I argued that he was giving legitimacy to an Iranian regime that had crushed the very kind of democratic movement that brought Morsi to power.
Nathan Diament, political director of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, said that Mr. Rendell was giving legitimacy to "whatever anti-Semitic views are out there".
Clearly critics on newspapers such as the Guardian have some taste-making effect: our preferences are given legitimacy, status even, by being regularly expressed here.
"Predatory adults would be given legitimacy to focus their attentions on even younger teenagers and there is a real risk that society would be sending out the message that sex between 14-15-year-olds 14-15-year-olds 14-15-year-olds 14-15-year-olds
Many are angry that intolerance has been given legitimacy and a place of prominence.
The whaling nations claim that if their whaling programs are given legitimacy, they will reduce their killing.
He is, however, a bigot so far outside the American political mainstream that he should never have been given legitimacy by MSNBC in the first place.
First, let's look at the charge that the books are anti-Catholic and then question whether Donohue is a reasonable spokesperson for the Catholic Church that should be given legitimacy by the traditional media.
Conservative misinformation is always most dangerous when it expands beyond the right-wing bubble and is irresponsibly embraced by the Beltway press -- when it's given legitimacy it doesn't deserve.
