut him some slack.
Klein was stunned:
http://twitter.com/#!/ezraklein/status/392713339073081344
Sorry, Ezra, but we could’ve told you this would happen.
http://twitter.com/#!/apple17_8/status/392724032161718272
Sycophancy is gospel. Don’t stray from the lapdog plantation unless you want to get sucker-punched:
http://twitter.com/#!/morningmoneyben/status/392714260322598912
http://twitter.com/#!/marclanders/status/392716781879820288
http://twitter.com/#!/drawandstrike/status/392716168433119232
Worth noting:
http://twitter.com/#!/KevinWGlass/status/392715636192718849
True.
http://twitter.com/#!/JayAivaz/status/392714912583012352
http://twitter.com/#!/nickybones/status/392731927280484352
Walsh’s Salon colleague Brian Beutler didn’t have a problem with Klein’s reporting, either, and he said so in a column of his own:
http://twitter.com/#!/GregAnrig/status/392718900908933120
http://twitter.com/#!/SuzyKhimm/status/392717203276976128
Allow us to do some honest reporting, if we may: Joan Walsh is a hack. She has no redeeming journalistic value whatsoever.
http://twitter.com/#!/jpodhoretz/status/392739187700801536
That’s as close as Walsh will ever come to standards.
