Tag Archives: The New Republic

JournoList & The NBA

After a weeklong slapfight between The Daily Caller and The New Republic, the so-inside-it-should-be-paying-condo-fees JournoList rumpus has officially gone mainstream now that the inexorable Fred Barnes has broached it in a Wall Street Journal op-ed. Headline: The Vast Left-Wing Media … Continue reading

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Boston Globe’s Israeli Peretz-el

Editor’s note from Sunday’s Boston Globe: A May 24 story about a protest against an Israeli ambassador’s commencement speech at Brandeis University was written by a part-time correspondent who failed to disclose that he had previously editorialized in personal Internet … Continue reading

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Salt Too (Much) Negotiations

The Great Salt War is officially movin’ and shakerin’, as witness reports in these two reputably liberal media outlets. 1) Hysterical The current issue of The New Republic features a piece with this headline: The Other White Powder Is salt … Continue reading

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Peretz Blasts Boston Globe

From our Late to the Party bureau: In his blog on tnr.com yesterday, Marty Peretz thoroughly sandblasted the Boston Globe for its anti-Israel bias in general and its coverage of of Sunday’s Brandeis University commencement in particular. The lede: The Globe often … Continue reading

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Ad o’ the Day™ (Supreme Court Edition)

So the New York Times has rejected this MoveOn.org ad (via Politico’s Playbook) accusing the U.S. Supreme Court of being “Corporate America’s Newest Subsidiary.” Graphic: The sponsors of the ad – MoveOn.org, People for the American Way, and the Alliance … Continue reading

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Ablow Job

Headline in the current edition of The New Republic: Right Mind Meet Glenn Beck’s shrink. Lede: It’s roughly two weeks shy of the September 12 march on Washington, and Glenn Beck is distraught. Behind him on the cavernous Fox News … Continue reading

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Fear And Self-Loathing At The New Republic

Jonathan Chiat, a senior editor at The New Republic, has written a journo-dyspeptic piece headlined, “The Case Against Awards: Why the wrong person always wins.” One of Chiat’s awards-bashing examples hits close to home: In my field, we have something called the … Continue reading

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The New (Fatter) Republic

Is it just me, or has The New Republic gotten buff alongside Sixpack-in-Chief Barack Obama? The eight-year reign of Bush the Younger was advertising Viagra for liberal opinion journals. The Nation, for one, turned into the lefty-magazine Sidney Greenstreet. But the … Continue reading

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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

From Campaign Outsider’s Meme Alert® desk: The quite likely NCIS -inspired “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot” is sweeping the political opinion-industrial complex. Witness last week’s Weekly Standard editorial, “A Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Presidency?” Here’s the lede: The single most damning story about … Continue reading

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