You can stop reading right there.
This writer resorts to ad hominem attacks in his very first sentence. The last refuge of the loser, and the first position of today's liberals.
When you have no rationale, try to stir up the emotions instead.
Posted on 03/31/2006 7:16:36 AM PST by abb
CNN says it is just thrilled by the transformation of Lou Dobbs—formerly a mild-mannered news anchor noted for his palsy-walsy interviews with corporate CEOs—into a raving populist xenophobe. Ratings are up. It's like watching one of those "makeover" shows that turn nerds into fops or bathrooms into ballrooms. According to the New York Times, this demonstrates "that what works in cable television news is not an objective analysis of the day's events," but "a specific point of view on a sizzling-hot topic." Nicholas Lemann, dean of Columbia Journalism School, made the same point in a recent New Yorker profile of Fox News' Bill O'Reilly. Cable, Lemann wrote, "is increasingly a medium of outsize, super-opinionated franchise personalities."
The head of CNN/US, Jonathan Klein, told the Times that Lou Dobbs' license to emote is "sui generis" among CNN anchors, but that is obviously not true. Consider Anderson Cooper, CNN's rising star. His career was made when he exploded in self-righteous anger while interviewing Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu after Hurricane Katrina and gave her an emotional tongue-lashing over the inadequacy of the relief effort. Klein said Cooper has "that magical something … a refreshing way of being the anti-anchor … getting involved the way you might." In short, he's acting like a human being, albeit a somewhat overwrought one. And now on CNN and elsewhere you can see other anchors struggling to act like human beings, with varying degrees of success.
Klein is a man who goes with the flow. Only five months before anointing Cooper CNN's new messiah (nothing human is alien to Anderson Cooper; nothing alien is human to Lou Dobbs), he killed CNN's long-running debate show Crossfire, on the grounds that viewers wanted information and not opinions.
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Does the link over from the FreeRepublic to Slate keep them in business?
What is Kinsley smoking?
Typical lib cultist, attack the man's supposed psychology instead of attacking his arguments. Love him or hate him and his channel Dobbs deals in facts while Kinsley and his ilk (some "conservatives" included) act like cultists in a compound and play word games trying to out cult the other cultists.
Well, gee, fellers, THERE's a news flash for ya!
You can stop reading right there.
This writer resorts to ad hominem attacks in his very first sentence. The last refuge of the loser, and the first position of today's liberals.
When you have no rationale, try to stir up the emotions instead.
Kinsley, the pot calling the kettle black.
William Flax
We need to turn the heat up on the gutless bastards in Washington--in both parties--who will not declare themselves for a preservation of the character of America.
We are the product of those who built us, reflecting their achievements, which reflected in turn, what they brought to the table. A nation is not now, and never has been a game of musical chairs. Its character comes from those who fill those chairs, and what they have built should be preserved for their children and their children's children, not the world at large.
Anyone who wants to call me a "xenophobe," will not get an apology. If he is useful as a foil, he will get a further lesson on the realities of human life.
William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site
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