The White House and Abramoff: 70 more contacts revealed Nov 8, 2009
This column summarized "mainstream" opinion on Feb. 12, 2003: "The allegedly 'liberal' Washington Post responded editorially with a one-word headline, 'Irrefutable.' Columnist Mary McGrory announced that despite being almost a pacifist ... 'I'm Persuaded,' mostly by what she described as Powell's unimpeachable integrity. Joining the stampede was New York Times columnist Bill Keller, who noted that 'The I-Can't-Believe-I'm-a-Hawk Club includes op-ed regulars at this newspaper and the Washington... (Salon)
'Street-brawling'... Oct 22, 2009
" Here is the full text of Alexander's prepared remarks: In 1969 and during the first half of 1970, I was a wet-behind-the-ears, 29-year-old staff aide in the West Wing of the Nixon White House. I was working for the wisest man in that White House, Bryce Harlow, who was a friend of President Johnson, as well as the favorite staff member of President Eisenhower, and President Nixon s first appointee. Based upon that experience and my forty years since then in and out of public life, I want to... (The Drudge Report)
Don't Create an Enemies List Oct 22, 2009
In 1971 Chuck Colson, who was then a member of President Nixon's staff and today is admired for his decades of selfless work in prison reform, presented a list of what he called "persons known to be active in their opposition to our Administration." He said he thought the administration should "maximize our incumbency . . . [or] to put it more bluntly, . . . use the available federal machinery to screw our political enemies." On that list of 20 people were CBS correspondent Daniel Schorr,... (CBS News -- Opinion)
Idol With Clay Feet Oct 20, 2009
That might be a more compelling charge if he even tried to show that the liberal and Left critics of Israel had ever expressed any other anti-Semitic views, but he doesn t, and it is inherently unlikely that writers like Mary McGrory, Hodding Carter, Nicholas von Hoffman, or Anthony Lewis are anti-Semites at all. Yet for Podhoretz, they are such by definition because anti-Semitism consists almost exclusively of criticism of Israel. (The American Conservative)
Media sheep facing truth-hungry Internet wolves Aug 31, 2009
Columnist Mary McGrory announced that despite being almost a pacifist. I m Persuaded, mostly by what she described as Powell s unimpeachable integrity. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
A Conservative Reflection on Ted Kennedy Aug 27, 2009
Washington Post columnist Mary McGrory said the trick in discussing the neophyte s senate run was to keep an absolutely straight face. Prof. (Human Events Online)
DAVID S. BRODER: Kennedy tackled life head-on Aug 27, 2009
As I have said before, I will never forget how he and his wife sat with my colleague Mary McGrory, after a stroke had silenced her, and how he sang to her the Irish ballads they both loved. God rest his soul. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
