eschatonblog.com - 6/20/2009
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I think one mistake people, including me, have been making in discussing Froomkin was to assert that he's a liberal and, as Glenn Greenwald said, is almost alone in the mainstream media in criticizing Obama from the Left. This is true, in some sense, but only because our political discourse has ...
westernfrontamerica.com - 6/22/2009
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westernfrontamerica.com —
Liberal fascism, propaganda, socialism, government totalitarianism or the
Liberal-Muslim Axis, all of it amounts to the liberal...
hate that kills truth. When the people fear their government, there is tyranny. ...
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Liberal hate kills truth
meganmcardle.theatlantic.com - 6/20/2009
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Dan Froomkin is out at the Post ,
for reasons that aren't clear to me. Was there...
really room for only one liberal political blogger?
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Froomkin Fired
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Crooked Timber —
The sacking of Dan Froomkin by the Washington Post reminds me of something attributed (IIRC) to Auberon Waugh on being told that Randolph Churchill had undergone the surgical removal of a tumour that turned out not to be malignant.
It is a marvel of medical science that they could first locate the one part of Randolph that was not malignant, and, having found it, immediately remove it
More from the ever-growing Wapo fan club.
Whether or not Google ...
Morning Daniel Froomkin News Roundup
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles —
... Eschaton: I think one mistake people, including me, have been making in discussing Froomkin was to assert that he's a liberal and, as Glenn Greenwald said, is almost alone in the mainstream media in criticizing Obama from the Left. This is true, in some sense, but only because our political discourse has become so weird. I mean, a decade ago, whatever I thought of conservatism, I wouldn't have considered "following the law" and "constitutional limits on executive power" and "skepticism about government secrecy" and "acknowledgment of the 4th amendment" and "accountability for ...
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