In Case You Missed It ...
Claire Berlinski, Ed. ·
December 6, 2011 at 2:48pm
I was on Fox & Friends, talking about Margaret Thatcher this morning. I don't usually look like this, though. That's Fox Makeup.™ which makes all women look identical.
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Sep '10
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I never watch Fox, so I'm unaware of the, er, foxes. But now I'm intrigued.
Jun '10
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Strong work, Ms Berlinski!
Aug '10
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Clair, It doesn't even look like much makeup. You look beautiful.
Dec '10
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Excellent job being certain to bring in your points about deregulation and leverage. Equating the deregulation of a generation ago with what that phrase may mean today is a constant annoyance of mine.
Also, you do a great job of restraining "ummmms" and "ahhhhhs."
Apr '11
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Good interview. You got more than average camera time. You looked lovely and sounded intelligent, a reflection of reality no doubt. To be a bit inappropriately specific: your eye makeup and hair looked very well done, and I really like your gold necklace.
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What a treat to see you, Claire!
As a public service announcement I'll just point out that what they kept saying (and scrolling) is the title of the book is actually the subtitle of the book. The full title is "There Is No Alternative: Why Margaret Thatcher Matters", and you can buy it on Amazon here. It is not only scholarly and rigorous but also hugely entertaining. I advise buying it in bulk.
(By the way, honey: the Thatcher stuff is great, but that necklace is fabulous.)
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It's TV makeup, so it doesn't shine or glare under the lights, but outside of the studio it looks really odd.
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Claire Berlinski, Ed.
Oh, and where are my manners? Thank you!
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Judith Levy: What a treat to see you, Claire!
As a public service announcement I'll just point out that what they kept saying (and scrolling) is the title of the book is actually the subtitle of the book. The full title is "There Is No Alternative: Why Margaret Thatcher Matters", and you can buy it on Amazon here. It is not only scholarly and rigorous but also hugely entertaining. I advise buying it in bulk.
(By the way, honey: the Thatcher stuff is great, but that necklace is fabulous.) · Dec 6 at 6:20am
Istanbul flea market, five liras.
Oct '10
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Yes, what they said above. You brought intellectual lustre to the show.
May '11
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Did your IQ drop twenty points after sitting with the Fox and Friends crew? I can't stomach them. The beady eyed sports guy looks like he is straining whenever he has to come up with something to say. The woman interviewing you is dense, and the blonde guy has the intellect of an untalented ten year old.
Mar '11
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Very strong interview, Claire! Thanks for posting that here - I wouldn't have seen it otherwise.
Feb '11
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Claire,
Great job on Fox & Friends. Like Skyler, I loathe Fox & Friends because it dwells mostly in gossip and the catchiest headlines. Now my respect for F&F is higher because they invited you as a guest. If only they devoted more time to your segment--quel dommage. And as others have already noted, you looked lovely.
Feb '11
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Well done!
Feb '11
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Claire Berlinski, Ed.
Istanbul flea market, five liras. · Dec 6 at 6:22am
Reminds me of the time, about 40 years ago, that my aunt complimented my grandmother on a scarf she was wearing. "You like it? A buck!" she replied. I wasn't quite sure whether she was telling what she paid for it, or offering to sell it.
Apr '11
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I just added Claire's book to my Amazon cart for Christmas. I've several biographies of Thatcher. Here's the part in the preface of Claire's book that made me want to read this one, too.
Interesting. Sold.
May '10
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Why must TV interviews be so wretched short and attenuated? It's as if they're bent on driving us all to the periphery of existence.
The interviewer is insufferable.
Jun '10
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I hope this unrelated movie helps your book sales, so people get the true story, but I won't be seeing it.
A review of the movie from the Australian:
"Human, it may be, as the brilliant Meryl Streep depicts Thatcher as a doddering, demented woman, hallucinating about the past. However, by inserting real-life coverage from the Thatcher era, the filmmakers pretend that the film shows a slice of history. Alas, The Iron Lady flits between too much fantasy and too little fact. Moments of humour cannot hide the fact Thatcher caricatures abound. There's Maggie, the ambitious career woman, neglecting her husband, speeding away in her car while her distressed children run after her as she heads to the House of Commons. And Maggie, the ideologue, unbending in her beliefs, cold in her politics and hectoring and haranging, in the House of Commons or the Cabinet room. And, of course, Maggie, the monster, slashing public spending, closing schools, creating a new generation of millionaires, ignoring the poor and unemployed and trashing workers' rights in her crusade against the trade union movement. Did we really need a blockbuster movie to tell us that Thatcher is despised by the Left?"
Oct '10
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I'm torn between thinking that Claire is too good for the cable news shows or whether she's the antidote for what I don't like about them. Maybe that isn't mutually exclusive, but she's excellent at this sort of thing.
Given Claire's intellectual interest in Margret Thatcher at time when Thatcher is particularly relevant to our current crisis and her international perspective from living so many years in an area that is a current and historical crossroads of history and politics, you'd think she'd be exactly the type of person you'd want on your cable news channel much more than the generic American political pundit.
You'd also think I'd just cut that last run on sentence into an entire paragraph, but you'd be wrong on that also.
Sep '10
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Full Disclosure:
I own the book on Kindle, finally started reading it, agree it was fabulous and then was interrupted by the infernal OCD mouse click (I have thing for mice) and in to my little Kindle shot 7 more books bought on impulse including Peter Robinson's book on Reagan and Isaacson's biography on Steve Jobs (wryly called The Book of Jobs by some), one on storyboarding, another by a famous Hollywood director who shall go unnamed, God's Philosophers, a book on typography, and several books for my day job.
Peter's I've finished. Its very well done. Claire's I'm 1/3rd into. It too is excellent though in a completely different way: its not memoir, but reads more like a combination travelogue and mystery story, with ex tutorial pupil Claire reprising her role many years later with even some of her old tutors.
And -- I know you'll be shocked, shocked -- that our Amish schoolmarm editor Claire raises the delicate subject of Maggie's sex appeal with her usual aplomb and you can hear the fellows squirming in their overstuffed Etonian leather chairs.
Edited on December 6, 2011 at 4:06pm