Hate Digest - Howard Kurtz

Hate Digest - Howard Kurtz of the WaPo brings together a number of currents in the Bush Hatred story.

He interviews our old friend, Jonathan Chait from the New Republic:

Has this unassuming man in a rumpled sports shirt lifted the lid on a boiling caldron of anti-Bush fury in liberal precincts across America? Or is he just an overcaffeinated, irrational liberal, venting to a minority of like-minded readers?

Ramesh Ponnuru, a soft-spoken conservative at National Review, pays Chait a backhanded compliment, writing that 'not everyone would be brave enough to recount their harrowing descent into madness so vividly.'

Ponnuru calls him 'smart, funny and completely misguided.' Since the president is so likable, he says, the outbreak of Bush hatred 'just makes you scratch your head.'

Chait, a doctor's son from suburban Detroit, obviously didn't create the Bush-bashing debate. But his recent 'Bush Hatred' cover story helped bring the subject out of the closet, where it can be dissected and diagnosed as part of the lefties-are-from-Mars, right-wingers-are-from-Venus shoutfest."

Kurtz's article exposes and dissects and digests many of the currents in this, perhaps the most important thread in American current events.

Posted by Mitch at October 20, 2003 10:24 AM