A good laugh on a Monday morning
by digby
Just watch it. You'll thank me:
Via James Fallows, who said:
I've always wondered how exactly to describe the temperament, the broadmindedness, the analytical subtlety, the Id that through the decades have shaped the Wall Street Journal's editorial page. Conveniently, the Journal has filled that need, via this video interview with one of its editorial board members.
Not that we needed to be reminded of Dorothy Rabinowitz's unique brand of wingnuttery. Recall this piece from a few years back by Eric Alterman regarding the Rabinowitz's role in the Juanita Broadrick matter:
The story ultimately broke on February 19, when the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal joined its erstwhile political and journalistic comrade Drudge. Deploying tear-jerking prose, right-wing ideologue Dorothy Rabinowitz accepted Broaddrick's claims at face value. She wrote, "To encounter this woman, to hear the details of her story and the statements of the corroborating witnesses, was to understand that this was in fact an event that took place."
The trusting editorial writer--"I am not a hard news reporter," she has explained--asked Broaddrick no uncomfortable questions and turned up no contemporaneous evidence. Nor did she raise the issue of a voluntary polygraph. Woman-to-woman, Rabinowitz simply decided that Broaddrick's twenty-one-year-old claims were true, and the massive news-disseminating resources of the Dow Jones Company were marshaled behind a story that its news division wouldn't touch. Following this act of journalistic recklessness, the paper's editors chided NBC for its commitment to ethical standards and even compared their own work to George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia.
Or this, my absolute favorite quote from a Wall Street Editorial board member:
"You have major criminality, excused as nothing. You can do anything you want, as long as you're poor."
Rabinowitz will never let you down.
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