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Michael Kinsley resigns from Los Angeles Times
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| 9/13/05
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Posted on 09/13/2005 5:49:41 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: BurbankKarl
Kinsley, 54, said in an interview with The New York Times in July that his arrangement to commute to his job from his home in Seattle had become a problem Just how does a hard lefty justify the waste of fuel used to commute from Seattle to LA?
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posted on
09/13/2005 7:48:01 PM PDT
by
RJL
To: Mount Athos
Kinsley has more integrity than a lot of commentators on the left, I'll say that Talk about faint praise...
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posted on
09/13/2005 7:49:12 PM PDT
by
okie01
(The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
To: BurbankKarl
Thanks for posting this letter, BBK.
Most curious. Very curious. Sounds like.. the job wasn't quite the fit. Maybe Susan Estritch is throwing tony HellA parties and elbowing her way in?
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posted on
09/13/2005 7:50:47 PM PDT
by
Alia
To: BurbankKarl
He, like H. Ross Perot, never blinks.
Creepy guy.
To: BurbankKarl
Kinsley, unlike the vast majority of liberal pundits and partisans, understands the constraints of logic, which constantly gets him into trouble as he twists himself into a pretzel trying to support whatever the liberal line of the day is.
No doubt the Parkinson's is slowing him down now. The farewell note above sounds more than a little bitter, and he doesn't mention his illness, as if it's too touchy a subject to bring up.
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posted on
09/13/2005 10:33:52 PM PDT
by
beckett
(Amor Fati)
To: BurbankKarl
So I'm off to the Washington Post.No kidding. Who could have guessed. /sarcasm
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posted on
09/13/2005 10:38:10 PM PDT
by
kcvl
To: leadpenny
He, like H. Ross Perot, never blinks. Creepy guy.
Not blinking and lack of facial expression are symptoms of Parkinson's.
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posted on
09/13/2005 10:42:38 PM PDT
by
paulat
To: paulat
I didn't know that. In Perot's case, it was mentioned during the 92 GOP debates. It had to be around the same time when I noticed the Kinsley "stare." Maybe the early "Crossfire" programs?
To: dennisw
Yes, he does try to "construct" his column more than say, E. J. Dionne, but he often enough lapses into appeals to authority and thinly disguised ad hominems. He has also been much more shrill in his cable appearances (particularly since the Parkinson's overtook him). I have no use for him.
To: BurbankKarl
They're just rearranging the deck chairs...
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posted on
09/14/2005 7:00:35 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
To: Nonstatist
Yep, file under WHO CARES
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posted on
09/14/2005 7:01:39 AM PDT
by
1Old Pro
To: Mount Athos
I agree, I actually have some respect for Kinsley. He's a liberal, to be sure. But I think he cringes at what orthodoxy liberalism has morphed into. Strictly anti-American contrarianism is what liberalism has become.
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posted on
09/14/2005 7:03:29 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: kcvl
I thought maybe he got a visit from the PC police after he criticized CNN.
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posted on
09/14/2005 7:05:59 AM PDT
by
relictele
(How can Hillary run the country when she couldn't manage a household of 3?)
To: Sthitch
In LA he is just another "nobody". Trust me. Michael Kinsley is just another "nobody" in any American town. He is so 1990's.
Regards,
TS
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posted on
09/14/2005 7:08:39 AM PDT
by
The Shrew
(www.swiftvets.com & www.wintersoldier.com - The Truth Shall Set YOU Free!)
To: Lauretij2
"They mut be too conservative for him?"
au contraire! Kinsley is probably too conservative for the LA slimes.
To: The Shrew
I agree with you, but in DC he can still get invited to parties. In LA he can't.
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posted on
09/14/2005 7:12:57 AM PDT
by
Sthitch
To: Sthitch
I agree with you, but in DC he can still get invited to parties. In LA he can't. You're right. But at the parties he gets invited to in DC the table talk is still about how Gore is the rightfully elected President.
Regards,
TS
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posted on
09/14/2005 7:14:54 AM PDT
by
The Shrew
(www.swiftvets.com & www.wintersoldier.com - The Truth Shall Set YOU Free!)
To: paulat; leadpenny
Kinsley, 54, had the same strange thing going on with his eyes decades ago, when he was just a kid moderating
Firing Line for William F. Buckley in the late 70s.
I suppose it's possible that even then it was a symptom of the early onset of Parkinson's -- I'm no medical expert -- but certainly he's looked like he looks for far longer than public knowledge of his Parkinson's diagnosis, which only happened several years ago.
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posted on
09/14/2005 3:38:12 PM PDT
by
beckett
(Amor Fati)
To: paulat
Not blinking and lack of facial expression are symptoms of Parkinson's. One of the worst things about Parkinson's is that it can affect your balance, and people can fall just by taking a step backward.
To: July 4th
My thought exactly. He had an independent thought...and out he goes.
Probably not, though.
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