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First, cast the cheeto out of thine own eye

Nov 7, 2007
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Politics & Current Events

Consistency is tricky. D. Aristophanes at Sadly, No has caught a humdinger of a good-for-me-but-not-for-thee moment:

This week, Michelle Malkin is having a self-righteous fit over an ABC News "sting" — to use the term very broadly — in which actors engage in same-sex public displays of affection in Birmingham and resulting passerby reactions are recorded. The horror! The media is faking news and manufacturing bigotry! The media thinks all Southerners are bigots! Rage rage rage!!

Cut to Michelle Malkin of 2006, boosting a Hot Air episode:

Think Ali G + Adam Sandler + Stephen Colbert + Mark Steyn. Only better.

The first episode of The Citizen Journalist Report has Jeff posing as a redneck and a peacenik in a park outside moonbat Denver, each spouting anti-Israel rhetoric in an attempt to get passers-by to sign a petition against “Zionazism.”

Hmmmmm. Interesting. I'm sure there's a logical and consistent explanation. I believe it may involve semi-coherent shrieks about "moonbats," "defeatocrats," and possibly "Bush derangement syndrome."

I know that my linking of Sadly, No has reached scary stalker level recently. What can I say? They are on fire this week.

Edit: And after all that, I forgot to actuallylink them.

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  1. Ken  •  Nov 7, 2007 @11:10 am

    By the way, the ABC News story raises interesting questions that I don't address in the gotcha post above. Classical Values has a thoughtful discussion of it that compares the practice to Borat's comedy. I'm not sure I agree, but it's worth reading. The question I posed there: can one really say that this sort of thing is "manufacturing" intolerance? Imagine that the ABC News reporters simply went to the same observers on the same street, and instead of putting on the gay PDA street theatre, simply asked people on camera how they would feel about gays kissing in public. Would that be "provoking" or manufacturing a reaction? If not, why not? Is the distinction that people know in one instance that their reaction is on camera, but not in the other instance?