Wow! Maggie is arrogant enough to say leftist are stupid.

[BlueLucy]

Link to tweet

[hlthe2b]

1. Yup. That's some class A arrogance, alright.

[OnDoutside]

2. I think Dowd is saying that, but Haberman agrees by retweeting.

[lapfog_1]

3. we don't assume reporters are on "our side"

we hope they tell the truth and report the facts.

The "Left" is, by and large, a fact based political party

[BlueLucy]

5. That's exactly right.

Facts are on our side.

[PatSeg]

7. Yes, it is not suppose to be about "sides"

It is suppose to be about the truth.

[Bev54]

16. I agree but I do think Maggie just outed herself

as leaning to the right, which we all knew anyway.

[tonedevil]

4. Need dressing to digest that word salad. /nt

[ProfessorGAC]

23. I Don't Think Dressing Will Help

There's a lot of bitter in there, and some of that salad isn't real food!

[tonedevil]

24. All too true. /nt

[brush]

6. She actually tweeted that?

Guess she thinks that makes her seem objective and favoring neither side but it really shows that she's still embedded in trump think.

[Baked Potato]

8. I don't quite understand the correlation.

Please tell me what a reporter IS, Maggie Haberman.

[madinmaryland]

18. Maggie is neither a reporter nor a journalist. She is a scribe. Nothing more.

[Hortensis]

9. Well, Haberman could have said "many on the left also...," but being her...

Those who believe honest journalists are those who say what they want to hear and that the truth IS always going to support whatever they want to believe, are being willfully stupid, though. Nothing new about that in any group.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders.
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

~ Denis Diderot

[BlueStater]

10. The media is supposed to be on the side of the truth.

They’re not supposed to side with a political party. They only seems to ally with the left because the right stands for nothing but deranged conspiracy theories these days.

[blm]

11. Don't think MSM supports the left. We think you live in fear of the right

and your corporate masters so you skew right as often as possible, no matter what the truth shows, dumb Maggie.

[NewHendoLib]

12. methinks it is Maggie who knows not what a reporter is

[Miguelito Loveless]

13. I have never been in danger of

believing that the Corporate Media was "on our side". The Corporate Media are mostly made up of useful idiots, idiots, and wilful collaborators.

[Blecht]

14. She's just not very smart

All that matters to her is access and the dinner parties.

[herding cats]

15. The quote in the tweet is by Maureen Dowd, not Maggie Haberman.

Haberman did lift it from Dowd's opinion piece and share it, though.

[muriel_volestrangler]

17. The Maureen Dowd column (not behind a paywall):

https://www.deccanherald.com/opinion/high-on-their-own-supply-956224.html

Basically, what Dowd said, and Haberman apparently agrees, is that it's a reporter's job to find old quotes a nominee (Tanden) said about a swing senator (Murkowski) and give them to her to see if it will affect the way she votes.

If a reporter did that to write an article, I'd agree it's part of their job. But doing it by taking it straight to the senator? That's not so clear. So I think Dowd's and Haberman's assertion that that "is" their job is dubious. It looks more like an attempt to stir things up than to give readers the facts. They certainly shouldn't be getting on their high horses about how "many on the left don’t understand what a reporter is".

[Paladin]

20. Oh, goody! Maureen Dowd let another column.

Breathe through your mouth and back away.

[Ron Green]

21. There is no "Left" in this country.

Bernie Sanders is kind of in that direction, but Biden’s an Eisenhower Democrat. “The Left” is a term used by lazy or ignorant people to differentiate from fascist Republicans.

[leftstreet]

22. +1