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An Interview With David Bromwich About Obama, Afghanistan

Radio Open Source | Christopher Lydon | Posted 11.15.2009 | Media

Read More: Yale, David Bromwich, Obama Job Performance, Bromwich, Press Criticism, Afghanistan, Troop Levels, Obama Watch, New York Times, Obama, Iraq, Watson Institute, William Safire, New York Times Watch, Media News

David Bromwich seems to me better yet at Obama-watching than at press criticism. He can write with penetration of Barack Obama as an American almost-l...

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A Word for the Gifting Season

Amy Hungerford | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Holiday, Language, Holiday Gifts, Thanksgiving, Words, Regifting, Hannukah, Gift Giving, Christmas, Giving, William Safire, Living News
Amy Hungerford

Pretension wrapped in a noun wrapped in a gerund: that's what gifting is. This holiday season, give the gift that keeps giving: something nice you picked yourself, for a particular person.

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William Safire

Gershon Hepner | Posted 10.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Word Maven, William Safire, Living News
Gershon Hepner

Not a hopeless hypochondriac of history / nor a nabob who was negative and nattered / maven of the English tongue whose wordy mystery / he believed to English-speaking people mattered

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Friday Talking Points [96] -- The Impressiveness of Alan Grayson

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.03.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

First, let's get rid of the distractions this week. Chicago will not be getting the Olympics in 2016, even after President Obama went over to Copenha...

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William Safire: Wars Made Out of Words

David Bromwich | Posted 11.15.2009 | Media

Read More: Bill Clinton, Thomas Friedman, Joe Mccarthy, Wen Ho Lee, Rush Limbaugh, Ronald Reagan, Spiro Agnew, Maureen Dowd, Lebanon, Bob Woodward, Mohamed ElBaradei, William Safire, Richard Nixon, Vietnam, Ariel Sharon, Jimmy Carter, New York Times, Hillary Clinton, James Reston, Kenneth Starr, Baltimore, Media News
David Bromwich

William Safire's career took him from public relations to propaganda to column-writing in a single seamless progression.

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William Safire's Passing and the Decline of American Journalism

Nancy Snow | Posted 09.28.2009 | Media

Read More: Lamar Odom, American Journalism, Richard Nixon, William Safire, The Kitchen Debate, American Culture, Media, Syracuse University, New York Times, Popular Culture, Khloe Kardashian, Newhouse School, Media News
Nancy Snow

Is the death of an esteemed giant in American journalism less newsworthy than a second-tier celebrity wedding?

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William Safire Dead: Dies Aged 79

AP | DEEPTI HAJELA | Posted 09.27.2009 | Media

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NEW YORK — William Safire, the conservative columnist and word warrior who feared no politician or corner of the English language, died Sunday a...

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Forget Being "Borked," She's Been "Sotomayored"

Karl Frisch | Posted 08.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Supreme Court, Washington Times, Robert Bork, Ann Coulter, Lou Dobbs, David Souter, Media, John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Tucker Carlson, Ricci v. Destefano, Media Matters, Sandra Day O'Connor, William Safire, Scotus, Cnn, Sonia Sotomayor, Fox News, Samuel Alito, People for the American Way, Media News
Karl Frisch

It's clear the conservative press has little interest in ascertaining the veracity of right-wing smears against Sotomayor before advancing them.

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Obama's Durban II Critics: Nattering Nabobs of Negativism

Ira Forman | Posted 04.02.2009 | World

Read More: Racism, Durban, William Safire, United Nations, Israel, National Jewish Democratic Council, United Nations Conference Against Racism in Geneva, Barack Obama, Anti-Obama, Durban Ii, World News
Ira Forman

Many of these new nattering nabobs are made up of those Jewish critics of the president who are intent on proving his bad intentions toward Israel no matter what the facts show.

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William Safire Sounds Kind Of Racist

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 10.01.2008 | Media

Read More: White Supremacy, Jr., Racism, Martin Luther King, William Safire, Barack Obama, The New York Times, Media News
Joseph A. Palermo

According to William Safire, Obama's speech was a failure because it was "all too like the collectivist fantasy that opened and closed the Beijing Olympics."

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William Safire Blogs About Blogging

Oxford University Press | William Safire | Posted 04.12.2008 | Media

Read More: William Safire Blog, William Safire, Media News

Today the OUPblog is honored to have William Safire author of Safire's Political Dictionary to write about the origins of blogging. Safire began his w...

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The Torturous Logic of The New York Times

Marc Cooper | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

Read More: Bush, Harsh Interrogation Methods, The New York Times, On Language, Outlawing Torture, Congressional Ban, Waterboarding, Waterboard, Veto, Marc Cooper, Bill Safire, Steven Lee Meyers, Euphemism for Torture, William Safire, Torture, Home News
Marc Cooper

With President Bush's veto this weekend of a bill to outlaw the CIA's use of waterboarding, torture now becomes officially codified U.S. policy. But you'd never know it from the reading the Times.

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