newsbusters.org - 2/10/2009
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When Time magazine likes a liberal, they really, really like them.
Time’s profile of Obama’s "economic wise man" Larry Summers boils over with superlatives. The February 9 edition’s Table of Contents is brief, but gooey: "The brilliant, slightly bumbling man who may save our ...
corner.nationalreview.com - 2/10/2009
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Look, I know he's a very smart guy.
I know he's a competent guy. But he's a...
bad White House spinner. I don't know if it's because he has too much integrity to flack convincingly or what, but he's an underwhelming political voice, at least from what I ...
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... on Summers’ Sunday performance suggests the outspokenness is obscured by the KoolAid gargling: Look, I know he’s a very smart guy. I know he’s a competent guy. But he’s a bad White House spinner. I don’t know if it’s because he has too much integrity to flack convincingly or what, but he’s an underwhelming political voice, at least from what I saw on the Sunday shows. Newsbusters on TIME’s Larry lovefest. On the other side of the ledger, here’s Summers-bashing ...
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