Medley‘s been birddogging some interesting GOP quotes lately, and she’s found another in this article on Matt Labash, senior writer for The Weekly Standard. Says Labash of his fellow cronies in the conservative media, “We’ve created this cottage industry in which it pays to be un-objective…. It’s a great way to have your cake and eat it too. Criticize other people for not being objective. Be as subjective as you want. It’s a great little racket.” Sounds like conservative flaks are suffering from what Robert Wiebe called “the illusion of fulfillment.” As with the Norquist piece last week and as this Tom Paine article notes, it’s exactly this kind of public wink-and-a-smirk about their own fraudulent gimmicks that’ll (hopefully) help bring their “racket” to an early end.
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I just pulled this exact quote for Triptych Cryptic. The “liberal media” accusation is also difficult to fend off, as soon as anyone argues back against the Labashes, they become the liberal media of popular imagination.
I think the greatest example of “illusion of fulfillment” will be the coming movie about Bush’s 9/11 heroics.
Yeah, it is striking though how many Republicans are currently speaking the sordid truth about their tactics…as per usual, nothing succeeds like failure and nothing fails like success.