{"id":9308,"date":"2013-03-18T23:59:44","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T06:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=9308"},"modified":"2013-03-19T00:00:42","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T07:00:42","slug":"shades-of-murphy-brown-gop-operative-clashes-with-fake-news-anchor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=9308","title":{"rendered":"Shades Of Murphy Brown: GOP Operative Clashes With Fake News Anchor"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the most widely mocked skirmishes in modern politics was the battle royale between Vice President Dan Quayle and Candace Bergan’s sitcom muckracker Murphy Brown. Qualye was concerned that Brown’s irresponsible decision to have a child out of wedlock would set a bad example and he proceeded to have a public feud with the fictional character.<\/p>\n

Now another Republican moralist is having a spat<\/a> with a pretend TV news anchor. Jason B. Whitman, the policy chair of the Young Republicans and a Breitbart columnist, responded angrily to a Tweet by Will McAvoy<\/a>, the anchor of the ACN news network on HBO’s Newsroom. Unfortunately, Whitman didn’t know that McAvoy wasn’t a real person. The exchange went something like this:<\/p>\n

McAvoy:<\/strong> When will the media stop talking about the politically irrelevant Sarah Palin at CPAC? I\u2019m devoting the hour to that topic tonight!
\nWhitman:<\/strong> It’s odd that @WillMcAvot_ACN is dedicating an entire hour of his show to “politically irrelevant” @SarahPalinUSA.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Shortly thereafter, Whitman was alerted to his mistake and deleted the Tweet. That, however, did not dissuade the ersatz McAvoy from further engaging Whitman:<\/p>\n

McAvoy:<\/strong> Murphy Brown and I had drinks on Sunday and could have sworn we saw Dan Quayle and @JasonBWhitman making out. Could be wrong.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is the sad state of affairs in the world of conservatism. They are a pitifully out-of-touch congregation of ill-informed wingnuts whose grasp of popular culture consists of fan clubs for Ronald Reagan and swapping 8-tracks of Ted Nugent. No wonder their favorite news network is affiliated with 20th Century Fox, still in a century that is one behind the rest of us. Whitman’s Young Republican organization is so dynamic that they have four whole postings this year on their blog. Clearly they have their thumb on the pulse of American youth.<\/p>\n

What is not surprising is that they would object to “lamestream”<\/em> news anchor Will McAvoy. He prominently put the Tea Party in its place<\/a> in an early episode of the program. The monologue enumerated some of the identifying characteristics of today’s Tea-publican Party. Coincidentally, the GOP just went public with the results of their “rebranding”<\/em> study and McAvoy’s list would fill in nicely as a statement of their principles.<\/p>\n

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