And this is a two-way street. Republicans paint a broad spectrum of Democrats as socialist kooks, and Obama has been as strong a magnet for hyperbole as any politician in my lifetime. Let us not forget Dinesh D’Souza’s 2010 book ‘The Roots of Obama’s Rage,’ or Newt Gingrich’s assertion that ‘only if…
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Frank Bruni
Frank Anthony Bruni (born October 31, 1964) is an American journalist and long-time writer for New York Times. In June 2011, he was named an op-ed columnist for the newspaper, its first openly gay one. One of his many previous posts for the newspaper was as its chief restaurant critic, from 2004-2009. He is the author of three bestselling books: Born Round, a memoir about his family's love of food and his own struggles with overeating; Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be, about the college admissions mania; and Ambling Into History, about George W. Bush. 2Biography Bruni graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1986 with a B.A. in English. He was a Morehead Scholar and wrote for the student paper, The Daily Tar Heel. Bruni graduated second in his class with a master of science degree in journalism from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, where he also won a Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship. Straight out of Columbia, Bruni joined the staff of the New York Post and then moved on to the Detroit Free Press, where he did a wide range of beats, including a stint covering the Persian Gulf War. He spent more than a year as the movie critic and also wrote extensively about gay issues and AIDS. In 1993, he was a runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize in feature writing for his profile of a convicted child molester. In 1995, Bruni took a job with The New York Times as a metropolitan reporter and often wrote for The Times's Sunday magazine 'and' for Sunday Art
In Commentary, Noah Rothman has repeatedly examined this subject. He wrote back in March that when ‘honorable and decent men’ like McCain and Romney ‘are reflexively dubbed racists simply for opposing Democratic policies, the result is a G.O.P. electorate that doesn’t listen to admonitions when the…
I worked on the presidential campaign in 2004,’ Howard Wolfson said, referring to John Kerry’s contest against George W. Bush. He added that he was also ‘active in discussing’ John McCain when he ran for the presidency in 2008 and Mitt Romney in 2012. ‘And I’m quite confident I employed language…
Conservative commentators and die-hard Republicans often brush off denunciations of Donald Trump as an unprincipled hatemonger by saying: Yeah, yeah, that’s what Democrats wail about every Republican they’re trying to take down. Sing me a song I haven’t heard so many times before.
Before he allegedly began mailing pipe bombs to Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and others, Cesar Sayoc found encouragement online — maybe not in the form of explosives instructions, but in the sense that he could scream his resentments in a theater that did the opposite of repudiating them. It echoed…
The internet will be the death of us. It casts rogue grievances as legitimate obsessions and gives prejudices the shimmer of ideals.