Andrew Sullivan's Blog, page 2851

"They Do Not Know It, But They Are Doing It"

Jay Rosen tries to pin down the ideology of the American press corps:

So: liberal or conservative? My answer: it's complicated. One thingwe can definitely say: political journalists are cosmopolitans, andthey will see the world through that lens. They may also stop seeing itas a lens, and that's when it becomes an ideology. But even if we had an x-ray machine that gave us perfect informationabout the beliefs of the journalists who report on politics, theideological drift of the work they...

Palin's Next Prop?

Patt Morrison fumes over the former governor's angling to get a meeting with the Iron Lady:

Baroness Thatcher is suffering from dementia, according to her daughter, Carol. Writing in the Daily Mail more than a year and a half ago, Carol Thatcher chronicled her mother's decline: "On bad days, she could hardly remember the beginning of a sentence by the time she got to the end.'' For a woman of Thatcher's formidable intellect and unflagging energy, it's a sad decline. For Palin's camp to use...

No Madonna, Ctd

The smoking gun:

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A "Wink" And A Bashing

If you wonder why the top brass remain leery of ending the gay ban:

[Witnesses:] told police one of the men grew angry because he thought Daly
was winking at him and struck Daly in the back of the head with his
fist, knocking him unconscious.

Saturday night, from his bed at
Memorial University Medical Center, Daly insisted he tried to convince
the Marines he was not winking at them. "The guy thought I was
winking at him," Daly said. "I told him, 'I was squinting, man. ... I'm ...

Murky In Turkey

Claire Berlinski summarizes what we still don't fully know about the Mavi Marmara and the IHH.
















Mavi Marmara - Middle East - Turkey - Israel - United States

Blue Flight To A Red State

Forbes provides an interactive map showing migration patterns to and from various American cities. Free Exchange takes a look at all the folks moving to Texas:

Migration statistics reveal that people are moving in droves to Texas.Why? Jobs and no state income taxes. High earning New Yorkers andCalifornians can take home between 9% and 11% more of their income bymoving to Texas. Every trip down I speak to at least one bitter NewYorker/Californian fed up with high taxes and cost of living...

The View From Your Window

The enormous popularity of the VFYW contest makes us consider always putting the place and time of the window views after the jump - in order to give everyone a chance to play this game on their own every day without a spoiler you have to squint over. (Yes, I know everything would be so much better if we had the simple 538-style, drop-down page-jump option. We've asked for this for years and we've now been told this will be possible in due course. Until then, this will have to do.)

Let us...

"He Sees Himself In Her"

Garrett Epps explains Obama's selection of Elena Kagan.
















Elena Kagan - Barack Obama - President - United States - History

The Palin Model

Sharron Angle is to be shielded from the press - apart from love-ins at NRO - for a few more weeks. The press, it appears, takes this as a fait accompli, not as something to resist, expose and complain about.
















Harry Reid - Republican - Sharron Angle - Nevada - United States Senate

Dissent Of The Day

A reader writes:

Quit classifying the whole tea party movement as people who stood by when Bush and his thugs shit on the Constitution.  They say the tea parties actually grew out of the 2008 campaign of Ron Paul - someone who was very critical of Bush and his totalitarian ways.  There is also a new show that many people are labeling as the tea parties' own TV show: Freedom Watch, hosted by Judge Andrew Napolitano.  He is a guy who criticized Bush and his horrendous civil liberty and spending...