http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/06/12/dana-milbanks-bubble-problem/ The national media watch group Mon, 22 Mar 2010 08:32:04 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/06/12/dana-milbanks-bubble-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-14128 FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » Dana Milbank's Equal-Opportunity Mockery Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:46:36 +0000 http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=9783#comment-14128 [...] Milbank led the cheers for White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel as chief dragger to the right (FAIR Blog, 3/2/10), whereas Broder saw his blame-the-boss disloyalty as unseemly (3/4/10); on the other hand, it was Broder who thrilled recently to the "pitch-perfect populism" of Sarah Palin (2/11/10), while Milbank's column today (3/16/10) finds a similar spiel by Dick Armey to be as worthy of ridicule as, say, single-payer advocates (FAIR Blog, 6/12/09). [...] [...] Milbank led the cheers for White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel as chief dragger to the right (FAIR Blog, 3/2/10), whereas Broder saw his blame-the-boss disloyalty as unseemly (3/4/10); on the other hand, it was Broder who thrilled recently to the "pitch-perfect populism" of Sarah Palin (2/11/10), while Milbank's column today (3/16/10) finds a similar spiel by Dick Armey to be as worthy of ridicule as, say, single-payer advocates (FAIR Blog, 6/12/09). [...]

]]> http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/06/12/dana-milbanks-bubble-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-8550 FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » Snarky WaPo-er 'Surprised by the Ferocity Out There' Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:38:55 +0000 http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=9783#comment-8550 [...] Kurtz recently offered fellow Washington Post reporters Dana Milbank and Chris Cillizza a chance to apologize for having, in an online Post feature, "implied Hillary [...] [...] Kurtz recently offered fellow Washington Post reporters Dana Milbank and Chris Cillizza a chance to apologize for having, in an online Post feature, "implied Hillary [...]

]]> http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/06/12/dana-milbanks-bubble-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-5829 mjosef Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:56:57 +0000 http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=9783#comment-5829 No, this is no space to give a self-anointed "expert" like Milbank any credit. This idiocy ("it was a day for venting, not for answers") is typical of the cocktail-party chatter that passes for "comment" from the mobbed-up opiners. The statement is patronizing Orwellian propaganda, denigrating the passionate and involved advocates with a ridiculous assertion of superior knowledge. Cheers to FAIR for seeing these pernicious pronouncements as sinister. No, this is no space to give a self-anointed "expert" like Milbank any credit. This idiocy ("it was a day for venting, not for answers") is typical of the cocktail-party chatter that passes for "comment" from the mobbed-up opiners. The statement is patronizing Orwellian propaganda, denigrating the passionate and involved advocates with a ridiculous assertion of superior knowledge. Cheers to FAIR for seeing these pernicious pronouncements as sinister.

]]> http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/06/12/dana-milbanks-bubble-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-4703 leftionthenews Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:59:17 +0000 http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=9783#comment-4703 Sadly, Milbank is quite right about this: "Milbank explains, the hearings are really no more than a safety valve, a token bone thrown to angry advocates in need of blowing off steam." Sadly, Milbank is quite right about this: "Milbank explains, the hearings are really no more than a safety valve, a token bone thrown to angry advocates in need of blowing off steam."

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