Posted on 02/14/2021 5:50:54 PM PST by Rummyfan
A newspaper editor once described journalists as people who have the bad taste to learn in public. Ezra Klein, a rhetorician who poses as a policy analyst, is doing some learning in public, and learning the hard way.
But what would we do without him? Who but Ezra Klein could survey the wreck left-wing Democrats have made of California and conclude that the state’s problem is its excessive conservatism?
The Golden State is in such deep trouble that even Klein can dimly recognize the crisis. But he can't or won't recognize its causes.
“Conservative” is, of course, an ambiguous word. I remember when both Ronald Reagan and the Communist Party bosses in the Soviet Union simultaneously were described as “conservative” or even “ultraconservative,” sometimes in the same broadcast. Klein the rhetorician anticipates objections on this front and writes that he is not speaking of “the political conservatism that privatizes Medicare, but the temperamental conservatism that” — see if this formulation sounds at all familiar — “stands athwart change and yells ‘Stop!’”
Well, yes, we have heard about that!
California progressives have progressive policies and progressive power, and they like it that way. That is the substance of their conservatism.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
No, Democrats, A.K.A. Communists, use Dishonesty and Deception as an integral part of their messaging.
Always have, Always will.
Misapprehend ... Miscomprehend. How do you correctly Apprehend a problem?
How about that...Consequences are not the primary concern of people who believe they have been endowed with the ability to determine what is best for society, without regard for individual liberty. It is the great tragedy for society, and the good fortune for socialists, that so many humans are stupid enough to believe lefty fairy tales and suckers enough to think things will get better--as the entitled Bolshies thrash around promising fantasies.
Think Lenin, Stalin, Pelosi and Schumer...
Ezra Klein is the leftwing piece of ^^^^ who formed the ‘JournoList’ internet group for the purpose of protecting Barack Obama from mention of his connection to Rev “GOD DAMN AMERICA” Wright,
coming up with the strategy of accusing any writer who didn’t grovel for Obama of being “racist.”
Ezra Klein was badly exposed as a leftwing flak at the time.
Now what is feebleminded NRO writer Kevin D Williamson trying to do——resurrect Ezra Klein?
What vile lefty Ezra Klein has to say is of no interest, and hasn’t been for years.
JournoList (sometimes referred to as the J-List) was a private Google Groups forum for discussing politics and the news media with 400 left-leaning journalists, academics and others.
Ezra Klein created the online forum in February 2007 while blogging at The American Prospect and shut it down on June 25, 2010 amid wider public exposure.
Journalists later pointed out various off-color statements made by members of the list denigrating conservatives, as well as a seeming conspiracy to prop up then Presidential candidate Barack Obama.
Williamson writes for NRO, ‘nuff said.
Used to be “apprehend” was a synonym to “comprehend”.
Go to the site www.keywiki.org and search for “JournoList”. There might be a long list of leftist/liberal writers who were associated with it when the list was created (date might not be given).
Lots of old reds, pinkos, finks, and psychopaths on it. Enjoy!
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