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Frank Rich: Only Stalinists Use Words Like "Stalinist"
reason.com - 28 days ago
Frank Rich: Only Stalinists Use Words Like "Stalinist"
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One of Jesse Walker's most interesting observations in his already-classic October piece on " The Paranoid Center " is that, in a direct inversion of Richard Hofstadter's theory, the establishmentarians who try to scare us about the terribly dangerous fringe end up aping the tactics ...
commentarymagazine.com - 27 days ago
Frank Rich’s Paranoid Style
— commentarymagazine.com — Here’s a stunning development: the New York Times’s theater-critic-turned-political-columnist Frank Rich is foot-stompin’ mad. The cause for... Mr. Rich’s latest outburst is the race in New York’s 23rd District, in which the liberal Republican Dede ... (more) Frank Rich’s Paranoid Style

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corner.nationalreview.com - 29 days ago
From Marxists to Stalinists in the Morning -- By: Kathryn Jean Lopez
— corner.nationalreview.com — Frank Rich thinks Hoffman backers are the latter. His latest column is titled: "The G.O.P. Stalinists Invade... Upstate New York": The governors’ races in New Jersey and Virginia were once billed as the marquee events of Election Day 2009 — a ... (more) From Marxists to Stalinists in the Morning -- By: ...

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"The G.O.P. Stalinists Invade Upstate New York" — Frank Rich makes it all sound so scary.
althouse.blogspot.com - 27 days ago
"The G.O.P. Stalinists Invade Upstate New York" — Frank Rich makes it all sound so scary.
— althouse.blogspot.com — Or at least the NYT headline makes it sound as though Frank Rich is about to scare... us over the Stalinist invasion. But, reading the text , I see: "The right’s embrace of Hoffman is a double-barreled suicide for the G.O.P." Are they killing the poor ... (more) "The G.O.P. Stalinists Invade Upstate New York" — Frank ...

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Godwin Redux (Stalin Style) -- By: Andrew Stuttaford
The Corner on National Review Online — In the middle of his discussion in the New York Times, if that’s the word, of the NY 23 situation, Frank Rich had this to say: The same could be said of Beck, Palin and their acolytes. Though they constantly liken the president to various totalitarian dictators, it is they who are re-enacting Stalinism in full purge mode. Reason’s Matt Welch responds:  For those of you keeping metaphorical score at home: Stalin's ...

Morning Links
The Agitator — Frank Rich compares Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin to “Stalin in full purge mode.” Way to out-cartoon the cartoonish, Frank. Jimmy Kimmel asks real, live black people what sorts of jokes about Obama are acceptable. First video sort of sets up the premise. Second video is pretty funny. Jacob Weisberg, who a year go predicted the end of libertarianism, now predicts success on three libertarian issues. (Okay, two-and-a-half. The libertarian position on gay marriage is more complicated.) Cash for Clunkers has made it difficult ...

The Purge Bingers
Hit & Run — ... Those either worried or jubilant about the reported GOP "purge" in NY-23 may be advised to dial back their certainty-meters a notch or three when it comes to figuring out What It All Means for the future of American politics. For a case study of why, harken back to those long-ago days of 2006, when the same dance was being performed around a Connecticut senatorial primary between Vinegar Joe Lieberman and netroots All-Star Ned Lamont. One of that season's many Concerned Partisans was the Fox-buryin', ...

Jim Moran: The GOP would be running on the Taliban ticket in Afghanistan
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... today about ObamaCare being a more dire threat to America than any terrorist, which should come as news to anyone who’s worried about, say, Iranian nukes. But count on the left to have a politically calculated panic attack over that, even while Moran’s casually dismissing Bob McDonnell as some sort of nascent Mullah Omar. And two: Matt Welch was totally right this morning when he called Jesse Walker’s piece about ...

A Purge Is a Purge Isn't a Purge
Hit & Run — ... Remember Frank Rich's hysterical column Sunday about NY-23, where he accused national figures who are backing conservative candidate Doug Hoffman of "re-enacting Stalinism in full purge mode"? Brendan Nyhan wins the Internet Search of the Day Award by ...

One Man's Judas, Another Man's Purged Moderate
Hit & Run — ... Nothing but worthless Twitter chatter from NY-23, but watching the Obama partisans on MSNBC bemoan the GOP's supposed surrender to the extreme "teabaggers," those who ran a "moderate" Republican like Dede Scozzafava out of the race in a quest for ideological purity, the Stalinists of Frank Rich's fever dreams, are in the very next breath denouncing Joe Lieberman as a Judas figure, a betrayer of progressivism for obstructing a really horrid health care bill. Lieberman is, of course, now an Independent and those who obsess over ...

The Party of Discipline
Hit & Run — ... I have been bleating on about this since theater critic Frank Rich's intemperate-stroke-incoherent column about the "Stalinists" opposing Dede Scozzfava, but here is yet another example of a sinister political party purging its more moderate members: ...

Last Week's Top 5 Hit & Run Posts
Hit & Run — ... Here's what you were reading last week at Hit & Run: Welcome to Marikafka County, Arizona, by Radley Balko (11/3) Frank Rich: Only Stalinists Use Words Like "Stalinist," by Matt Welch (11/1) Kids Today, With Their Briar Pipes and Fancy Cigars, by Jacob Sullum (11/6) The Party of Discipline, by Michael C. Moynihan (11/5) ...

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