Marc Morano: "He's the turd in the punch bowl …"

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โ€ โ€ฆ thatโ€™s all he is and all he canย be.โ€

The amazing thing about Esquireโ€™s brilliantly written new profile on Marc Morano is that Morano himself probably lovesย it.

Per the quote above, Esquire writer John Richardson calls Morano a โ€œturd in the punch bowl.โ€ He calls him a liar, referring to โ€œthe method Morano loves best, using the laugh value of satire to displace the truth requirements ofย journalism.โ€

Yet Esquire still gives Morano 6,500 words of love and attention (the two are one and the same in Moranoโ€™s denier circles). The magazine even introduces him in the subhed as the guy who โ€œbroke the Swift Boat story and effectively stalled John Kerryโ€™s presidential run.โ€ (Cโ€™mon, you guys. He didnโ€™t โ€œbreakโ€ it. He made it up.)

And that lifts Morano one notch further up the notoriety index. It throws another hundred thousand watts into the megaphone that Morano uses to overwhelm truth with โ€œsatireโ€ – to spread fecal coliforms through all of Americaโ€™sย punch.

Ah well. We can only hope itโ€™s a swan song – that the last six months will one day prove to have been the deniersphereโ€™s best, and last success. But while we hope – and wait – I have to recommend the article. Itโ€™s very goodย reading.

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