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Bully Pulpit

The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Wednesday, August 09, 2006

RE: Krauthammer, Barnes, & Williams (that sounds like a law firm... Ha!)

As you know, Krauthammer is one of my favorite conservative columnists...

To be accurate, Charles is a neocon. It is not all that long ago, he was characterized as a liberal. Charles lost me when he demonstrated that he was little more than a Kool-Aid vendor for the Bush Administration. I think if you read what Charles writes on subjects other than foreign policy and the military, you would be quite a bit less enamoured of him. I can remember reading some articles by him on social policy that would have made Hillary back away.

That's not taking anything away from him as an intelligent author, but I think his schtick on Fox is pretty worn out. His cynical one-liners have gotten hackneyed and he's about to jump the shark with them. When you get him and Barnes on together, it turns into a neocon twitch-fest.

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