Liz SMITH Plugs LATHAM and CONASON - Yes, in the NYPost

She's a FoB and has said before that she's the ONLY Dem at the Post and often cuts down Tweety and such in her column. Her epiphany that the media is wingnut sounds belated, but anyway. Here's today's:


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http://www.nypost.com/gossip/liz.htm

.... Editor Lewis Lapham of Harper's leads off this month's tirade against the George W. Bush administration with this remark and goes on to question the entire integrity of what's going on. He says that the president let it be known that he intended to run the government as if it were a business "and two years later I don't know why it comes as a surprise that the 10-year federal budget projection has been reduced from a $5.6 trillon surplus to a $4 trillon deficit, or that our splendid little war in Iraq turns out to have been sold to the American public in the manner of a well-promoted but fraudulent stock offering."

Now that I've read Joe Conason's new book "Big Lies," I don't feel so bad about promulgating a questionable statement about the administration and its frothing-at-the-mouth defenders such as Ann Coulter. For Conason convinces us in hard print that the idea of a "liberally biased media" is simply not true. Most media in the U.S. is owned by conservatives and if reporters try to get away with liberal rants, they can only get away with what their bosses allow.

I try to consider both sides of these questions and I am a fan of Bill Buckley Jr.'s National Review and of Bill O'Reilly's excited broadcasts. But there is no question that Bush conservatives are in the saddle, and it is probably the right and the need for ink-stained wretches of both persuasions to try to put a burr under that saddle.
Do read Mr. Lapham and Mr. Conason, too, they are very interesting.

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