• February 14, 2012

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OUR FLOURISHING PUNDITOCRACY

David Brooks Went Running On The Mall And Saw No Racism!

by Jim Newell

5:04 pm September 18, 2009

Oh my god David Brooks. He too is indignant about the suggestion that a bunch of these racist slob tea partiers are racists. He saw some of them talking to black people last weekend, during the 2.9 billion person (according to conservative blog estimates) tea party march! He was running — which he is wont [...]

OUR FLOURISHING PUNDITOCRACY

WaPo’s Richard Cohen: Great Columnist, Or Greatest Columnist?

by Jim Newell

5:26 pm July 29, 2008

The only thing that would cheer us up if Bill Kristol loses next year’s Pulitzer Prize for commentary would be a victory for Washington Post “moderate liberal” columnist Richard Cohen instead. If you haven’t been following this guy recently then you know NOTHING. Oh, the prose-poetry of his sentences! One gorgeous conjunction masterfully gives way [...]