Marshall, Again - Longtime reader

Marshall, Again - Longtime reader EB noted my observations about Josh Marshall, and listed his own:

To:
Subject: "Dr." Josh Marshall

Don't let the bright lights fool ya; Josh Marshall is as ignorant as they come. He might know a few things but understands very little. This is a guy who writes about tax policy but doesn't know the difference between the payroll tax and the income tax. If it were not for the support he receives from other Clinton apologists and liberal media shills, his site wouldn't be worth the time it takes to load. The only reason to occasionally browse his site is to find out what the enemy is up to. The sad irony is while he is steeped in the netherworld of doublespeak, he has no idea how it works or how he is being used.

He's bright but poorly educated, or more accurately, thoroughly miseducated. "Indoctrinated" might be the better word. He's just another sock puppet for the Left and is a victim of the deformation of language that is pervasive in higher education these days. In other words, garbage in = garbage out. He reminds me of a guy who takes a course in college, relies on the booklist, sucks up to the professor, and then considers himself well-informed because he got an "A." It never occurs to him that there might be more than one class, more than one professor, more than one booklist, or that he got an "A" because everybody else got an "A."

The future result is as predictable as the saliva in Pavlov's dogs, as is true with most modern liberals today. They have no grasp of history before they were born. They just know what they know because that's what they've been taught, but they don't know how they know it, or why it's been taught, or even if it's true. They just know it's "true," because that's what they know. Doesn't "everybody" know? So, when the factual record contradicts their argument, it's just proof a right-wing "conspiracy" exists, you see, and thus is just one more example of how the jackbooted opposition wants to take over the world, kill all the babies, poison the drinking water, and throw the elderly in trash dumpsters, and so on and so forth.

You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig. Josh Marshall hasn't figured that out yet. I doubt he ever will.

As to Marshall - I'm going to read him in some detail for the next few weeks before I really render judgement.

As to liberal knowledge of history - oh, the stories I could tell.

Or, in fact, will tell, as time permits. Sometimes it seems as if an atrocious understanding of history - and the present - is essential to be a left-of-center believer.

Stay tuned.

Posted by Mitch at August 27, 2003 01:35 AM