non-cultural-warfare politics
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solarbirdThese are five stories I thought were interesting that are not CWU material, at least, not in the traditional sense.
CATO Institute on the abandonment of liberty and freedom as primary goals of the modern conservative movement; I'd link to Brooks's endorsement of authoritarian conservatism, but it's behind the TimesSelect wall and you can't get to it without paying;
An older Fox News piece on the same shift - this one from 2004 - talks authoritatively on the "No Guardrails" question, and really exposes in great detail the classism of the entire set of assumptions behind it - how people of money can afford their vices, but the lower classes can't be trusted with them;
Joe Galloway "goes for the throat" in an email exchange with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's press secretary Larry Dirita;
Blog entry about Joe Galloway and Larry Dirita;
Bill O'Reilly gets very racist.
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We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Guardrails
Cato Institute
May 16, 2006
http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2006/05/16/we-dont-need-no-stinkin-guardrails/
Last Sunday, David Brooks conceded in the New York Times that modern conservatism has abandoned the the last vestiges of liberty and freedom from the Reagan-Goldwater movement. Instead, Brooks writes, today’s right is all about authoritarianism. In a fit of candor that’s either refreshing or appalling — I’m not sure which — Brooks writes that not only is he okay with this, he embraces it. Brooks writes:
[More at URL]
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No Guardrails?
Thursday, May 08, 2003
By Radley Balko
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,86238,00.html
Ten years ago, the Wall Street Journal ran a now-famous unsigned editorial by Daniel Henninger (search) entitled "No Guardrails." The editorial iterated many of the worries and concerns cultural conservatives had had about our society's moral compass since the 1960s, but took the unique approach of relaying them through the story of Michael Frederick Griffin, the man who murdered abortion doctor David Gunn in Florida.
"No Guardrails" basically blamed society's elite — and the leftist elite in particular — for adopting the ever-sliding mores, values and morals that cultural conservatives blame for most of modern society's maladies.
[More at URL]
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Galloway Goes for the Throat
DefenseTech
Online as of May 17, 2006
http://www.defensetech.org/archives/002404.html
One of the nice things about being one of the most repected war correspondents ever is that you get to tell Pentagon bigwigs to shove it where the sun don't shine. Check out this e-mail slugfest between We Were Soldiers Once... And Young author Joe Galloway, and departing Defense Department flack-in-chief Larry DiRita.
The whole thing started over Galloway's recent profile of Paul Van Riper, the iconoclastic Marine retired general. But it wound up hitting on just about every major issue facing the Pentagon today, from where to station forces to what kind of gear to buy. Along the way, DiRita and Galloway call each other lots of nasty things. Here's an excerpt, from Galloway's third response to DiRita. Check out the whole thing after the jump.
[More at URL]
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Joe Galloway and the "Talking Dog"
Sic Semper Tyrannis 2006
A daily journal of thoughts and messages from the "muffled zone" that media management has made of our country.
http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2006/05/joe_galloway_an.html
Joe Galloway is the "Ernie Pyle" of my generation and one of the greatest friends the American soldier ever had. He is the reporter who went to LZ X-Ray in 1965 with the First Battalion, Seventh Cavalry Regiment. Yes. He is the reporter in the film "We Were Soldiers."
[More at URL]
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O'Reilly claimed NY Times, other "lefty zealots" believe "the white Christians who hold power must be swept out by a new multicultural tide"
Online as of March 17, 2006
http://mediamatters.org/items/200605170006
Summary: Bill O'Reilly claimed that The New York Times and "many far-left thinkers believe the white power structure that controls America is bad, so a drastic change is needed." O'Reilly continued: "According to the lefty zealots, the white Christians who hold power must be swept out by a new multicultural tide, a rainbow coalition, if you will."
During the May 16 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, host Bill O'Reilly claimed that The New York Times and "many far-left thinkers believe the white power structure that controls America is bad, so a drastic change is needed." O'Reilly continued: "According to the lefty zealots, the white Christians who hold power must be swept out by a new multicultural tide, a rainbow coalition, if you will." O'Reilly's comments came during a discussion of opposition by the Times and others to deploying the National Guard to help secure the border.
[More at URL]
CATO Institute on the abandonment of liberty and freedom as primary goals of the modern conservative movement; I'd link to Brooks's endorsement of authoritarian conservatism, but it's behind the TimesSelect wall and you can't get to it without paying;
An older Fox News piece on the same shift - this one from 2004 - talks authoritatively on the "No Guardrails" question, and really exposes in great detail the classism of the entire set of assumptions behind it - how people of money can afford their vices, but the lower classes can't be trusted with them;
Joe Galloway "goes for the throat" in an email exchange with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's press secretary Larry Dirita;
Blog entry about Joe Galloway and Larry Dirita;
Bill O'Reilly gets very racist.
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We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Guardrails
Cato Institute
May 16, 2006
http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2006/05/16/we-dont-need-no-stinkin-guardrails/
Last Sunday, David Brooks conceded in the New York Times that modern conservatism has abandoned the the last vestiges of liberty and freedom from the Reagan-Goldwater movement. Instead, Brooks writes, today’s right is all about authoritarianism. In a fit of candor that’s either refreshing or appalling — I’m not sure which — Brooks writes that not only is he okay with this, he embraces it. Brooks writes:
[More at URL]
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No Guardrails?
Thursday, May 08, 2003
By Radley Balko
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,86238,00.html
Ten years ago, the Wall Street Journal ran a now-famous unsigned editorial by Daniel Henninger (search) entitled "No Guardrails." The editorial iterated many of the worries and concerns cultural conservatives had had about our society's moral compass since the 1960s, but took the unique approach of relaying them through the story of Michael Frederick Griffin, the man who murdered abortion doctor David Gunn in Florida.
"No Guardrails" basically blamed society's elite — and the leftist elite in particular — for adopting the ever-sliding mores, values and morals that cultural conservatives blame for most of modern society's maladies.
[More at URL]
----- 3 -----
Galloway Goes for the Throat
DefenseTech
Online as of May 17, 2006
http://www.defensetech.org/archives/002404.html
One of the nice things about being one of the most repected war correspondents ever is that you get to tell Pentagon bigwigs to shove it where the sun don't shine. Check out this e-mail slugfest between We Were Soldiers Once... And Young author Joe Galloway, and departing Defense Department flack-in-chief Larry DiRita.
The whole thing started over Galloway's recent profile of Paul Van Riper, the iconoclastic Marine retired general. But it wound up hitting on just about every major issue facing the Pentagon today, from where to station forces to what kind of gear to buy. Along the way, DiRita and Galloway call each other lots of nasty things. Here's an excerpt, from Galloway's third response to DiRita. Check out the whole thing after the jump.
[More at URL]
----- 4 -----
Joe Galloway and the "Talking Dog"
Sic Semper Tyrannis 2006
A daily journal of thoughts and messages from the "muffled zone" that media management has made of our country.
http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2006/05/joe_galloway_an.html
Joe Galloway is the "Ernie Pyle" of my generation and one of the greatest friends the American soldier ever had. He is the reporter who went to LZ X-Ray in 1965 with the First Battalion, Seventh Cavalry Regiment. Yes. He is the reporter in the film "We Were Soldiers."
[More at URL]
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O'Reilly claimed NY Times, other "lefty zealots" believe "the white Christians who hold power must be swept out by a new multicultural tide"
Online as of March 17, 2006
http://mediamatters.org/items/200605170006
Summary: Bill O'Reilly claimed that The New York Times and "many far-left thinkers believe the white power structure that controls America is bad, so a drastic change is needed." O'Reilly continued: "According to the lefty zealots, the white Christians who hold power must be swept out by a new multicultural tide, a rainbow coalition, if you will."
During the May 16 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, host Bill O'Reilly claimed that The New York Times and "many far-left thinkers believe the white power structure that controls America is bad, so a drastic change is needed." O'Reilly continued: "According to the lefty zealots, the white Christians who hold power must be swept out by a new multicultural tide, a rainbow coalition, if you will." O'Reilly's comments came during a discussion of opposition by the Times and others to deploying the National Guard to help secure the border.
[More at URL]
