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For the past year—due to somehow being on a Human Events mailing list— I have been treated to witless daily blurbs from James Delingpole’s 365 Ways to Drive a Liberal Crazy. Today’s suggestion is #336, which suggests: Force them to sit down and watch the movie, Patton. Then ask them just how well we’d have [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, media
Alexander Boot, father of Max and author of The Crisis Behind Our Crisis (reviewed by Paul Gottfried here), has launched a blog. TAC readers will enjoy entries such as “Who’ll Make the World Free From ‘Democracy’?”
Filed under: media
Will Conor Friedersdorf ever learn? He argues that since Rush Limbaugh has no shame, the people who endorse and support him ought to be shamed: Shame on him, but that isn’t where it ends. George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush ought to be embarrassed that they invited Limbaugh to the White House. The Claremont [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, media
There are a disturbing number of journalists out there who cannot count to two. I captured a screen shot of a story — originally from the Daily Caller, but syndicated on Yahoo — with the following title: Poll: Romney leads New Hampshire, Huntsman in third, Perry in fourth. Though the headline has since changed to [...]
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Paul Krugman stirred up a hornet’s nest with a 9/11 post saying in part: What happened after 9/11 — and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not — was deeply shameful. Te (sic) atrocity should have been a unifying event, but instead it became a wedge issue. [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Iraq, media, War
In the Washington Post, TAC contributor Jordan Michael Smith looks at who was right, who was wrong, and who was tasteless at the time of 9/11 and in its immediate aftermath. The piece is an apt reminder of what such figures as Max Boot, Jerry Falwell, and Michael Moore said. Unsurprisingly for readers of this [...]
Seasoned journalist and commentator Dan Gillmor argues that media outlets are acting irresponsibly when they publish ghostwritten op-eds from political candidates and personalities: One school of thought says ghostwritten op-eds are a lot like speechwriter-written speeches. Since we all know that most famous people don’t write all their own lines for speeches, goes this defence [...]
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Bill Kristol been taking liberties with Andrew Marvell yet again. From time to time, I too must cross Harvard Yard, where last night a fleeting figure too bright to be his lady thrust into my hands this odious marvel: Has Rupert world enough, and time, To suffer young Bill’s latest rhyme? Though he has authored, [...]
Like my friend Taki, I sympathize with Rupert Murdoch in his time of travail. Not only has Murdoch seen his lieutenants dragged off to jail after their assorted misdeeds, but the president of News Corporation was physically assaulted on July 19, after an abusive grilling by the House of Commons, as he was trying to [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, media
While attention for the past few weeks has focused — with good reason — on Rupert Murdoch and the News of the World phone hacking scandal, the UK is in the midst of another press embarrassment as well: the case of Johann Hari, boy wonder of The Independent. Hari admitted to mixing into interviews he [...]