If one looks at the politics of pseudo-conservatives Andrew Sullivan and Conor Friederdorf at the Daily Dish, along with their link patterns, they may be more Trotskyites than conservatives. Propped up by a Left-leaning magazine and approvingly linking to the Left more often than the Right, they are also conducting a not-so-subtle campaign to quash the most ardent and honest voices of conservatism.

Yesterday, they again partnered with the Left to launch a dishonest attack on National Review’s Andy McCarthy. Below, the aptly named Adam Serwer writes for the American Prospect. One can make what they will of Beck’s bit. A McCarthy passage Friedersdorf dishonestly casts as the same thing Beck is saying isn’t that at all. But Friedersdorf never seems to have a problem lying to push his agenda.

Once again, Adam Serwer is calling out Rich Lowry for criticizing Glenn Beck’s loony ideas even as he publishes similar stuff:

Either these guys don’t read their own magazines, or they’re perfectly comfortable printing paranoid nonsense about American liberals and Islam if it fits with their political agenda. The only real difference between Beck, Kristol, and Lowry is that the latter two let the mask slip more often.

That goes a bit too far, but it’s true that Lowry has published lots of indefensible work by Andy McCarthy. And every so often you’ll see something at NRO that makes you wonder what exactly they’re about:

Below is what McCarthy wrote that has Friedersdorf attacking him. It’s fact-based, not the thinking of some crazed conspiracy nut. Conservatives have had problems with State as far back as WWII. It’s no secret that they often tend toward accommodation, as opposed to confrontation, when it comes to America’s enemies. (more…)

The left is jumping up and down screaming “Gotcha!” over a post at American Prospect by Adam Serwer that purports to debunk the New Black Panther voter intimidation story.

Serwer’s headline:  “When Was the Black Panther Case Downgraded” is an important part of the obfuscation that runs through the reaction to his post as left-leaning media types desperately try to make his “find” mean something that it doesn’t.

First, let’s watch the highest-profile regurgitation of Serwer’s storyline, Keith Olbermann:

Seems pretty cut and dried, right?  The charge that Obama’s Justice Department dismissed the case against the Panthers is patently false because it was actually the Bush DOJ that dismissed them.

Well, at least that’s what Olbermann and his poor, tortured producers and staff want you to think.

Remember I pointed out that Serwer’s headline is the beginning of the obfuscation?  Read it again:  “When Was the Black Panther Case Downgraded.”

Get it? (more…)