Comments on: Player http://thelongview.tv/2009/10/03/player/ Tradition . . . Innovation Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:22:37 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Thomas Lawrence Long http://thelongview.tv/2009/10/03/player/comment-page-1/#comment-441 Thomas Lawrence Long Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:44:17 +0000 http://thelongview.tv/2009/10/03/player/#comment-441 The latest episode in victimolatry, which the Right has successfully appropriated after decrying it, with what they falsely claim are its Lefty identity-politics ressentiment origins (e.g. feminists, minorities). The earliest instance of victimolatry that I can think of is Nixon: "You won't have Dick Nixon to kick around." The latest episode in victimolatry, which the Right has successfully appropriated after decrying it, with what they falsely claim are its Lefty identity-politics ressentiment origins (e.g. feminists, minorities). The earliest instance of victimolatry that I can think of is Nixon: “You won’t have Dick Nixon to kick around.”

]]> By: Charles Ford http://thelongview.tv/2009/10/03/player/comment-page-1/#comment-423 Charles Ford Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:31:23 +0000 http://thelongview.tv/2009/10/03/player/#comment-423 I guess that CBS News is so desperate now that they're manufacturing their own "stories": would Mr. Paley or Edward R. Murrow ever stood for any of this pathetic producer-as-wronged-man-in-debt BS? Yes, Murrow did start the celebrity interview under Paley's watch, but he never became the breaking-news scandal for Thursday night (except for that little bit of dirt from the 1930s about his early Commie sympathies coming out a generation later.) What's next -- Katie Couric being blackmailed for NOT paying for the Palin interview last fall? I guess that CBS News is so desperate now that they’re manufacturing their own “stories”: would Mr. Paley or Edward R. Murrow ever stood for any of this pathetic producer-as-wronged-man-in-debt BS? Yes, Murrow did start the celebrity interview under Paley’s watch, but he never became the breaking-news scandal for Thursday night (except for that little bit of dirt from the 1930s about his early Commie sympathies coming out a generation later.)

What’s next — Katie Couric being blackmailed for NOT paying for the Palin interview last fall?

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