Matt Yglesias

28 Responses to “Fair and Balanced”

1. Dev Tobin Says:
   August 13th, 2008 at 11:07 pm

   It’s even worse than that, because Hillary Rosen is really no “progressive.”

   She’s a Beltway insider, former top lobbyist for RIAA, and big-time supporter of her before-that employer Hillary Clinton.

   Rosen’s “progressive” on marriage equality, for personal reasons, but mostly a corporate DLC Democrat besides that.

   CNN should be, but won’t be, ashamed by this quintet of outside-the-real-mainstream new hires.

2. Aleks Says:
   August 13th, 2008 at 11:22 pm

   How many liberals is a progressive worth?

3. qjk Says:
   August 13th, 2008 at 11:36 pm

   Dev: I know I’m supposed to dislike Hilary Rosen—she’s cozy with the Clintons and the DLC, like you said, and yeah, she headed the RIAA way back when. But I’ll come to her defense here. I can’t remember the circumstances anymore—the primary was so long ago!—but I remember seeing her on the teevee and the internets, repudiating some of Hillary Clinton’s campaign tactics when it started becoming obvious she couldn’t win. Just like she disclaimed responsibility for strongarming kids for copyright violation after leaving the RIAA, I guess you could say, and that’d be fair too. But at least she seems, you know, sane.

4. Kirk Says:
   August 14th, 2008 at 12:06 am

   So CNN now stands for Conservative News Network. Thank goodness now I don’t have to watch that channel.

5. TLB Says:
   August 14th, 2008 at 12:55 am

   Apparently the move hasn’t improved MattY’s reading skills: the article says CNN is “adding” them. The article does NOT say “relying on them exclusively”. Hopefully the difference doesn’t have to be explained.

   On another note, if anyone wants an example of how sleazy MattY’s new employers are, look into the quote from Krikorian in this post:

   thinkprogress.org/2008/08/13/immigrants-emissions/

   They left out a word that changes the meaning entirely.

   Those are the type of people that MattY works for.

6. pseudonymous in nc Says:
   August 14th, 2008 at 1:41 am

   Apparently, TLB is still spending every waking hour hitting ‘refresh’ on his feed-reader, because he has no life. In other news, CNN still employs Lou ‘lepers’ Dobbs and allows him to maintain a corral of ‘reporters’ like the cock-headed puppet Casey Wian for an hour’s nativism per weeknight.

   “Immigration is incompatible with modern society, including the economy, government spending, sovereignty, assimilation—and also security. ”

   I blame those fucking Armenians. Worse than the Irish.

7. MrTimbo Says:
   August 14th, 2008 at 1:46 am

   CNN announces new pundit roundtable feature with three conservatives, one progressive, and Dana Milbank.

   I like that Dana Milbank defies labeling. Not because he’s a “maverick” but because he’s so . . . pointless?

8. Calvin Jones and the 13th Apostle Says:
   August 14th, 2008 at 2:07 am

   pseudonymous in nc:
   Don’t forget that CNN also employs Campbell Brown, who is married to Dan Senor(the CPA press flack from the early years of the Iraq War).

9. miguel Says:
   August 14th, 2008 at 3:07 am

   CNN announces new pundit roundtable feature with three conservatives, one corporate lobbyist turned DLC “Democrat”, and an idiot.

   There, fixed.

10. Njorl Says:
    August 14th, 2008 at 8:59 am

    I just realiized, after a few posts in various forums defending Dana Milbank, that I had him confused with Dana Priest. That’s a big mistake to make.

11. skiddie Says:
    August 14th, 2008 at 10:18 am

    I can do you one better, Miguel:

    CNN announces new pundit roundtable feature with three conservatives, one corporate lobbyist turned DLC “Democrat”, and an idiot.

    There, fixed.

    CNN announces new pundit roundtable feature with five idiots.

    There, fixed.

12. LaFollette Progressive Says:
    August 14th, 2008 at 11:28 am

    What everyone else said.

    Hillary Rosen:Progressive::Georgia:Military Superpower

13. Alan in SF Says:
    August 14th, 2008 at 12:05 pm

    The “progressive” has been in charge of hunting down and levying massive fines on college kids for illegally listening to music.

14. ostap Says:
    August 14th, 2008 at 12:19 pm

    Actually, TLB is right — these are people that CNN is adding to the existing roster. Cleveland added a point guard yesterday. I do hope that Matt doesn’t complain that obviously a team built with only point guards is unbalanced.

15. olo Says:
    August 14th, 2008 at 12:37 pm

    @ # qjk Says: August 13th, 2008 at 11:36 pm
    “…repudiating some of Hillary Clinton’s campaign tactics when it started becoming obvious she couldn’t win. (and)..disclaimed responsibility for strongarming kids for copyright violation after leaving the RIAA…”

    If pissing on the carpet then repudiating the puddle is “sane”. I’ll eat my shorts.

16. TLB Says:
    August 14th, 2008 at 3:25 pm

    Interesting that MattY’s fave anti-Irish sockpuppet made the jump; some forms of bigotry are obviously acceptable.

    A correction: at the CFR link, Krikorian does omit “mass” before “immigration” at the end, so the TP quote is accurate, even if they don’t mention that he was discussing it in the “mass” context.

17. pseudonymous in nc Says:
    August 14th, 2008 at 5:23 pm

    Unsurprising that the Blogwhore Of All Blogwhores has no capacity for irony. After al, if you’re a ladder-pulling Neo-Nativist with an name that bespeaks an immigrant past, whether it’s ‘Tancredo’ or ‘Krikorian’ or ‘Finbar O’Shillelagh’, you deserve to be laughed at. Now get a fucking life, you monomaniacal bag of shite.

    Having Hilary Rosen as a CNN regular might be perceived as an attempt to deal with a perceived Lesbian Gap with MSNBC. Unfortunately, Rosen is primarily associated with her RIAA past, just as Jack ‘Boston Strangler’ Valenti was always Mr MPAA. That’s to say, someone who treated the rise of digital distribution as something to be stopped at all costs, rather than seeking to adapt to technology, isn’t exactly the best advocate for forward-looking policy.

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