Friday Morning Irony

Those close to Huffington said the word inside NBC was that the unofficial boycott stemmed from the fact that her new book, Right is Wrong: How the Lunatic Fringe Hijacked America, Shredded the Constitution, and Made Us All Less Safe, takes long, page-after-page jabs at NBC Washington bureau chief Tim Russert, portraying him as a hapless, “conventional wisdom zombie.” And that it was because of Russert’s bruised ego that the company’s anti-Huffington edict was issued.

– Eric Boehlert

I could give 0.5 shits about the subject of the article in the first place (Tim Russert has an ego and influence within NBC, color me shocked). I could not however resist commenting on the sheer irony of the apparent fact that Ariana Huffington called someone else a “conventional wisdom zombie”. Coming from a party-line center-left Democrat who regularly shills for rich, white, male conservative candidates providing they have D’s next to their name and make even the most milquetoast noises about Iraq, that takes some muchos cojones grandes.

UPDATE: Man, oh man, just take a look at that comment thread! I’m pretty sure I haven’t seen that grand a conglomeration of pwoggie crybabies in my entire life, constantly chanting the same paranoid ramblings about how both HuffPo and NBC have been conspiring to destroy St. Clinton the martyr. Even former chum Keith Olbermann is now on their shit list for his Hillary bashing. Never mind that Hillary Clinton is appreciably to the right of even the milquetoast center-left mainstream of the Democratic Party, an allegedly “progressive” web community is behind her in perfect delta formation. This is yet another confirmation of what those on the indie-left, like myself, have known for years: the Democratic Party is not the American left, it’s a fragmented cult of various personalities.