Tag: pundits

Contributor Post Created with Sketch. Recommended by Ricochet Members Created with Sketch. Feeling Feisty Over Foreign Policy Follies

 

POTUS 41 through 45In Realsville, President Trump has done more to check Russian imperial aggression than has any president since Reagan. Fact.* Deal with it.

And.

There is a greater likelihood that Hong Kong will become an independent city-state, like Singapore, than there is that Russia will hand Crimea back to Ukraine in the next decade.

Recommended by Ricochet Members Created with Sketch. Honorable Pundits on the Left?

 

My morning routine, for years, consists of going through posts on Ricochet, Instapundit, Powerline Blog, etc. I’ve felt that I need to read intelligent commentary from the Left, but haven’t found it yet. I know it’s out there, so I appeal to the Ricochet Hive Mind to enlighten me — who is worthwhile reading on the Left?

Recommended by Ricochet Members Created with Sketch. Attacks vs. Criticism: An Attempt at Clarification

 

Criticism of Trump is fine. It’s good and right from a free citizenry and the associated pundit class. I also enjoyed contempt, mockery, and snark when it is aimed at, for example, a Clinton.

Contempt, mockery, and snark are properly the province of late-night comedy types (including the Trevor Noahs of the world, even if they’re in denial), and also the agents of an opposition.

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Punditry is neither new nor is the star-power of those whose profession it is to tell you what to think. Many readers of this post remember William F. Buckley’s superb Firing Line, CNN’s middling Crossfire and McLaughlin’s curmudgeonly growls. But whereas these vanguards of the medium were relegated to bargain basement time slots, today’s pundit […]

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My view of NeverTrump is that it was the right policy during the primaries but it is the wrong strategy now. It does not make sense for any conservative for the general campaign. I opposed Trump ever since he announced, and I was surprised that other Republicans all seemed not to take him seriously until […]

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I noticed that this article by Mark Steyn has already received 2,000 likes on his Facebook page and hundreds of shares, whereas usually when Steyn links to his articles on Facebook, they only receive a couple hundred likes and dozens of shares, if that.

It’s interesting that readers seek out particular pundits during particular scenarios. After an Islamic attack in Europe, people apparently look to Steyn. If a city declares bankruptcy, perhaps they would look to Kevin Williamson.

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The punditry class has spoken. Donald J. Trump will be the Republican nominee and Hillary Rodham Clinton will be the next President of the United States. Because the polls tell us so. Besides, as I was told just the other day, influential members of the GOP (whose names we all know!) will back Hillary over […]

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Los Angeles – Paul Krugman took home the Academy Award for Economics yesterday for his role as a pundit posing as a morally-vain economist who couches his arguments in contemptuous terms toward dissenters. “Those who disagree with my views are either fools, knaves or foolish knaves” he said in his acceptance speech, transforming into the award-winning roll before his colleagues who comprise […]

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