This is Michael Kinsley, writing in Slate this morning about journalistic “objectivity”:

“[N]othing human is alien to Anderson Cooper; nothing alien is human to Lou Dobbs.”

Dobb’s don’t much care for them Mexikins.
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This quote became a post at Rathergate.com:

Michael Kinsley has a piece at Slate.com this morning, The Twilight of Objectivity which ostensibly deals with opinion journalism replacing journalistic objectivity in the MSM.

CNN’s thrilled with the transformation of lou dobbs, business news guy, to LOU DOBBS, CERTIFIABLE LUNATIC.

The money quote from Kinsley:

Objectivity—the faith professed by American journalism and by its critics—is less an ideal than a conceit. It’s not that all journalists are secretly biased, or even that perfect objectivity is an admirable but unachievable goal. In fact, most reporters work hard to be objective and the best come very close. The trouble is that objectivity is a muddled concept. Many of the world’s most highly opinionated people believe with a passion that it is wrong for reporters to have any opinions at all about what they cover. These critics are people who could shed their own skins more easily than they could shed their opinions. But they expect it of journalists. It can’t be done. Journalists who claim to have developed no opinions about what they cover are either lying or deeply incurious and unreflective about the world around them. In either case, they might be happier in another line of work. [emphasis mine]

One wonders if some journalists are happy at all. Dobbs is not. Jimmy Risen isn’t, and neither is Milibank/Froomkim (a fusion, the borg, etc.).

The above deserves serious comment. The below probably doesn’t, but I thought this Kinsley quote apropos of Dobbs’s latest hijinx from Mexico:

“[N]othing human is alien to Anderson Cooper; nothing alien is human to Lou Dobbs.”

Dobb’s don’t much care for them Mex-ee-kins.