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My own column today isn’t the only pushback against Frank Rich’s Sunday smear of the Tea Party movement. Ron Radosh, Ed Driscoll and John Hinderaker also take Rich to task.
One particularly brutal rejoinder comes from Noel Sheppard of the Media Research Center’s Newsbusters blog. Sheppard notes that one year ago, Rich wrote a column about “pseudopopulism,” in which the New York Times columnist declared that the response to Rick Santelli’s CNBC “tea party” rant had “fizzled.” Sheppard writes:
So, on March 1, 2009, Rich declared the Tea Party movement dead.
Should anyone care what he has to say about it or any of its members now?
In the span of a single year, then, Rich has gone from declaring the Tea Party movement a fizzle to denouncing it as a menace to public safety.
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Joseph Brown| 3.1.10 @ 9:51AM
Frank Rich, David Brooks MoDo, Krugman et al think they matter. They don't.
I have a simple solution....I don't read their crap!
Ken D| 3.1.10 @ 10:01PM
I love to read the NYT! Read the Sunday edition for years and I get great laughs out of Rich & Dowd. They are just cheerleaders (barely) pretending to be journalists. I hope the paper can remain in business...
victor| 3.2.10 @ 12:31AM
Stay in business?
Bwahahahahaha!
That NYTimes is flirting with bankruptcy as we speak.
The Olde Grey Lady has one foot in the parlor and one foot in the morgue.
Just goes to show how and why lefties are unable to run profitable enterprises.
I'm surprised that they refuse to connect the dots:
Every time they raise the price, they lose readers.
The Post and the News have proved that when you cut prices to a quarter you get new readers.
Works every time.
I'm surprised that Krugman doesn't have kittens when they keep losing readers.
To quote McLaughlin:
"Bye-Bye".
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