I’m going to say this at the outset, I think there are probably microbes on whale crap at the bottom of the ocean that are higher in the food chain than Bill Maher. I think it’s a measure of how far we haven’t gone to the left, and that Maher doesn’t have his ABC seat, anymore. Put another way: If the US and it’s voters were in the pocket of the far left as such as Stoller likes to claim, the Bill Maher would still have his ABC gig.
That said…Noel Shppard at NewsBusters [1] examines the recent run-in between Maher and Damien Cave, who is a bright spot at the New York Times, a paper all too devoid of them.
RTWT.
Sheppard nails it well in his closing lines:
The reality is that to Maher and his ilk, Iraq is exclusively a political issue at home to be solely used to bash Bush and Republicans. As such, they ignore the millions of Iraqi lives at stake, as well as what happens to the war on terror if America loses this battle.
Sadly for them, this is only about poll numbers and the next election, and this is why folks like Maher and most of the media can’t bear the thought of the surge working, and America turning what looked to be a huge loss in this region into an historic victory.
Alas, you have to wonder what kind of a person puts vindication and political opportunism ahead of America and Iraq’s future.
The answer?
Democrats would.
Allah [1]notes the story and says in part:
Given all the Times-bashing the righty blogosphere does, it’s worth acknowledging that their Iraq team plays it pretty straight: Cave, John Burns, Michael Gordon (whom the left loathes for his military “stenography”), Ed Wong, etc. It’d have been easy for Cave to seize this as an opportunity to make himself a media property by telling Maher what he wanted to hear. Kudos to him for resisting.
Indeed. It’s called integrity, and it’s something that Bill Maher lacks.