George Will must be turning over in his grave. Buckley, too. Once a hallowed voice of conservative thought, the Wall Street Journal has been Fox Newsified as everyone feared would happen when News Corp. bought it in 2007. Exhibit A:
A special committee was established to oversee The Journal’s editorial integrity. But after the managing editor, Marcus Brauchli resigned on April 22, 2008, the committee said that he resigned under pressure, and that News Corporation had violated its agreement by not notifying the committee earlier. Brauchli said that he thought it was reasonable that new owners would appoint their own editor.
However, a June 5 Journal news story quoted charges that Murdoch had made and broken similar promises in the past. One large shareholder commented that Murdoch has long “expressed his personal, political and business biases through his newspapers and television stations.” Journalist Fred Emery, formerly of the British newspaper The Times, recounted an incident when Murdoch was reminded of his own earlier promises not to fire The Times’ editors without independent directors’ approval and allegedly responded, “God, you don’t take all that seriously, do you?”
Exhibit B: Of all discredited people to opine about what the health care reform bill says, they chose Betsy “Death Panel” McCaughey (photo, above right). She’s hardly Grade A conservative thought about one of our country’s most pressing issues; more former prom queen than Dow policy analyst. What, were all the fellows at the American Enterprise Institute tied up?
McCaughey – a laughing stock after she continually couldn’t find her facts in the bill on The Daily Show — is now a regular Wall Street Journal columnist about health care reform. She seems like a sweet lady, but this spectacle must make her children blush (video below):
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McCaughey’s turn to be questioned was embarrassing as she kept flipping through the bill, unable to find the facts she was basing her arguments upon. Women everywhere cringed.
She is the one who started the death panel rumor, the topic in the clip above that she couldn’t support. McCaughey (pronounced “McCoy”) is a follower of faith-based facts; she is of a new class that discuss facts that can’t be evidenced. It only takes a belief that the fact is there, even when it’s not. Just like when someone believes the Earth is only 2,000 years old. On the WSJ editorial page, they now feature the flat earthers of our national discourse. Bravo, Journal.
A former insitution is officially Fox Newsified.
“Just like when someone believes the Earth is only 2,000 years old.”
C’mon, David, get it straight. The idea that the Earth is only 2,000 years old is preposterous.
We all know it’s 6,000.
Sheesh.
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