IN MY SHOES: “I Am A Pimp And An Idiot”: Readers
The Washington Post’s often droll but not always original (last item) Dana Milbank reviewed the 1,800 readers’ comments about his columns during the past week and found out that he’s a pimp and an idiot, and that left-wingers are far angrier and disaffected than right-wingers (take note, Janet Napolitanto; third item):
On Tuesday, I learned that I am a right-wing hack. I am not a journalist. I am typical of the right wing. I am why newspapers are going broke. …
On Thursday, I realized that I am a media pimp with my lips on Obama's butt. I am a bleeding-heart liberal who wants nothing more than for the right to fall on its face. …
The vitriol of last year's presidential campaign has outlasted the election. For the right, this isn't terribly surprising; their guys lost the White House in 2008 and control of both chambers of Congress in 2006, so lashing out in frustration is to be expected. The left, however, is more difficult to explain. It made sense for them to be angry when George W. Bush was in the White House. But now, even under Obama, the anger on the left is, if anything, more personal and vitriolic than on the right.
Being an idiot, Milbank was forced to ask his readers why the left is so angry and learned that many lefties are frustrated by Obama's “centrism” and take their bile out on hapless columnists like him because if they “yell obscenities at Obama we get a visit from the Secret Service.”
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