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Re: What Has Jesús "Chuy" García Actually Accomplished in Office? A Lot, It Turns Out.

RickPerlstein — Tue, 10 Mar 2015 14:49:46 -0000

First debate is March 16!

Re: More Than Nothing

RickPerlstein — Thu, 18 Dec 2014 11:36:22 -0000

Thanks for the thoughtful correction, Yuval. The congressman in question was John Rousselot. I didn't mention his name because he's most famous as a leader of the John Birch Society, and I didn't want the distraction of appearing to be Birch-baiting. I could adduce many more examples if this one doesn't serve my rhetorical purpose.

Re: Chutzpah: Reagan-Bashing Author Sued for Plagiarism Praises Plaintiff's Book In NY Times

RickPerlstein — Sun, 31 Aug 2014 13:19:42 -0000

Hi, friends. I praised Craig's book in this interview before he announced his intended lawsuit.

Re: Their Suspicious Circles—And Ours | Pete Spiliakos | First Things

RickPerlstein — Thu, 21 Aug 2014 16:06:19 -0000

I'm grateful for the thoughtful critique. But what it doesn't appreciate is that the suspicious circles come in for a bruising throughout the book. Sure, I lean on one side more than the other, but all told, throughout all my books and journalism, I'd wager I've done more to reach liberals concerning the moral myopia and political blindspots in the left's history than just about any writer out there, out of respect for ALL my countrymen, including those whose ideology I oppose. Read the whole thing--it's in there!

Re: BrothersJudd Blog: THE ACCIDENTAL HAGIOGRAPHER:

RickPerlstein — Sun, 10 Aug 2014 09:58:48 -0000

By the way, you'll note that the chosen quote doesn't mention history. The book doesn't give him overmuch credit because I'm writing about a complex social phenomenon, not the accomplishments of a Great Man. But I'll look forward to your review to see if you agree. Will send when I get back from book tour.

Re: BrothersJudd Blog: THE ACCIDENTAL HAGIOGRAPHER:

RickPerlstein — Sun, 10 Aug 2014 09:57:21 -0000

You didn't??? USPS has been awful for me.

Re: Win Rick Perlstein’s essential new book ‘The Invisible Bridge’

RickPerlstein — Sun, 20 Jul 2014 22:22:46 -0000

Fabulous, love it!

Re: Against the “Golden Fleece” Award | Ten Miles Square | The Washington Monthly

RickPerlstein — Sat, 03 Aug 2013 10:33:33 -0000

Great stuff. But note the Proxmire's damage goes beyond the Golden Fleece--he invented Democratic austerity politics: http://www.ourfuture.org/bl...

Re: American Power: Rick Perlstein, Call Your Publisher

RickPerlstein — Thu, 02 May 2013 12:19:46 -0000

Why did 87 percent of Mississippi voters choose Barry Goldwater in 1964?

Re: What does the country think of Chicago's teachers strike?

RickPerlstein — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 17:39:21 -0000

Kate, I'm not a person in another city. I live in Hyde Park, as I make plain in the piece, and have frequently been a guest on 'BEZ.

Re: Nixon and the Historians: Watergate Anniversary Break-In Edition

RickPerlstein — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 15:31:06 -0000

Clair, the argument that RN's reelection was virtually assured when Watergate happened ain't so--not on June 17, and certainly not when they first put in the bugs they were breaking into the DNC the second time to fix. And as I point out in Nixonland, Nixon had no idea what candidate he wouldn even face; indeed, with Wallace's assassination and his delegates up in the air, the situation was quite volatile, and indeed the Democratic convention ended up being quite close. And if the candidate had been Humphrey, as Nixon feared (remember, the dirty tricksters sabotaged all viable candidates but McGovern, whom they thought easiest to beat) it might well have been a reasonably close .

Re: http://www.rollingstone.com/preview.php/politics/blogs/national-affairs/why-democrats-lose-20120612

RickPerlstein — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 23:21:19 -0000

Carl, awful argument. If that's so, why did Ohio vote for pubic employee unions 60 to 39 percent? I find people on the right frequently misuse the concept of Occam's razor; they don't understand what it means. It's only an elegant answer if it takes into account all the relevant facts. If an "Occam's razor" claims doesn't, it's just rhetorical bullying.

Pensions, meanwhile, are contractual property rights. Are you saying you would unzip the entirety of Anglo-American common law and steal people's property rights?

Re: http://www.rollingstone.com/preview.php/politics/blogs/national-affairs/why-democrats-lose-20120612

RickPerlstein — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 23:19:01 -0000

Ned, the budget claim is very, very dodgy--and I talked to several workers who had their salaries cut in the neighborhood of 15 percent. "No one lost their jobs"--if so, he just ensuckened people's jobs.

Re: http://www.rollingstone.com/preview.php/politics/blogs/national-affairs/why-democrats-lose-20120612

RickPerlstein — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 23:17:52 -0000

Well, they don't off people either.

Re: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/cruch-time-in-wisconsin-20120605

RickPerlstein — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 08:22:01 -0000

Righto. That was a "sic" too

Re: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/cruch-time-in-wisconsin-20120605

RickPerlstein — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 16:37:43 -0000

Read all about it from Quad's own web site. http://www.qg.com/aboutus/q...

Re: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/cruch-time-in-wisconsin-20120605

RickPerlstein — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 15:50:58 -0000

Friend, read the sentence again. "twenty-something" refers to Tim McIlrath

Re: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/cruch-time-in-wisconsin-20120605

RickPerlstein — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 15:49:46 -0000

Also, I'm thinking this David Lott is the father of a dear friend of mine and someone I'd consider a friend, too, at whose home I dined many years ago. Are you still with Foley & Larnder? If so, were you planning to disclose, for the interests of this argument, that Foley represented Quad in the acquisition of the firm World Color Press, whose plants it then almost immediately closed across the South? Only fair for my readers to know.

Re: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/cruch-time-in-wisconsin-20120605

RickPerlstein — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 15:42:40 -0000

Here is documentation of Quad/Graphics business strategy of buying plants to close them. I should have put this link in the piece http://www.areadevelopment....

Re: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/cruch-time-in-wisconsin-20120605

RickPerlstein — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 15:37:03 -0000

Started from nothing? His dad owned a printing company, which he quit when his own father was being too nice to the union. Barry Goldwater was nice to his employees too; it's a typical pattern of those seeking to deny workers the right to join the union to be very, very nice to them--which only goes to show you, thank God we have unions to scare employers into being nice to their employees. Meanwhile, employee ownership means many things, some good, some bad--among are them a tax advantage for management, and a form of peonage for the owner/employees

Re: Liberals for Recession

RickPerlstein — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:45:48 -0000

This is interesting. I'm grateful for it, and will consider it seriously.

Re: BrothersJudd Blog: HISTORY JUST KEEPS VINDICATING W:

RickPerlstein — Wed, 04 May 2011 14:11:12 -0000

History just keeps seeing Bush apologists making things up.

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Re: BrothersJudd Blog: YOU TREAT THEM LIKE THE ENEMY BECAUSE THEY ARE:

RickPerlstein — Wed, 04 May 2011 14:09:41 -0000

But Osama's already been dead for years!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Re: BrothersJudd Blog: PURE CLASS:

RickPerlstein — Wed, 04 May 2011 14:09:00 -0000

Or cowardice. Hard to say which, really.

Re: BrothersJudd Blog: WHICH REMINDS US OF A FRIEND...:

RickPerlstein — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 23:19:15 -0000

Never mind, Shawcross misspelled it.