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Frank Rich’s Paranoid Style
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 Scozzafava was challenged by the Conservative ...
Frank Rich: Only Stalinists Use Words Like "Stalinist"
Frank Rich: Only Stalinists Use Words Like "Stalinist"
reason.com — 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 ... (more) Frank Rich: Only Stalinists Use Words Like "Stalinist"
Public Option Hardest Ball
angrybear.blogspot.com — Robert Waldmann The proposal made here in "Public Option Harder Ball" received enthusiastic support when it was... coincidentally semi proposed as opt-in by Sen Carper (D-Bankruptcy Reform) and modified to to opt-out by Senator Schumer (D-tough guy). As presented here on September 4 it was clearly ... (more) Public Option Hardest Ball
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The Armies of the Right
Belmont Club — ... districts — Buffalo, N.Y., is not Ames, Iowa, is not Orange County, Calif. — but the line obviously should be drawn well short of positively liberal candidates like Scozzafava. We suspect all those liberal pundits gleefully predicting a self-defeating GOP “civil war” will be sorely disappointed next year. Next time they’ll be ready, said the NRO. But although there is confusion and high dudgeon in Republican leadership circles, an unaccountable panic has seized Mr. Frank Rich, who Commentary calls “the New York Times’s theater-critic-turned-political-columnist”. For Mr. Rich, ...

Frank Rich's Paranoid Style
RealClearPolitics - Homepage — November 3, 2009 Frank Rich's Paranoid Style [image] Peter Wehner , Commentary [image] Send to a Friend Read Full Article ›› TAGGED: ny 23 , media RECOMMENDED ARTICLES October 29, 2009 Palin Lights Match at the GOP Bonfire Margaret Carlson, Bloomberg (ii) If you submit material to this site or to BLP or its representative, unless BLP indicates otherwise, you grant Bloomberg a nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable right to use, reproduce,... more ›› November 1, 2009 Prelude to a 2010 Drama ...

Dem Strategist: WH Warning After Going on FOX
RealClearPolitics - Homepage — ... Nicholas , Los Angeles Times [image] Send to a Friend Read Full Article ›› TAGGED: media RECOMMENDED ARTICLES November 4, 2009 Double Standard About Journalists' Bias John Stossel, RealClearPolitics I made The New York Times last week. It even ran my picture. My mother would be proud.Unfortunately, the story was critical. It said, "Critics have leaped on Mr. Stossel's speaking engagements as the latest evidence of... more ›› November 3, 2009 Frank Rich's Paranoid Style Peter Wehner, Commentary November 1, 2009 The NEA is Completely ...

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