> And further to the noxious crap department, is this one of the worst
> pieces of political writing of all time, or am I just in a generous mood?
>
> <http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion/478374/lose_the_love_hate_but_keep_the_hope>.
>
I just came back from the library, going through a lot of old National Review issues from their first few years under Ike. Man, their attitude - their whole tone - could not be more different from today's Nation. Their prose does not give off the slightest indication that the editors viewed the Eisenhower administration as representing them or their point of view. They made it clear the GOP was to be preferred, but they almost never actually praised or apologized for the incumbent regime. They constantly criticized - actually, the tone was less one of criticism than of gentle mockery and ridicule.
SA