Smart-bomb Flattery

James Wolcott is a Vanity Fair contributing editor

My, How Time Flies

From the article:

as long you advocate war—any war, anywhere, anytime—and as long as you coat it with a certain brand of intellectual varnish, you literally cannot be wrong in the mainstream US media. Your views may diverge from reality so completely they are essentially psychotic, but as far the people who own the media are concerned, it's reality that's mistaken. Hey, do your kids like ponies? (read the entire article)

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