Quote, unquote
"Am up here at the Republican Convention. I don't belong to a political party but am here with family."-- Jessica McBride, on her blog. Questions: Will she accuse me of sexism if I note that one member of her family is a candidate for the GOP nomination for attorney general? (I bet yes.) Doesn't the GOP offer a deal on family memberships? Is she pretending to be an independent?
posted by xoff @ 12:41 PM
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6 Comments:
It's the myth that Jessica and her evil mentor, Charlie Sykes, keep repeating (and with a straight face). "I'm not a Republican partisan! I'm just a conservative and I happen to agree with most of their doctrines!"
Yeah, right.
I'm not a Democrat. I don't have official membership in that party. But it would be entirely disingenuous of me to go around saying I wasn't one. I vote democratic 99% of the time, excepting the time I voted for Ralph Nader.
She should be allowed to pretend to be an Independent. She's been pretending to be a journalist for years.
Her appearance on WTMJ--where she runs a very poor show among many--means that the station, at least, isn't pretending to be something other than the house organ of the state GOP.
I marvel that both she and Sykes "pretend" that they're rebel outlaws against the "mainstream" media. As if having a popular radio talk show or lecturing at a university on Journalism makes one, you know, an "outsider" somehow, and nothing more than a citizen blogger
That she is allowed to lecture at a university on journalism is a crime. It doesn't say much for the state of the journalism department.
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