Thursday, October 24, 2013

How I Became the Poster Girl for Liberal Agitprop


You might have heard: I wrote a piece asking liberal critics of the ACA’s Web problems to take a larger perspective, and not rush to join the clusterf*ck of conservatives declaring the entire program a failure. I mentioned two writers I admire, Ezra Klein and Ryan Lizza. Both had offered smart and sober criticism of the Web troubles; both also took to Twitter to get a little bit silly. Lizza suggested the ACA’s Web glitches might be a bigger disaster for Democrats than their default-hostage crisis was for Republicans. That seemed to me to be a pretty clear example of “false equivalence” that erodes media credibility. One party brought us to the brink of a constitutional crisis and almost precipitated a global economic collapse. The other party rolled out a complicated and apparently poorly designed Web site with insufficient testing and a screwed up procurement process. Those seem about equal, right? Of course not. There’s no comparison.






Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/10/24/how_i_became_the_poster_girl_for_liberal_agitprop_318539.html
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