Jeffrey Goldberg's gasping, dying smear tactics - The Diigo Meta page

• 25 Feb 09
  

  lanselius

  Now, watching neocons recklessly spew their bitter little epithets in lieu of (and in order to suppress) debate is like watching an old, dying dragon sadly trying to breathe mighty fire from its mouth but collapsing in a debilitating coughing fit instead -- or is like watching a disgraced, post-censure Joe McCarthy in 1956 stand in an empty Senate chamber and rail against hidden Communists. Nobody cares.

  'antisemitism' smear Israel 'anti-American' Gaza

• 20 Feb 09
  

  Chris Lott

  "...people like Goldberg are becoming extra rancid and reckless in their rhetoric precisely because they know that these rhetorical devices have ceased working. There is a definite sea change when it comes to American policy debates toward Israel. They no longer possess the ability to stifle dissent through thuggish intimidation tactics and they know that, which is why they can now do nothing but turn up the volume on their name-calling attacks."

  politics pollinks israel rhetoric journalism

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