Greg Sargent has a long interview with Freddy Ferrer up on the site of The American Prospect, in which Ferrer pushes his criticism of the press a bit further, noting pieces he found outrageous, particularly in the Times. The specific stories clearly still rankle:
One he cites is a front-page New York Times Read MoreOn The American Prospect’s blog, Tapped, my predecessor Greg Sargent (now writing regularly over there) has Chris Lehane doing some long-range predictions about possible Clinton 2008 matchups.
(Yes, today is Hillary day.)
The analysis pieces are starting to meander in, and a couple you may have missed are Fred Siegel’s harsh treatment of Freddy in The New Republic and Greg Sargent’s partial lament of the result in The American Prospect.
Siegel sees a certain amount of justice in the defeat of a man Read More
My Observer predecessor Greg Sargent emails:
“Can’t someone just say, ‘Mayor, do you believe going to war with Iraq was the right decision?’”
Also: “As mayor of the city that was attacked on Sept. 11th, do you agree with the position of some in the Republican Party that Saddam Hussein was in Read More
Slate’s Fred Kaplan has a pointed response to Greg Sargent’s recent plea for New York Democrats to vote against Mike, an article Kaplan sees as essentially a symptom of the Democrats’ problems.
“The lament misses the point. The VIPs’ real concern is that they don’t want the party to be associated Read More
Okay, maybe nobody I know actually thought that the photo of Bill Clinton “mouth-kissing” a strange woman on the Drudge Report was any more convincing than your average supermarket tabloid fare. But given the fact that the highly scrupulous journalist who brought it to light now has a best-selling book on Read More
In a Nation cover story, Greg Sargent takes a crack at debunking the “Hillary-Moves-Right” meme, making Hillary’s case to the left wing of the Democratic Party.
He points out both that she’s always been conservative in her rhetoric, and that her staunchly liberal voting record — except for on the war — hasn’t Read More
