Could you explain this please?
David Brock has written another missive about how the evil Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy is taking over America. This time, in The Republican Noise Machine: Right-Wing Media and How It [sic] Corrupts Democracy he appears to claim that the “right wing” has taken over the media and duped the American public into thinking that the media have a liberal bias. But I’m not here to argue that point.
Rather, I’m here to argue about continuity and credibility. Back in the 1990’s, David Brock did some major investigative reporting, much of it appearing in The American Spectator, that was interpreted by the dominant media of the day as nothing more than smears. Now he claims that the entire media is a right-wing smear machine.
Does this mean that everything he said about Anita Hill, and various Clinton scandals (including Troopergate) was made up out of whole cloth? If so, should we believe him now? I know that he’s spent the past several years “apologizing” for his writings back then, claiming to have been in thrall to some right-wing cabal hell-bent on world domination. But seriously, is this a case of “The next sentence is a lie”;”The previous sentence was true”?
My brain hurts. I think I’ll go do some differential equations or something easy.