How Tom Edsall ever managed to get a reputation as a liberal is beyond me.
Duncan "Atrios" Black named him Wanker of the Day on Saturday and linked to this post from MyDD:
And to this one from Editor and Publisher: Despite Election Results, Edsall Still Sees 'Red' by Greg Mitchell.
The Democrats - the elected officials, the party activists, the netroots, all of us - have to start differentiating both the Democratic Party and liberals from the Establishment press. Not least because they hold up clowns like Tom Edsall who wouldn't know a real live liberal if one bit him on the leg as being spokespeople for the "liberal" viewpoint.
I read his 1991 book Chain Reaction when it came out. I called it the "Yugoslavia analysis" of American politics, Yugoslavia then disintegrating into ethnic and religious warfare. The essential argument of his book was that whichever of the two parties defines itself as being the more hostile to black people will win. And it was obvious he was doing some creatively contorted analysis of political trends to get there.
Good grief!
Steve Gilliard also has some choice comments for Edsall.
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