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L.W.M.
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I think you have to interpret Edsall in terms of today's aristocratic society. Back in the '50s, I posit that there was an idea among the elite that we were in "this" together.
I don't know. I'd like to think that. There was more of sense of noblesse oblige. I've also seen that notion mocked and ridiculed by an "aristocrat" in as as facile a manner as he would mock the "little people". Dorothy Parker knew how to handle that kind of "aristocrat". Today we have Paris Hilton and that classic joke... "The Aristocrats!"
http://www.thearistocrats.com/
So who would you all... Zzzzzzzzz....
Just like most politicians, most journalists should be kicked out of their jobs. Term limits.
To most Americans -- the vast majority of whom believe that our country is headed in the wrong direction -- the "Beltway" is the source of the problem. That is the epicenter of the political and media culture which is so profoundly failing the country. Every Beltway institution -- from the President to the Congress to the media -- is held in such low esteem by Americans across the board.
And their very jobs depend on not recognizing and acknowledging that.
Does not conform to the widely recognized high standards of trollery we've come to expect here at Glenn's blog.
I'd rather use a dose of vitriol than need a dose of viagra.
That was my point. Even if you tried, you just won't cut it here. Go back to Think Progress.
Sorry, Think Progress.
I'd like to see Joke Line and Glenn on a panel at CNN or MSGOP to sort this out.
Administration Withheld E-Mails About Rove
http://news.nationaljournal.com/articles/070510nj1.htm
Isn't that what got Clinton in trouble?
If Klein or Broder had a clue what real Americans think, they'd be screaming for this bunch to be hauled before Congress and impeached. The vulnerable Republicans can break ranks or find new jobs in 2009.
Far be it from me to cast aspersions on anyone who needs Viagra but I used to live with a rather sullen and strident woman who used to call me names and after the all the "vitriolic vituperations" we invariably "made up" like crazed weasels. The excessively passionate and badly matched don't need Viagra.
Actually, he was. But everyone from the south (Texas) was a Democrat in those days. It was George Wallace who wasn't part of the Beltway in those days. Then the Wallace Democrats became Republicans, and for a brief period, they became the "beltway power system" but only briefly and those days are over, and only because a true Republican from back then would be a liberal Democrat today. Maybe the Republican party will come back from the dead. Whatever it is that has been calling itself the GOP is going back into the wilderness for good.
Why not?
Foe all either of us know, Walter Cronkite was a registered independent. Jake has no idea. Cronkite may even have been a Republican. I can see him supporting Pete McCloskey back then. McCloskey just didn't get the nomination.
Anecdotal evidence lends itself to some areas of inquiry better than others, but if Broder uses it to confirm his own bias, and the evidence for that is pretty robust, it's value is diminished. As you point out, used in conjunction with other forms of research and data, it can provide insights into some areas of study that other forms of data can't provide.
That sounds like a case of NIMBYism (Not In My Back Yard), an urban planning term most of you are probably familiar with. Now, even Cronkite had an issue with a windmill farm on Martha's vineyard, but Broder seems to have NIMBYism in spades where ever he is. Clinton trashing the place, and it's not "his" place? The American people put him in the White House and most of them did not want the impeachment process to go forward. Today the American people feel like the SCOTUS put Bush in the WH (that's real "judicial activism" for you), and many of them would like this crowd impeached or on trial, just ask the Libby jury. We all are liable to get a little NIMBY about our turf but most of us don't think we personally own the WH. Broder does.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The Maine fight was supposed to be the dress rehearsal for repealing California's Prop. 8 -- but gay marriage lost
Once one obtains Seriousness credentials in the Washington media, they are irrevocable no matter one's conduct.
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