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Blog Entries by Jeffrey Feldman from 03/2007

D'Souza and the Violent Right

| Posted 03.02.2007 | Huffington Post

Dinesh D'Souza is a paragon of the "violent right"--a new breed of pundits who seek to control public debate by framing all issues through an authoritarian logic of violence.

Coulter's Murder Motivational Speaking is Big Business

| Posted 03.08.2007 | Politics
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Have the members of your organization become so lazy that they just don't go out and murder liberals anymore?  Fear not.  For the low, low p...

Giuliani and Violence in Pre-9/11 New York

| Posted 03.10.2007 | Politics
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To recover the reality of violence and controversy that surrounded Giuliani as an elected official, we need only return to the media discussion that dominated the national airwaves just prior to 2001.

The Identity Voter

| Posted 03.11.2007 | Politics
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Identity voters are not simply voting for themselves, but are making a political choice--seeing distinctions in a field of candidates--based on identity variables rather than policy positions.

Cheney's Murder-Death-Kill Talk

| Posted 03.12.2007 | Politics
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Where CNN claims the VP was only "chiding" Democrats--our NC-17 VP repeated the words "war," "terror,""enemy," "murder," "death" and "kill" enough times to make Quentin Tarantino cover his ears.

The 5 Words Bush Wants Americans to Repeat

| Posted 03.21.2007 | Politics
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The goal of Bush's appearance was not to inform the public of any facts, but to force the White House's carefully scripted keywords into the debate--with the hope that journalists and Democrats would repeat them.

Cancer and Character in American Politics

| Posted 03.23.2007 | Huffington Post

Unfortunately, we live in political times where a great many Americans react to moments like yesterday's announcement with distrust, rather than admiration.