In a Sept. 19 NewsBusters post, Tim Graham takes the Washington Post’s Michael Gerson — a former speechwriter for President Bush — to task for noting the “unhinged” reaction among right-wingers to any criticism of Christine O’Donnell and how it shows a “Bolshevik approach” in which “Every personal feeling, every independent thought, every inconvenient fact, must be subordinated to the party line — the Tea Party line” and “deviations from the party line are not permitted.”
Graham is one of the chief Heatherers at NewsBusters — who snipe at anyone deemed insufficiently conservative — and he goes into full Heathering mode here:
Gerson didn’t explain in this short blog how it was “unhinged” to see Karl Rove’s fierce attack on O’Donnell as like an Olbermann moment. (In fact, it was: Olbermann reran large chunks of it on MSNBC.) He didn’t explain how it was “unhinged” to say Rove was at war with the Tea Party when they won a surprise victory, and he denounced the winner in the strongest terms.
[…]Gerson wants to suggest that the Tea Party people are unhinged in their rhetoric, and then he compares them to murderous Russian communists. Remember this the next time Gerson agrees with a liberal that Obama shouldn’t be smeared with foreign associations.
[…]Here is Gerson’s arrogance on display, for it’s very easy to remind the Bush people that “winning” wasn’t what happened in 2006 and 2008. Rove and Gerson and their team drove the GOP into a deep hole. This is the spot where the liberals secretly point fingers and laugh — before they invite these Bushies in front of the cameras to denounce the conservatives.
Funny, we thought the MRC’s job was, you know, media research, not ideological enforcement.