Haste, Hustle and Scott Walker [Openly Gay NYT writer attacks Walker]

The New York Times ^ | July 15, 2015 | Frank Bruni

[Cincinatus' Wife]

In the formal announcement of his presidential campaign on Monday, Scott Walker mentioned God right away, introduced himself as a preacher’s son and invoked religion repeatedly, as he has throughout a perpetual candidacy that stretches back to his college days, when he told the Marquette University yearbook: “I really think there’s a reason why God put all these political thoughts in my head.”

But what I see in him is the kind of soullessness too common in American politicians and the kind of careerism that makes American politics such a dreary spectacle.

I see an ambition even more pronounced than any ideology. I see an interest in personal advancement that eclipses any investment in personal growth.

These are hardly unusual traits in our halls of government. But they’re distilled in Walker, the governor of Wisconsin

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Frank Anthony Bruni (born October 31, 1964) is an American journalist. He was the chief restaurant critic of the New York Times, from 2004 to 2009. In June 2011, he was named an Op-Ed columnist for the newspaper—its first openly gay one. He is the author of two bestselling books, Born Round, a memoir about his family's love of food and his own struggles with overeating, and Ambling Into History, about George W. Bush."

Frank Bruni ".....In his columns, which appear every Sunday and Wednesday, he reflects on diverse topics: American politics, higher education, violence in football, gay rights and his own life as a gay man in a close-knit family..."

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Brent Bozell: Scott Walker and the Other Dummies

"........If the Republicans are truly smart, what they will do is run against the Times. Newt Gingrich energized voters and won the South Carolina primary by pushing back the major media, especially the liberal-journalist "moderators" that the Republican Party allowed in the primaries last time around.

When the Old Media try to delegitimize conservatives, the answer is to delegitimize the Old Media. Nobody should believe that today's "news" media are in the slightest way objective. Seventy percent of Americans now tell pollsters they're not referees interested in fairness. It should be 100 percent. The press is not just biased; it is intentionally biased. The evidence of a tilt toward liberalism is not just never-ending; it is also accelerating in intensity.

The 2016 character assassination campaign is underway."

[Cincinatus]

But what I see in him is the kind of soullessness too common in American politicians and the kind of careerism that makes American politics such a dreary spectacle. I see an ambition even more pronounced than any ideology. I see an interest in personal advancement that eclipses any investment in personal growth.

A more perfect description of Hillary Clinton you will not find.

[wideawake]

Look, Bruni knows exactly what he's talking about.

As the New York Times' longtime food and restaurant critic, he is probably one of this nation's most learned and insightful political analysts.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

“.............The Human Rights Campaign also unleashed its anger.

“Scott Walker’s suggestion that the Boy Scouts of America’s current discriminatory policy somehow ‘protects’ children from gay adults is offensive, outrageous, and absolutely unacceptable,” HRC President Chad Griffin said, also in a statement. “His comments imply that we represent a threat to the safety and well-being of young people. For a sitting governor and presidential candidate to make such a disgraceful claim is unconscionable. If Scott Walker is trying to get his merit badge in being shamefully irresponsible, he just earned it with flying colors.”

But Walker’s comments were also not embraced by at least some on the (center) right, like Washington Post blogger Jennifer Rubin, who called it a “classless slap at gay men,” and accusing Walker of “pandering to the far right today.”

“Walker is making himself into a traditionally divisive Republican,” Rubin decided, scolding him with this:

Does he think children need “protection” from gay men? His wife’s cousin and his sons might want to explain how ludicrous and insulting that is.

Meanwhile, the fireworks on Twitter were even more spectacular:....”

http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/scott_walker_under_fire_for_suggesting_kids_need_to_be_protected_from_gay_scout_leaders

[cripplecreek]

Does he think children need “protection” from gay men?

I do and can even introduce him to a couple of gay men who will say the same.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Frank Bruni (NYT) attacks Scott Walker.

FReep Mail me if you want on, or off, this Wisconsin interest ping list.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

More from the deranged Left:

“According to one University of Wisconsin professor, presidential candidate Scott Walker and mass-murdering dictator Adolf Hitler are so similar that it’s actually “terrifying.”

“My grandfather, a psychologist, just walked me through similarities between Walker and Hitler.

There are so many-it’s terrifying,” educational-policies professor Sara Goldrick-Rab tweeted on July 1.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/421196/professor-scott-walker-terrifying-similarities-hitler

[Popman]

...is an American journalist

Isn't "American journalist" an oxymoron now ?

[MSF BU]

If the sodomites don’t like him that speaks well for him.