Comments on: Wall Street Journal Kicking Butt This Weekend

By: charlie finch

charlie finch — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 02:43:47 +0000

If you really want to get depressed read the article in Monday’s NY Times about the bitching between Summers, Geithner, Goolsbee, et. al. Described throughout the piece as “brilliant”, they come across as petty, narrowly focused factotums with no orginal ideas to help the country. Ringmaster Obama’s big contribution is to realize that Austin Goolsbee is not in the room during a debate on Chrysler and to buzz him in to join the fracas, fueled by “Diet Cokes in Larry Summers’ fridge.” The problem with America is that we have a superficial, trivial culture based on narcissism and vanity which has filtered into the White House by leaps and bounds since the dullard Reagan. Obama should stop trying to be Reagan with brains and lead the thinking like a Jefferson lecturing Lewis and Clark, rather than succumbing to the reputaions of the meatballs around him. Don’t hold your breath, however.

By: Bill Altreuter

Bill Altreuter — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:58:42 +0000

Not so long ago the Saturday NYTimes was the best edition of the week, but it was surely the weakest selling, so they scaled it back. The Weekend WSJ is okay, but it’s not as good as, for example, the Saturday Toronto Globe & Mail. And it is still the WSJ, which means that Peggy Noonan and her ilk still infest it. A column about wine and an interesting feature here and there can’t make up for the loathsome politics of the thing.

By: charlie finch

charlie finch — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:44:03 +0000

Overall, he WSJ has become terribly dull reading under Murdoch and the culture pages stultifying in the regurgitation of received wisdom. Weekend Journal is an egregious dry hump of “the finer things” without a spark of wit or life.

By: Carl Sesar

Carl Sesar — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:42:53 +0000

@ # 1

You are talking to the wall. RR is adamantly obtuse in regard to such remarks as yours, and it’s out of cowardice. He will never, ever respond directly to what you’ve said, or to any others’ critical comments. He can dish out plenty of generalized insults, but face to face on any given point, he’s hopeless.

By: David Thomson

David Thomson — Sun, 31 May 2009 18:21:41 +0000

“Republicans, Let’s Play Grown -Up” on the tenor of the opposition to Obama’s Supreme Court pick.”

No problem whatsoever. This can be done in a calm and rational manner. Just remember the name of Frank Ricci, and how Sonia Sotomayor put the screws to him. He should be the poster child of the opposition. We also should never forget that most Americans do not support racial preferences. The issue of Sotomayor is a sure loser for Democrats—if handled properly. Lastly Republicans should never behave in the disgraceful manner normally associated with the Democratic Party during the Clarence Thomas nomination and similar outrages.