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4 Responses to “Judith Miller: She’s B-a-a-a-c-k!”

1. LanceThruster says:

   August 1, 2008 at 2:02 PM

   I think Reader’s Digest is far too good for the likes of Judith Miller.

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2. Warren says:

   August 1, 2008 at 5:01 PM

   It does seem a fitting, just come-down. Now I just wish the tiring list of mandarins and intellectual mediocrities who stand at the ‘apex’ of our mainstream pundit class–commentators like David Brooks, William Safire, Tom Friedman, Jim Hoagland, David Broder, etcetera and on and on, could be relegated to some irrelevant media backwater, or preferably behind the counters of various derelict convenience stores.

   The dearth of real analysis and global cultural-historical understanding on the part of our hack mainstream media is both astonishing and deeply sad. It’s like some kind of facade of a meritocracy that has been totally inverted. I have to go to international media, particularly British (what would I do without BBC World News, the Independent online or my LRB subscription?) and continental European, to figure out what’s going on in the world, along with authentic liberal American media like the Nation magazine and the liberal blogosphere. Luckily, it seems the Establishment Commentator-Hacks are becoming increasingly irrelevant. At least I hope they are.

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3. neurodoc says:

   August 3, 2008 at 12:12 PM

   @ Richard Silverstein: “the Manhattan Institute. One of its founders was ‘Wild Bill’ Casey, Ronald Reagan’s top spook”

   Richard, you display as little knowledge of the CIA as you do of Hezbollah. (Yes, I know you did say, “I’m not an intelligence agent.”) William Casey, a founder of the Manhattan Institute and “Ronald Reagan’s top spook,” got his start in our intelligence services during WWII when he was recruited for the OSS by its founder General “Wild Bill” Donovan.

   To be sure, it is not nearly as consequential or egregious a mistake to confound Casey and Donovan as it is to believe Hezbollah not all that malevolent an organization, as you do. Both before and after the kidnapping and murder of Higgins, which you refer to as a “tragic incident,” Hezbollah has been responsible for a great number of terrorist attacks on the nationals of many countries besides Israel. No fair-minded person could seriously argue that there is a moral equivalency between Israel and Hezbollah, nor between their respective allies the United States and Iran.

   (BTW, if the Manhattan Institute can fairly be described as “New York headquarters for the neocon mafia,” can the Institute for Policy studies be fairly described as one of the “Washington offices of the Leftie mafia?)

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4. Richard Silverstein says:

   August 3, 2008 at 9:47 PM

   @neurodoc: What an utter moron you are. I know the diff. between Bill Casey & Bill Donovan. I called Bill Casey “Wild Bill” because his escapades as Reagan’s chief spook were as outrageous as those of his predecessor.

   It was a “consequential” or “egregious” mistake. It wasn’t a mistake at all.

   No fair-minded person could seriously argue that there is a moral equivalency between Israel and Hezbollah, nor between their respective allies the United States and Iran.

   Oh it just cuts to the quick to be called someone who is not “fair minded” by the likes of you. I don’t know if the wound can ever heal.

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