Why television columnists shouldn’t write political essays
Now there are all types of reasonable arguments TNR could have gotten some black non-Obama supporter to make. He’s a neoliberal (oh…wait, that doesn’t work because TNR is a neoliberal publication). He’s too moderate compared to Edwards (oh…wait, that doesn’t work because TNR didn’t support Edwards). Clinton’s health care policy is significantly better (oh…wait, the policies aren’t as dissimilar as folks are making them out to be).
May 29th, 2008 at 10:18 am
Henderson manages to miss the thrust of the Obamamandian ouevre, not so much because he’s a television critic, but instead because he’s unfamiliar with the ways and means of high-level management consultants.
Global Hegemony the motion picture starring Baraka Obamamandius because the predecessor approach demonstrated insurmountable operational instabilities.
But then what would you expect, it was an Arthur Anderson production…., Baraka OTOH is top-shelf, Bain & Co. personnel, who will deliver TOP management’s post hoc narrative du jour with grace, likeability, and aplomb - no matter how phukked up things become down in the operational trenches
May 29th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
wow, I really read the whole thing hoping the author would have some other point besides what I would call innuendo and racialized utterings. I’m not sure who he is supposed to speak for, but I think that most of my black friends who support Clinton could do a little better than that.
On the other hand, I’ve heard all those rantings and ravings before from non-black Clinton supporters. The novelty of it is that he is black man (the author is a man, right?) writing the same trite stuff?
it was pretty bad, but is it really a typical sampling of what televison columnists are writing?
May 29th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
not really, except when the subject is black politics/economics/social life. the new republic wouldn’t publish this otherwise. it wouldn’t get past the editors…