Tag: The New Republic
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McCain trolling
Sen. John McCain’s relentlessly desperate, dirty attacks against Sen. Barack Obama should not be forgotten no matter how this election comes out on Tuesday. His name should go down in infamy with that of Sen. Joe McCarthy for the worst kind of guilt-by-association attacks. The New Republic’s John Judis points out in this video the…
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Maybe We Can't
The black case for Obama-skepticism by Cinque Henderson, The New Republic, Wednesday, May 28, 2008 Ninety percent of black Democrats support Barack Obama. So that might leave an observer wondering: What the hell is up with that other 10 percent? Are they stupid? Do they hate their own race? Do they not understand the historical…
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The color of thought
I’ve just about had it with my friend Jim Sleeper. This is what he does to infuriate me: He writes these deep, complicated pieces, which are really essays, not blog posts, that are layered with links to other thoughtful pieces that very nearly grind you to the ground as you contemplate what they mean, that…
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From The New Republic, a poem
An Azalea Blooms in the Murderer’s Yard Ralph Sneeden, The New Republic Published: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 And shirtless boys fire rocks with rackets from the lawn next door. Ping and twang, then sounds of invisible tunnels torn through the canopy of indifferent oaks. Perhaps it was them I saw, the scoundrels, casting their lures…
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"The joyless Panglossianism of Iraq"
That was Eve Fairbanks describing in The New Republic Gen. David Petraeus at yesterday’s Senate appearance. Ms. Fairbanks was talking about the verbal pantomimic performances of the senators as well as Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker, and the, ultimately, meaninglessness of the whole exercise: But of all the posturers, Petraeus and Crocker were the worst.…
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Coinkydink?
In light of our recent posts regarding the racial overtones of the Vogue magazine’s recent cover on LeBron James and Gisele Bundchen, The New Republic magazine has weighed in with an edition with the above illustration. I cannot, for the life of me, figure out what that cover illustrates in this TNR issue. The issue…
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Tone Deaf
Leon Wieseltier over at The New Republic had heard Sen. Barack Obama’s song and he, for one, is totally immune to this call: It is not “the politics of fear” to remind Obama’s legions of the blissful that, while they are watching Scarlett Johansson sway to the beat, somewhere deep inside a quasi independent territory…