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Topic: Peretz on New New Republic:
´I Don´t Recognize Magazine
I Used to Own. We Were
Liberal But Not Narrowly Partisan´ |
Peretz on New New Republic:
´I Don´t Recognize Magazine
I Used to Own. We Were
Liberal But Not Narrowly Partisan´
Newsbusters, by Noel Sheppard
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Posted By:JoniTx, 2/14/2013 6:12:12 PM
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| Martin Peretz, the former owner and editor of the New Republic, has come down strongly on the new iteration of the magazine he first purchased in 1974. So shocked by the content since Facebook´s Chris Hughes took over is Peretz that he published a piece at the Wall Street Journal Thursday titled "The New New Republic: I don´t recognize the magazine I used to own. We were liberal but not narrowly partisan":The New Republic has abandoned its liberal but heterodox tradition and embraced a leftist outlook as predictable as that of Mother Jones or the Nation.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
schnapps, 2/14/2013 6:28:08 PM (No. 9176917)
The narrowly partisan will pervert the liberal message every time. The Liberal is defenseless because he cannot see the Fascist behind the mask.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Rafter, 2/14/2013 6:36:48 PM (No. 9176931)
Liberoid Fascists.
They enjoy being led around by Muslimini.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
EQKimball, 2/14/2013 6:52:33 PM (No. 9176958)
How is TNR different from Time, NYT, CNN or MSNBC? They are all groveling, obsequious flacks for Obama. And they are journalistic assassins against Republicans.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Mike PHX, 2/14/2013 6:53:30 PM (No. 9176960)
Peretz is one of a very few Libs I have respect for. He´s always been intelligent (for a Lib) and honest.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Dante, 2/14/2013 7:36:55 PM (No. 9177017)
The left no longer argues issues or shows any reason, it´s all slander, name-calling and false indignation.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Teleologicus, 2/14/2013 7:44:30 PM (No. 9177040)
Exactly the way I recall TNR and the NYT, both of which, along with the major news magazines and the local paper, Harper´s, the Atlantic Monthly, the Christian Science Monitor and several others I once subscribed to and read, or at least scanned for something of interest. But gradually, insidiously, every one of these publications, like the then major news media, drifted further and further to the Left as the intellectual quality of their articles declined. Perhaps only those of us who remember what it used to be like can fully appreciate the Leftward slanting of these publications and the media in general. There has been for people like myself a sense of loss as publications that used be of some interest and relatively high quality have become tiresome partisan echo chambers for dogmatists and ideologues.
It is therefore darkly humorous when defenders of such venues and Democratic politicians say that conservatives Republicans have changed, lurched to the Right, become extremists etc. There is no reason to doubt that people who say this believe what they are saying, which only illustrates their lack of knowledge and understanding. Many do not even seem to be acquainted with the history of their own organizations, much less the actual beliefs and values of conservatives and Republicans.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino, 2/14/2013 7:50:03 PM (No. 9177056)
Marty -- you were a mensch. This gang today are criminals.
Agree? Good.
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/18/2013 9:43:53 AM
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WASHINGTON — An Internal Revenue Service watchdog testified Friday that he told Obama administration officials in June that he was looking into allegations the IRS targeted conservative groups for extra scrutiny when they applied for tax-exempt status. The revelation by Inspector General Russell George came at the first congressional hearing on the IRS misconduct, which has generated a political firestorm since it was disclosed a week ago. George’s testimony represented the first evidence that officials in the Obama administration knew of the allegations as long as a year ago, during the presidential campaign.
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On Thursday´s NBC Nightly News, after proclaiming President Obama to be "on the offensive" amid growing scandals, anchor Brian Williams hinted at those controversies being only temporary setbacks for Obama: "And some folks are already calling the President´s problems the curse of the second term. And yet it´s tough to know the staying power of any given scandal in the making, along with the effect any of this might have on his overall planned agenda." [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump] -This is the same Brian Williams who in February quipped
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Senior Obama administration officials where notified almost a year ago that an inspector general was looking into the IRS’s treatment of conservative groups, a watchdog said on Friday. Russell George, Treasury’s inspector general (IG) for tax administration, testified that he told the department’s general counsel and Deputy Treasury Secretary Neal Wolin about the probe around June of 2012 — months after media reports started detailing Tea Party complaints about the IRS. George stressed that he told the officials merely that a probe was underway. After the hearing, aides at the inspector general’s office later said it’s standard practice
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You may have heard that there are a variety of scandals unfolding in Washington D.C. at the moment. Scandals swirling around the White House this week include revelations that the Internal Revenue Service singled out conservative groups for intimidation, that the Department of Justice may have expressed their frustration with the Associated Press by obtaining an absurdly wide swath of phone records, and the ever-unfolding scandal surrounding Benghazi and the administration’s response to that attack. With all these overwhelming controversies enveloping the executive branch, one question dominates in the media: When will Republicans overstep in their effort to criticize
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Watching President Obama trying to dodge raindrops and responsibility yesterday reminded me of the moment when Dorothy pulls back the curtain and discovers that the Wizard of Oz is “just a man.” Stripped of his spell of mystery and power, the wizard is worse than mortal. He’s a fake. So it was with Obama in the Rose Garden. His performance was tired and trite, ordinary to the point of dull. His veneer of passion was so transparent that you could see him trying to summon his old-time magic by pushing the buttons
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/16/2013 10:54:51 PM
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STANDING BEFORE reporters Thursday, President Obama declined an invitation to compare the recent scandals weighing down his administration with those that forced President Nixon to resign in 1974. So allow us to do the work for him: There is no comparison. Nixon, in a series of crimes that collectively came to be known as Watergate, directed from the White House and Justice Department a concerted campaign against those he perceived as political enemies, in the process subverting the FBI, the IRS, other government agencies and the electoral process to his nefarious purposes. Mr. Obama has done nothing of the kind.
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Obama administration officials who were in key positions on Sept. 11, 2012, acknowledge that a range of mistakes were made the night of the attacks on the U.S. missions in Benghazi, and in messaging to Congress and the public in the aftermath. The officials spoke to CBS News in a series of interviews and communications under the condition of anonymity so that they could be more frank in their assessments. They do not all agree on the list of mistakes and it's important to note that they universally claim that any errors or missteps did not cost lives and reflect "incompetence rather than malice or cover up.
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On Thursday´s NBC Today, in a desperate attempt to deflect from the scandals engulfing the Obama administration, co-host Savannah Guthrie wondered: "I read a headline yesterday that said Republicans see blood in the water. That they see a president who´s very vulnerable politically. Is there a danger that they will overreach?" Chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd agreed with the slanted premise: "There is. I mean, that´s what happened to Republicans in 1998 with Bill Clinton.
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President Obama’s press conference in the rain was not a success, if by success, his supporters would mean an event which convinces anyone who doesn’t work for him that he’s getting ahead of the scandal deluge. The sight of a Marine holding an umbrella over his head only added to the weirdness of the event. So what did we learn? 1. He has full confidence in Attorney General Eric Holder, the man who purportedly recused himself (whenever) without putting it in writing (whatever). When asked about the untrammeled snooping on Associated Press reporters and editors,
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