Comments on: FDL Book Salon: Critical Mass

By: Robert Waldmann

Robert Waldmann — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 10:01:39 +0000

In 1973 it would have been the Vorster junta. DeKlerk took power much later. Also, you know, he did peacefully transfer power by allowing a genuinely democratic election. Vorster, on the othr hand, was a fascist.

By: RJG

RJG — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 05:07:10 +0000

Good job Phoenix Woman,
Nice post. I grew up in the DC suburbs. I delivered the Post when it was still in competition with the Star. Nobody saw it as a good thing when the Star folded, even if it was more conservative. Most people don’t know how provincial DC really is. My dad used to call it the largest county seat in America. We all know what Broder said about Clinton. The same thing happened with Carter — another hick from the South. Dowd is a DC native, just like Pat Buchanan. Andrea Mitchell was on local TV before she hit the bigtime on NBC. Read Gore Vidal’s novels if you want to see what a small town it is. We forget how much this cuts across party and ideological lines. Of course, I left after Reagan — they loved him, but the conservatives really took over. It’s still all inside the Beltway.

By: smiley

smiley — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 02:50:43 +0000

All of the links in the blockquote from Wikipedia are broken…

as for Lyle Denniston, he posts regularly at SCOTUSblog and Salon.

By: John Aravosis’ Neighbor Barbara

John Aravosis’ Neighbor Barbara — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 01:46:24 +0000

I just happened on this thread and haven’t read the comments; however, as somebody who was living here in DC from the early 1970s on, the Star actually did a much better job than the Post in covering local affairs, which interested me the most.

It was very painful when it folded. It was an afternoon paper, and how many of THOSE still exist? The Times showed its true colors with its very FIRST edition. On the Front Page was a review of the movie Inchon starring Lawrence Olivier as Douglas MacArthur. This movie had previously received absolutely LOUSY reviews from just about everybody and Olivier’s performance was RIDICULED almost universally.

You wouldn’t know any of that from that article. I don’t read that rag, PERIOD.

By: Elliott

Elliott — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 01:46:00 +0000

More Kaganausea

From Yglesias

All in the Family
Yes, it’s true, The Weekly Standard decided that the best candidate to assess the ongoing progress of the Bush/McCain/Kagan surge plan was Fred Kagan’s wife, Kimberly. Worse, Andrew Sullivan reports that she was on the planning team her husband put together to write the surge plan in the first place.

http://www.matthewyglesias.com/

Robert Kagan supports McCain, who’s competent and brave. Apparently unlike BushCo.
Guess the neo-cons are disillusioned with their man Bush now.

By: dmac

dmac — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 01:39:17 +0000

hotflash at 123

I can’t see how it is possible, but over and over again I see people who can think, at least in other areas, OK, maybe only their jobs, buy these lines of BS. I think it is because they are taught to use their brains to manufacture things out of materials they are presented. The assumptions/raw materials are not their problem so it doesn’t occur to them to question them. If this is what is going on now in education it’s going to be an uphill fight.

But take heart. Young folks are constitutionally programmed to question their elders, so we got that working for us. ;)

ahhhhhhhhh original thought, best expressed in the right moment, timing is everything, and when you you don’t have timing, impulse works. my sister teaches 9th grade english and is impulsive as heellll, teaching her students to think and express………best friend teaches high school art and teaches her students how to put thought into expression, all is not lost, they are learning. the students they handle are ‘getting’ it. i tell them i could not do what they do and they do it so well……….take heart.

By: juslin

juslin — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 01:38:20 +0000

oh – i forgot to mention – tweety matthews’ brother is a big man in Pa repug politics…………..

By: juslin

juslin — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 01:35:30 +0000

howie kurtz’s wife is a repug operative which makes him an unreliable source – it seems many of these media mouthpieces have spouses working in various places of the repugs organizations………….

By: Elliott

Elliott — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 01:19:27 +0000

OH, and as seen on TV right now (C-SPAN), Robert Kagan, of the neocon Kagans, is married to the Ambassador to NATO, Victoria Nuland.
not a media connection, but an uncomfortable one.

By: HotFlash

HotFlash — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 01:19:24 +0000

tbsa @ 121

Is there anyone with a brain on the planet who still believes the media is Liberal? Bush would never have gotten away with the half of it had the media whores stood up and did their jobs.

I can’t see how it is possible, but over and over again I see people who can think, at least in other areas, OK, maybe only their jobs, buy these lines of BS. I think it is because they are taught to use their brains to manufacture things out of materials they are presented. The assumptions/raw materials are not their problem so it doesn’t occur to them to question them. If this is what is going on now in education it’s going to be an uphill fight.

But take heart. Young folks are constitutionally programmed to question their elders, so we got that working for us. ;)