ON THE SO-CALLED LIBERAL MEDIA

What Liberal Media? author Eric Alterman now oversees, edits, and sometimes writes a new column on the media at the Center for American Progress site. Here's a sample of the first post:

Try to follow the logic of Time’s Joe Klein, who skewers Democrats for opposing the monstrous bill, created by a bungled foreign policy. He calls the vote “an embarrassment” for Democrats. Upfront Klein concedes, “Bush was playing politics” by refusing to break out the funding into one for the military operation, and one for the rebuilding. And Klein admits, “The original casus belli was, at the very least, oversold. The post-Saddam period has been marked by American arrogance and incompetence. The prognosis for Iraq is grave. It is not even clear that the three main ethnic and religious groups — the Kurds, Iraqi Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims — can be knitted into a coherent country.”

But then, turning his eye towards Democrats, Klein — in a view that was echoed over the weekend by Chris Matthews on NBC, Brit Hume and Tony Snow on Fox, and many others - insists, “These are not plausible reasons to oppose the $87 billion.”

Huh? What would be a plausible reason to oppose it then? The pundits’ position is that America needs to start dumping as much money as possible into Iraq, for however long it takes, as long as the Bush White House is asking for the dollars. Why bother having two parties?

It's a good column. Click here.

Thanks to Eschaton for the link.

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