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August 21, 2005
Captain Ed: 'Rich 'Swiftboats' Himself Into Irrelevancy'
Captain Ed over at the always interesting Captain's Quarters doesn't like New York Times Op-Ed columnist Frank Rich's August 21, 2005 column headlined "The Swift Boating of Cindy Sheehan." Says The Captain: Rarely does a columnist for a national news outlet publish a piece as intellectually bankrupt as Frank Rich's entry today in the New York Times. The only item in the column that has full engagement with the truth is this single, lonely statement:
Nicholas D. Kristof and David Brooks are on vacation.
Otherwise, Rich engages in transparent sophistry that must be fisked to be believed.I'm think a columnist of Mr. Rich's stature adds balance to what has essentially been a lecture from the conservative punditocracy on the merits of the Iraq war and President Bush's democracy crusade in Iraq and the Middle East. Unlike Captain Ed, I don't think Mr. Rich is making himself irrelevant. In fact, I think he's more relevant today than he was when he was a theater critic. He is one of a handful of Mainstream Media (MSM) voices with the courage to say what's on his mind about the war without fear of being ostracized or blog swarmed for his views.
For more of The Captain's thoughts, see "Rich 'Swiftboats' Himself Into Irrelevancy."
By way, I enjoy reading Captain Ed's opinions although I disagree with them more than I agree.
Note: This item is cross-posted at The National Political Observer and The Opinion Gazette.
Posted by Munir Umrani at August 21, 2005 02:41 PM
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