Should U.S. jobs trump deficit woes? Nov 18, 2009
As New York Times columnist Bob Herbert noted, "Families struggling with job losses, home foreclosures and personal bankruptcies are falling out of the middle class like fruit through the bottom of a rotten basket.". If Obama moves to cut government spending too soon, he could easily make things worse for the economy and create a dangerous situation for his presidency. (CNN -- International)
Lefties Against Reform Nov 11, 2009
But the unemployment-is-more-important movement has since acquired a second adherent in Bob Herbert of the New York Times. In a Nov. 9 column, "," Herbert writes that although health care reform is important, it is not nearly as important as putting Americans back to work or ending the war in Afghanistan. (Slate)
The Shrink and the Terrorist Nov 10, 2009
New York Times columnist Bob Herbert, for example, wrote a column Saturday that focused on the Post Traumatic Stress Disorder suffered by troops who have served three or four tours of duty -- unbothered by the fact that Hasan never served in a war zone. Gen. George Casey, the Army chief of staff, went on the Sunday television shows to warn against jumping to conclusions on this case. (Townhall.com)
Tell All The Gang At 42nd Street: Conservatism, Bob Herbert & The New York Times Nov 3, 2009
Brian Birdnow : Tell All The Gang At 42nd Street: Conservatism, Bob Herbert ew York Times - Townhall ... Monday, November 02, 2009 Tell All The Gang At 42nd Street: Conservatism, Bob Herbert ew York Times by Brian Birdnow ... In his syndicated New York Times column of October 26th entitled Changing The World Bob Herbert, syndicated columnist, noted Ronald Reagan hater, and former NBC national correspondent (although no one daresay that there is a liberal revolving door), worked himself... (Townhall.com)
DEMS BLAST WHITE HOUSE ENEMIES LIST STRATEGY... Oct 24, 2009
Speaking privately at the White House on Monday with a group of columnists and commentators, including Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann of MSNBC and Maureen Dowd, Frank Rich and Bob Herbert of The New York Times, President Obama himself gave vent to sentiments about the network, according to people briefed on the conversation. Mr. Clemente suggested that the fight with Fox was part of a larger White House strategy to marginalize critics. (The Drudge Report)
The Race Ploy Oct 14, 2009
It became exceedingly ugly when Bob Herbert in a New York Times column called me a racist, a claim that was made without the slightest effort to speak to me directly or examine my record. Even though I thought I was emotionally calloused the charge hurt. (Human Events Online)
JOHN D. WELTY: Let's learn from 'The Beast' Oct 14, 2009
New York Times columnist Bob Herbert, writing about the UC last week, said: "The danger is that as public support for the school declines, it will lose more and more of its public character. Substantially higher fees for incoming students would be the norm, and more and more students from out of state and out of the country [who can afford to pay the full freight of their education] would be recruited.". I assure you that those of us in California public higher education worry whenever the... (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
Those Selfish Bastards Oct 12, 2009
One recent column by Bob Herbert who writes for the New York Times was so strikingly bad that I had to interrupt my wife and read it to her because it was so banal. You would have thought the column appeared in a high school newspaper, except the principal would have edited out the name-calling as inappropriate. (Townhall.com)
* Obama faces tough call on US future in Afghanistan Oct 7, 2009
The next day, Bob Herbert, a liberal, wrote: Americans are tired of the war. . (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Obama facing tough decision on Afghan war Oct 5, 2009
The next day, Bob Herbert, a liberal, wrote: "Americans are tired of the war.". He asserted: "After the long, sad experience in Iraq, and the worst economic shock since the Depression, they are not up for extended combat and endless nation-building in Afghanistan." He urged the president to "start bringing the weary troops home.". (Honolulu Advertiser)
Taxpayers face heavy losses on auto bailout Sep 9, 2009
BOB HERBERT: Consumers need help of this agency. WASHINGTON -- What is up with the banks and the rest of the financial industry. (Fresno Bee -- Business)
Remember the socialist origins of Labor Day! Sep 5, 2009
New York Times columnist Bob Herbert wrote recently, Eighty-six percent get no sick days at all. They show up in the restaurants coughing and sneezing and feverish, and they start preparing and serving meals. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Conservatism's Exaggerated Death Sep 4, 2009
Still, it is amusing for Tanenhaus to denounce Kristol for having "debased" precious Times space by advancing a narrow political agenda given the daily diet of seething contempt for all things Republican and conservative served up by Tanenhaus's editorial-page colleagues at the Times, and by the paper's star op-ed columnists Frank Rich, Paul Krugman, Maureen Dowd, and Bob Herbert. Tanenhaus's partisan and polemical condemnation of conservative partisanship and polemics will drive away... (CBS News -- Opinion)
Japan's Unendurable New Prime Minister Sep 3, 2009
(CBS) When Emperor Hirohito, in his solemn address to the Japanese people in August of 1945, told his subjects that they must give up the fight and endure the unendurable, he certainly could not have foreseen the national humiliation of Yukio Hatoyama, Japan's new Prime-Minister-in-Waiting, writing a that even Bob Herbert winced. "Let me conclude by quoting the words of Count Coudenhove-Kalergi, founder of the first popular movement for a united Europe, written 85 years ago in "Pan-Euro 00004000... (CBS News)
Escape From Washington Aug 26, 2009
Remember back in 2004 New York Times columnist, Bob Herbert, he chastised the president for taking a vacation while the country was at war, writing, quote, "Mr. President, there is a war on. You might want to consider hopping on a plane to Washington.". And then over at The Washington Post, Eugene Robinson argued that President Bush' policy, quote, "Amounts to the belief that if he concentrates really hard, and stays in shape regularly by doing the Tour de Crawford on his mountain bike, that... (Fox News)
Michael Vick and race Aug 21, 2009
My favorite columnist, Bob Herbert of The New York Times, wrote about two weeks ago that he believed that there would "never" (yes, he used that "n' word) be a national conversation about race because white folks, for whatever reasons, were reluctant to talk openly about black/white dealings. I, too, have concluded that such a national dialogue is something that neither I nor my teenage daughter will live to see. Perhaps I reached that conclusion because of the venomous way assorted white... (NJ.com -- Times)
Pass the Beer, Mr. President! (Part 2) Aug 3, 2009
The latest of one such major contributor is Mr. Bob Herbert, columnist for the celebrated New York Times. In an article captioned Anger Has Its Place, Mr. Herbert appears to firmly believe that due to their long and harrowing experience with Americas culture of racial bias, vis--vis the treatment of ethnic and racial minorities by mainstream white society, African-Americans have an unfettered and inviolable right to be angry and loudly confrontational with all law-enforcement agents... (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Politicians have embraced and reviled Jackson Jul 8, 2009
New York Times columnist Bob Herbert raised the Reagan connection to attack Jackson as a symbol of impossible promises and grotesque irresponsibility. . (MSNBC -- Politics)
Courtney Sullivan tells women's stories Jun 20, 2009
Like one of her main characters, Sullivan, 27, grew up in an Irish-Catholic family in Milton, graduated from Smith, and moved to New York, where she is a researcher for columnist Bob Herbert of The New York Times. She ll read from her novel tomorrow at 3 p.m. at the Concord Bookshop and Monday at Barnes & Noble in Braintree at 7 p.m.. (Boston Globe)
Another 'Black Man Did It' Hoax Sparks Outrage Jun 2, 2009
New York Times columnist Bob Herbert recently wrote about the difference in coverage between the killing of a white female college student in Connecticut and the approximately three dozen Chicago public school students, mostly black, who have been killed this school year. He recalled an incident from early in his career, at another newspaper, when he heard an editor pondering the story of a dead child ask, "What color is that baby?". (Fox News)
Misunderstanding Kemp May 13, 2009
Liberal Bob Herbert, for example, began his column in The New York Times by conceding that Kemps idea to grow the Republican Party was a good one. But, he wrote, The bad idea, advanced by Kemp with fanatical energy and devotion, was supply-side economics -- voodoo economics, as George H.W. Bush so famously and rightly derided it. (Townhall.com)
The Jack Kemp I Knew May 9, 2009
New York Times columnist Bob Herbert wrote that Kemp's attempt to get his Republican Party to accept blacks and other ethnic minorities was "futile," given the GOP's "Southern strategy" in the 1960s and since. Kemp advocated economic independence and strong families. (Townhall.com)
BOB HERBERT: Wall St. parties while workers walk the plank Apr 30, 2009
By Bob Herbert Text Size ... Bob Herbert is a New York Times columnist. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
If cop stops you for any reason, show respect Apr 19, 2009
For another example of why cops are hated see Bob Herbert s column in today s New York Times nytimes. com. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
COLUMN: Time for Democrats, Republicans to work together on stimulus Feb 15, 2009
" The Question wrote on Feb 11, 2009 10:27 AM:" Bob Herbert noted that he thinks of all the guys who used to listen to Rush Limbaugh while driving to or from work, but are now tuning in from their living rooms because the benefits of the GOP's right-wing, tax-cutting ideology never quite trickled down to them and they are now jobless. " Rohn Gordon wrote on Feb 11, 2009 10:33 AM:" The Question wrote on Feb 10, 2009 12:19 PM. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Fox News Poll: Two-Thirds Think Most Journalists Want Feb 8, 2009
Looking over new battleground polls, showing Obama with a lead, Matthews joined guest Bob Herbert in fearing the "polls aren't as accurate as we'd like to think they are.". BOB HERBERT, NEW YORK TIMES COLUMNIST: Obama should be 15 or 20 or a Democrat should be 15 or 20 percent ahead in the poll, at this stage of the race. (MediaResearch.org)
By 5-to-1 Public Thinks Most Journalists Trying to Elect Obama Feb 8, 2009
Comparatively mild-mannered columnist Bob Herbert lets the mask slip: "Self-hatred is a terrible thing. Just ask that arch-conservative Clarence Thomas." What's gotten into the Times' normally mild-mannered, paleo-liberal columnist Bob Herbert ... " And Tuesday night in Virginia, the McCain campaign thought it saw sexism when Obama charged that McCain talks change, but would continue President Bush's agenda. OBAMA: You know, you can put lipstick on a pig. [cheers] It's still a pig. PLANTE:... (MediaResearch.org)
