On George Eliot’s birthday, Glenn Reynolds linked a Maureen Dowd column which showed that while the New York Times columnist does have a jaundiced view of the GOP, she does at least understand part of Sarah Palin’s appeal, what she calls the “visceral,” her ability to connect with [...]
With the fuss we make over Thanksgiving, I’d bet most Americans believe the Pilgrims were the first nonnative American settlers in North America.
Put aside the putative Norse landfall, and the certainty of the Spaniards in Florida and on the Pacific Coast; it’s the Anglo-American narrative that captains a big part of early American [...]This morning, I read the first 100 pages (about one-quarter) of Sarah Palin’s book, Going Rogue: An American Life. And despite the “narrative” that this book is whiny, with the former Alaska Governor portraying herself as a victim trying to settle scores, there is no trace of that in [...]
It seems that many of Sarah Palin’s critics are pushing the narrative that the former Alaska Governor has used her book and is using her book tour to settle old scores. They have bought into the Democratic talking point that the book in “political payback“. A headline in the [...]
As the information drips out about the ties Nidal Malik Hasan had (or aspired t0 have) to terrorists at war with the United States and about his own radical statements, we see two competing narrative developing among the blogging and pundit class. Conservatives wonder why more wasn’t [...]
Gerard at American Digest brought this tweet to my attention, and it strikes home as much for its perceptive analysis as for its pith. In trying to spin the results of this week’s elections to fit the Democratic/media narrative that Republicans are a dying species, Administration officials dwell on the results in NY-23 as if the White House were indifferent to the races in New Jersey and Virginia. And anyway, the Democratic candidate in [...]
The mainstream media has pretty much missed the biggest story about the energy on the right not just in the fall campaigns concluding with today’s elections, but since the first tea party took place sometime last February.
So committed are they to pushing the narrative of an attempted coup by social [...]
AP (or Yahoo!) editors seem to have pulled their headline for an article on Dede Scozzfava’s withdrawal from the special election in New York’s 23rd congressional district from a left-wing blog: “Future of GOP and moderate Republicans uncertain,” with “reporter” Valerie Bauman asking in the first paragraph, “Are moderates [...]
