Tuning to Ronan Farrow’s MSNBC show today, I was surprised to find him in Paris, and asked myself: what is he doing there? One thing shortly became clear, he wasn’t talking to a wide range of people.
Because in discussing the absence of any top US officials from President Obama on down from the Paris march yesterday, Farrow claimed that “everyone here that I spoke to personally said they understood the limitations of schedule that led to that.” Everyone? Really, Ronan? What kind of bubble do you float in?
Not surprisingly, Finkelstein jokes, “Shades of Pauline Kael:”
Kael famously commented, after the 1972 Presidential election, ‘I live in a rather special world. I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don’t know. They’re outside my ken. But sometimes when I’m in a theater I can feel them.
But whatever Kael’s flaws as a film critic, she could be infinitely more perceptive about her fellow leftists’ lies and sophistry than any of the hacks employed by MSNBC. Not to mention, she made her bones as a working journalist before receiving her awards and accolades.
By the way, speaking of NBC, if only there was a go-to person at the TV network or its subsidiary for its fellow journalists to test the credibility of Joel Pollack’s theory that Obama skipped marching in Paris because of potential blowback from his fellow radical chic leftist base after personally snubbing Ferguson protestors. Somebody who’s “thoughtful. He’s provocative, all the things I think that MSNBC is,” as the network’s president has publicly stated. If only he could be interviewed for his take on this issue…
Update: Top. Men.:
who does the WH turn to put out its more credible lines of spin? @JohnJHarwood
— LeContredicteur (@AceofSpadesHQ) January 12, 2015
Chris Hayes whines about people wanting Obama to act like a Leader of the Free World http://t.co/eFKHcf3NIz
— TwitchyTeam (@TwitchyTeam) January 12, 2015
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