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The Sundries Shack (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Hot on the heels of yet another study about how we get our news, comes the happy dance of the liberal pundit. Jonathan Chait, one of those pundits, has decided to cover himself in smug today like I’d cover a hot dog in chili and mustard. I don’t think he’s earned that quite yet, but let’s see. In a paper they wrote about the ideological leanings of blog readers and news-watchers, Henry...
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The Plank (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Just what I've always wanted: a debate with presidential candiates, albeit through intermediaries : Fortune: Jonathan Chait has written in The New Republic that if John McCain circa 2007 were running against John McCain circa 2000, he would call John McCain 2000 a Communist. McCain: My principles and my practice and my voting record is very clear. Not only from 2000, but 1996 and 1992...
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Prairie Weather (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
... ersial issue. He has never put his career on the line for a cause greater than himself." As Jonathan Chait writes : " McCain is defining patriotism as something that, he's insisting over and over, Obama has never done. McCain isn't going to come out and say that Obama isn't a patriot, but the implication is clear, and when asked, McCain won't deny it." The irony is that about half...
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The Debate Link (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Conservative style patriotism, as put by Jonah Goldberg : it's a failure of patriotism if you didn't show respect to the American South in the 1920s. As Jonathan Chait remarks, if there was any time and place in America that deserved nothing but condecension and scorn, it was the quasi-oligarchical racist fiefdom that was the Jim Crow south. It's true, as Matt Yglesias points out , that...
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UNCoRRELATED (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
There has been a lot of self-congratulatory commentary by the left-wing blog on a draft paper purporting to analyze blog reading behaviors by political affiliation. Jonathan Chait of the New Republic leaps to a conclusion . I'm going to go ahead and interpet it: Liberals are more interested in listening to opposing points of view than are conservatives. Now, most people in general do...
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Stop the ACLU (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Self-confessed hater, Jonathan Chait says below that they are. I add some comments below that — JR In a paper they wrote about the ideological leanings of blog readers and news-watchers, Henry Farrell, Eric Lawrence and John Sides find that conservatives tend to read only conservative blogs, while most liberals read only left-leaning blogs. [...]
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THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Self-confessed hater , Jonathan Chait says below that they are. I add some comments below that -- JR In a paper they wrote about the ideological leanings of blog readers and news-watchers, Henry Farrell, Eric Lawrence and John Sides find that conservatives tend to read only conservative blogs, while most liberals read only left-leaning blogs. That's not a huge surprise. They also find...
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A Western Heart (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Self-confessed hater , Jonathan Chait says below that they are. I add some comments below that -- JR In a paper they wrote about the ideological leanings of blog readers and news-watchers, Henry Farrell, Eric Lawrence and John Sides find that conservatives tend to read only conservative blogs, while most liberals read only left-leaning blogs. That's not a huge surprise. They also find...
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Althouse (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
Says Jonathan Chait , interpreting this study and appropriately and humorously checking himself: "I'm going to wallow in smug self-satisfaction for a few minutes, then go over to the Corner to see if anybody has a rebuttal." blog advertising blog advertising
