Kyle Smith reviews the new leftwing agitpropumentary on Lee Atwater:
Atwater’s painful demise seems to delight the largely left-leaning pundits assessing Atwater’s legacy, which inspired Karl Rove among others. Howard Fineman of Newsweek, for instance, says, “Life gets even with you in the end,” an ugly comment that sounds a lot like the liberal equivalent of calling AIDS God’s punishment for gays.
Mewanwhile, Newsweek’s Fareed Zakaria begins his latest article with the following opening sentence: “Will someone please put Sarah Palin out of her agony?”
At the start of 2005, shortly before Newsweek started tossing Korans into toilets and American flags into garbage cans, Fineman wrote:
A political party is dying before our eyes — and I don’t mean the Democrats. I’m talking about the “mainstream media,” which is being destroyed by the opposition (or worse, the casual disdain) of George Bush’s Republican Party; by competition from other news outlets (led by the internet and Fox’s canny Roger Ailes); and by its own fraying journalistic standards.
Might want to look a bit closer in the mirror, fellas.
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