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March 02, 2004
THREE DOTS
It's good to see The New Yorker's Hendrik Hertzberg back in top form. He's not the first to argue that Ralph Nader shouldn't run for president -- it's hard to be first in a weekly magazine -- but he marshals his reasons, while still heaping praise on Nader, with a cogency I haven't read elsewhere. ... Leave it to CNN's Larry King to heap praise on Bob Dole, while choosing exactly the wrong word with typical incoherence. As a political pundit, Dole is "an incredible source," King says. ... Thank God, or Someone, that Paul Krugman is back from vacation. Without him the Op-ed page of The New York Times goes as limp as a banana peel. ... This is especially true when David Brooks claims that the poor are to blame for their poverty: All they have to do to live happily ever after is look in the mirror and reform their "bad behavior."
Posted by at March 2, 2004 10:45 AM