Well I think there are approximately 3 Angry Leftists here = they usually stay over in the Reader's Comments.

So that's 3...

This is how the media kept acting as if there were millions of PUMAs instead of a tiny band of nutjobs. They got way more press than they deserved. Every news article featured the same angry Hillary supporters like Lady de Rotschild. The fact that they had to keep going back to the same 3-4 people proved they were a tiny fringe group.

Now, the quickest way to get on TV or in the NYT is to be a leftist blogger and bash Obama. Chris Matthews will start slobbering all over them.

Or, alternately, maybe the "Angry Left" decided to STFU with the ridiculous Sibyl Trelawny divination act they were doing with Obama's cabinet picks and get on board because an emerging MSM frame held a mirror up to them and they didn't like what they saw.

Is it just me or are the people spreading this nonsense about the angry left being up in arms completely nuts?

I really haven't been paying all that much attention to this stuff but it seems like about every day here at TPM for the last few weeks there's been a debunking of these stories so somebody must be spreading them. I know bloggers have to write and Tweety has to talk but is it too much to ask that they at least try to deal with reality?

at least in the real world

LOL. I love that.

It's in large part the same dynamics as false equivalency. Critical thinking and efforts to be value-free is one thing, but being critical for a criticism sake because that somehow may make you look more "journalistic" is totally another. But there is always an inherent fear in the press's mind of being criticized for being "in the tank," so they are motivated to make up problems that aren't there and create a straw man that lets them be "journalistic" critical. That's easier for them than to look really hard into "the real world," I guess.

Oh, Josh/Greg? Thanks so much for the links to the WSJ story pumping up the speculatory frenzy over the conference call at the center of Blagopaylooza (my "Name the Scandal" entry, btw) and the Politico "story" about that upright paragon of moral rectitude David Vitter's plan to call Bill to testify at Hillary's confirmation hearing.

I made the mistake of scanning the comments on both stories and now I feel befouled like a cameraman on a particular repulsive episode of "Dirty Jobs."

I love this MSM stuff. I imagine they read these threads and Kos and a few others just to find out what's happening with the plebes. Surely they get this malarkey from the slap downs that occur when somebody questions the Holy O in any way.
It's a sure sign of "anger" if you don't goose step behind the point man. They want us to act like Republicans. I'm glad not to accommodate them.

You can't evaluate the opinions of leftists by polling the Democrats. No leftist would ever associate with the Democrats of today. This isn't your father's or grandfather's Democratic party. They are now one of the most right-wing organizations in the world.

Leftists are adults. Leftists believe in people taking responsibility for their actions. Leftists believe that bills have to be paid. Leftists don't believe in bankrupting future generations so they can go shopping today. Leftists don't practice deficit financing. Leftists don't give money to corrupt corporations. Leftists prosecute war criminals; they don't put them in charge of foreign policy. What, pray tell, do any of these beliefs have in common with Democratic practices?

Personally, I think it's a good thing that the media are falsely reporting that the left is angry with Obama. By inflating claims of liberal disatisfaction, they make it more difficult for the wingnuts on the right to paint Obama as a wild-eyed liberal, outside the American mainstream, which is the first step towards blocking his plans for things like healthcare reform...saving the economy...ending the war...saving the world from global warming...

To be honest, I know very little about this angry left, which I've loosely heard about from a few media outlets. I'm sure that FOX news has something to do with this but despite where it came from, it origins have a genuine, propaganistic quality.(yes I made that word up and it's mine!)

Evan
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