Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pledging Allegiance takes the election too seriously, Road Show doesn't take it seriously at all. Roger Simon's work is campaign as comic relief, the most fun you can have with a political book. A columnist for the Baltimore Sun, Simon zigged where other reporters zagged, going to places and shadowing sources others ignored. He has an obvious feel for people and a way of making them talk. Simon's biggest coup is a chat with a former Hart paramour, described as a moderately attractive, 47-year-old divorcee. A patient, ardent suitor, Hart planned intimate dinners and romantic...
Baker said he agreed with a Washington Post columnist who had called such questions "retrospective scapegoating" and "shameful." He added, "We've got some 20/20 hindsight going on that's been highly critical, frankly, of some very fine career public servants," meaning Ambassador April Glaspie and John Kelly, the Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian affairs. The criticism, replied Apple, was not aimed at the diplomats. "They're trying to criticize...
This proved too much for A.M. Rosenthal of the New York Times, the paper's former top editor and now a conservative columnist. Rosenthal wrote that Buchanan's words amounted to "blood libel," an implication that Jews have "alien loyalties for which they will sacrifice the lives of Americans." Rosenthal later insisted he had not overstated the case: "Buchanan can dish it out; let him take it a little." Others hastened to join in. The conservative Post, Buchanan's publisher in New York City, editorialized that "when it comes to Jews as a group . . . Buchanan betrays an all-too- familiar...
Buchanan remains predictably unrepentant: "I don't retract a single word. The reaction was simply hysterical and is localized to New York." In the truest tradition of the columnist, he vows to have the next, if not necessarily the last, word on the whole topic. A future piece, Buchanan says, will address how out of touch New York City and its media are with the rest of America...
...lengthy extract in the Harvard Business Review prompted a fusillade from fervent free-traders. New Republic columnist (and TIME contributor) Michael Kinsley broadly hinted that Choate, despite his denials, was engaging in "McCarthyism" with "his easy accusations of disloyalty, his imagery of infection of the body politic, his woozy mixture of falsehoods, half-truths and exaggerations." Hobart Rowen, a Washington Post columnist, called Choate's theories "pure poppycock...