Hell Has Frozen Over

July 21st, 2008 by Jake Hatlin | Posted in Getting After The Left, OGR On Other Blogs |

I’m not kidding.  The end of the world is upon us.  How do I know, you ask?  Simple, a liberal blogger has slammed the Austin American Statesman for being unfair to a democrat politician.

I don’t know if I should laugh or cry.  I’ll pass on both and instead say, Hey, BOR, welcome to our world.

Phillip Martin writes this post, in which he really comes down hard on the AAS because a writer covering their precious netroots liberal bloggers having nothing else better to do with their lives conference took a jab at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi by emphasizing that she is - brace yourself - a liberal.

How dare the AAS?  I mean, there’s taking the gloves off and then there’s pointing out that Speaker Pelosi bats from the left. 

Let me give Mr. Martin some advise…all these years and all the bias coverage, you’re going to have to come at me with more than this weak noise to convince me that the AAS has switched sides and now finds itself leaning toward the right.

How bad did the AAS get underneath Mr. Martin’s skin?  Check out this direct quote:

However, the article they ran as “reporting” in Sunday’s paper shouldn’t just offend me — it should offend all readers. It is, without a doubt, the single worst piece of “journalism” I’ve ever encountered in my hometown paper.

I really don’t mean Mr. Martin too much ill will, but the idea of a liberal blogger thinking that the AAS is unfairly sticking it to their party was way to funny to pass on.

So the media is no longer on the side of the left.  How ever will they win elections now? 

  1. 7 Responses to “Hell Has Frozen Over”

  2. By Bud on Jul 23, 2008

    This is how the far left see themselves today. They have drank soooooo much ‘kool-aid’ that they think they are in the main stream of American society and convinced that all democrates think just like them or they’re not true democrates.

  3. By Phillip Martin on Jul 23, 2008

    Editor & Publisher:

    http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003829997

  4. By KJ on Jul 23, 2008

    I am crushed that we missed you at the RightOnline Summit across town from NutRoots. We had far fewer whiners than did they…

  5. By LegeBoy on Jul 23, 2008

    Correct me if I’m mistaken, but didn’t the Statesman endorse Rick Perry and every single Republican Supreme Court candidate in 2006? Liberal quacks, indeed!

    I will say that, as an HRC supporter, I couldn’t stand waking up everyday to see a half-page photo of BHO on the cover of the AAS, smiling and kissing babies, while, just below, they ran a passport photo-sized Polaroid of HRC looking like she just slapped a cop.

    Also, the grammar police say you were looking for “advice,” not “advise.”

  6. By Jake Hatlin on Jul 23, 2008

    Re: Phillip

    Thanks for the follow up article on the whole AAS coverage of your convention. I’m not sure if you had a chance to catch my post giving you guys a hat tip for the way you worked the Buck Smith thing, but I do offer my apology for the disrespectful manner in which I treated our disagreements in the past.

    I look forward to future interactions with you and policy based debates on the issues and elections that are leading the way.

    JH

  7. By Jake Hatlin on Jul 23, 2008

    Re: Legeboy

    I’ll be sure to run all of my drafts through you first from now on.

    JH

  8. By LegeBoy on Jul 23, 2008

    Re: Jake

    Thank you. You can send drafts to legeboy_@_grammarnazi.com

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