I guess you could call Tucker Carlson's goofy "exposé" of Media Matters a "hatchet job," except hatchets are traditionally not constructed out of popsicle sticks, rubber bands, and the class of bubblegum typically discovered in packs of baseball cards. (Though to be fair that stuff can get kinda pointy.) "Pointless and hypocritcal, even if the wacky anonymous shit turns out to be true" -- I smell Pulitzer!
But then again, there is nothing so stupid that The Son of Erick can't make it stupider.
On my radio show I’d laughed about that Occupy guy in McPherson Park who was tearing down police fliers and cussing out the police until they shot him with a taser.
One day last week, Media Matters posted one of their typically outraged outrageous posts about it. Within two hours, BuzzFeed had posted on it. Two hours or so after that, the Politico had it up too. A couple hours after that, the Huffington Post had it. It was like clockwork. It was as if they were on a Journolist or something coordinating their outrage and timing to circulate the story. Every few hours a new outlet chimed in with outrage, all going back to the original Media Matters story.
Right. Erick Erickson says something dickish and violent and thick, as is his wont, at least when he is not explaining why Jesus cries whenever the obscenely rich have to pay taxes. (But guffaws, apparently, when the state authority uses stun guns. Because of Liberty!)
And when it is noticed that he has yet again talked dickish shit, and lots of people wonder "why does CNN need this doorknob, again?" his immediate reaction is to deduce, "aha, Soros!"
An alternate explanation is that someone who works for a website that documents right wing shitwhistlers' public words heard him say this crap and then posted it to their website. And then in the first time ever in the history of the Internet, someone else read the original Media Matters post, and then -- and here is where it gets spooky -- linked to it. ON THE INTERNET.
Anytime this happens it is because of a Coordinated Conspiracy.
But that is not the good bit. This is the good bit.
It is no secret that a lot of folks in the Media read Media Matters and rely on it in a way they never would a partisan site of the same kind on the right.
Ring a bell there, Son of Erick?
In Erickson's case, yes, he is just precisely that stupid, thanks for asking. And he is also that mendacious. He's the total package, the Pride of CNN.