Comments for Former Beltway Wonk http://formerbeltwaywonk.wordpress.com Exposing the narrow monoculture of D.C. and the traditional mass media Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:45:33 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on The Orange Line: anatomy of a smear campaign by Alexwebmaster http://formerbeltwaywonk.wordpress.com/2008/01/15/the-orange-line-anatomy-of-a-smear-campaign/#comment-150 Alexwebmaster Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:45:33 +0000 http://formerbeltwaywonk.wordpress.com/2008/01/15/the-orange-line-anatomy-of-a-smear-campaign/#comment-150 Hello webmaster I would like to share with you a link to your site write me here preonrelt@mail.ru Hello webmaster
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]]> Comment on The Orange Line: anatomy of a smear campaign by jim http://formerbeltwaywonk.wordpress.com/2008/01/15/the-orange-line-anatomy-of-a-smear-campaign/#comment-149 jim Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:33:05 +0000 http://formerbeltwaywonk.wordpress.com/2008/01/15/the-orange-line-anatomy-of-a-smear-campaign/#comment-149 It is irrelevant whether it is a smear campaign, what matters is the truth. I would like to believe all of the quotes were taken out of context, but if that is the case, then show them to everyone IN context and explain them. I do not believe Ron Paul to be a racist person, but that does not explain how this happened, who wrote what, and what relationship Ron Paul has with them today. Any relevant candidate in the same boat would be expected to fully disclose, explain, and refute such a pointed accusation and damning evidence. It is irrelevant whether it is a smear campaign, what matters is the truth. I would like to believe all of the quotes were taken out of context, but if that is the case, then show them to everyone IN context and explain them. I do not believe Ron Paul to be a racist person, but that does not explain how this happened, who wrote what, and what relationship Ron Paul has with them today. Any relevant candidate in the same boat would be expected to fully disclose, explain, and refute such a pointed accusation and damning evidence.

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]]> Comment on Why the Orange Line fears libertarians by Scott Nolan Smith http://formerbeltwaywonk.wordpress.com/2008/01/16/why-the-orange-line-fears-libertarians/#comment-147 Scott Nolan Smith Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:46:31 +0000 http://formerbeltwaywonk.wordpress.com/2008/01/16/why-the-orange-line-fears-libertarians/#comment-147 Ironically Ron Paul's campaign HQ was in Virginia on the Orange line, near the VA Square station. Ironically Ron Paul’s campaign HQ was in Virginia on the Orange line, near the VA Square station.

]]> Comment on Political correctness is fear of liberty by prime http://formerbeltwaywonk.wordpress.com/2008/01/15/political-correctness-is-fear-of-liberty/#comment-146 prime Mon, 04 Aug 2008 03:23:24 +0000 http://formerbeltwaywonk.wordpress.com/2008/01/15/political-correctness-is-fear-of-liberty/#comment-146 political correctness is very unequal political correctness is very unequal

]]> Comment on The Orange Line: anatomy of a smear campaign by don peretz http://formerbeltwaywonk.wordpress.com/2008/01/15/the-orange-line-anatomy-of-a-smear-campaign/#comment-145 don peretz Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:57:11 +0000 http://formerbeltwaywonk.wordpress.com/2008/01/15/the-orange-line-anatomy-of-a-smear-campaign/#comment-145 [...] January 8th all times are EDT the polls closed at 8 pm EDT: January 7th, 7:33 pm ?? Matt Welch Rehttp://formerbeltwaywonk.wordpress.com/2008/01/15/the-orange-line-anatomy-of-a-smear-campaign/Film Independent Announces Selected Fellows for 2008 Fast Track Program Broadcast NewsroomLOS [...] [...] January 8th all times are EDT the polls closed at 8 pm EDT: January 7th, 7:33 pm ?? Matt Welch Rehttp://formerbeltwaywonk.wordpress.com/2008/01/15/the-orange-line-anatomy-of-a-smear-campaign/Film Independent Announces Selected Fellows for 2008 Fast Track Program Broadcast NewsroomLOS [...]

]]> Comment on The Orange Line: anatomy of a smear campaign by Craig Goodrich http://formerbeltwaywonk.wordpress.com/2008/01/15/the-orange-line-anatomy-of-a-smear-campaign/#comment-143 Craig Goodrich Mon, 16 Jun 2008 01:25:35 +0000 http://formerbeltwaywonk.wordpress.com/2008/01/15/the-orange-line-anatomy-of-a-smear-campaign/#comment-143 [Long after the thread is dead ...] Perhaps the reason all these folks live and work near the Orange Line is that Northwest is the upper-crust section of DC; everywhere else is either the Belly of the Beast or the pits... [Long after the thread is dead ...] Perhaps the reason all these folks live and work near the Orange Line is that Northwest is the upper-crust section of DC; everywhere else is either the Belly of the Beast or the pits…

]]> Comment on Raimondo on the anti-Paul smear campaign by Obagi Blue Peel http://formerbeltwaywonk.wordpress.com/2008/01/18/raimondo-on-the-anti-paul-smear-campaign/#comment-142 Obagi Blue Peel Fri, 09 May 2008 18:32:44 +0000 http://formerbeltwaywonk.wordpress.com/2008/01/18/raimondo-on-the-anti-paul-smear-campaign/#comment-142 <strong>Obagi Blue Peel...</strong> I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you.... Obagi Blue Peel…

I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you….

]]> Comment on My anti-blogroll by Ann http://formerbeltwaywonk.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/my-anti-blogroll/#comment-141 Ann Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:50:49 +0000 http://formerbeltwaywonk.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/my-anti-blogroll/#comment-141 Will Wilkinson lives on the Green Line, as do Megan McArdle and Matt Yglesias. Reason Magazine is on the Red Line. Will Wilkinson lives on the Green Line, as do Megan McArdle and Matt Yglesias. Reason Magazine is on the Red Line.

]]> Comment on My anti-blogroll by Ben Kalafut http://formerbeltwaywonk.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/my-anti-blogroll/#comment-140 Ben Kalafut Tue, 01 Apr 2008 04:59:04 +0000 http://formerbeltwaywonk.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/my-anti-blogroll/#comment-140 Quite fortunate that Cowen didn't become the next Rothbard, as Rothbard was a well-read and highly intelligent crank with an ideological aversion to rigor. There would have been no <i>Anarchy, State, and Utopia</i> without <i>For A New Liberty</i>, but there's something wrong when an "economist"'s main contribution is in philosophy, and then only as a gadfly approaching the subject without the modesty and thoroughness expected in the analytic tradition. Look to Nozick as an example of what Rothbard could have been had he not let ideology get in the way. Or perhaps, had Rothbard been a Public Choice mainstreamer, he could have been Tyler Cowen, who, by the way, has done more in the last year to promote libertarian ideas than the Rothbardites have done in the last decade. I wouldn't label realists "defectors." We have dirty words in science--and modern economics is science--for people who know X to be true, yet act otherwise because they'd prefer X's negation. Quite fortunate that Cowen didn’t become the next Rothbard, as Rothbard was a well-read and highly intelligent crank with an ideological aversion to rigor.

There would have been no Anarchy, State, and Utopia without For A New Liberty, but there’s something wrong when an “economist”’s main contribution is in philosophy, and then only as a gadfly approaching the subject without the modesty and thoroughness expected in the analytic tradition. Look to Nozick as an example of what Rothbard could have been had he not let ideology get in the way.

Or perhaps, had Rothbard been a Public Choice mainstreamer, he could have been Tyler Cowen, who, by the way, has done more in the last year to promote libertarian ideas than the Rothbardites have done in the last decade. I wouldn’t label realists “defectors.” We have dirty words in science–and modern economics is science–for people who know X to be true, yet act otherwise because they’d prefer X’s negation.

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