Under Ingraham's Interrogation, Newsweek's Fineman Pleads 'No Contest' for Newsweek's 'Mesmerized'

NewsBusters ^ | 8/10/10 | Tim Graham

[Nachum]

On Tuesday morning's Laura Ingraham radio show, Newsweek reporter Howard Fineman pleaded "no contest" in Latin to the conservative host's lecture that Newsweek was too busy celebrifying Barack and Michelle Obama to weigh whether Obama would succeed as president. (Audio here.) He insisted the magazine was "mesmerized" by a "brilliantly run campaign," as if it wasn't also about their liberal wishes and dreams:

INGRAHAM: How is it though with all these smart people at Newsweek – I went around the block with Evan Thomas about this as well. How did you all think that a guy who basically went from the Harvard Law Review, to some community leafleting, organizing, whatever you want to call it, to a short stint, a few lectures about constitutional law at [the University of] Chicago, very short stopover in the state Senate, and a very short stopover in the U.S. Senate. How does that add up to experience to run the biggest economy and the biggest military in the world? And why wasn’t Newsweek, instead of doing these celebrified covers of Michelle and Barack as historic, and celebrity culture, and all this love-love-love-love-love, why wasn’t – Why weren’t those questions asked before this election took place? Because to me, those were the questions to ask. . It wasn’t about personality. It was about experience and outlook.

FINEMAN: Well, uh, first, I’ll plead nolo [contendere] on a lot of this.

[Siena Dreaming]

Wow...far left commentators admitting their faults.

Things are a'changin

(Probably to try to get Hillary in)

[Freee-dame]

Even my Vegan (although somewhat conservative) Doctor quit putting Time and Newsweak in the Waiting Room.

...which he got free if it's like my conservative dentist's office.

[Silverdrake]

Hillary actually won the Democrat primary, but then the D-N-C used their “super-delegates” to APPOINT Obama the candidate. Thus why I try to never use “Democratic” when speaking of that party, anymore.

And while I never thought I’d say this even after the heat-death of the universe, Hillary — psycho-fascist power addict that she is — would have been a better President than Obama is.

[Siena Dreaming]

Hillary would have been worse because she moves more slowly and diabolically.

Her positions were/are the same as Obama's on almost all the issues. But she is better at handling the media and long-term planning.

She would have been far more dangerous IMO.