The Hot Joints (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Thomas Frank has an odious piece in the Wall Street Journal today slamming Glenn Beck as an ignorant “panic peddling host”. He attacks Beck for his red phone hotline to the White House and for bringing attention to the long list of radicals in the Obama administration. Thomas doesn’t see any radical in The White House [...]
Collecting my Thoughts (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
You've probably never heard of Thomas Frank. He's a "real" journalist--I think. I read him in the WSJ . He also writes for Huff and Puff and NYT, all their opinion all the time. He's really pissed at Glenn Beck, who has a fatter subscription list than the NYT. It's that red phone shtick-- doesn't set well with him, because it's only for the White House and not for Frank's...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Glenn Beck, the popular Fox News host, has a red telephone on his desk that never seems to ring. Every now and then, in a...
Media Matters for America (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
From Frank's November 3 Wall Street Journal column : Glenn Beck, the popular Fox News host, has a red telephone on his desk that never seems to ring. Every now and then, in a moment of acute frustration, he will pick it up and give the camera his trademark pleading-puppy look. What Mr. Beck wants to hear from the phone are answers, and he wants to hear them from the highest authority in the...
naked capitalism (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
As readers probably know, the health care reform bill passed the House tonight, by a thin margin and with the Democrats offering a large concession by limiting reimbursements on abortions. Thomas Frank has a good piece in the New York Times tonight, in which he argues that health care reform might lead more doctors [...]
Pushing Rope (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
It's bad when Fox News sister company the Wall Street Journal is calling Glenn Beck an intellectual weakling. Thomas Frank brutally tears Beck apart. What Mr. Beck's silent phone really symbolizes is a new kind of ignorance, a coming high-tech dark age in which people can choose to blow off professional standards of inquiry; in which they can wall themselves off with cable TV and friendly...
Jeff Matthews Is Not Making This Up (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Easily the weakest link in the Wall Street Journal’s Op-Ed page is Thomas Frank, who also happens to be the Journal’s token liberal. To be sure, at least one of Frank’s political opposites on the Journal’s Op-Ed pages writes about as much nonsense as Frank—particularly on the subject of fiscal responsibility. That would be Karl Rove, who encouraged...
