Breaking: Harsanyi to leave Post ... and join Glenn Beck!

by: Mucius Scaevola

Thu Mar 03, 2011 at 09:47:48 AM MST

David Harsanyi's Facebook post @9:37 a.m. :

Bittersweet news. I'll be leaving the Denver Post, a place I've worked nearly 7 years. I've accepted the position of editorial manager at Glenn Beck's publishing company, which recently extended a joint venture with Simon & Schuster. I'll be acquiring, writing, editing and marketing manuscripts. Also, I'll be a columnist/blogger at Beck's site, The Blaze. The column will still be distributed by Creators Syndicate.

What a perfect "fit"!

Another Case of Pundit Hypocrisy?

by: WeatherDem

Thu Oct 21, 2010 at 14:48:30 PM MST

A few years back, I decided to take David Harsanyi, one of the Denver Post's right-wing extremist op-ed columnists, to task for writing about global warming (it was mostly nonsense filled with right-wing talking points, of course) in a post at SquareState.  He decided to email me in response.  Among the items in our resultant emails was something he seemed pleased to point out: I couldn't possibly know what I was talking about because I was posting pseudo-anonymously.  If I wanted to play ball in the big leagues, I had to ditch that asap.  For long-time blog readers, you'll recognize that this tactic was a favorite of published editorialists for a while.  As they, and their "journalist" counterparts, have proven so often since then to be incorrect about a great many things that pseudo-anonymous bloggers got correct, the charge has mostly been abandoned.  I found it humorous then (and still do) that yet another winger was reduced to name calling and trying to denigrate someone instead of addressing the original issue.

I was reminded of that exchange today during yet another talk radio discussion of how the Supreme Court's Citizens' United over-reach was impacting races this cycle.  Why would that discussion jog my memory?  Well, what do you think the chances are that Harsanyi has penned a piece ripping on unaccountable anonymous donors to political entities who are trying to directly influence democratic elections?