They Eat Their Own

The American Prospect Savages Matt Taibbi For Savaging Obama:
"American Prospect, the left-leaning political magazine, doesn't like Matt Taibbi's latest Rolling Stone piece slamming the Obama administration's economic sell-out, calling it a 'nightmare of a story:'

Tim Fernholz: The piece is a factual mess, a conspiracy theorist's dream, doesn't even indict Obama for his real failures...and of course invokes the cold hands of Bob Rubin like a bogeyman at every turn.
This is pernicious for a lot of journalistic reasons, but politically it's bad for progressives because conspiracy theories stand in the way of good policy analysis and good activism, replacing them with apathy and fear."

I love Mr. Fernholz's reasoning, it's so Je ne sais quoi ......... "european socialist." Criticism of Taibbis article isn't about the truth of its complaints, it's about being "politically bad for progressives." If I remember correctly he and his fellow progressives had no problem with "conspiracy theories standing in the way of good policy analysis" when it came to George Bush's policies. But then again I guess that was "good activism" instead of Taibbi's "bad activism."
As I said in my last post "The left has a habit of eating its own, just ask Hillary Clinton."