Andrew Ferguson, the Poseur

I was disturbed by this lazy and sloppy review of "Fahrenheit 9/11", so I responded by email to the author, Andrew Ferguson.  

Is Andrew Ferguson a neoconservative?  At the moment, I can't answer that question, but my instinct from reading some of his columns is that he is more neoconservative than paleoconservative.  Certainly, the breadth of Mr. Ferguson's work is supportive of Republicans and hostile to Democrats.  And he is a Senior Editor at America's foremost neoconservative publication, The Weekly Standard.  I think a person like that should not attempt to deceive his readers by pretending to be impartial and objective.

Bloomberg.com has chosen Andrew Ferguson as it's correspondent on National Affairs.  I hadn't realized until now how conservative Bloomberg (the organization) is.  Silly me.

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•  this is where he lost me

  Now, however, the paranoid strain has so thoroughly saturated U.S. politics that Moore's cinematic slander can be feted and extolled -- not only by mainstream movie reviewers but, more ominously, by the same Democratic Party establishment that Moore accuses of colluding with President George W. Bush.

  so in other words everyone's wrong except for him.

  i like how he doesn't bother trying to prove his case with things like facts. instead he just relies on the assertion that everyone is paranoid except for him.

  well, at least it explains why he likes the smirking chimp so much.

  by scottesposito on Tue Jun 29, 2004 at 02:28:02 PM PDT