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Clearly, Ross G. Douthat ’02 (the aforementioned Crimson pundit) has changed his mind...
Unlike the Washington bigwigs he has made a career of talking about, Armstrong Williams fesses up when caught red- handed. "My judgment was not the best," the conservative pundit admitted after USA Today uncovered a Department of Education contract paying him $240,000 to promote President Bush's No Child Left Behind law on his talk show, The Right Side, and in other TV appearances. The contract required him to "regularly comment on NCLB during the course of his broadcasts" and to encourage other journalists to talk...
Shoutfest Crossfire, conservative pundit TUCKER CARLSON left the network last week and is in negotiations with rival MSNBC. A CNN exec told reporters his decision to drop Crossfire was influenced in part by Daily Show host Jon Stewart, who called Carlson and his liberal counterpart, Paul Begala, "partisan hacks" when he was on the show last fall. "It's a half-hour show at 4:30," says Carlson, who put in his resignation before Stewart's comments. "To say we're the problem with America is ludicrous." Yeah. It's prime time that's really doing...
...beat, but incredibly interesting story. Rachel always seemed to know which obscure academic to contact for a story, or what former Crimed could be a potential source. It was she that led me, dragging my insecure feet, to Reverend Gomes’ Memorial Hall office to interview the venerable pundit for my endpaper on Jesus. Liz Maher amazed me in a different way, with her ability to magically turn computer files into film, which then miraculously appeared in my doorbox as FM. She too seemed to have the answer to every question, and the gossip on every campus personality...
...principle when necessary. The Democrats’ prospects over the next four years will largely depend on whether Reid is serious about defending progressive Democratic principles, or whether he will give into the temptation to pander to hard-line social conservatives. The latter is a losing proposition: fashionable pundit-babble about “moral values” aside, over the past few decades, Americans have been abandoning social conservatism like rats off a sinking ship. Rather than wanting to legislate their moral values for others, on a host of social issues, Americans increasingly favor personal autonomy in matters...