EFL from TCS
...Unfortunately, even having that debate appears to be too controversial for some. In his article, blogger and American Prospect writer Matthew Yglesias makes a startling charge about those who criticize the media’s coverage of Iraq:
". . . the political purpose of the theory [that everything in Iraq is fine except the media coverage] isn’t hard to grasp. The groundwork is being laid for a new version of the "stab in the back" myth that helped destroy Weimar Germany. No matter how far south things go in Iraq, the blame will be laid not at the feet of the president who initiated and conducted the war, but rather on those who had the temerity to note that it wasn’t working. Rather than the critics having been proven right, or so the story goes, the critics are to blame for the failure of the very policy they were criticizing. It’s an ugly tactic, and as you go down the journalistic food chain, it grows uglier still."
The charge is astonishing. If Yglesias isn’t actually accusing those who are critiquing the media of being Nazis, he is accusing them of stealing a page out of the Nazi playbook.
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