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December 7, 2005
La Times Not Leftist Enough for Babs
Posted by Dave Blount at December 7, 2005 1:22 PM
As if things weren't bad enough for the troubled Los Angeles Times, they have now incurred the wrath of Her Highness, Queen of Moonbats, Barbra "Babs" Streisand, who is so enraged that they would temper the foaming-at-the-mouth leftist tone of their editorial page by dumping Robert Scheer and adding Jonah Goldberg that she is canceling her subscription (H/T: LGF).
To give an idea of why Scheer's departure is so disturbing to Her Highness, here are a few highlights from his resume, via Discover the Networks:
- Co-authored a 1961 book defending Fidel Castro's Communist revolution in Cuba
- Edited radical magazine Ramparts
- Co-founded Berkeley's Red Family — a domestic, Communist guerrilla group
- Follower of Korean dictator Kim Il-Sung
- Defended President Clinton's attacks on Iraq, but attributes George Bush's 2003 war on Iraq to "imperialist greed"
Another highlight of Scheer's career was publicly applauding sociopathic Black Panther thug Eldridge Cleaver's declared intention to kill people for being Caucasian, with the exclamation, "Right on, Eldridge!"
FrontPage Magazine's John Perazzo describes Scheer as a "Gucci Marxist" with a "penchant for extravagant hyperbole in the service of misrepresentation of the facts."
Jonah Goldberg, on the other hand, is a highly recommended writer, whose excellent and entertaining work can be found on National Review Online. Absurdly (but typically) Babs sited "diversity" in her explanation of why a conservative like Goldberg cannot be tolerated on La Times' editorial page. He seems to be dealing with her disapproval fairly well, to judge from his column today:
Short of convincing Alec Baldwin to actually make good on his promise to flee the country, vexing the Dashboard Saint of Hollywood Liberalism is about as good as it gets.
