Left In Lowell

Dan Kennedy turns the tables in his latest post, which is, of course, about the dust-up with Greater Boston’s Beat the Press. In particular, he’s rightly a little miffed about a commenter on dKos misrepresenting, or misunderstanding, his stance on the Iraq war.

I just have two things to say…the “pigheaded” comment was really more regarding last week, because I think Dan’s tone was off base - lots of stuff had been pointed out to him (some nice and some not) and I thought he missed the boat in what came across like an attempt to defend his colleagues.

Second, there is, as I pointed out in comments, a touch of irony in Dan’s understandable displeasure about being misrepresented on the Iraq war in the comments of the Kos post. I mean, this commenter got her opinion from something he wrote about Colin Powell before the war (when he went to the UN), and in order to get his previous and subsequent stance totally right, she’d have to, you know, fact-check or something. I’m just sayin’.

But truce, truce! All right, so everyone’s been pigheaded these last two weeks, myself included…it’s very easy to vent your frustration on the internets before you have a chance to filter those raw feelings. But, I am getting rather weary of gazing at my own navel. Given that it’s the holiday season and my navel’s going to disappear anyhow, overeating cookies and pie…so, here’s the white flag.