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Is This The New Murdoch Wall Street Journal ?

Submitted by Allen on Wed, 07/02/2008 - 16:09
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Today, on the once conservative editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal you will find a column that is a poorly sourced,  flat-out attack on McCain adviser Charlie Black (neither a friend or a colleague of mine) and the Young Americans for Freedom (I was never a member). The columnist digs deep into the archives to build a nonsensical case that YAF equals Fascist, which is suppose to lead to the conclusion that Black as a YAFer was a fascist.

No where is there mention that YAF was founded by Bill Buckley and that its founding statement is an important statement of conservative principles. While there is a sinister sounding aside that many YAF members went on to important positions in government there is no reference to the thousands of YAF volunteers who dedicated countless hours to promoting conservative principles and candidates.

Is this column an example of the new Wall Street Journal? This lousy piece of journalism should never have seen the light of day in any publication. The author writes with the fervor of a paid Obama supporter. Check it our for yourself.

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Let not your heart be troubled, Allen - Frank's just a Marxist

Submitted by GOP_Rebel on Wed, 07/02/2008 - 17:29.

writing an opinion piece on WSJ.  Thankfully Murdoch still encourages free speech, unlike Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid and Google, to name a few on the Left who actually do have fascist tendencies.  Thomas Frank wrote that whiny tome "What's the Matter With Kansas" which was the predecessor of Obama's Bible-toting gun-clinger remarks earlier this year in San Francisco. 

Of course he's a fervent Obama supporter, and vice-versa.  Obama is a fervent Thomas Frank supporter - it's a reciprocal relationship.  Just to balance out the situation, take a look at Steven Malanga's article on Frank called What's the Matter With Kansas?  Not a thing, it turns out - from December, 2004:

In purple prose, Mr. Frank paints a grim picture of the state and its towns. Kansas is "pretty much in a free fall," he informs us, and as a result of its economic devastation, it's "a civilization in the early stages of irreversible decay." The cause of all this decline, he says, is modern capitalism, especially as practiced by all those businessmen-Republicans. Kansas is "burning on a free-market pyre," he writes. Things are especially bad in his old hometown of Shawnee, where, during his visits, he no longer sees anyone in the streets. Instead, "heaps of rusting junk and snarling rottweilers" blight the landscape.

Frank's one of those ranting, raving Leftistas for whom I generally turn on my auto-filter and read "blah blah blah Assaulting Liberal Politicians, blah blah blah Impresario of Calumny, blah blah blah blah Allegations flew, but no wrongdoing ever proven, blah blah".  We call Frank "The Mayor" - as in "The Mayor of Crazy-Town".  I deeply suspect that someone on the Left has authored the Progressive version of the Shakespearean Insult Generator, and Frank writes every article by using it liberally.