It looks like the media are finally starting to get enough of Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone's gratuitously crass political reporter whose chief talent is bludgeoning mainstream America (particularly evangelicls) with absurdly exaggerated analyses of their inferior moral character. (Not to mention going out of his way to insult, well, pretty much everybody and everything.) Not that I wouldn't laugh at his jokes if they were actually funny - in fact, I eagerly took up his "delusions of the religious right" piece in hope it would be one of those priceless cases where the left makes a spot-on case against religious conservatives. No such luck. As the Portfolio media blog observes today, his entire shtick is really all one huge, gaseous cliche:
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You remember Lou Dobbs, the CNN anchor who declared time and time again that religion has no place in politics? Well, it seems he has had a change of heart, thanks to, uh, Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council. But he doesn’t want the liberal media to know about it!
“If my colleagues in the liberal national media found out about this I’d be in trouble,” he joked at last weekend’s 2008 Value Voters Summit.
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NBC has banished Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews from Election Night anchoring. As analysts instead, they can air their opinions without the restraints of non-partisanship and objectivity.
The move may pacify Republicans, who spurned NBC's Republican National Convention coverage for Fox (of course) and CNN. McCain's campaign has voiced "deep concerns about the news standards and level of objectivity at NBC," criticizing reporter Andrea Mitchell for "giving voice to unsubstantiated, partisan claims."
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