Noam Chomsky reminds us of the usefulness of the business press in this video snippet. While I tend to agree with him, I must make exceptions for two business publications: Investors Business Daily and Forbes. IBD once claimed that the fact that Rush Limbaugh's television show drew higher ratings in Yuba City (one of the smallest markets in the US) than Dan Rather's CBS Evening News was a sign that Dan's days were numbered. Limbaugh's show was canceled shortly thereafter. IBD also picked up the obnoxious reactionary racist cartoonist Michael Ramirez after he was dropped by the Los Angeles Times. Forbes is a family-run glossy joke currently controlled by pudgy failed presidential candidate and flat tax advocate Michael Forbes in the wake of the passing of his more flamboyant father (and also failed political candidate) Malcolm.
While particularly ridiculous examples from Forbes don't come as easily to mind as those from the truly wretched IBD, I have been blessed today with one that I will remember until I shuffle off this mortal coil. Ladies and gentlemen, Decents, Fascists, and Chaucerian Frauds, may I present Christopher Hitchens, the 14th most influential media liberal in these United States!
Vociferously atheistic, Hitchens, who styles himself a "radical," will likely be aghast to find himself on this list. This prolific, but never less than eye-catching, author has supported the war on terror as enthusiastically as he has excoriated Sarah Palin.
Tunku Varadarajan, who was part of the unholy triad who came up with this crap, was formerly the house Turk over at the Wall Street Journal. Perhaps he wants to brand Hitch a liberal over the Kurdish issue? Enquiring minds want to know!
“The enemies of intolerance cannot be tolerant." • "If it is an offense to justice to hold people who may have been victims of mistaken identity or of vendettas by other factions, then it is also an offense to justice to release psychopathic killers who believe that they have divine permission to throw acid in the faces of girls who want to attend school." • "Don't be such a lesbian!
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