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Dec 30, 2014: News Busters: Charles Pierce: ‘Conservatism…Fails to Acknowledge’ It’s ‘Shot Through With Neo-Confederate Ideas’
Some call the Republicans the party of Reagan, others the party of Lincoln, but Esquire blogger Charles Pierce implied on Tuesday that another term might be more fitting: the party of Strom Thurmond. In a post pegged to the Steve Scalise story, Pierce argued that when Thurmond abandoned the Democratic party in favor of the GOP in 1964, “the American political status quo” of almost a century “ended with a crash the echoes of which…are still detectable.
Some call the Republicans the party of Reagan, others the party of Lincoln, but Esquire blogger Charles Pierce implied on Tuesday that another term might be more fitting: the party of Strom Thurmond. In a post pegged to the Steve Scalise story, Pierce argued that when Thurmond abandoned the Democratic party in favor of the GOP in 1964, “the American political status quo” of almost a century “ended with a crash the echoes of which…are still detectable.
Nov 13, 2014: News Busters: Charles Pierce: Gruber Not Wrong About Stupid Voters, Since ‘Drooling Yahoos’ Re-Elected Brownback -
Esquire blogger Charles Pierce has answered the question “What’s the matter with Kansas?” and, unlike Thomas Frank, didn’t take a whole book to do it. In a Wednesday post, Pierce opined that the state’s Republican governor, Sam Brownback, was re-elected last week by “clodhopping, drooling yahoos” (i.e., voters) who “bought this fantastical drivel” (i.e., liked Brownback’s conservative economic policy) that has made Kansas “a basket case for which you would need a basket the size of a container ship.
Esquire blogger Charles Pierce has answered the question “What’s the matter with Kansas?” and, unlike Thomas Frank, didn’t take a whole book to do it. In a Wednesday post, Pierce opined that the state’s Republican governor, Sam Brownback, was re-elected last week by “clodhopping, drooling yahoos” (i.e., voters) who “bought this fantastical drivel” (i.e., liked Brownback’s conservative economic policy) that has made Kansas “a basket case for which you would need a basket the size of a container ship.
Aug 6, 2014: Diane Ravitch: On Esquire Blog, Charles P. Pierce Explains What Campbell Brown Wants
Charles P. Pierce posted an astonishing piece about Campbell Brown on the Esquire politics blog that delves into her devotion to transparency, except where her donors are concerned.
Charles P. Pierce posted an astonishing piece about Campbell Brown on the Esquire politics blog that delves into her devotion to transparency, except where her donors are concerned.
Jan 14, 2014: Based on the article in Esquire published yesterday, I think it's safe to say that Charles P. Pierce is not a fan of Politico, or what he has dubbed "Tiger Beat on the Potomac." He particularly zones in on an article also published yesterday in which Politico gets feedback from people they consider experts. "After all," writes Pierce, "who better to explain the president's failures in "leadership" than the people educating the next generation of outsourcers, union busters, cubicle wranglers, and hedge-fund burglars?" .......
