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Why the Tea Party Movement Is Winning

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Commentary Magazine - By Ceaser & York, Commentary - Jul. 18 (Opinion) - As governors of states whose residents, like all Americans, are desperate for the restoration of fiscal responsibility in Washington, we are proud to have signed the “Cut, Cap and Balance Pledge” amid the debate... more ›› After a bruising midterm electi

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Times’ Slanted Wisconsin Coverage Contrasts With Their Treatment of Tea Party

Sun, 20 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Commentary Magazine - By Jonathan S. Tobin - Feb. 20 (Investigative Report) - the Times’ flattering portrait of the protesters ignores the extremist and violent rhetoric that has characterized the union demonstrators. As we noted Friday, unionists and the Democratic Party activists who have been bused in to help them have compared Governor Walker to Adolf Hitler and the Republicans to Nazis, as this video illustrates. Yet the Times has ignored that aspect of the story even though such rhetoric and demonstrators’ signs were the focus of much of their coverage of Tea Party protests. One can only conclude that in the liberal universe of the New York Times, left-wing union protesters are judged by a very different standard than the one they employ to report and editorialize about the conservatives of the Tea Party.

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How to Understand Rush Limbaugh

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Commentary Magazine - By Wildred M. McClay - Feb. 09 (Special Report) - It also points to a curious fact about Limbaugh’s standing in the mind of much of the American media and the American left. Even though they talk about him all the time, he’s the man who isn’t quite there. By which I mean that there is a stubborn unwillingness, both wishful and self-defeating, to recognize Limbaugh for what he is, take him seriously, and grant him his legitimate due. Many of his detractors have never even listened to his show, for example. Some of his critics regularly refer to him as Rush “Lim-bough” (like a tree limb), as if his name is so obscure to them that they cannot even remember how to pronounce it. ... He conducts his show in an air of high-spiritedness and relaxed good humor, clearly enjoying himself, always willing to be spontaneous and unpredictable, even though he is aware that every word he utters on the air is being recorded and tracked by his political enemies in the hope that he will slip up and say something career-destroying. Limbaugh the judo master is delighted to make note of this surveillance, with the same delight he expresses when one of his “outrageous” sound bites makes the rounds of the mainstream media, and he can then play back all the sputtering but eerily uniform reactions from the mainstream commentators, turning it back on them with a well-placed witticism.

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The Conversion of David Mamet

Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Commentary Magazine - By Terry Teachout - Aug. 06 (Review) - American theater is a one-party town, a community of like-minded folk who are all but unanimous in their strict adherence to the left-liberal line. Though dissenters do exist, they are almost never heard from in public, and it is highly unusual for new plays that deviate from the social gospel of progressivism to reach the stage, whether in New York or anywhere else.

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No Peace Without Syria

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Commentary Magazine - By Michael J. Totten - Sep. 06 (Opinion) - No Arab government in the world is as stridently anti-Israel, in both action and rhetoric, as Assad’s. There is no better way for a detested Alawite regime to curry favor with Sunnis in Syria and the Arab world as a whole than by adopting the anti-Zionist cause as its own.

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Biden's Refusal to Appear At Iran Protest Caused the Disinvitation of Palin

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Commentary Magazine - By Jennifer Rubin - Sep. 19 (News Analysis) - Here's the latest news on the withdrawal of the invitation to Sarah Palin (and all other politicians) to Monday's protest of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -- withdrawn by the sponsor, the Council of Presidents of Major Jewish Organization. COMMENTARY has learned that Joe Biden was invited to the event in the wake of Hillary Clinton's refusal to appear on the same stage as Palin -- and he declined. In an e-mail to me, Biden spokesman David Wade said that "we've had longstanding commitment to speak at National Guard Convention on Monday in Maryland." After that, the decision was made to disinvite Palin -- who is, let us recall, the chief executive of one of the 50 state of the union as well as the vice-presidential candidate of one of the two major parties in the United States.

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Russia's Kosovo Precedent

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Commentary Magazine - By Michael J. Totten - Sep. 05 (News Analysis) - Russia's Vladimir Putin darkly hinted that his country would invade and dismember Georgia months before last month's war in the South Caucasus region began. "We have Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Pridnestrovie [Transnistria]," he said back in February of this year after Kosovo declared independence from Serbia, "and they say Kosovo is a special case?" Putin has a point, but only a very small one. The overwhelming majority of Kosovars want nothing more to do with Serbia just as the majorities in Georgia's breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia want to secede. But there the similarities end.

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The Real Moderates

Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Commentary Magazine - By Michael J. Totten - May. 07 (Opinion) - I'm writing this from the capital of Kosovo, the least "scary" Muslim country on Earth. I've grown accustomed to moderate Muslims after living in and traveling to places like Beirut and Istanbul, but Kosovo is surprising even to me. Islam in this country is so thoroughly liberal ("moderate" doesn't quite cover it) that, if it weren't for the mosques, there would be no visible evidence that Kosovo is a Muslim country at all. I've been in Prishtina, the capital, for four days, and I can count the number of women I've seen wearing a hijab on one hand. Aside from the conservative dating culture, women here are as liberated as Christian women in the rest of the Balkan region.

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