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Taranto’s Soderberg Saga
James Taranto’s Soderberg comments continue to stir readers.
He quotes from a reader, Joel Engel, who says:
As for Soderberg, she was answering serious questions–even those asked in a tone of bemused irony–seriously. After all, she’d come on the air to promote not a book of Rodney Dangerfield’s best one-liners, but a serious-minded critique of the Bush team. Her great misfortune is that it was written, thanks to the long lead time publishing requires, long before the news turned unrelentingly good. So she now has to distance herself from her book’s title, thesis and text. A smart woman, she no doubt had to recognize that her opening remark about the administration’s finding that it’s harder than they thought to bend the world “to their will” was a complete non sequitur, given the events of the day. It’s a terrible thing, apparently, to consider yourself a member of the intellectual elite driven to effete obsolescence by a cowboy. Worse, though, is to believe that you’re going to have a bestseller after being a featured segment on “60 Minutes,” but instead current events have consigned you to six uncomfortable minutes on the conflicted Jon Stewart show. Hence: There’s always Iran and North Korea.
He also quotes someone ripping him apart as a liar.
And concludes with:
One could no doubt also find examples of Republicans rooting for bad things to happen when Democrats were in power. We’re all human, after all.
Related post here.
http://myopiczeal.blogsome.com/2005/03/10/tarantos-soderberg-saga/trackback/
Eric: Plenty of boobs like Steve and Alex who have their heads stuck so far down in the sand that they still see nothing wrong with such “sarcasm” will probably not be dissauded from their pathological anti Bush bias, no matter what….
But just in case anyone cares: here’s a bit from Brookings scholar, Stuart Taylor writing for National Journal (oh and Stevie… neither Taylor, nor NJ are part of the “vast right wing conspiracy”):
“Shouldn’t we sometime Bush-bashers — and even the full-time Bush-haters — be prepared to give great credit to him and his neocons, if and when it becomes clear that they have engineered a historic breakthrough?
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First came a March 5 op-ed in The Valley News, of Lebanon, N.H., by Haviland Smith, a retired CIA station chief who served in Europe and the Middle East and as chief of the counter-terrorism staff….
“Recently, however, it has become increasingly clear that things are not going as badly in Iraq as I had feared and, to be brutally honest, not as badly as some [Americans] had hoped…. I go to bed at night with the nagging worry that the crazy neocon fathers may conceivably have been right in pushing pre-emptive unilateralism. Have I been stubbornly and stupidly wrong? …
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