I really shouldn’t read Time magazine, and I especially shouldn’t read Mark Halperin, aka Captain Kiss-Ass, but I did, and I have to pay the price—I have to suffer as Mark rates Newt Gingrich an A- for saying, among other things, that he would use sabotage and assassinations, plus “absolute strategic pressure” (which is kind…
Tag: journalism
Newt and the Neo-Cons, updated
Last week I noted that noted Likudist Jennifer Rubin has been industriously pissing on Newt Gingrich and every other Republican presidential candidate not addressed as “Mitt” and suggested that this was all a plot on Jennie’s part. Well, welcome Charles to the party, as in Krauthammer. Charles is a lot more subtle than Jennie. Instead…
What is George’s game?
On Monday, I sneered at George Will’s sneering takedown of Mitt Romney. In the couse of his tirade, George also dealt President Obama a glancing sneer, dismissing him as a “floundering naïf,” though I think “bloodthirsty” might have been a more appropriate adjective.* Well, if George hates Mitt, and hates Obama, who does he want…
There will always be a New York Times. But why?
Actually, I’m a big fan of the Times, and I even subscribe, but there are times when the Times descends, or perhaps plummets, to self-parody. One of those times occurred in a recent article on South Korean pop, a subject perhaps too rarely visited by Timesmen and Timesbabes. In any event, Timesman Jon Caramanica, referring…