Well the battle is on inside the media, that’s what’s beginning to happen. I couldn’t watch the Bill Maher clip, in which Oliver Stone trashes the lobby and Rachel Maddow says nothing, (per Idrees Ahmad’s report). And I missed Howard Kurtz’s Reliable Sources, but Koozie didn’t. His report:
Howard Kurtz started the show with a segment on the Helen Thomas case. Wow. Panel included Dana Milbank and Jeffrey Goldberg. Take a wild guess how Helen came out of this? Clue: comparisons were made with Ahmadinejad.
Memo to the media: 91 percent in this Washington Post poll say Thomas shouldn’t have lost her job. Andrew Sullivan, the canary in the coal mine, has asked, Is there any columnist in an American paper who is against the existence of Israel? and gotten no answer.
What about a strong critic of Israel? Who on the left side is going to begin to echo the critical spirit that countless Americans are now feeling. Not Daniel Schorr, who once again blamed Hamas for the blockade yesterday. Apparently not Maddow. Certainly not Maher. Not Kurtz. The Talmud says [yes, sexist], In a place where there is not a man, then be the man. That means you, Chris Matthews.
