CURRENT WISDOM
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM New York Times The mental disorder that is Progressive Thought quivers and blinks on the apologetic pages of the venerable Times: In June 1983, Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski, then...
...That's not what I do...
...Prior to 1987, when the Federal Communications Commission overturned the fairness doctrine, broadcasters had to air opposing views on controversial issues if they wanted to keep their licenses...
...Since 2001, the Review's temperature has risen and its political...
...Hannity introduced me as a "liberal," and I heard the assembled crowd emit a loud boo...
...CURRENT WISDOM A. No, never, how could it...
...June 3, 2004) American Prospect "The Passion" of Clinton Secretary of Labor Robert B. Reich suffered at the hands of Sean Hannity's Romans, as recollected by the saintly little twerp himself Recently I accepted an invitation to be on Sean Hannity's radio show, which is carried by nearly 400 stations around the country...
...Despite the defiant tone of the speech, many reporters noticed, General Jaruzelski's knees were shaking...
...But that doesn't stop some of those who served from asking, "Who died in your place, Dick Cheney...
...It was the pope's second trip to his home country, but the first since the general had imposed martial law 18 months earlier, and in a speech before their meeting the general defended his decision...
...Getting the truth every day, on each piece, is an impossibly high standard...
...Social justice...
...But there's this veil in front of you, and it's the time where you can be completely candid and totally honest and frank and know that you're not going to be compromised¡ªand that's what I try to bring to "Meet the Press...
...One listener e-mailed me later in the day to explain that Hannity's sound engineer had apparently turned down the volume on me, in order to ensure that Hannity's voice predominated...
...I'm promoting a new book, Reason: Why Liberals Will Win the Battle for America (Alfred A. Knopf...
...Failure and self-flogging won't unspill the blood in Iraq...
...All over talk radio and talk TV, liberal voices are being drowned out...
...Tish Parmeley San Francisco, California (May/June 2004) When I read "The Times and Iraq," I thought: Not good enough...
...The crowd booed again...
...Because local draft boards had to fill quotas when a man who was eligible got a deferment, someone else had to fill the slot...
...Now, hosts of talk radio and talk television¡ªalmost all of them right-wingers¡ªare interested in airing only one view: their own...
...Old warhorses bolted from their armchairs...
...charged into battle...
...Back to work...
...I phoned in at the appointed time...
...The vagaries of draft quotas, military service and the war itself make it impossible to say whether Leroy Robert Cardenas or Walter Elmer Handy or Douglas Tyrone Patrick or any of the other sons of Casper who perished in Southeast Asia might have survived the war years and gone on to explore their "other priorities" if Cheney had responded to his country's call...
...Prominent members of the Review "family"¡ªa stable that includes veteran journalists (Thomas Powers, Frances FitzGerald, Ian Buruma), literary stars (Joan Didion, Norman Mailer) and aca demic heavyweights (Stanley Hoffmann, Ronald Dworkin, Arthur Schlesinger Jr...
...Apparently not for my fat ass...
...At this point Hannity played a tape, purporting to be the voice of John Kerry, who admitted to committing atrocities in Vietnam...
...You're The New York Times...
...May 23, 2004) New York Times From his retirement home in Tucson, Arizona, God responds to the Times' recently celebrated mea culpa: outlook has sharpened...
...Tomorrow President Bush will call upon Pope John Paul II at the Vatican...
...On this day, Hannity was broadcasting from Chicago...
...He then asked me if I thought Rumsfeld should resign...
...I tried to get a word in, but Hannity continued to rant about John Kerry and the liberals who want to destroy the country...
...The crowd cheered...
...When I began to answer, Hannity cut me off...
...I decided to keep talking but my words seemed to make no difference...
...CURRENT WISDOM New York Times The mental disorder that is Progressive Thought quivers and blinks on the apologetic pages of the venerable Times: In June 1983, Gen...
...I tried again to be heard, but Hannity talked over me...
...Jon Bell Tucson, May 26, 2004 (May 27, 2004) The Nation Within the confines of a long encomium to the preposterous New York Review of Books, young Scott Sherman thrills readers to The Charge of the Late Brigade: But the election of George W Bush, combined with the furies of 9/11, jolted the editors...
...Is Mother Jones attacking fat people, or just the marketplace that serves them...
...Vietnam veteran Dennis Mansker raises that question on his website, where he maintains a list of the dead from Casper...
...I've known people, some longer than others, but I guess having had the benefit of growing up as a Catholic, we have this wonderful thing called a confessional, where when you go into the confessional, the priest opens and now it's time to begin...
...Wojciech Jaruzelski, then prime minister of Poland, received Pope John Paul II at the Belvedere Palace in Warsaw...
...Hannity then asked me how someone who had committed atrocities could call for Rumsfeld's resignation and run for president of the United States...
...June 7, 2004) Mother Jones Another inscrutable communique to the howl page of the bosomy Mo Jo: What was the point of the barbs in the "Fat America" box...
...After their meeting they will appear before reporters, but the most interesting question maybe one that needn't be asked: Will George Bush's knees be knocking when he meets with the pope...
...In some ways it's an ungainly comparison, since the pope has never issued a condemnation of American militarism or capitalism...
...But it is the mark of The New York Times...
...June 2004) The Nation Another of The Nation's Super Patriots applies his historical insights to the faraway youth of the Hon...
...I could hear the crowd roar its approval...
...Those of us in the air-conditioned wilderness with our minds still intact need your eyes¡ªaccurate and each morning...
...The crowd was cheering Hannity's diatribe...
...I said Rumsfeld should be fired...
...May 17, 2004) Washington Post Magazine Whilst being questioned by the artless Howard Kurtz, Meet the Press chief inquisitor Tim Russert reveals his heretofore unannounced anointment to Holy Orders: Q. But it doesn't affect what happens when the red light goes on...
...Dick Cheney, before heading off to the local VFW lodge to roar a few bars of the National Anthem: [B]ut the fact is that at least a dozen men aged 19 to 47 from Cheney's adopted hometown of Casper, Wyoming, died in Vietnam during the period when Cheney might have served...
...Hannity has been touring the country, broadcasting his right-wing screed in front of large crowds...
Vol. 37 • July 2004 • No. 6
