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Daily Kos —
... Rich Lowry: Today's version of sour grapes about losing. Granted, it's a somewhat incoherent rant against Clintonistas and competence, but we trust our readers are unfamiliar enough with either to fall for it. Richard Cohen: Clintonistas I can deal with. Petty I can deal with. But what's unnerving is that Obama seems detached and above it all. it leaves me with so little to say. But I'll say it anyway. I've got space to fill. Hendrik Hertzberg: You might think that an organization that for most of the ...
Balance of Ridicule
TigerHawk —
Try substituting "Muslim" for "Mormon" in this article You might think that an organization that for most of the first of its not yet two centuries of existence was the world’s most notorious proponent of startlingly unconventional forms of wedded bliss would be a little reticent about issuing orders to the rest of humanity specifying exactly who should be legally entitled to marry whom. But no. The Mormon Church—as anyone can attest who has ever answered the doorbell to find a pair of polite, persistent, adolescent “elders” standing on the stoop, tracts in hand—does not count ...
O'Reilly guy follows Hertzberg
Michael Calderone's Blog —
... Because the New Yorker's Hendrik Hertzberg wouldn't come on "The O'Reilly Factor," to defend his column referring to an O'Reilly-Gingrich interview, Bill O'Reilly sent something after him. (h/t ...
Hertzberg on O'Reilly segment: 'outright lie'
Michael Calderone's Blog —
... Mitchell emailed the New Yorker earlier this week with the Nov. 14 transcript, and wrote that that Hertzberg “accused former House Speaker Newt Gingrich of being an anti-gay bigot while ignoring the context of the conversation.” (Emails provided by Hertzberg).
"I don’t think it was out of context," Hertzberg told Politico. "I didn’t call Gingrich a bigot. He’s appealing to anti-gay feelings."
Below is what Hertzberg wrote, which is at the heart of the dispute: Continue reading post...
Bill O’Reilly, Via His Mini-Me (Whoops, Producer), Accuses New Yorker (Real) Journalist Of Bigotry – Excuse Me?????
News Hounds —
... , accurately quoted Newt Gingrich’s commentary on “The Factor” when he illustrated, in his article, the sheer nonsensical views of the homophobic conservative right wing: "Like a polluted swamp, anti-gay bigotry is likely to get thicker and more toxic as it dries up. “Viciousness meets viscousness. “Look,” Newt Gingrich, the former House Speaker, said the other day (on the air, to Bill O’Reilly), “I think there is a gay and secular fascism in this country that wants to impose its will on the rest of us, is prepared to use violence. . . . I think that it is a very dangerous ...
Gingrich on Hertzberg: ‘a total jerk’
Michael Calderone's Blog —
Last Thursday on“The O’Reilly Factor," comments made by Newt Gingrich a month earlier on the show, fueled a battle between host Bill O’Reilly and New Yorker writer Hendrik Hertzberg, who'd penned a column referencing them.
Politico’s Daniel Libit caught up with the former House Speaker, for his thoughts on the cable news controversy.
“I thought that was funny. I thought the fact that O’Reilly played unedited the entire walking interview with Hertzberg—who is a total jerk—was just funny. If you go back ...
Gingrich: My Claim About A Gay Fascism Was ‘A Very Narrowly Focused Reference’
Think Progress —
... New Yorker writer and editor Hendrik Hertzberg cited Gingrich’s comments in his Dec. 1 “Comment” as an example of “anti-gay bigotry [that] is likely to get thicker and more toxic as it dries up.” He added, “This sort of sludge may or may not prove to be of some slight utility in the 2012 Republican primaries, but it is, increasingly, history.” ...
