Two months ago, Time magazine trashed Bernard Goldberg’s book on liberal pro-Obama bias (A Slobbering Love Affair) as a book to "toss" instead of read in their mini-book review featured called The Skimmer. In the latest Time, Andrea Sachs praised the newest James Carville book, titled 40 More Years: How the Democrats Will Rule the Next Generation. It drew a "Skim" command instead of a "Read," but the copy was very promotional:
No one does partisanship better than the Ragin' Cajun. In his latest book, the Louisiana-bred campaign strategist, who recently returned to teach political science at Tulane, takes a victory lap celebrating the Democrats' 2008 electoral trifecta. "The myth of Republican competence and fiscal responsibility is shattered," a victim of the strategic and economic missteps of the Bush years, Carville gleefully notes. If Democrats play their cards right, he argues, they can dominate politics for the next four decades. The key? "To rebuild Americans' trust in government as a force of good." His excitability is infectious, if only to those on the same side of the aisle. ("Let's go out and spank the Republicans again and again," he exhorts readers.)
It's clearly exciting on Time's side of the aisle. While Time suggested Goldberg’s book was just pandering for the conservatives, Sachs boldly suggests conservatives should sit in "Professor Carville’s class" and learn something:
Those who tend to agree more with his wife, conservative pundit Mary Matalin, might want to sneak a look too -- if just for Carville's reasoned, though perhaps scathing, explanation of how "the demographic foundations of the Republican Party are crumbling." Professor Carville's class is now in session.
Carville's copy is "perhaps scathing"?
—Tim Graham is Director of Media Analysis at the Media Research Center.
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I would think that TIME
Fri, 04/17/2009 - 15:04 ET by ConservativeRexI would think that TIME would be more concerned about who should read their magazine.
They are on life support and still they won't abandon their "progressive" stance on a damn thing. They won't be around much longer.
They refuse to pay attention to history. McClure's Magazine was a very popular magazine from the first part of the last century. It was the Progressive magazine of it's time. Full of muckraking journalist such as Ida Tarbell and her ilk. These people loved strong, ruthless leaders much like TIME magazine does today. Making excuses for their excessess and murderous tendencies.
McClure's is in the ash heap of history. Unless you are a historian you probably have never heard of it. TIME will be much the same in fifty years. It doesn't have to be this way. But they won't change. Pity.
"No one does partisanship
Fri, 04/17/2009 - 15:08 ET by Chris Norman"No one does partisanship better than the Ragin' Cajun"
Oh, come on, Time. Don't sell your self short. You're no slouch when it comes to partisanship.
The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.
God help us all if
Fri, 04/17/2009 - 15:09 ET by TheConservativeChemistGod help us all if the title of his book comes to pass...
agreed chemist; it'll be a miracle...
Mon, 04/20/2009 - 16:44 ET by clinging to my guns and my religion...if we survive four years of democrat "rule", much less forty!
"i believe he will not stop until we are all jobless, homeless, hungry, and cold!"
Book summary
Fri, 04/17/2009 - 15:17 ET by KC MulvillePut these two facts together:
OK, what more do you need to know about the demographic future? (Hint: this topic has been done before, once by Dick Morris. Nothing new here.)
As for Carville's other point about the "quality" of Democratic leadership, it's nothing more than warmed-over common sense. The way to make government more popular is to make it more effective. What a flash of insight! Political science, my ass. What scares me is that there are people paying to listen to this sort of pablum.
Its PHYSICALLY Impossible
Fri, 04/17/2009 - 15:27 ET by aeroveloThere is NO WAY this country would survive 8 years of liberalism, let alone 40.
The snake has written a work of fiction....surprised?
I am not a tree hugger, but I feel sorry for any tree that got cut down to be used as paper in that waste of glue, ink and pulp.
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Ask yourself: Do I want a good paying job, or do I want a government hand out. Its that simple!
Book should be
Fri, 04/17/2009 - 15:40 ET by winston smithBook should be titled:
"40 More Years: How The Democrats Will Ruin The Next Generation"
Oh wait, they've already accomplished that.
Good point Winston. They
Fri, 04/17/2009 - 15:54 ET by ConservativeRexGood point Winston. They ruined it the first 40 years they had power.
By the way Winston, I re-watched your movie last night...it's still creepy after 25 years. John Hurt and Richard Burton I mean. ; )
Dead on. Not content to
Fri, 04/17/2009 - 15:59 ET by TheConservativeChemistDead on. Not content to have screwed up the country for 40 years, they aim for another 40...
At that rate my kids and future grandkids will be working slave fodder for the ruling classes in the USSA...
"The demographic foundations of the Republican Party ...
Fri, 04/17/2009 - 16:01 ET by wizardjrare crumbling." More wishful thinking as opposed to real facts. The conservative movement is healthy and attracting young people to replace us old farts as we die off.
What crumbled was the Republicans in office. They got seduced by the siren song of the Beltway and became Lefty Lite.
If the GOP ever gets its collective head out of its butt they'll retake Congress. We've got lots of talent like Michelle Bachmann here in Minnesota to work with.
Here are the "cards" they
Fri, 04/17/2009 - 16:14 ET by mattmHere are the "cards" they need to play:
1. ACORN takes the census and uses it to redistrict the GOP out of business.
2. ACORN runs all future elections.
3. Outlaw dissent.
4. Outlaw free-enterprise.
5. Make the Libtoid media an official government agency.
That's what you call a royal flush.
As I said 11/4/08: welcome to the former U.S.A.
40 More Years: How the Democrats Will Rule the Next Generation.
Fri, 04/17/2009 - 16:34 ET by tgibson1962Coming soon to the $2 bin at your local Barnes & Noble.
tim graham, there's one slight flaw in your slaw
Fri, 04/17/2009 - 17:15 ET by right of waytim, you wrote: "No one does partisanship better than the Ragin' Cajun. In his latest book, the Louisiana-bred campaign strategist, who recently returned to teach political science at Tulane, takes a victory lap celebrating the Democrats' 2008 electoral trifecta." it should read, " the louisiana-in-bred."
James Carville
Fri, 04/17/2009 - 17:29 ET by NorthCoasterTalk about trash!
I've now read
Fri, 04/17/2009 - 22:08 ET by RESTLESS 1all of that book I'm going to. It sounds like childish drivel. The liberals should love it.
"This
liberal would be all about socialize -- uh, uh, would be about
basically taking over and the government running all of your companies."-Maxine Waters 2008
Tyme & Newsweak (sp)
Fri, 04/17/2009 - 22:19 ET by obageegeeI really could care less what these two rags have to say lately. They are both on life support. I was at the Dr's Office last week and I literally picked up the latest editions of each. My weekly Church bulletin weighs more than these two combined, AND has more advertising!
Must resist urge to say......DoucheBag!!!!!!
Sat, 04/18/2009 - 10:30 ET by bpjamOh come on, Time Ragazine.
Just four years ago Karl Rove was talking about a permanent Republican majority.
And now Carville is talking about 40 years of socialist rule.
If either party could actually run the government effeciently, they WOULD be a major power. But right now they are trying to move as quickly as possible back into the minority by putting 40 years of spending into one 4 year term.
How the Democrats will "RULE"
Mon, 04/20/2009 - 16:15 ET by Melvin_UdallAm I the only one who finds the title of Carville's book telling and disturbing? Do conservatives normal speak of "ruling" the country? Maybe I'm being too critical, but I don't recall seeing the word "rule" used to describe governing or leading the nation when conservatives write on the topic.