“None of the 16 lawyers known to work for special counsel Robert Mueller are registered Republicans
Campaign finance records reveal that 11 lawyers are Democratic donors
None of the 16 publicly-confirmed lawyers on special counsel Robert Mueller’s team are registered Republicans, The Daily Caller News Foundation has found.
Voter registration records indicate that 13 of the attorneys are Democrats and three have no party affiliation. This is the first time the political affiliation of all 16 lawyers has been reported.
One of the lawyers, Zainab Ahmad, appears to have registered as a Republican at the age of 18, but has since changed her registration status to unaffiliated.
There is a 17th lawyer on the Russia probe, but this person’s identity and political affiliation remain unknown.”
“Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student Colton Haab said he was approached by CNN to ask a question at Wednesday night’s town hall but decided not to after the network gave him a “scripted question,” quashing one he wrote himself. Haab, a member of the Junior ROTC shielded students while the school was under attack from the shooter, said he was going to ask about using veterans as armed security guards. (CNN response below.)
“CNN had originally asked me to write a speech and questions and it ended up being all scripted,” Haab told WPLG-TV.
CNN aired a town hall on the Florida school shooting with Sens. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Bill Nelson (D-FL) that included NRA’s Dana Loesch and Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel that was moderated by Jake Tapper. Students and parents asked questions about gun control and school safety.
“I expected to be able to ask my questions and give my opinion on my questions,” Haab said.
“Colton Haab, a member of the Junior ROTC who shielded classmates in the midst of terror says he did not get to share his experience,” WPLG’s Janine Stanwood explained.”
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And this is why children and their emotions shouldn’t be deciding gun policy, nor should their activist Democrat parents who exploit their own kids for political gain. Just disgusting all around..
“Wednesday’s CNN town hall to promote gun control and gun grabbing was off the rails from the start. So-called moderator Jake Tapper sat back as the wild crowd targeted Republican Senator Marco Rubio (Fla.) with boos and jeers for basically just being there. The wildest moment allowed by Tapper was when Parkland, Florida student Cameron Kasky smeared the Senator by equating him to the shooter that killed 17 of his classmates. And Tapper thanked him for all of it.
“I’m sorry, I know I’m not supposed to do this, but I’m not going to listen to that. Senator Rubio, it’s hard to look at you and not look down the barrel on an AR-15 and not look at Nikolas Cruz, but the point is: You’re here and there are some people who are not,” Kasky spat.
After Rubio answered his question, Kasky began to browbeat him for the money the NRA donated to his campaign, basically insinuating he was being bribed. “And this is about people who are for making a difference to save us and people who are against it and prefer money. So Senator Rubio, can you tell me right now that you will not accept a single donation from the NRA in the future,” he demanded as the crowd went crazy.”
No. I have to explain this every now and then. One is my wedding ring. The other is a cheap piece of tin I found in the street when I was a very little kid. I proudly gave it to my Dad. He wore it from that day until he died. After he passed, I’ve worn it ever since. https://t.co/n3JhzFsfjW
“The Very Fair And Balanced “Students Stand Up To Evil Gun Owners” CNN Town Hall”
“Think I’m being snarky with the headline? The actual network-approved title of tonight’s event is “Stand Up: The Students of Stoneman Douglas Demand Action.” This is an advocacy event, not a “news program,” and they’re making no bones about it. I did some cursory googling this morning to see if CNN has ever hosted something so overtly biased towards one side’s position on a hot-button issue and came up empty. By comparison, the debate they hosted on taxes in November between Bernie Sanders and Maria Cantwell on one side and Ted Cruz and Tim Scott on the other was titled, prosaically, “The Fight Over Tax Reform.” They could have done that with this event too — “The Fight Over Guns,” “Americans On Guns,” whatever. But this isn’t a debate or a town hall in the proper sense, even though both sides will be represented. It’s a showcase for very sympathetic victims on one side but not, a la Steve Scalise, on the other. Maybe it’s better that they’re not pretending otherwise with a more anodyne title. There’s a little honesty in that.”
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“What’s the difference? Democrats voted against a majority of the public on the abortion proposal and had a strong financial incentive to do so. Both the abortion vote and the current gun-control push are framed explicitly in terms of saving children’s lives. Why did CNN key-vote the Florida gun vote but not the congressional abortion vote?
You know why. They’re entitled to be advocates if they want — God knows their competition is — but they’re not entitled to keep up the pretense that they’re the “neutral” network navigating between “Resistance” MSNBC and “state media” Fox. And in fairness to MSNBC, I’m not sure they’ve been any more biased than CNN has been over the last few days. CNN’s tilt is so egregious that I find myself checking my own bias in favor of gun rights as possibly distorting my judgment of how fair they’re being. I’m not wrong that everything I described above is ba-na-nas for an ostensibly impartial news outlet, right?”
Once or twice a year, Bret Stephens posts a speech he has given about journalism on a college campus. I appreciate DJ and the other journalists who do their work in very challenging times.
Nigerian officials said they rescued dozens of schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram militants earlier this week in the country’s northeast. The school kidnapping was the largest since Boko Haram drew international attention for abducting more than 200 girls from a boarding school in the town of Chibok nearly four years ago
“Via Newsbusters, here’s last night’s entire garbage event in one line. The ostensible point of this town hall meeting, remember, was to “foster dialogue” or whatever even though there’s palpably no meaningful dialogue to be had between the two sides.
“I’m sorry, I know I’m not supposed to do this, but I’m not going to listen to that. Senator Rubio, it’s hard to look at you and not look down the barrel on an AR-15 and not look at Nikolas Cruz, but the point is: You’re here and there are some people who are not.”
That comes right at the start of the clip, which is noteworthy. This wasn’t the kid working himself into a lather as he remembered the shooting and saying something vicious in the heat of the moment that he might regret later. This is the opening of his question to Rubio. It’s obviously a canned line he prepared and wanted to squeeze in while he had the chance. He’s grandstanding with the nastiest smear he could think of, knowing he won’t be criticized for it.
A lefty friend conceded to me that it was vicious and unfair, and doesn’t represent how most liberals feel about gun-rights supporters. Doesn’t it? Does anyone there seem perturbed by it? Rubio surely was insulted but had no choice except to keep his cool; the reason the left wants the kids out in front of their media effort this week is precisely because righty politicians can’t respond to a swipe like this with the contempt it deserves. If Rubio had pushed back, he’d be accused of “picking on the kids,” “compounding their grief,” et cetera. But no one else there is similarly constrained. Tapper could have said something in the name of keeping the event civil. Bill Nelson, who praised Rubio for showing up to face what everyone knew would be a hostile audience, didn’t say anything. On the contrary, Dana Loesch was heckled once or twice by the crowd with cries of “murderer” when she came out to speak.”
“George Clooney’s publicist told the Washington Free Beacon that he has set up interviews between children who survived the Parkland shooting and media outlets.
Stan Rosenfield, who represents Clooney, said he was “approached by a friend, not Mr. Clooney, to help set up television interviews last Sunday.”
Rosenfield said he set up five interviews on Sunday with Fox News, CNN, ABC, NBC, and CBS. When asked whether Clooney is paying for the publicity or endorses facilitating the interviews with the children survivors, he said Clooney’s statement on donating to the “March for Our Lives” campaign “answers all of your other questions.”
“Mr. Clooney has been a client of our office for over 16 years, however, I am doing this pro bono as I hope you would if victims of a massacre ask for your help,” Rosenfield said.
Clooney was among the first Hollywood celebrities to join the new gun-control push. He and his wife Amal donated $500,000 to the new gun-control group that is organizing a rally next month in Washington, D.C., in response to the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
“Amal and I are so inspired by the courage and eloquence of these young men and women from Stoneman Douglas High School,” Clooney said in a statement. “Our family will be there on March 24 to stand side by side with this incredible generation of young people from all over the country, and in the name of our children Ella and Alexander, we’re donating 500,000 dollars to help pay for this groundbreaking event. Our children’s lives depend on it.”
Parkland students appeared on all the major political Sunday morning shows, including CBS’s Face the Nation and NBC’s Meet the Press, calling for more restrictions on guns. The “attention is on us ”
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“A Florida woman who ran a pro-Trump Facebook group was tracked down by a CNN reporter and put on television Tuesday night — and now she’s facing vicious threats and harassment.”
So @CNN tracked down one of the ppl unwittingly duped by the Russians — reminder that CNN itself was duped into covering Russian-generated rallies — and @DrewGriffinCNN & Co. thought it best to publicly shame this old lady. Now ppl are viciously harassing her online. A thread. 1/ https://t.co/TYcTtJwt6L
This is the saddest and the most important part of the article by Stephens:
“At the same time, journalism can only be as good as its audience. Intelligent coverage requires intelligent readers, viewers and listeners.
We cannot invest in long-form, in-depth journalism for readers interested only in headlines, first paragraphs, or list-icles. We cannot purchase the services of talented wordsmiths and expert editors if people are indifferent to the quality of prose. We cannot maintain expensive foreign bureaus if audiences are uninterested in the world beyond our shores. We cannot expect columnists to be provocative if readers cancel their subscriptions the moment they feel “triggered” by an opinion they dislike.
In sum, we cannot be the keepers of what you might call liberal civilization — I’m using the word liberal in its broad, philosophical sense, not the narrowly American ideological one — if our readers have illiberal instincts, incurious minds, short attention spans and even shorter fuses.”
It’s unfortunate that Stephens received pushback from his recent play on words in reference to Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal . But if he feels that the NYT readership is not sophisticated or educated enough for him, maybe he’s writing for the wrong publication. I dropped my subscription because I was weary of headlines featuring words like moron and idiot (and variations of same). A journalist need not be the keeper of its civilization, but any writer needs to be able to bring the audience along with them, which can present challenges in a diverse society even when there is good will. It’s impossible to do that when you despise the reader.
How does Stephens know that about his readers? Did he ask them? Does he personally know them? I would never say such things about people willing to pay for my work.
How can you possibly assess their ability to understand if you only feed them garbage? If everything the media writes is dubious at best and probably one-sided. Methinks that “journalist” doesn’t deserve the title. Reporters are supposed to report, not judge their readers. They’re supposed to understand and work to avoid their personal bias, not proudly display it and pretend they’re objective and knowledgeable.
In his recent retrospective on William F. Buckley, Richard Brookhiser dealt with the issue raised above by Stephens. He was harsh but accurate:
“When we survey the field of conservative polemic, Bill has as few heirs. Fox News, it appears, was a gigantic mistake, frenzied and stupefying. The shelves of winger best-sellers are as inspiring as a collection of tombstones. Social media: You are having many followers from Skopje? You are liking them? Good work is always rare, because the iron law of talent is that a few have a lot, some have some, and most have none. But the proliferation of undigested new media, and the eternal pressure of the market, has exerted a powerful pull for stupidity. So has the willingness to be pulled.”
There are those who believe that Mr. Buckley exerted too much influence over Conservatism in what evolved into an every-man-for-himself Libertarian direction. Perhaps it would be desirable for Conservatism to rely less on a cult of individuality in the future, and more on a traditional, God-fearing, community perspective. I suspect things are moving in that direction already.
Hmm. “Less on a Cult” and “more on a traditional, God-fearing, community perspective”. How about conservatism moving away from the personality cult of an amoral con man who had affairs with a porn star and a Playboy bunny on the same weekend?
Buckley wrote about ten Blackford Oakes novels. They were written as a response to Robert Redford’s Three Days of the Condor. Far from “every-man-for-himself”, Buckley was first and foremost an anti-communist and a Cold Warrior. If you read all the novels, you will have a pretty complete understanding of the Cold War.
Its disturbing to see the shooting of the messenger that has occurred when high school students decided they would not follow the standard script which occurs after a school shooting. And would no longer be used as cannon fodder as their govt refuses to address the issue.
The only student who is following the standard script is the Jr ROTC student. He’s been quoted using the standard lines; laws won’t solve the problem, arm teachers, hire guards, not the right time, thoughts and prayers etc. The kids not following the script were demanding the right to speak immediately and confront the barriers to gun regulation.
To say these kids are scripted is to deny them “agency” ie independence. I’ve seen enough of the clips to say the kids were independent. Trapper struggled to control the student questioning Rubio….if the kid had been handed a script he definitely went of off it.
However the question of the student’s authenticity misleads people away from the issue the kids raise.. Rubio never answered the kid’s questions on the NRA and other issues. And the adults continue to play rhetorical games and ignore the kids legitimate concerns
I asked my students their opinion on arming teachers. They laughed.
The idea that high school students can’t think for themselves is ridiculous. Even my middle school students can articulate a position on gun control ot any other issue. An American high school student could easily articulate a position on an issue which is unfortunately part of their daily life. Their critics need to spend more time with teenagers; far brighter than they are given credit for.
Wandering Views 
Huh. You would think that a good Republican such as Mueller would have some other, ya know, Republicans on his team. But you’d be wrong.
http://dailycaller.com/2018/02/21/exclusive-zero-registered-republicans-mueller-lawyer/
“None of the 16 lawyers known to work for special counsel Robert Mueller are registered Republicans
Campaign finance records reveal that 11 lawyers are Democratic donors
None of the 16 publicly-confirmed lawyers on special counsel Robert Mueller’s team are registered Republicans, The Daily Caller News Foundation has found.
Voter registration records indicate that 13 of the attorneys are Democrats and three have no party affiliation. This is the first time the political affiliation of all 16 lawyers has been reported.
One of the lawyers, Zainab Ahmad, appears to have registered as a Republican at the age of 18, but has since changed her registration status to unaffiliated.
There is a 17th lawyer on the Russia probe, but this person’s identity and political affiliation remain unknown.”
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THIS is CNN.
More fake news from CNN.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/02/22/shooting_survivor_colton_haab_cnn_gave_me_scripted_question_after_denying_question_about_armed_guards.html
“Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student Colton Haab said he was approached by CNN to ask a question at Wednesday night’s town hall but decided not to after the network gave him a “scripted question,” quashing one he wrote himself. Haab, a member of the Junior ROTC shielded students while the school was under attack from the shooter, said he was going to ask about using veterans as armed security guards. (CNN response below.)
“CNN had originally asked me to write a speech and questions and it ended up being all scripted,” Haab told WPLG-TV.
CNN aired a town hall on the Florida school shooting with Sens. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Bill Nelson (D-FL) that included NRA’s Dana Loesch and Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel that was moderated by Jake Tapper. Students and parents asked questions about gun control and school safety.
“I expected to be able to ask my questions and give my opinion on my questions,” Haab said.
“Colton Haab, a member of the Junior ROTC who shielded classmates in the midst of terror says he did not get to share his experience,” WPLG’s Janine Stanwood explained.”
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And this is why children and their emotions shouldn’t be deciding gun policy, nor should their activist Democrat parents who exploit their own kids for political gain. Just disgusting all around..
But hey, THIS is CNN.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2018/02/21/cnns-tapper-sits-back-student-equates-rubio-school-shooter
“Wednesday’s CNN town hall to promote gun control and gun grabbing was off the rails from the start. So-called moderator Jake Tapper sat back as the wild crowd targeted Republican Senator Marco Rubio (Fla.) with boos and jeers for basically just being there. The wildest moment allowed by Tapper was when Parkland, Florida student Cameron Kasky smeared the Senator by equating him to the shooter that killed 17 of his classmates. And Tapper thanked him for all of it.
“I’m sorry, I know I’m not supposed to do this, but I’m not going to listen to that. Senator Rubio, it’s hard to look at you and not look down the barrel on an AR-15 and not look at Nikolas Cruz, but the point is: You’re here and there are some people who are not,” Kasky spat.
After Rubio answered his question, Kasky began to browbeat him for the money the NRA donated to his campaign, basically insinuating he was being bribed. “And this is about people who are for making a difference to save us and people who are against it and prefer money. So Senator Rubio, can you tell me right now that you will not accept a single donation from the NRA in the future,” he demanded as the crowd went crazy.”
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Yesterday, Jonah Goldberg posted this:
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Which led to a question and then he posted this:
I enjoy finding out more about the writers and their families.
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Activism masquerading as news.
THIS is CNN.
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/02/21/open-thread-fair-balanced-students-stand-evil-gun-owners-cnn-town-hall/
“The Very Fair And Balanced “Students Stand Up To Evil Gun Owners” CNN Town Hall”
“Think I’m being snarky with the headline? The actual network-approved title of tonight’s event is “Stand Up: The Students of Stoneman Douglas Demand Action.” This is an advocacy event, not a “news program,” and they’re making no bones about it. I did some cursory googling this morning to see if CNN has ever hosted something so overtly biased towards one side’s position on a hot-button issue and came up empty. By comparison, the debate they hosted on taxes in November between Bernie Sanders and Maria Cantwell on one side and Ted Cruz and Tim Scott on the other was titled, prosaically, “The Fight Over Tax Reform.” They could have done that with this event too — “The Fight Over Guns,” “Americans On Guns,” whatever. But this isn’t a debate or a town hall in the proper sense, even though both sides will be represented. It’s a showcase for very sympathetic victims on one side but not, a la Steve Scalise, on the other. Maybe it’s better that they’re not pretending otherwise with a more anodyne title. There’s a little honesty in that.”
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“What’s the difference? Democrats voted against a majority of the public on the abortion proposal and had a strong financial incentive to do so. Both the abortion vote and the current gun-control push are framed explicitly in terms of saving children’s lives. Why did CNN key-vote the Florida gun vote but not the congressional abortion vote?
You know why. They’re entitled to be advocates if they want — God knows their competition is — but they’re not entitled to keep up the pretense that they’re the “neutral” network navigating between “Resistance” MSNBC and “state media” Fox. And in fairness to MSNBC, I’m not sure they’ve been any more biased than CNN has been over the last few days. CNN’s tilt is so egregious that I find myself checking my own bias in favor of gun rights as possibly distorting my judgment of how fair they’re being. I’m not wrong that everything I described above is ba-na-nas for an ostensibly impartial news outlet, right?”
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Once or twice a year, Bret Stephens posts a speech he has given about journalism on a college campus. I appreciate DJ and the other journalists who do their work in very challenging times.
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We all appreciate those who do their jobs fairly and in an unbiased manner, like DJ.
But that ain’t CNN, or the Never-Trumpers..
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Good news from “World -sift” from Nigeria.
Nigerian officials said they rescued dozens of schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram militants earlier this week in the country’s northeast. The school kidnapping was the largest since Boko Haram drew international attention for abducting more than 200 girls from a boarding school in the town of Chibok nearly four years ago
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And let’s be clear here Ricky, there is nothing fair or unbiased about any of this. And using children to do your dirty work is disgusting.
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/02/22/parkland-student-rubio-hard-look-not-see-firing-ar-15-classmates/
“Via Newsbusters, here’s last night’s entire garbage event in one line. The ostensible point of this town hall meeting, remember, was to “foster dialogue” or whatever even though there’s palpably no meaningful dialogue to be had between the two sides.
“I’m sorry, I know I’m not supposed to do this, but I’m not going to listen to that. Senator Rubio, it’s hard to look at you and not look down the barrel on an AR-15 and not look at Nikolas Cruz, but the point is: You’re here and there are some people who are not.”
That comes right at the start of the clip, which is noteworthy. This wasn’t the kid working himself into a lather as he remembered the shooting and saying something vicious in the heat of the moment that he might regret later. This is the opening of his question to Rubio. It’s obviously a canned line he prepared and wanted to squeeze in while he had the chance. He’s grandstanding with the nastiest smear he could think of, knowing he won’t be criticized for it.
A lefty friend conceded to me that it was vicious and unfair, and doesn’t represent how most liberals feel about gun-rights supporters. Doesn’t it? Does anyone there seem perturbed by it? Rubio surely was insulted but had no choice except to keep his cool; the reason the left wants the kids out in front of their media effort this week is precisely because righty politicians can’t respond to a swipe like this with the contempt it deserves. If Rubio had pushed back, he’d be accused of “picking on the kids,” “compounding their grief,” et cetera. But no one else there is similarly constrained. Tapper could have said something in the name of keeping the event civil. Bill Nelson, who praised Rubio for showing up to face what everyone knew would be a hostile audience, didn’t say anything. On the contrary, Dana Loesch was heckled once or twice by the crowd with cries of “murderer” when she came out to speak.”
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As I said. All scripted and package, for your viewing pleasure.
This is nothing more than propaganda.
http://freebeacon.com/issues/george-clooneys-publicist-set-media-interviews-parkland-shooting-kids/
“George Clooney’s publicist told the Washington Free Beacon that he has set up interviews between children who survived the Parkland shooting and media outlets.
Stan Rosenfield, who represents Clooney, said he was “approached by a friend, not Mr. Clooney, to help set up television interviews last Sunday.”
Rosenfield said he set up five interviews on Sunday with Fox News, CNN, ABC, NBC, and CBS. When asked whether Clooney is paying for the publicity or endorses facilitating the interviews with the children survivors, he said Clooney’s statement on donating to the “March for Our Lives” campaign “answers all of your other questions.”
“Mr. Clooney has been a client of our office for over 16 years, however, I am doing this pro bono as I hope you would if victims of a massacre ask for your help,” Rosenfield said.
Clooney was among the first Hollywood celebrities to join the new gun-control push. He and his wife Amal donated $500,000 to the new gun-control group that is organizing a rally next month in Washington, D.C., in response to the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
“Amal and I are so inspired by the courage and eloquence of these young men and women from Stoneman Douglas High School,” Clooney said in a statement. “Our family will be there on March 24 to stand side by side with this incredible generation of young people from all over the country, and in the name of our children Ella and Alexander, we’re donating 500,000 dollars to help pay for this groundbreaking event. Our children’s lives depend on it.”
Parkland students appeared on all the major political Sunday morning shows, including CBS’s Face the Nation and NBC’s Meet the Press, calling for more restrictions on guns. The “attention is on us ”
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Yep, just like the script says.
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THIS is CNN….
http://dailycaller.com/2018/02/21/elderly-woman-cnn-threatened/
“A Florida woman who ran a pro-Trump Facebook group was tracked down by a CNN reporter and put on television Tuesday night — and now she’s facing vicious threats and harassment.”
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Children doing my work? My employees are flattered, but all of them are over 50.
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This is the saddest and the most important part of the article by Stephens:
“At the same time, journalism can only be as good as its audience. Intelligent coverage requires intelligent readers, viewers and listeners.
We cannot invest in long-form, in-depth journalism for readers interested only in headlines, first paragraphs, or list-icles. We cannot purchase the services of talented wordsmiths and expert editors if people are indifferent to the quality of prose. We cannot maintain expensive foreign bureaus if audiences are uninterested in the world beyond our shores. We cannot expect columnists to be provocative if readers cancel their subscriptions the moment they feel “triggered” by an opinion they dislike.
In sum, we cannot be the keepers of what you might call liberal civilization — I’m using the word liberal in its broad, philosophical sense, not the narrowly American ideological one — if our readers have illiberal instincts, incurious minds, short attention spans and even shorter fuses.”
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It’s unfortunate that Stephens received pushback from his recent play on words in reference to Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal . But if he feels that the NYT readership is not sophisticated or educated enough for him, maybe he’s writing for the wrong publication. I dropped my subscription because I was weary of headlines featuring words like moron and idiot (and variations of same). A journalist need not be the keeper of its civilization, but any writer needs to be able to bring the audience along with them, which can present challenges in a diverse society even when there is good will. It’s impossible to do that when you despise the reader.
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How does Stephens know that about his readers? Did he ask them? Does he personally know them? I would never say such things about people willing to pay for my work.
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How can you possibly assess their ability to understand if you only feed them garbage? If everything the media writes is dubious at best and probably one-sided. Methinks that “journalist” doesn’t deserve the title. Reporters are supposed to report, not judge their readers. They’re supposed to understand and work to avoid their personal bias, not proudly display it and pretend they’re objective and knowledgeable.
I’ll pass on reading anything of his, thank you.
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In his recent retrospective on William F. Buckley, Richard Brookhiser dealt with the issue raised above by Stephens. He was harsh but accurate:
“When we survey the field of conservative polemic, Bill has as few heirs. Fox News, it appears, was a gigantic mistake, frenzied and stupefying. The shelves of winger best-sellers are as inspiring as a collection of tombstones. Social media: You are having many followers from Skopje? You are liking them? Good work is always rare, because the iron law of talent is that a few have a lot, some have some, and most have none. But the proliferation of undigested new media, and the eternal pressure of the market, has exerted a powerful pull for stupidity. So has the willingness to be pulled.”
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Nursery workers wanted:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-mcmaster-kelly/two-top-white-house-advisers-may-leave-over-tensions-with-trump-sources-idUSKCN1G7001
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There are those who believe that Mr. Buckley exerted too much influence over Conservatism in what evolved into an every-man-for-himself Libertarian direction. Perhaps it would be desirable for Conservatism to rely less on a cult of individuality in the future, and more on a traditional, God-fearing, community perspective. I suspect things are moving in that direction already.
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Hmm. “Less on a Cult” and “more on a traditional, God-fearing, community perspective”. How about conservatism moving away from the personality cult of an amoral con man who had affairs with a porn star and a Playboy bunny on the same weekend?
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When Brookhiser talked about people allowing themselves to be pulled toward stupidity, he was talking about people such as Tucker Carlson.
https://twitter.com/kt_so_it_goes/status/910354395656843265
Carlson is a conservative and a smart guy. However, he is now making millions by acting like a Trumpkin on Fox News five nights a week.
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Debra, This was the book that made Buckley famous.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_and_Man_at_Yale
It was not about economics.
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Buckley wrote about ten Blackford Oakes novels. They were written as a response to Robert Redford’s Three Days of the Condor. Far from “every-man-for-himself”, Buckley was first and foremost an anti-communist and a Cold Warrior. If you read all the novels, you will have a pretty complete understanding of the Cold War.
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Its disturbing to see the shooting of the messenger that has occurred when high school students decided they would not follow the standard script which occurs after a school shooting. And would no longer be used as cannon fodder as their govt refuses to address the issue.
The only student who is following the standard script is the Jr ROTC student. He’s been quoted using the standard lines; laws won’t solve the problem, arm teachers, hire guards, not the right time, thoughts and prayers etc. The kids not following the script were demanding the right to speak immediately and confront the barriers to gun regulation.
To say these kids are scripted is to deny them “agency” ie independence. I’ve seen enough of the clips to say the kids were independent. Trapper struggled to control the student questioning Rubio….if the kid had been handed a script he definitely went of off it.
However the question of the student’s authenticity misleads people away from the issue the kids raise.. Rubio never answered the kid’s questions on the NRA and other issues. And the adults continue to play rhetorical games and ignore the kids legitimate concerns
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Mona is coming around to my idea that Trump may have framed himself.
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I asked my students their opinion on arming teachers. They laughed.
The idea that high school students can’t think for themselves is ridiculous. Even my middle school students can articulate a position on gun control ot any other issue. An American high school student could easily articulate a position on an issue which is unfortunately part of their daily life. Their critics need to spend more time with teenagers; far brighter than they are given credit for.
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