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New Republic Editor Evokes Fringe Email "Clinical Narcissism" Smear

Morgan Warners | Posted 10.06.2009 | Media

Read More: Email Chain Letter, Tnr, Joe Klein, Obama Muslim Email, Joe Klein TIME, Obama Email, Marty Peretz, The New Republic, Narcissism, Swampland, Sam Vaknin, Barack Obama, Nazi, Obama Communist, Communism, Nazis, Smears, Obama Nazi, Obama Muslim Smear, Media News
Morgan Warners

A famously hawkish supporter of Israel, New Republic editor Marty Peretz's accusations about the president mimic the message of a fringe ring-wing email that I got my hands on.

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Glenn Beck vs. Van Jones: McCarthyism Enters the 21st Century

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 11.08.2009 | Media

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Joseph A. Palermo

If you serve a right-wing Republican president you can write or say anything you want. But if you serve a liberal Democratic president, like the "pinks" who fell to McCarthyism, you can be taken down.

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New Republic Editor Martin Peretz Blasts Someone For Something, Sort Of

Barrett Brown | Posted 09.25.2009 | Media

Read More: The New Republic, Lockerbie Bomber Libya, Barack Obama, Martin Peretz, Sentence, Language, Grammar, Obama Megrahi, Abdel Baset Ali Al-Megrahi, Media News
Barrett Brown

Not that I'm bothered by Peretz's or anyone else's racism, which is directed only towards mere people. But why his perpetual assault on grammar? Grammar isn't an Arab, Marty. You're thinking of algebra.

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Failing the Stimulus

Harry Moroz | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: The New Republic, Brookings, Stimulus, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Politics, Politics News
Harry Moroz

The stimulus package worked to make life better for "victims of the recession." What is disappointing is that the programs politicians had the most say in are the most flawed.

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Obama's Weak Congress

Andrew Sargus Klein | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: House of Representatives, White House, Politics, Intelligence, Bush Administration, Senate, Congress, Central Intelligence Agency, National Security, President Obama, Bush Legacy, Leon Panetta, Legislation, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, The New Republic, Walter Lippmann, Politics News
Andrew Sargus Klein

I fear a Congress that, while not so much parasitic, is so fearful of being attached to any of Obama's failures that it misses every opportunity to be a part of his successes.

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What Can Be Done Now on DADT

Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Don't Ask Don't Tell, Obama White House, Congress, Colin Powell, Speaker Pelosi, Gallup Poll, The New Republic, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Sam Nunn, Obama Pentagon, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Politics News
Aubrey Sarvis

Discrimination in our armed forces carries a potent symbolism: It tells an entire class of people that the country is not interested in their service.

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Thanks The New Republic!

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 07.11.2009 | Media

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Amitai Etzioni

I am grateful to The New Republic for providing the space for long essays on complex subjects.

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Arianna: A Greek Tragedy in Only 6,200 Words

Al Eisele | Posted 07.05.2009 | Media

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Al Eisele

Did you read The New Republic's cover story on Arianna Huffington? Isaac Chotiner devastatingly deconstructs her in a mere 6,200 well-chosen words in his review of her latest book.

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Why Obama Won't Tap Jennifer Granholm for the Supreme Court

Susan J. Demas | Posted 06.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Barack Obama Hillary Clinton, Jeffrey Rosen, Unemployment, Jennifer Granholm, John Cherry, Craig Deroche, Sonia Sotomayor, The New Republic, David Comey, Saul Anuzis, Michigan, Elena Kagan, Barack Obama, U.S. Supreme Court, Politics News
Susan J. Demas

The former actress is auditioning for a role in Washington but when you don't get asked to dance at Prom enough times, the invitations tend to dry up.

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You Won't Believe What Martin Eisenstadt Said At The White House Correspondents Dinner

Diane Tucker | Posted 10.10.2009 | Media

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Diane Tucker

TIME.com followed several members of the "elite Twitterati" as they attended the White House Correspondents' Dinner in the ballroom of the Washington ...

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Jack Kemp and the Failed Republican Urban Agenda

Harry Moroz | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Heritage Foundation, Mayors, Jack Kemp, George H.W. Bush, Bruce Vento, George W. Bush, The New Republic, Republicans, Newt Gingrich, Conservatives, Cities, Los Angeles, Enterprise Zones, Michael Kinsley, Frank Jackson, Politics News
Harry Moroz

Jack Kemp should be remembered as the lone conservative voice to speak about the importance of cities at least since the federal government turned its back on urban areas.

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Why Do Liberals Still Care About Matt Drudge?

Michael Wolff | Posted 05.23.2009 | Media

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Michael Wolff

The New Republic, continuing the political world's odd obsession with the Drudge Report, says its editor, Matt Drudge, has disappeared, or gone into seclusion like some latter-day Howard Hughes.

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Who's Responsible? We Might Never Know

Harry Moroz | Posted 05.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Elizabeth Warren, Alexander Hamilton, President Obama, New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, Leon Wieseltier, Noah Feldman, President Bush, Federalist Papers, Tarp, Responsibility, Politics News
Harry Moroz

The mistakes or missteps of President Bush lie not merely in his administration's lack of transparency, but in its disregard for the establishment of goals.

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Martin Peretz To Buy Back The New Republic

Politico | Michael Calderone | Posted 04.10.2009 | Media

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Marty Peretz, former owner of The New Republic, is buying back the magazine with a group of investors led by former Lazard executive Laurence Grafstei...

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Jason Linkins

The New Republic Appoints Itself Gravedigger Of 'Mainstream Media'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.20.2009 | Media

Read More: The New Republic, Media Criticism, Media News

While both "the right and the left," in plying their case, often lamely impugn the press when their point of view fails to take root, this is not the reason the public believes the press to be damaging to democracy.

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This Week in Magazines: Cybercrime, Financial Aristocrats and Snakes

James Warren | Posted 03.11.2009 | Media

Read More: This Week in Magazines, Time, Snakes, Cybercrime, Jack Bauer, The New Republic, Businessweek, Media News
James Warren

So what kind of guy is engaged to Uma Thurman, is a magnanimous patron of charities, and is proof that, if born with a huge silver spoon in your mouth, you can still do good while doing well?

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Newspaper Editors To Generation Y: Drop Dead

Diane Tucker | Posted 03.28.2009 | Media

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Diane Tucker

Doesn't the best online journalism still depend on old media outlets? What happens when we lose all those print reporters, the ones who file history's first draft?

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Blaxploitation, GOP Style

Russ Baker | Posted 02.16.2009 | Politics

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Russ Baker

Tthe GOP is stepping up efforts to stress diversity, but is resorting to a tried-and-true W. tactic: the promotion of compromised, disreputable individuals -- a kind of lemon diversity that only highlights their cynicism and contempt for the public.

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Jason Linkins

Obama's Churchgoing Habits Overexamined By Politico [UPDATED]

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.08.2009 | Media

Read More: The New Republic, Politico, Media Matters, Barack Obama, Media News

It's hard for me to pick a side in the whole affair. This is because the stakes are so terrifyingly low! Nothing in our lives hinges on whether or when or where or how President-Elect Barack Obama goes to church. The only place is seems to matter is to media types, off chasing picayune inanities.

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Don't Get Fooled Again: How To Spot An Internet Hoax

Diane Tucker | Posted 03.10.2009 | Media

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Diane Tucker

Today we know there's no such person as Martin Eisenstadt. He was nothing but a hoax. The truth was established way back in June, thanks to good sleuthing by a blogger.

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Don't Hurt Adam Nagourney's Feelings

Eric Boehlert | Posted 08.07.2008 | Media

Read More: John McCain, Ana Marie Cox, Anne Kornblut, Adam Nagourney, The New Republic, New York Times, Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, Wall Street Journal, Barack Obama, Bush, Media News
Eric Boehlert

It's only considered to be newsworthy, and to be a point of deep media concern, when a Democrat is accused of slighting the press.

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Lessons Not Learned: The Media Continues to be MIA on the Truth about Iraq War

Bennet Kelley | Posted 06.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Bush Lies, The New Republic, Scott Mcclellan, Scott McClellan Book, bushlies.net, Iraq War, Media Coverage of Iraq, Senate Intelligence Committee Report, James Kirchick, Media News
Bennet Kelley

Sadly, the McClellan revelations and the Phase II report reveal that, despite their public penance, much of the media would rather ignore this whole matter of the lead up to war.

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Lee Siegel, New Republic Critic Turned Anonymous Commenter, Blames Bush For Nasty Commenters

Huffington Post | Adam Rose | Posted 06.04.2008 | Media

Read More: The New Republic, Sprezzatura, Lee Siegel Jon Stewart, Jon Stewart, Lee Siegel, Media News

Lee Siegel, the senior editor at the New Republic who was suspended for posting a handful of self-serving comments on his TNR blog under the handle "s...

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Gabriel Sherman, TNR and Nader's Traitors

James Love | Posted 05.01.2008 | Media

Read More: The New Republic, Gabriel Sherman, Ralph Nader, Ralph Nader Presidential Candidacy, Media News
James Love

I think Ralph Nader has done more than any other living U.S. politician to improve the lives of Americans. But that was not how I was quoted.

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