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| Wednesday, April 24, 2024 |
Miles from the Mainstream |
D.
R. ZUKERMAN, proprietor |
To Succeed in Politics and in the Media -- Be Smug?
August 19, 2015 -- A history professor sent a letter to The New York Times Book Review (August 16) suggesting that conservatives have "a thinking problem." A letter writer to the Times, reacting to Gerard Alexander's August 9 article, "Jon Stewart, Patron Saint of Liberal Smugness," explained the political "asymmetry" of Stewart's attacks because "there is no evidence" that the "Democratic left" is detached "from reality." When the president and members of his administration like Treasury Secretary Jack Lew assert that opponents of the Iran deal have not offered an alternative, LPR hears them arguing that the critics haven't offered an alternative acceptable to the administration, as well as to Tehran's rulers. |
LPR's concern is that the Republican establishment agrees that conservatives have a thinking problem, are detached from reality and, therefore, any alternatives they propose are without merit, ab initio.
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