> How was the NR able to accomodate Ridgeway and Kopkind a few years later?
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To be clear, I was talking about National Review, not New Republic.
I didn't know Ridgeway and Kopkind were at the New Republic...I would guess this was before the Peretz regime?
SA
> On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 12:46:14PM -0400, SA wrote:
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>> I think you're right that the original premise of this thread - that NR
>> whitewashed Bush the way the Nation does Obama - which I accepted at
>> first, is wrong. Any political bloc will have its cheerleading yahoos
>> and its intellectuals. Under Bush, the yahoos may have given the White
>> House a pass, but the intellectuals never did. But then, the
>> progressives don't really have intellectuals, do they?
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