<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Fineness &amp; Accuracy]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://finenessandaccuracy.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Scott Madin]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://finenessandaccuracy.wordpress.com/author/smadin/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Quick Hit: And Here I&nbsp;Thought&#8230;]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>&#8230;that dumping Lou Dobbs indicated CNN was starting to take their middle initial seriously.  As it turns out: <a title="Media Matters' post on CNN hiring Erick Erickson" href="http://mediamatters.org/research/201003160037">Nope!  They were just looking for someone even more objectionable.</a> (One wonders why they didn&#8217;t just keep Glenn Beck, really.)</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t really see what further comment I could add.  Erickson is <em>vile</em>.  He&#8217;s certainly as vile as Limbaugh or Beck.  He makes much of the <em>rest</em> of the conservative blagoweb look measured and reasonable, and that&#8217;s no mean feat.</p>
<p>Yet, somehow, the fact that people say &#8220;fuck&#8221; on Daily Kos is constantly held up as evidence that <em>liberal</em> bloggers are hateful and meanspirited and unserious — and I have no doubt that we&#8217;ll also continue to see right-wing bloggers and Fox News blasting CNN for being an exemplar of the &#8220;liberal media.&#8221;</p>
<p>(<a title="my previous post, &quot;(What Does It Take For CNN To) Fire Lou Dobbs&quot;" href="https://finenessandaccuracy.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/what-does-it-take-for-cnn-to-fire-lou-dobbs/">Previously</a>, <a title="my followup post, &quot;I Guess That's What&quot;" href="https://finenessandaccuracy.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/i-guess-thats-what/">previously</a>. <a title="Shakesville's post on Erickson's hiring at CNN" href="http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2010/03/i-write-letters_17.html">Via</a>.)</p>
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