-By Warner Todd Huston
Strangely, the Old Media establishment seemed to move on quite quickly after former Senator Chuck Hagel was confirmed as the new Secretary of Defense on the evening of February 26. Aside from the perfunctory stories of his confirmation, the media didn’t seem much interested in widespread analysis of what it all meant. It was as if few media outlets felt there was much news in the whole thing
However, there were a few horn-tooters happily proclaiming Obama’s victory.
For the Washington Post, columnist Dana Milbank felt that the whole confirmation process was one “Joe McCarthy would have admired.”
All the anti-Hagel points, Milbank thought, were built only on “innuendos” and “hoaxes.”
The New Yorker’s Alex Koppelman claimed that all opposition to Hagel was just a right-wing “tantrum.”
As far as Koopleman was concerned, this confirmation was an example of GOP “petulance.”
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What They Said About Hagel’s Confirmation”