The Perils of 'Populist Chic' [A Liberal Bemoans Us Dumb Conservatives]

The Wall Street Journal (Weekend Edition) ^ | 8 November 2008 | Mark Lilla

[Northern Yankee]

And we're celebrating the election of a candidate who has to rely on a teleprompter?!

We'll see how this pans over the long haul. Good grief!

[AIM-54]

Has anyone else noticed the decline of the WSJ? It seems to be losing it’s seriousness. I’m finding it it more difficult to take it seriously these days. But perhaps that’s just an accurate reflection of our increasingly adolescent society.

[rvoitier]

Liberals--Looking for Hate in All the Wrong Places

[COBOL2Java]

I had hoped Murdoch would improve things at the WSJ. Not much evidence so far.

[maica]

Yes, I stopped reading their editorials shortly after Rupert Murdock bought it. I read the IBD Editorial page daily now.

This article is drivel.

[dirtbiker]

Liberals--Looking for Hate in All the Wrong Places.

Liberals--Looking for Hate in ALL PLACES!

[Tucson]

And, so, the 2012 campaign kicks off in earnest ....

[DB]

Yet that “Palin farce” for VP was/is eminently more qualified to be President than Obama. The man who has no record of accomplishing anything. Yet that fact is lost on these “intellectuals”... That is, intellectuals with little intellect...

[backhoe]

Has anyone else noticed the decline of the WSJ?

I have- it used to have good, somewhat quixotic and iconoclastic editorials, now, it's pap.

Investor's Business Daily has taken up the slack.

[hershey]

Gov. Palin is the stuff of legend, all right, but not of farce. Liberals fear her because they know a tsunami when they see one. She’ll be back, and they’ll be gone.

[ari-freedom]

especially nooooonan

[generally]

They don’t like Palin because she doesn’t know a lot about what they know a lot about. Therefore they think she is ignorant.

What Palin does know a lot about is not of interest to them. Therefore they think she is ignorant.

They are wrong on both counts.

[rvoitier]

As Jane Mayer reported(1) recently in the New Yorker ("The Insiders," Oct. 27, 2008), John McCain's choice was not a fluke, or a senior moment, or an act of desperation. It was the result of a long campaign by influential conservative intellectuals(2) to find a young, populist leader to whom they might hitch their wagons in the future.

(1)--Reports contain facts, not biased opinions

(2)--conservative? intellectual? John McCain? That's all you need to know that this guy's view of the world is distorted. And given a platform to disseminate--dangerous.

John McCain's campaign was the political version of, The Producers.

[Vaduz]

And for the wrong reason

[raybbr]

The author...

[carcraft]

the last two days the anointed one has insulted Nancy Reagan and got the Polish Prime Minster in a twit. Obama’s record of accomplishment grows!!

[freekitty]

These stories about Palin are getting so ridiculous; they are funny.

[macrahanish #1]

It’s interesting that when mentioning influential conservative thinkers from the 1970’s-1980’s, he “accidentally” forgets to include Ronald Reagan. Remember, the inteligensia
still thinks that Reagan was a rube, despite copious evidence to the contrary. I wonder if this well-polished turd(Professor of Journalism at Columbia, doncha know)has ever read, “Reagan:In His Own Words.”
His contention that the republican “elites” pushed for Palin is laughable.
Palin is the only thing that made this race as close as it was. The elites on both sides of the aisle are doing everything they can to destroy this woman.

[raybbr]

Read the comments. Most are a pretty good refutation of this pusillanimous, pedantic wanna-be pundit.