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Author of ‘Hit the Road’ Newsweek Cover Story Skewers His Critics
Being a conservative in any predominately liberal environment is difficult. Being a conservative at Newsweek is likely prohibitively difficult. And being the conservative whose message lands on Newsweek’s cover seemed, until this week, to be nigh impossible.
Enter Niall Ferguson, the rogue columnist responsible for the recent Newsweek cover story calling for President Obama to be voted out of office. Ferguson’s article has been slammed by several different sources for what those sources claim are factual inaccuracies and/or arguments in bad faith. Ferguson first acknowledged these attacks when he hit back against New York Times columnist Paul Krugman for misconstruing an argument that Ferguson had made about the Congressional Budget Office.
Well, now Ferguson has extended his attack beyond Krugman to the entire academic Left in a blistering four page blog entry countering numerous claims that Ferguson considers unfair. Most of the entry gets very deeply into the policy weeds, and if you want to read them all, you can look at Ferguson’s full take-down here. However, we do want to call your attention to the end, where he mockingly hands out “prizes” to his critics for specific varieties of ridiculousness:
First prize goes to Berkeley professor Brad DeLong, whose blog opened with the headline “Fire-His-Ass-Now.” “He lied,” rants DeLong. “Convene a committee at Harvard to examine whether he has the moral character to teach at a university.” My own counter-suggestion would be to convene a committee at Berkeley to examine whether or not Professor DeLong is spending too much of his time blogging when he really should be conducting serious research or teaching his students. For example, why hasn’t Professor DeLong published that economic history of the 20th century he’s been promising for the past six years? It can’t be writer’s block, that’s for sure.
Runner up is James Fallows of The Atlantic for his hilariously pompous post “As a Harvard Alum, I Apologize.” Well, as an Oxford alum, I laugh.
In third place comes Krugman with his charge of “unethical commentary … a plain misrepresentation of the facts” requiring “an abject correction.” The idea of getting a lesson from Paul Krugman about the ethics of commentary is almost as funny as Fallows’s apologizing on behalf of Harvard. Both these paragons of the commentariat, by the way, shamelessly accused me of racism three years ago when I drew an innocent parallel between President Obama and “Felix the Cat.” I don’t know of many more unethical tricks than to brand someone who criticizes the president a racist.
And, finally, a consolation prize for righteous indignation goes to Dylan Byers of Politico (“ridiculous, misleading, ethically questionable”).
Ouch. That is going to leave a mark.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/author-of-hit-the-road-newsweek-cover-story-skewers-his-critics/
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Good for this guy! I’m so glad he’s fighting back. I had never heard of him until I saw him on Face the Nation (I think) the other day. I didn’t think there were any conservatives at Newsweek. I have never seen such viciousness as I have from the left these past 4 years. It’s amazing to me. They have so much hatred in their hearts. How do they live with themselves??? It’s beyond me.
Righthook, this is a comment I found on Freedombytheways Blog written by Citizen Tom. It is so good I thought I would use it to respond to your comment:
Citizen Toms said:
Freedom, by the way — Takes a thick skin to debate Liberals.
We are in an era much like the period before the Civil War. Like then, what we are debating is slavery. Do we own ourselves or does our government own us?
What the Liberal Democrat worships is government, and he demands we submit and give government the right to take from us (the rich) whatever it “needs.” Some how that state of affairs is suppose to create paradise.
Even Christians tend to get angry when someone threatens our religious beliefs, but Christians know that anger is wrong. Liberal Democrats know no such thing. When we debate someone who has a religious faith in government, we debate someone whose ethical code is based upon wants, not love. Because their faith is inherently illogical and based upon theft, Liberals waste no time getting angry and going ballistic.
Liberal Democrats are not stupid. Just because someone believes something illogical or evil does not make that person is stupid. What they are is blind. Bad government often results because some people insist they have the right to own other people, and Liberal Democrats cannot see — cannot admit — that is exactly what they want.
To avoid war and the destruction of our nation, we must win the debate.
That’s very good.
Their logic just boggles my mind. This week is the perfect example. They’re all over Akin for his comments, which were stupid, no doubt. But they’ve become obsessed with it, acting like he condones or endorses rape, when his clear intent is only to protect innocent life. Yet, they embrace Bill Clinton, who is an accused rapist, harasser and serial cheater, and even have him giving the keynote speech at their convention. But WE hate women. It makes NO. SENSE. But liberals just eat it up and spew it out, like it’s the most logical argument they’ve ever made. I just don’t get it. Same thing with their defense of Islam….it’s the most blatantly anti-women religion out there, yet WE are the women haters. Crazy…
It almost seems as though America is at War with itself. I see a Civil War on the horizon my friend. Call me crazy, but I do.
RH, you don’t get it because your brain is wired differently than theirs is.
They see you as an idiot.
You scratch your head and say why do they think like that ?
They think like that because they are a product of the school systems the progressives have put in place.
Some of these kids couldn’t fight their way out of a paper bag.
No rational thinking processes will be used in this experiment.
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