Monday, August 31, 2009

Line of the Day: 2009-08-31

When future historians ask how the United States came not only to practice torture but to celebrate it and treat torturers as heroes, a special place in hell among the journalists who embraced and justified it should be reserved for Chris Wallace.
      --Andrew Sullivan

I was led to this post -- a description of Wallace on his knees before Dick Cheney, or as Sully put it, "A Teenage Girl Interviewing The Jonas Brothers" -- by Glenn Greenwald's fine post on nepotism among the Villager media, to which I was directed by Jim Newell's take on Jenna Bush's new "job." I salute them both for being able to bring some humor to this sad state of affairs. Read 'em and weep.

Also, more from Sully on the Wallace "interview" here.

2 comments:

Substance McGravitas said...

What special place does Sullivan earn?

bjkeefe said...

Ooooo, that's mean. But not entirely undeserved.

Give him a place at the sometimes he's right, and I love him when he is, table. But there are lots of times he should go hungry, for sure.

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