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October 08, 2004
Salon has officially lost it
I used to read articles from Salon.com on a daily basis soon after it first came online back in the late nineties. It had good variety of articles and it I think it is healthy to read opinions by people who you disagree with in case they are right and you are wrong. Some of its best articles were not of a political bent and covered aspects of culture and society you did not read other places and they occasionally even had conservatives write for them. Over the past few years they have been drinking the heavy concentrate anti-Bush kool-aid a bit too much. Pretty much every day most of the articles are about how Bush is the worst president ever/Rove is an evil manipulator/Cheney is doing the bidding of Haliburton!!!/Republicans are intentionally destroying America and the world. The general issues articles are gone for the most part and there is no place at all to have even a token conservative like Andrew Sullivan.
And today I can officially announce they have crossed over from regular high octane anti-Bush rage into anti-Bush lunatic tinfoil hat rage. One of their main stories today: Bush had an invisible listening device during the last debate where Karl Rove was telling him what to say. They provide no actual evidence for this bizarre conspiracy except that in one picture of Bush during the debate his back looks a little weird and some internet sites say it must be the case that Rove was giving him the answers. And like all good conspiracy theories there is no way to disprove it.
The funny thing is that Bush did not do a good job with answers or give answers that sounded like someone else telling him what he was saying. If Bush had given an amazing performance where he ran circles around Kerry that would be one thing, but he did not do a very good job and did not sound like he was getting help. I still read Salon, but more because it is fun to watch a liberal intellectual train wreck and not because I think that it will convince me I am wrong about anything.
Posted by Pete at October 8, 2004 01:46 PM
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