Ryan Lizza

Ryan Lizza on the Naughty List

Media Blog (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008

Pettiness you can believe in: There#39;s probably no connection whatsoever. But the New Yorker writer Ryan Lizza, whose long, long article on Barack O... . . .

Change We Have Been Waiting For: Ryan Lizza Edition

The RBC (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008

So--let me get this straight. Ryan Lizza writes, if not a hatchet job, a distinctly unflattering piece on Obama in the New Yorker. The next week, Lizza--along with the majority of other reporters--does not get a seat on Obama's plane during his Middle East tour. And suddenly every reporter and his brother-in-law are shocked--shocked--that maybe Obama would be engaging in payback....

How Funny.

Little Miss Attila (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008

Ryan Lizza, author of that New Yorker piece that was insufficiently complimentary to Barack Obama, can't get a seat in the press section of Obama's plane. It's not about the color of Obama's skin: it's about the thinness thereof....

The New Yorker

The Blue Voice (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008

Ryan Lizza has written a smart, revealing and encouraging profile of Barack Obama in the latest New Yorker (yes, that New Yorker) -- it is definitely worth reading, especially if you're wondering whether Obama can get the job done. Lizza tells stories from Obama's experiences in Chicago politics, and summarizes his observations in a paragraph excerpted here below: Like many politicians,...

Brian Montopoli, Ryan Lizza, Ralph Nader

Ruth's Report (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008

... off about the cover in an attempt to dismiss the article and the outlet. This is an excerpt of Ryan Lizza's " Making It " ( The New Yorker ): Preckwinkle soon became an Obama loyalist, and she stuck with him in a State Senate campaign that strained or ruptured many friendships but was ultimately successful. Four years later, in 2000, she backed Obama in a doomed congressional campaign...

Lizza defends New Yorker cover

Salon.com (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008

The New Yorker's Ryan Lizza appeared on MSNBC's "Hardball" Monday afternoon, and unsurprisingly the primary subject he was called upon to discuss was his magazine's controversial cover depiction of Barack and Michelle Obama. And, of course, he was there defending his employer. "This cover... was trying to show the absurd view of this guy and to point out how far from the truth this is....

Lampoon It

The Hotline on Call (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008

The New Yorker's Ryan Lizza , author of this week's cover story , on his mag's much-discussed cover: "There are two ways that you can deal with lies and information, one way is through a lot of careful reporting ... another way ... is through political satire, and that's what this cover was about. It was trying to show the absurd view of this guy." "The standard is not, 'Will everyone...

New Yorker cover flap; inside magazine Ryan Lizza story about Obama's Chicago political roots. Rahm Emanuel says Obama "top strategist" for Blagojevich bid.

Lynn Sweet (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008

... roots, taking us to Hyde Park, the North Side and Springfield. New Yorker political writer Ryan Lizza brings us inside Obama’s Chicago political world and the political culture that spawned the presumptive Democratic nominee. Among Lizza’s scoops: *Ald. Toni Preckwinkle (4th), with Obama at the launch of his political career—when he ran for state senate and knocked his opponents...

Windy City Chicago

The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008

Ryan Lizza studies Obama's Chicago roots: Perhaps the greatest misconception about Barack Obama is that he is some sort of anti-establishment revolutionary. Rather, every stage of his political career has been marked by an eagerness to accommodate himself to existing...

Obama and the Chicago Machine.

PREA Prez (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008

Everyone was talking about the New Yorker cover that mocked the Clinton (followed by the McCain) campaign’s attempt to demonize Obama. Any talk about the actual article by Ryan Lizza in which Lizza tried to make Obama look like a toady of the Chicago Daley Machine was mainly limited to political junkies who actually plowed [...]

Why Greensboro Loves Obama, Part IV: Developers and Machine Politics

Guarino (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008

Recall that several weeks ago there was a public outcry over an illustration that appeared on the cover of the New Yorker. The controversy overshadowed the fact that the cover story was an extensive article written by Ryan Lizza about...

Milbank's Follies

D-Day (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008

Last week Dana Milbank thought it very unprecedented for Barack Obama to leave New Yorker writer Ryan Lizza off the campaign plane during his trip to Europe, even though it wasn't . I wonder when he's going to get around to noticing that McCain has thrown his whole campaign off the bus . KANSAS CITY-- While the traveling press corps was shipped off to a barbecue restaurant here, John...

Barack Obama: a candidate apart

Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008

... a state legislator, but he was in the Legislature, not of it. He had some accomplishments, but as Ryan Lizza of The New Yorker wrote, he was famously bored by the institution and used it as a steppingstone to higher things.He was in Trinity United Church of Christ, but not of it, not sharing the liberation theology that energized Jeremiah Wright Jr. He is in the U.S. Senate, but not...

“Leave The Gun, But Take the Cannoli” — Dolt-ermann Sends “Fredo” Milbank Out Fishing

Patterico's Pontifications (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008

... was being conveyed. The hook for the piece might have been the exclusion of New Yorker writer Ryan Lizza from the Obama press plane going to Europe, after the New Yorker cover which caused so much consternation. There was lots of murmurring on the press blogs that Lizza was getting a taste of Chicago-style political payback. The passage that Doltermann and his followers (the...

Fooling All of the People All of the Time

Bloodthirsty Liberal (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008

... a state legislator, but he was in the Legislature, not of it. He had some accomplishments, but as Ryan Lizza of The New Yorker wrote, he was famously bored by the institution and used it as a stepping stone to higher things. He was in Trinity United Church of Christ, but not of it, not sharing the liberation theology that energized Jeremiah Wright Jr. He is in the United States Senate,...

• David Brooks: Where's the landslide? - International Herald Tribune