The Largest Earmark in History
Tim Carney is ably practicing the kind of conservative journalism I’ve championed at his new Washington Examiner gig.
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Tim Carney is ably practicing the kind of conservative journalism I’ve championed at his new Washington Examiner gig.
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Non-snarky question: did you support the Bush tax cuts?
— Freddie · Feb 14, 02:20 AM · #
Freddie, I wasn’t very attuned to national politics back then — I wanted John McCain to win the primary in 2000, and when he didn’t I cast a weak vote for Bush, but I was mostly focused on campus issues until 2001, when I went abroad to Spain, and when I returned for my last semester of college in spring of 2002 I did nothing except run the campus newspaper and play caps.
In fall 2002, I took a job as a local beat reporter, and focused almost entirely on local issues. So basically I neither supported it nor opposed it. Just wasn’t on my radar. For all I know I read about it back then, and had some opinion as I argued with colleagues or something, but I wouldn’t bet any money on what my particular take was, except for being uninformed and not very passionate.
— Conor Friedersdorf · Feb 14, 06:43 AM · #
I have to say, I never would have read it had you not linked to it, because the Examiner gives off the very strong impression of being a hypocritical-moral-outrage-driven scandal sheet. So this seems to fit their tone perfectly!
But then I find this kind of “reporting” supremely obnoxious on the left (in the Village Voice chain papers, etc.) too.
— Joseph F. · Feb 15, 06:57 PM · #
Wow, this is the first ‘conservative’ blog I’ve ever read that didn’t sound like it was written by characters out of Idiocracy. I guess that makes it doubly dangerous. I’m not sure whether to tell you to keep up the good work or to keep your silver-tongued half-truths to yourselves. Hmmm.
— Christopher M. · Feb 17, 12:41 AM · #