Byron York is the White House correspondent for National
Review and
the author of The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy, published in April by Crown
Forum.


Byron York is the author of the book The Vast Left Wing
Conspiracy, published in April by Crown Forum, which examines the role that the
newly-energized left -- exemplified by MoveOn.org, the 527s, Fahrenheit
9/11, the Center for American Progress, Air America, and others --
played in
the 2004 presidential campaign.

He is the White House correspondent for
National Review, where he has written on topics including the campaign,
the
battle over the president's judicial nominations, the war on terrorism,
the
anti-war movement, and the business histories of the president, vice
president, and their Democratic critics.

He is also a weekly columnist
for
The Hill, a newspaper about Congress. and has written for the Atlantic
Monthly, the Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard, and The American
Spectator. He has appeared on Meet the Press, Special Report with Brit
Hume,
Hardball, The O'Reilly Factor, and other television programs, and has
contributed occasional commentaries to National Public Radio. He lives
in
Washington, DC.

Blog Entries by Byron York

The Wal-Mart Movie: Viewer Beware

Posted November 21, 2005 | 03:13 PM (EST)


Since today is Wal-Mart day at the Huffington Post, I might as well put in my two cents. I have just finished writing an article for National Review about Robert Greenwald's new movie (the article is not yet available online), and what I found bewildering about the picture was Greenwald's...

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Could Someone Please Explain...

Posted July 7, 2005 | 11:29 AM (EST)


Karl Rove's reported behavior in the Plame/Cooper/Miller case? The New York Times strongly suggests that Matthew Cooper was protecting a single source in the grand jury investigation, and that the source was Rove, and that it was Rove who personally released Cooper from his pledge of confidentiality yesterday. In...

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To Lawrence O'Donnell: How Do You Know?

Posted July 6, 2005 | 01:01 PM (EST)


In your original post on the Plame/Cooper/Miller affair, you wrote that "Time magazine's emails will reveal that Karl Rove was Matt Cooper's source. I have known this for months but didn't want to say it at a time that would risk me getting dragged into the grand jury." So,...

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An Impertinent Question

Posted June 29, 2005 | 12:37 PM (EST)


There was a scene in Fahrenheit 9/11 when Michael Moore asked Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), "Um, how could Congress pass this Patriot Act without even reading it?" Conyers leaned across his desk and answered, "Sit down, my son. We don't read most of the bills..."

What Conyers meant, I think,...

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Wasn't Rove Right About MoveOn?

Posted June 24, 2005 | 06:24 PM (EST)


Certainly Karl Rove's charge that "liberals" failed to grasp the true significance of the September 11 terrorist attacks was too broad. But in a significant part of his speech, Rove seemed to be directing his words specifically at MoveOn, and in that case, wasn't he right on the money? "In...

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Times Immunizes Dems Against Foot In Mouth Disease

Posted June 17, 2005 | 11:28 AM (EST)


Does the New York Times have a policy against publishing verbatim quotes of outrageous statements by Democrats? This morning, the paper ran a small (176 word), unsigned item on page A-18 headlined, "Apology Demanded for Remark on U.S." It reported that Republicans are demanding that Sen. Richard Durbin apologize...

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To Jim Lampley and the Ohio skeptics

Posted May 11, 2005 | 10:48 AM (EST)


Enough about the bookies. [See previous posts in this argument here and here and here.] Your faith in the exit pollsters is greater than the exit pollsters' faith in themselves -- just take a look at head pollster Warren Mitofsky's apology/explanation [pdf] for his skewed results....

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With Apologies to Jim Lampley

Posted May 10, 2005 | 06:14 PM (EST)


What if I wrote this:

At 5:00 p.m. Eastern time on Saturday, May 7, I checked the sportsbook odds in Las Vegas and to see the odds as of that moment on the Kentucky Derby. Bellamy Road was a 5-to-2 favorite. You can look it up.

People...

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Four Long Years

Posted May 9, 2005 | 03:49 PM (EST)


I don't think anyone has mentioned that today is the fourth anniversary of President Bush's first set of nominations to the federal courts of appeals. There were eleven nominees in all, and some of their fates make you wonder about the sometimes bizarre nature of the confirmation process. For example,...

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Reckless Legislation With Perverse Consequences

Posted May 9, 2005 | 12:00 AM (EST)


One story that's creating buzz in Washington but is little known anywhere else – the New York Times has not deigned to mention it – is the fight over the final report of independent counsel David Barrett. Barrett was appointed in 1995 to investigate charges that Clinton housing secretary Henry...

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