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O'REILLY: Do you believe that you are smart enough, incisive enough, intellectual enough to handle the most powerful job in the world? PALIN: I believe that I am because I have common sense and I have -- I believe the values that are reflective of so ...

From ISAAC CHOTINER, The New Republic,  21 Nov 2009

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Is Palin a Threat or a Joke?

Megan McArdle has a post today in which she takes the media to task for what she deems "Palinoia." She writes: Y'all well know that I really don't like Sarah Palin.  In fact, more than one of you has yelled at me about this.  And I find the whole ...

From ISAAC CHOTINER, The New Republic,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Newsweek,  Megan McArdle,  Sarah Palin,  John McCain,  U.S. Republican Party

Death Panels as Evil Empire

"He's not lying, in the sense that those two words will not be found in any of those thousands of pages of the different variations of the health care bill...No, death panel isn't there. But he's incorrect. It's kind of what Reagan used to do though ...

From ISAAC CHOTINER, The New Republic,  18 Nov 2009

The Sports World Gets Mad, Then Goes Mad

I remember being told by a friend last year, in the heat of the battle for Proposition 8 in California, that "the only reason African-Americans were opposed to gay marriage is that they dislike it when people compare the gay rights movement to the ...

From ISAAC CHOTINER, The New Republic,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: ESPN,  New England Patriots

Where is Your Loyalty, Sarah Palin?

In the acknowledgments section of her book "Going Rogue", obtained by the Huffington Post on Friday, Sarah Palin thanks her friends in the media--by first name only: To some media professionals whom I admire because you don't let anyone tell you to sit ...

From ISAAC CHOTINER, The New Republic,  14 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Sarah Palin,  Ann Coulter,  Glenn Beck,  Greta Van Susteren,  Rush Limbaugh

Weekend Reading, November 13-15

Hertzberg: Where were you when the Wall fell? East Germany struggles with the future. Buruma: Are there any fascists left in East Berlin? Intellectual rigor. Honest reporting. Influential analysis. Don't miss another issue of the magazine considered ...

From ISAAC CHOTINER, The New Republic,  13 Nov 2009

A Decade of Bad Movies?

A.O. Scott's piece on a decade's worth of movies is, as usual, worth reading. However, I do think this passage deserves further comment: Perhaps the easiest and most satisfying way to make sense of the unruly cinematic abundance of the past 10 years is ...

From ISAAC CHOTINER, The New Republic,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Spike Lee,  Gus Van Sant,  Steven Soderbergh,  Spike Jonze,  Todd Haynes

Malcolm Gladwell's Secret Of Success

Last night, Charlie Rose featured a powerful one-two punch of glib thinking (the powerful one-two punch of glib thinking): The 'Freakonomics' guys and Malcolm Gladwell (in separate segments). Steven Levitt and Steven Dubner were about what you would ...

From ISAAC CHOTINER, The New Republic,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Malcolm Gladwell,  Charlie Rose,  Steven Levitt

Phony Conservative Anti-Elitism, Revealed!

Last week, when Joe Biden traveled to upstate New York to campaign for Democratic congressional candidate Bill Owens, the vice president took aim at Sarah Palin. "The fact of the matter is that Sarah Palin thinks the answer to energy was 'drill, baby, ...

From ISAAC CHOTINER, The New Republic,  7 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Sarah Palin,  Joe Biden,  Bill Owens,  Andrew Jackson,  U.S. Democratic Party

Weekend Reading, November 6-8

--Mark Bowden on the line between internet dirty-talk and internet sexual predation --If all this is too grim, check out James Poniewozik's short essay on the media's centrist bias Intellectual rigor. Honest reporting. Influential analysis. Don't miss ...

From ISAAC CHOTINER, The New Republic,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Mark Bowden

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