A couple days ago, Hoosierman wrote an article about the Daily Beast's hit piece on Michelle Bachmann; Michelle Goldberg apparently thinks being a Christian is a serious problem and doesn't make you a serious presidential candidate.
Goldberg quotes the terribly mediocre Frankie Schaeffer, apostate son of the wonderful and wise Christian theologian Francis Schaeffer, as claiming that Bachmann speaks in some kind of Christian code to get Christians fired up. Schaeffer, having been raised in the Christian community, now rejects it, having found some sort of higher calling to mock those with whom he previously shared affinity.
After all, it's much easier being liberal, as Arianna Huffington, Andrew Sullivan, Kathleen Parker, David Brock and others have decided.
You can pretend to be really, really smart, never have to worry about LSM criticism, act like you have some sort of holy radar that reveals all truth to you and not have to formulate cogent arguments for your various political positions.
Of course, if Bachmann hadn't been gaining steam these liberal writers wouldn't have to be wasting their time writing hit pieces to try to discredit them and scare the voters, something liberals major in. Witness the current Politico article rehashing old rumors about Rick Perry. (Say, aren't liberals believers that there aren't many morals? That being gay celebrates life? That a break from a rocky marriage might be good for the ego? Huh.)
Having said all that, the real intent of this article is to point y'all over to a Big Journalism piece that takes apart the Daily Beast's hit piece on Bachmann. The author notes that one particularly damning piece of evidence against Bachmann in which she ran away from a couple liberals and filed a police report against the two has only the liberals' point of view. The police report pdf link goes to another hit piece on Bachmann, which links to the police report pdf.
Only it doesn't.
The link is dead.
Yep. It's really, really easy to be a liberal.
You can request the report directly from the Washington County sheriff's department (date was April 9, 2005) or you can review a pdf of it at the blog: dumpbachmann.com. BTW, that blog is written by a Republican, not a liberal.
ReplyDeleteYou're kidding, right? I've read the report. In the light of what happened to Gabby Giffords, are you SERIOUSLY going to question a politician who was cornered by and prevented from leaving a room by people who disagreed with her?
ReplyDeleteIt all depends on what you call "Republican." There are lots of monkeys out there pretending to be something they're not. For example, a RINO is not a conservative.
You capiche? I certainly do.