OMFG. (Columbia Journalism Review Interviews John Cloud Re: Coulter)

[wellst0nev0ter]

I'll spare you the mindless bloviating and just paraphrase

"Waaaa! Waaaa! Eric Alterman wuz too mean to meee! He's just like Ann Coulter!"

"We did Michael Moore."

"I'm a not a fact-checker! *scoffs* I'm a JOURNALIST!"

"We did Michael Moore."

"Just because we put her picture on the cover doesn't mean we're GLORIFYING her *scoff* I mean Hitler and Stalin was on the cover ferchrissakes!"

"Did I fail to mention we did Michael Moore? If so, we did Michael Moore."

[lisa58]

1. thanks for the paraphrase...

could not bring myself to actually read it!

[ThumperDumper]

2. "We did Michael Moore."

So, is that what Time considers balance?
It's a shame that modern journalism confuses pandering with balance.

[wellst0nev0ter]

3. He Forgot To Mention The Title Beside Moore's Picture

"Is this good for America?"



so what did the the late, great, Ralphie Cifaretto of The Sopranos call these people again?

oh right, HOOOWAS!

[ThumperDumper]

4. So where's

the line next to Coulter's photo:

"Should liberals really be taken out and shot?"

[wellst0nev0ter]

5. A Kinder Fate Than Staring At Her Skeleton Ass All Day

eom

[wellst0nev0ter]

6. John Cloud On David Brock, Now And 1998

"He picks up something from David Brock's Web site and reprints it on MSNBC's website. Now David Brock is a very famous hater of Ann Coulter. They used to be friends, they're not friends anymore. He is also a serial liar. David Brock wrote a whole book saying, 'Oh, my other books? They were lies.' So I don't think David Brock has a lot of credibility on the question of Ann Coulter. And what they are doing is a smear job. That's his other history -- David Brock has a history of smear jobs. And this is a smear job against me personally." - 2005

Now here's John Cloud in the heady days of 1998:

"Writer David Brock--the journalist who discovered Paula Jones--portrayed Huffington in Esquire as a tragic, muddled figure who is no longer even sure whether he's a Democrat or a Republican."

I guess some smears are more equal than others.

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. Michael Moore is an Oscar-winning documentary maker

Coulter is either a complete sham, who laughs at how the gullible right wing extremists gobble up the crap she spouts; or she is actually suffering from a mental disorder. I don't see the relevance to Time that they did something about Moore. Most of the right wing is embarrassed by Coulter, she's so crazy. Lyndon LaRouche is her equal.

[bunkerbuster1]

10. And Michael Moore never thought it'd be cool if the Unabomber blew up, say

the Fox News headquarters office.

[blm]

8. Michael Moore's film had just won a prestigious award, made a few hundred

million dollars, and had real evidence of government wrongdoing in its content.

Coulter and Moore are nothing alike, but the media INTENT is to make sure they are seen exactly the same....as polemicists.

[NNguyenMD]

9. more importantly, Michael Moore isn't the mean spirited whiny bitch who

resorts to pathetic ad hominem attacks because they can't think of anything intelligent to say.

If Michael Moore interviewed a conservative, he at least tries to understand where they're coming from and doesn't just attack them like the idiot Coultists.

[Straight Shooter]

11. Michael Moore never claimed Canada sent troops to Vietnam.

To compare Michael Moore to Ann Coulter is an insult to Michael Moore.

[BurtWorm]

12. Cloud should be ashamed.

Tell me these aren't the words of a winger:

"The idea that this is a puff piece is just absurd. And it's part of this left-wing attack machine that David Brock has invented for himself in his shame."

Holy shit!

Note to Cloud: Moore was news when he was on the cover of Time. Your piece is more news than Coulter will ever hope to be. Until someone SPITS TOBACCO JUICE IN ANN COULTER'S FACE. (Which would be very, very inappropriate.)