Politico Loves Cheney and the GOP
Excellent roundup from Raw Story’s Sahil Kapur detailing the pounding that Politico and especially Mike Allen are taking for their uncritical Cheney and GOP reporting. Glen Greenwald sums up the general mood pretty well:
Greenwald has dubbed Allen “the single most obedient, right-wing-power-worshipping reporter in Washington, a distinction for which there is a crowded and heated competition.” Last year, he called Politico a right-wing “cesspool.”
and one more for luck, this time from the Atlantic’s Andrew Sullivan:
The Atlantic’s Andrew Sullivan labeled Allen “Cheney’s Chief Spokesman” and quipped that Cheney should “be paying him.”
“There he goes again,” Sullivan said of Allen, “the mouthpiece for Rove and Cheney, believing his ‘access’ as a stenographer makes him a journalist. It doesn’t. It makes him a stenographer.”
“Allen gussies up his source’s bile with a few fig leaf sentences and a gesture from a Democratic rebuttal,” Sullivan added.
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