The Problem With Liberals

A man of many names over to Balloon Juice laments the spinelessness of NPR in the most recent edited videogate

Why does every liberal in establishment media except Paul Krugman have to be such a mealy-mouthed fink? Part of it, I know, is that not many are actually any kind of liberal, but I am sure there are plenty of tv types who vote the same way I do and feel the same way I do about most issues.

See what he did there? Rather than sticking to the obvious point many of the professional Liberals aren't Liberal or the deeper point that American Liberalism is really Neoliberalism, he mealymouthedly lets them off the hook.