Andrew Golis

This is exactly the crap that drives liberals crazy about the “Very Serious People” over at TNR.  Yes, Rachel Maddow getting her own show is indicative of the trend toward ideological cable news.  But unless Sacha Zimmerman has some plan for ridding the world of Fox News and fundamentally changing the political DNA of our country and its media markets, denying her a show because of this would amount to (continued) liberal unilateral disarmament.

And more importantly, Rachel Maddow, while obviously liberal, is the person on cable least likely to further the actual problems that Zimmerman believes come with this increasing media polarization: “that we are more and more retreating to our comfortable trenches and refusing to acknowledge anything but spite, paranoia, and conspiracy theory when it comes to the other side” and “knee-jerk reactions” passing “for smart commentary.”

In short, Zimmerman is arguing that Rachel Maddow shouldn’t have her own show because Sean Hannity is an asshole.  Great.

Update: I’ve posted a slightly extended and revised version of this post over at TPMCafe.

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