This isn't the biggest deal in the world, but Media Bistro "FishbowlDC" blogger Betsy Rothstein has a snide and amateur attack on Salon's Joan Walsh over her appearance on CNN's Reliable Sources last Sunday. As I saw the segment too, this really annoyed me. Since her defence of publishing Dave Weigel's private emails involved describing herself as a journalist and lecturing on the duties of reporters, she should hold herself to that standard and apologize to Joan over this failure to get the story right:
Salon's Joan Walsh: Don't You Know Who I Am?
Dainty it wasn't. Salon's Editor-in-Chief Joan Walsh had one of those kind of moments on Sunday's CNN's "Reliable Sources" with Howard Kurtz.
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The great "Don't you know who I am moment?" came when Lewis carelessly remarked that Walsh was from Netroots Nation. This is when Walsh - who knows how to seethe with the best of them - really began to seethe. She spoke to Lewis with pure disgust.
"Excuse me, I'm not at NetRoots Nation - are you on this planet?" Walsh snapped. "I'm in San Francisco." And then, (not so) under her breath, she added with as much irritation as she could muster, "Jesus!"
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Walsh went on to further castrate Lewis (read: take Lewis down a notch or 10) by blasting his recent interview with Breitbart, saying, "You interviewed him and you let him run his mouth and you didn't challenge him," she said.
This is a sloppy, shallow and factually incorrect rendition of the segment (inside).
Watching Larry King and he has a panel of two Democrats, two Republicans to analyze various things, and the two Democrats are Paul Begala and Joan Walsh.
Interesting because both of them referred to the fact that they were Hillary supporters and had been critical of Obama to build up their subsequent praise of him in how he had won them over the past month or two.
It made their points more effective I thought, lending them some additional credibility beyond your usual partisan flacks. This is an advantage of having a hotly contested primary I hadn't considered. I don't know if Obama's campaign had anything to do with them appearing on CNN, but if so, it is a smart play.
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