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Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Charles Pierce demolishes Carville and Begala
Posted by Jill | 1:10 PM

Thus proving that no one is more of a true believer than a convert, repentant Clintonistas James Carville and Paul Begala have penned a book full of DLC garbage, which they are pimping all over the place.

Charles Pierce, who is almost as mandatory reading as James Wolcott, demolishes this intrepid duo in a piece in The American Prospect:

These are two guys with permanent seats at the Beltway Cool Kids table, but they can publish an entire chapter -- and cite my friend Eric Alterman in doing so -- on how conservatives "work the refs."

This is in a book in which Tucker Carlson is "a good guy." And Gary Bauer is "a good guy."

And Tim Russert is "indefatigable" in his pursuit of Republican miscreants. And Mark Halprin of The Note is "one of the smartest people we know in the media."

And Don Imus impresses Bill Clinton with "his grasp of the issues and his uncanny ability to sum up a situation or a person with a single, cutting phrase." This example is cited as a measure of how Bill Clinton brilliantly used the media in "a populist way," and as a cautionary tale for Democrats who "don't want to do farm radio or be in the local paper."

Glorioski, Don Imus. Populist media. I mean, there's triangulation and there's triangulation, and then there's Pythagoras on crystal meth.
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