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Book Critic Kakutani: Beck Fans Moved by Threat of Black President

Charming: Book critic Kakutani on the Tea Party movement, composed of among other things "militia members, Ayn Randers, Limbaugh 'ditto heads,' Glenn Beck fanatics, birthers, Birchers, and ...

The Times Splashes in the Shallow End with Meghan McCain, Brave Republican Rebel and Ugg Boots Wearer

Not a parody: Times writer Liesl Schillinger's praiss "Dirty Sex Politics," Meghan McCain's account of her father's 2008 presidential campaign. "Her book is not only a front-row view of one of the ...

Thatcher-Hostile Reporter Sarah Lyall Takes Arbitrary Swipe at Ronald Reagan

Where did that come from? In a discussion on a suspicious anecdote in Tony Blair's memoirs, reporter Sarah Lyall writes: "[Peter] Morgan told The Daily Telegraph, perhaps Mr. Blair 'had one gin ...

America On The Brink

Terence Jeffrey's new book is required reading for any conservative (and every conservative) who needs to know exactly what the Obama regime is trying to do to America.

Let's Pick Another Metaphor, Shall We?

"[Bruce Cumings] mows down a host of myths about the war in his short new book, which is a distillation of his own scholarship and that of many other historians. But he begins by mowing down David ...

Kristof Characterizes 'Provocateur' Ayaan Hirsi Ali as Bomb-Throwing Anti-Muslim Antagonist

In a condescending review of her memoir "Nomad," Times liberal columnist Nicholas Kristof reduces feminist Ayaan Hirsi Ali, whose life has been threatened by radical Islamists, into a mere ...

NYT Critic Accuses Author of Limbaugh Bio of 'Stockholm Syndrome'

New York Times critic Janet Maslin harshly accused journalist Zev Chafets of exhibiting "Stockholm syndrome" for his failure to lambast Rush Limbaugh in his new biography of the talk radio giant.

Author of Limbaugh Bio Accused of 'Stockholm Syndrome'

Critic Janet Maslin harshly accused journalist Zev Chafets of exhibiting Stockholm syndrome for his failure to lambast Rush Limbaugh in his new biography of the talk radio giant.

Sentences We Were Obliged to Finish: 'Barack Obama Demonstrated his Economic Prowess...'

Business writer/book reviewer Harry Hurt III summarizes a gushing new autobiography of Obama by Newsweek's "moderately liberal" Jonathan Alter: "Barack Obama demonstrated his economic prowess at ...

NYT's Top Book Critic Forwards Myth of Obama the Moderate

When was this? Top book critic Michiko Kakutani uses David Remnick's new Obama biography to champion Obama as a pragmatic compromiser: "Perhaps it's also an inclination that explains why he made ...
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