Letters to the Editor

• Newsflash! Mr. Kirchick is a LIBERAL DEMOCRAT

  James Elliott :

  [ . . . ] labeling Mr. Kirchik “right-wing” as a euphemism for “conservative” when Mr. Kirchik isn't really anything of the sort [ . . . ]
  - - James Elliott - - Thursday, September 13, 2007 12:58

  Mr. Elliott has got the straight poop! Mr. Kirchick is actually a LIBERAL DEMOCRAT! And that's why Mr. Kirchick's "discerning" opinion was considered so newsworthy, in 2006, by the Wall Street Journal!

  http://opinionjournal.com/diary/?id=110008051

  from THE WALL STREET JOURNAL editorial page
  JOHN FUND ON THE TRAIL
  Taliban Man at Yale
  University officials are embarrassed--but not embarrassed enough.
  Monday, March 6, 2006

  Are there no limits to how arrogant and out-of-touch America's Ivy League schools can get? Last week it emerged that Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, former deputy foreign secretary of the Taliban, is now a student at Yale [ . . . ]

  [ . . . ] It may say that moral relativism has such an entrenched hold on campus that some people can no longer make needed distinctions. Some, though, are more discerning. James Kirchick, a senior who describes himself as a liberal Democrat, is appalled that campus feminists and gays trash American society as intolerant but won't protest now that "an actual, live remnant of one of the most misogynistic and homophobic regimes ever" is in their midst. "They have other concerns, such as single-sex bathrooms and fraternities," he told me. [ . . . ]

  [ . . . ] It's been more than half a century since William F. Buckley mocked the wooly-headed thinking he found at his alma mater in "God and Man at Yale." Now we have Mr. Taliban Man at Yale. If that doesn't cry out for mockery, nothing does.

  - - John Fund, Wall Street Journal editorial columnist

  During his years at Yale, Mr. Kirchick was quoted frequently at "Power Line", a well known hang-out for LIBERAL DEMOCRATS. For instance:

  http://powerlineblog.com/archives/2003/09/004569.php

  September 16, 2003
  Welcome to Planet Yale
  Reporting a story you won't find in the New York Times, Yale Daily News columnist James Kirchick writes a harrowing account of a university employee who is exercising her right not to join the service workers' strike we have been following. Kirchick notes that she is not exactly alone in continuing to work and adds a dose of reality to the purported strike issues: "Despite what the unions would have you believe [ . . . ]
  - - powerlineblog.com

  And now that he's out of school, Mr. Kirchick is working hard, along with his fellow LIBERAL DEMOCRATS, to protest against social injustices such as the outrageous persecution of Scooter Libby:

  http://www.tnr.com/blog/the_plank?pid=122403

  07.03.07
  AN ABSURD SENTENCE:
  Judge Reggie Walton's sentencing of Scooter Libby--irrespective of whether or not one believes he is even guilty of perjury--was wildly unjust.
  - -James Kirchick, July 3, 2007

  http://www.tnr.com/blog/the_plank?pid=123143

  07.06.07
  WILL THE SKY FALL?:

  The sky, thankfully, has not fallen.

  Andrew kindly calls me out for labeling the Libby commutation critics "Cassandras." Did I not mean "Chicken Littles?" No, I was being sarcastic. Those saying our country is one step closer to authoritarianism by the president's exercising his constitutional duty--Andrew, Glenn Greenwald, et. al.--see themselves as Cassandras, and I was attempting to mock. Perhaps I ought to have inserted "self-identified."

  - - James Kirchick, July 6, 2007

  As long as we've got anti-union pro-Bush LIBERAL DEMOCRATS like Mr. Kirchick, who needs conservatives or Republicans?

  -- sysprog
  [Read sysprog's other letters]
  Permalink Thursday, September 13, 2007 07:28 PM