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The media are vulnerable

December 8, 2004 10:46 AM by Paul Gottfried

Having watched Hannity-Colmes on December 6, it is apparent that their guest Tom Woods (whose book is holding at number 10 on Amazon) exposed the vulnerability of the left-liberal-neocon establishment to well designed historical criticism from the right.

It is not just that Tom did well, although he certainly did, defending his politically incorrect comments about Lincoln and FDR with both verve and erudition. Far more important is the way he rolled over his hosts by answering their conventional questions about the American past with devastating thoroughness. Hannity and Colmes were being confronted by a highly defensible understanding of American history that they had not likely encountered up until that moment.

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