Glenn Greenwald has an important post asking why a press corps that became obsessed with Jane Hamsher's "blackface" image of Joe Lieberman has not managed to notice that UN Ambassador John Bolton was "interviewed" by Pamela Oshry of Atlas Shrugged.
After reviewing some of the "tough" questioning Dick Cheney received at the hands of Sean Hannity after Cheney shot his hunting buddy in the face, Greenwald, who obviously has a cast-iron stomach, let us know about Pammy and Johny:
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But all of that pales in comparison to the fact that U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, on Saturday, in the middle of the most pressing crisis the U.N. has faced since he was appointed to that position, decided to sit for an hour-long, one-on-one "interview" and chose as his journalistic interrogator . . . LGF commenter Pamela "Atlas" Oshry of the blog AtlasShrugs, whose views are so far outside of what is mainstream, in equal parts inane and despicable, that it would be impossible to describe fully.
Greenwald attributes the following "question" to Oshry during this serious excercise in journalism:
I was trying to understand how they became part of the government, Hezbollah, and she was saying that, you know, listen, Osama bin Laden was one of, I don't know, 53 children, 83, I'm not sure, give or take, and he had 53 or 23, whatever. She said this is what they do. Hezbollah, 25 years ago, they have four wives, they all have children, they literally gave birth to their voting bloc.
As Greenwald suggests, it's beyond stunning that our alleged ambassador to the United Nations would take an hour of his time to be "interviewed" by someone who is very much a lunatic.
In the age of blogs, calling someone a lunatic is pretty common, so I rooted around on the internets for the Pamela Oshry v-log that made the rounds a while back. Before you object to the use of the term lunatic, have a look, bearing in mind that UN Ambassador John Bolton thought speaking to this woman was a good use of his time during a major international crisis:
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Greenwald tries, as nicely as possible to explain why being "interviewed" by Pamela Oshry is something the press corps should cover:
Pamela has written one love letter after the next to John Bolton over the past several months. To say that she is not a serious or even stable person is a gross understatement. To describe her accurately would require an endless list of unpleasant ad hominems. The views she expresses on her blog on a daily basis are nothing short of grotesque -- often laughably so. And yet she is the person with whom our U.N. Ambassador chose to sit for an "interview" in order to explain U.S. government policy on the crises in the Middle East.
It's yet one more example of how utterly out of touch the Beltway press corps has become. They project the insanity and failings of the right-wing "wrongosphere" onto us, without evidence or cause, and conveniently ignore how people in top positions of the United States government actively support nutball wrong-wingers.
Yeah, we're the crazy, angry ones.