In the journolista MSM’s perpetually coordinated effort to help further the leftist cause, over the past couple of weeks it’s become quite obvious that destroying Andrew Breitbart is the new priority number one and that the latest set of instructions raging through JournolistLand are to find and/or help to create a wedge between The Slayer of ACORN and the conservative community. And what better way to do that than with a conservative willing to go on the record and speak out against him?
The idea, obviously, is to toxify Breitbart in such a way that no “reputable conservative” would ever associate with him again. Yesterday, in that beacon of journolista integrity called the Nearly Bankrupt L.A. Times, we got an early first glimpse of just how well that plan is working.
Or not.
After using the front page of their Sunday editorial section as bait, the best the Nearly Bankrupt L.A. Times could come up with was someone they would normally mercilessly ridicule over cocktails, Intelligent Design proponent David Klinghoffer. Which isn’t to say Klinghoffer didn’t perform well. Here’s his opener:
Once, the iconic figures on the political right were urbane visionaries and builders of institutions — like William F. Buckley Jr., Irving Kristol and Father Richard John Neuhaus, all dead now. Today, far more representative is potty-mouthed Internet entrepreneur Andrew Breitbart, whose news and opinion website, Breitbart.com, is read by millions. In his most recent triumph, Breitbart got a U.S. Department of Agriculture official pushed out of her job after he released a deceptively edited video clip of her supposedly endorsing racism against white people.
The indispensible Patterico does a superb job of pointing to no less than three errors in that short paragraph here, but you can imagine how thrilled the editors of the Nearly Bankrupt L.A. Times were when Klinghoffer went beyond the Destroy Breitbart mandate and expanded his sanctimonious rant to include all those conservative…
…figures on TV, radio and the Internet who make their money by stirring fears and resentments. With its descent to baiting blacks, Mexicans and Muslims, its accommodation of conspiracy theories and an increasing nastiness and vulgarity, the conservative movement has undergone a shift toward demagoguery and hucksterism. Once the talk was of “neocons” versus “paleocons.” Now we observe the rule of the crazy-cons.
Who is Klinghoffer referring to? Beck? Rush? Hannity? Was widening the fratricide the price of seeing his byline on page 1? And how about the irony of someone calling for thoughtful debate doing so in a newspaper so thoroughly tarnished and discredited that it’s no longer able to make a profit even in one of the most liberal cities in America?
And why would anyone write for a publication so openly contemptuous of who they are?
The Nearly Bankrupt L.A. Times is hostile enough towards we everyday religious types and therefore most certainly holds a special and unique place of contempt for those like Klinghoffer who subscribe to Intelligent Design and pretty much write off Darwin. I don’t even want to speculate on the insulting nicknames the editorial staff had for him as they prepped the piece for its big front page Sunday splash, and it’s rather telling that (according to the Times’ website) this is the only time that publication’s ever been interested in Mr. Klinghoffer’s opinion.
Even more revealing is Klinghoffer’s belief that Breitbart is a setback for the conservative cause. Let’s play “It’s a Wonderful Life” and take a look at our country without Andrew Breitbart and the BIG sites. Welcome to a world where the National Endowment for the Arts uses taxpayer money to fund White House propaganda because no one smoked them out; where the Tea Party has been disintegrated by a coordinated media effort to spread the N-word lie; where the Democrats are closer to a permanent majority thanks to a healthy and vibrant ACORN “handling” the U.S. Census.
Mr. Klinghoffer wrote a book called “Why the Jews Rejected Jesus: The Turning Point in Western History,” so he’s well aware that even Christ knew that there was a time for talk and a time to throw around some tables and chairs.
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