Archive for the ‘Even the “Liberal” New Republic’ Category
Paint a Vulgar Picture
Here’s Sullivan’s pathetic defense of Pat Buchanan: There is so much I disagree with Pat Buchanan on – from World War II to marriage equality to immigration to my love of a multi-racial and multi-cultural society – that I could write a book in it. But let me say something in his defense: however repellent [...]
February 17, 2012
· 
John Cole · 
131 Comments
Posted in: Burkean bells, Even the "Liberal" New Republic, Fucked-up-edness
“a bias toward knowing what I’m talking about”
That’s Ta-Nehisi Coates’ credo as stated in the post disembowling Andrew Sullivan that John linked to below. In that piece, Ta-Nehisi writes of his having mostly avoided the race-intelligence pit o’ fail, because he does not to his own satisfaction know enough about the technical arguments there. As John says, that doesn’t prevent Ta-Nehisi from [...]
November 28, 2011
· Tom Levenson · 73 Comments
Posted in: David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, Even the "Liberal" New Republic
Making Politics Safe for Rich White People Again
All you really need to know about Moderate Americans Elect is that they are basically the country-club Republicans who have been driven out of the GOP by the teahadist and talibangelical wings. They call themselves moderate, but they are basically the corporate wing of the former GOP. They’re down with laffer, tax cuts, gutting the [...]
November 25, 2011
· John Cole · 104 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Election 2012, Even the "Liberal" New Republic
They took it all too far
There’s a crazy new Doug Schoen/Pat Caddell piece that I’m not going to link to. I’ll let Steve M. do the honors: Look, I’m not going to rise to the bait by responding seriously to the new Wall Street Journal op-ed by Fox-News-Democrat pollsters Pat Caddell and Doug Schoen, in which they assert that President [...]
November 21, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 93 Comments
Posted in: David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, Even the "Liberal" New Republic
Take this bag and shove it
Jay Rosen on NPR and Lisa Simeone: Who politicized World of Opera more: Lisa Simeone by joining October 2011 but leaving her show untouched by politics, or NPR by divorcing itself from the show after taking criticism? I would say it’s NPR. Gary Knell complains that critics don’t actually listen to NPR. But did he [...]
October 26, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 92 Comments
Posted in: Even the "Liberal" New Republic, Ever Get The Feeling You've Been Cheated?
The comedy is over
It looks like I owe all of you a big apology for suggesting that NPR would severe ties with someone for participating in OWS (h/t slag): NPR will no longer distribute the member station-produced program “World of Opera” to about 60 stations across the country because the show host helped organize an ongoing Washington protest, [...]
October 24, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 113 Comments
Posted in: Even the "Liberal" New Republic, Our Failed Media Experiment
Even the liberal Kevin Drum
I realize that I am now beginning the kind of post that will lead eemom, burns, and JMN to call me a hyperbolic extremist whose blog posts would have no place in a court of law, but contrarian bullshit like this is why I stopped reading Kevin Drum three or four years ago. Here, he [...]
October 16, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 76 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Even the "Liberal" New Republic
Dog Bites Man
I’m sure it comes as a great surprise to you that even the liberal New Republic is trashing the #OWS protests this week. Although I will say it is kind of amusing listening to people who published the vile, racist, and insane rambling of Marty Peretz for decades worrying about “radicals.”
October 12, 2011
· John Cole · 58 Comments
Posted in: Even the "Liberal" New Republic, Our Failed Media Experiment
An Odd Omission
I’m doing some telephone canvassing (not enough) for the No On Two campaign in Ohio and I’m finding out something that is extraordinary to me. None of the people I’m talking to know that many, many charter schools in Ohio are run by for-profit operators. They don’t know this because I live in a low-income [...]
October 11, 2011
· Kay · 33 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Both Sides Do It!, Democratic Cowardice, Democratic Stupidity, Election 2011, Even the "Liberal" New Republic, Our Failed Media Experiment, Our Failed Political Establishment
Credit where credit is due
Those of you who check in at Kathryn Jean’s Bouncy Castle may have noticed a rather sweet article by Michael Potemra posted on Friday night after the passage of the Marriage Equality Act: But here, tonight, I see neither the face of anarchy, nor that of a nascent “North Korea.” I see smiles on young [...]
June 26, 2011
· Sarah Proud and Tall · 76 Comments
Posted in: Even the "Liberal" New Republic, Gay Rights are Human Rights
Did Anyone Actually See David Broder’s Body?
David Broder is dead, or so they say. I’m telling you he’s undead, and like the Jack the Ripper figure in that Star Trek episode, seems to be infecting the previously sane. Exhibit A: Here’s Josh Marshall, Josh Freaking Marshall, earlier today: As a more general matter it’s important to recognize that torture could easily [...]
May 3, 2011
· Tom Levenson · 131 Comments
Posted in: David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, Even the "Liberal" New Republic, Torture
Is genocide good for your 401K?
The liberal Jacob Weisberg makes the case for Paul Ryan: Ryan’s proposal to turn Medicare into a voucher provides an easy political target. But it’s hard to make a principled liberal case for the program in its current form. To do so, you have to argue that government-paid health care should be a right only [...]
April 5, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 56 Comments
Posted in: David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, Even the "Liberal" New Republic, Free Markets Solve Everything
Like We’ve Been Saying
The National Review has a piece up examining ten liberals and their reaction to the Bradley Manning treatment. A snippet: Yesterday, P. J. Crowley was forced to an early resignation from his post as State Department spokesman. His blunder? At an event at MIT last Thursday, he said that “what is being done to Bradley [...]
March 17, 2011
· John Cole · 150 Comments
Posted in: Even the "Liberal" New Republic
Even the liberal Huffington Post
I never liked Huffington Post. It always seemed like a dumber, more celebrity-obsessed version of Politico. So this doesn’t surprise me (via): Bloggers have been coming and going very rapidly over at Huffington Post since Arianna Huffington sold out to AOL last month. There has been mounting speculation about the death of the once liberal-leaning [...]
March 15, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 105 Comments
Posted in: Even the "Liberal" New Republic
Beltway Liberals Are Such Scrotums
Here’s Jon Chait, all worried about Obama’s treatment of Jon Huntsman (via): But what happens the next time Obama wants a talented Republican like Hunstman to serve in his administration? Does he really want that Republican to contend not only with being attacked by fellow partisans in his next race, but knowing that Obama will [...]
March 12, 2011
· mistermix · 66 Comments
Posted in: DC Press Corpse, Even the "Liberal" New Republic
