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The Intellectual Redneck <a href="http://bloggingredneck.blogspot.com/2009/01/where-is-liberal-outrage-when-obama.html">Where is the liberal outrage when Obama kills civilians?</a>
President Bush was criticized for attacks against Al Qeada that sometimes killed civilians. Even candidate Barack Obama was critical. Will liberals now start calling Barack Obama a murderer? I suspect they will just look the other way.
Liberal ladies
Bitch. Ph.D. —
Forbes has a piece on "The 25 Most Influential Liberals in the US Media." I'm pleased to see guys-I-have-met-multiple-times-and-therefore-feel-like-I-know, Ezra Klein and Matthew Yglesias in the list. But as with all lists of influential people in this list-manic age, where are all the women bloggers? The funny thing about the list is that it includes some women (4, to be exact), but they're such obvious choices that it's clear the writers really don't know many women in media except the really famous ones. The women are: Maureen Dowd (seriously? How is she ...
FORBES: The 25 Most Influential Liberals In The U.S. Media.
Among them is Andrew Sullivan, descr…
Instapundit —
FORBES: The 25 Most Influential Liberals In The U.S. Media.
Among them is Andrew Sullivan, described thusly: “A granddaddy of Washington blogging and a former editor of The New Republic, he clings unconvincingly to the ‘conservative’ label even after his fervent endorsement of Obama.” And John Kerry.
Plus, will Glenn Greenwald really “keep Obama honest?” Stay tuned!
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Somebody please shoot me
Balloon Juice —
... Forbes.com has its list of the “The 25 Most Influential Liberals In The U.S. Media“. Here’s some of the people on the list: Maureen Dowd, Tom Friedman, Chris Hitchens, Andrew Sullivan, Fareed Zakaria, Fred Hiatt. ...
Forbes: Krugman's top liberal
Michael Calderone's Blog —
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman tops Forbes.com's new list of the 25 leading liberal commentators.
There, he's joined by Times colleagues Tom Friedman (4), Maureen Dowd (15), and dark horse candidate David Shipley (9). However, Shipley's editorial page boss Andy Rosenthal and the page's star columnist Frank Rich were excluded.
The rest of the top five includes Fred Hiatt, Arianna Huffington and Jon Stewart. Hiatt's an interesting pick, considering most on the left blogosphere is quick to recall the Washington Post's hawkish editorials before invading Iraq. ...
The 3rd Most Influential "Liberal" In The Media
TalkLeft —
. . . is, according to Forbes (via Balloon Juice), Fred Hiatt. I kid you not: Fred Hiatt, Editorial page editor, The Washington Post Pilloried on the left for his non-Manichean support of the war in Iraq, his moderate and pragmatic editorial column is likely to be the one most closely followed by the Obama administration. The entire list is, as these lists always are, mostly silly. But Fred Hiatt on the list pretty much sinks the entire operation. Speaking for me only ...
Indecision
Jules Crittenden —
... Lack of principles and faulty logic prized. Forbes list of 25 most influential libs draws heavily on people who have a hard time making their minds up: ...
Forbes Lists “25 Most Influential Liberals” in U.S. Media
Comments from Left Field —
Here they are:
Paul Krugman
Arianna Huffington
Fred Hiatt
Thomas Friedman
Jon Stewart
Oprah Winfrey
Rachel Maddow
Josh Marshall
David Shipley
Markos Moulitsas Zuniga (Kos)
Fareed Zakaria
Chris Matthews
Bill Moyers
Christopher Hitchens
Maureen Dowd
Matthew Yglesias
Hendrick Hertzberg
Glenn Greenwald
Andrew Sullivan
Gerald Seib
James Fallows ...
The 25 Most Influential Liberals in the U.S. Media
Shakesville —
In which Forbes unintentionally writes the best Onion piece I've read in ages. [H/T Memeorandum.]
Brainster's Blog — ... The continuing war between lefty bloggers and the New Republic magazine continues. Ezra Klein, one of the most influential liberal pundits in the media ...
"The 25 Most Influential Liberals In The U.S. Media."
Althouse —
According to Forbes. *** "I noticed their list was heavy on bloggers. Perhaps to get hits and links."
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Forbes' Definition Of "Liberal"
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
It's worth checking out: Broadly, a "liberal' subscribes to some or all of the
following: progressive income taxation; universal health care of some
kind; opposition to the war in Iraq, and a certain queasiness about the
war on terror; an instinctive preference for international diplomacy;
the right to gay marriage; a woman's right to an abortion;
environmentalism in some Kyoto Protocol-friendly form; and a rejection
of the McCain-Palin ticket. I'm included on the list. For the record, I support a flat tax and, as my liberal readers ...
"Oprah is a liberal because she is black, Hitch is a liberal because he is atheist, and you are a liberal because you are gay.'
Althouse —
Andrew Sullivan posts a reader email that explains what Forbes was really — supposedly — doing, when it ranked the "The 25 Most Influential Liberals In The U.S. Media." Here's his earlier post trying to reclaim his conservative cred after Forbes blew his cover. ...
What Is A Liberal? Part I: Andrew Sullivan, Forbes, and Sarah Palin
Stubborn Facts —
... This story is a few days old, but Forbes has put out their list of the 25 most influential liberals in the U.S. media. Now, this list has become quite controversial, and frankly, I find the premise problematic, starting with their definition of a liberal. The Forbes article defines a liberal thusly: ...
Fred Hiatt on Kristol: ‘I thought he wrote a good column.’
Think Progress —
... It does seem fitting that Hiatt — whom Forbes magazine has said is the nation’s third most influential liberal — would think highly of Kristol. After all, both ...
