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Apr 09I suppose I’ll have to write about the tea parties.
“Foreign press reports are often unreliable.” -Matthew Yglesias
As he (and just about every sane commentator) has noted, some of the domestic press is every bit as alien. As David Frum puts it:
To listen to Fox News and other conservative media, you’d think we were living in Czechoslovakia in the final hours before the 1948 communist coup. Anchors end interviews by solemnly pledging to defend liberty and oppose tyranny. The network’s rising star Glenn Beck has mused about the coming turn to totalitarianism — and warned his audience that he has not been able to ‘debunk’ fears that the Federal Emergency Management Agency is constructing an archipelago of concentration camps for political opponents of the Obama administration.
I never thought I’d live in a world where Bill O’Reilly would be inoffensive by Fox News standards.