I’m trying to compile a list of all the regular liberal columnists in the magazines and newspapers. If you can think of one I haven’t listed, email me or (better) just post a comment (with a link to where they are online) and I’ll add it. I’m especially curious about local columnists who are liberalish.
(for the purposes of this I want people who are being published somewhere and not just bloggers you like)
Jonathan Alter
Eric Alterman
Jay Bookman
Jimmy Breslin
Jonathan Chait
Eleanor Clift
Alexander Cockburn
Richard Cohen
Joe Conason (Observer)
Stanley Crouch
EJ Dionne Jr
Juan Gonzalez
Ellis Henican
Bob Herbert
Jim Hightower
Molly Ivins
Joe Klein
Paul Krugman
Gene Lyons
Harold Meyerson
Clarence Page
Leonard Pitts Jr.
Ted Rall
Richard Reeves
Frank Rich
Mark Shields
Helen Thomas
Robert M. Thorson
Cynthia Tucker
Joan Vennochi
Mort Zuckerman
Joan Vennochi
Thomas L. Friedman
Alexander Cockburn? That funny little Texas guy whose name I can’t remember?
Man, it is unbelievable that Joe Klein qualifies as the most liberal guy at Time. How depressing. I hate that magazine. Anyway, what about syndicated columnists like Mark Shields?
Robert Scheer, Michael Hiltzik, Erin Aubry Kaplan.
Pick from here
http://www.creators.com/opinion.html
Ted Rall
Richard Cohen
Richard Reeves
That’s why I didn’t pick — I wasn’t going to do your work for you…
I found enough columnists already — with websites!
Always a critic — and I’m not even sure you exist!
Hey, guys — websites, remember?
Eric Alterman? David Corn? Gene Lyons?
Stanley Crouch
Juan Gonzalez
Denis Hammill
Bill Hammond
Mort Zuckerman
Denver local: Diane Carman.
Ellen Goodman
Good example, Frank. Out of 50 writers, there are about four genuine liberals.
Jim Hightower. That guy.
MoDo
Ok – just so you don’t think I am any more of a schmuck:
Leonard Pitts Jr.
Friedman was one of the biggest cheerleaders for this shitstorm in Iraq.
Don’t you guys know any liberal columnists?
Dr P, Dugger, are you pondering what I’m pondering?
Cynthia Tucker
Robert M. Thorson
Of course, no person can be a liberal and be in favor of the war in Iraq>
Arianna Huffington, Laurie David, Harry Shearer, and just about all of the columnists at Huffingtonpost.
Helen Thomas
The Lib de la Libs
Jimmy Breslin
Sorry I am letting you bear the load here…I would say the liberal columnist list is….impressive…to say the least.
Oh, and don’t say you can’t be liberal and support the war…Remember JF Kerry! And Hillary…what about her…? Didn’t her husband come out in support too?
I just choose not to be OW’s research assistant
Shorter Pedro, Frank, Dugger, SaveFarris: Everyone to the left of Bush.
Harold Meyerson
I saw a doc recently on Woody Guthrie with Joe Klein as a prominent talking head. Gag. Guthrie’s guitar would have beat Joe Klein’s ass.
Oliver, please don’t put Alexander Cockburn up there. I guess you could call him a leftist (of the Trotsky vintage), but he’s not really very liberal.
the curmudgeon is getting a little sensitive. Pretty impressive list when you line them all up like that. And all we have is Rush and a few talking heads on Fox news.
Imagine what the election results would look like if the media was 80% REPUBLICAN
There. I just saved you a lot of time. Go troll elsewhere, you’ve all got the day off.
I don’t really think it’s a big deal,or anything. Find a liberal newspaper, and eliminate the token conservative(s), and there you have it.
The list of conservative columnists at TownHall or Jewish World Review is staggering.
And curmudgeon, you really need to hit the Internet glossary.
A troll is NOT simply someone you disagree with, or who disagrees with you.
That’s a non – liberal.
And, I took one of those horizontal – vertical ideological quizzes, and Bush came out to my right!
Joe Klein a liberal columnist?! Puh-leeze!
Pedro, as usual, makes the usual error of conflating columnist with newspeople. As anyone in newspapers will tell you, the most widely syndicated people are conservative (Will, Coulter, etc.). Very few of the liberals listed here have any of the reach of just those two.
Thanks for the contributions everyone and keep them coming, I will update the master list later tonight and ongoing.
Where would you put Safire and Barone?
I’d put them “right – of – center”.
The majority of newspapers, being local and regional, endorse GOP candidates. It’s only that the top-tier, influential papers are more liberal that makes the overall world of newspaper publishing seem liberal. Not to mention the fact that the paper with the #1 circulation (WSJ) is conservative.
No, I meant the reporters in general OW…
, Stanley Rothman and Linda S. Lichter reported the results of their survey of 240 journalists at the nation s top media outlets: ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Time, Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report. When asked about their voting patterns, journalists admitted their preference for Democrats:
Of those who say they voted for major party candidates, the proportion of leading journalists who supported the Democratic candidate never drops below 80 percent. In 1972, when more than 60 percent of all voters chose Nixon, over 80 percent among the media elite voted for McGovern. This does not appear to reflect any unique aversion to Nixon. Despite the well-publicized tensions between the press and his administration, leading journalists in 1976 preferred Carter over Ford by the same margin. In fact, in the Democratic landslide of 1964, journalists picked Johnson over Goldwater by a sixteen-to-one margin, or 94 to 6 percent.
By the way, Frank, here’s that quote you were looking for:
You want spine, numbnuts?
I ll meet you at midnight Broadway and 43rd St, NYC you name the day. I ll beat your ass so bad, your children will be born dizzy.
Posted by Frank_D, addressing me, TomY, here:
http://www.oliverwillis.com/2005/07/09/validation/
I’d put that “right-of-center” wearing a shirt that’s “brown-of center!”
Yesterday, I said the Dixie Chicks were “airheads”.
I shouldn’t have said that.
They’re boneheads.
From AOL Music News:
And the trio has hardly spent 2006 campaigning to win back their alienated fans: Fiddle player Martie Maguire told a German interviewer that the country scene is not their home anymore, and they not-so-subtly titled their new single ‘Not Ready to Make Nice.’
They’re turning their backs on (what used to be, and may still be) the most lucrative music market in the USA, just so they can hate Bush.
Now that’s spine, TomY.
Oh, that’s the one without the address…
Glad to see you researched something…
I’m flattered, and you’re really a numbnuts: 2005? Holy crap!
Jay ‘frappin’ Bookman (AJC)
Cynthia McKinney (AJC editor and columnist)
Bill Schneider
Dugger
In fact, my nuts are ever-so-tingly since I used Dr. Bronner’s Peppermint Soap on them this morn — thanks for asking!
As for spine, I remain in awe of all the cons out there who insist on having a war to which they will make no sacrifice, be it in the form of blood (send the neighbor boy) or treasure (make the children pay).
Frank and Dugger, let me be the first to salute you! Truly you are modern day Churchills, standing athwart history, shouting “can’t someone else do it?”
We are awesome, aren’t we?
Rap and hip hop are the most lucrative musical genre. Country has avoided death by becoming more pop-friendly. The new Dixie Chicks CD is #4 on Amazon and the single is #6 on iTunes. I think they’ll make out ok.
Awesomely discrediting your ideology for a generation! Supercool! You are teh roxxor!
Maureen Dowd, NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped/columnists/maureendowd/index.html
Mike Mayo, Sun Sentinel, Ft. Lauderdale:
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/columnists/sfla-sports-mayo,0,6149311.columnist
Frank D: [The Dixie Chicks] [a]re turning their backs on (what used to be, and may still be) the most lucrative music market in the USA, just so they can hate Bush.
Does this tell you that being right is sometimes more important than being paid? As it turned out, their political sentiments do not seem to have damaged their careers
The Chicks are making money hand over fist, their records ride the top of the charts and their concerts sell out every time. If they quit now it would take years to turn off the money machine they have created.
Whoever is being “alienated” apparently spends money on music in about the same fashion that war-hawks enlist for Iraq, i.e. not at all.
Repack: please don’t lecture me on either the music industry or on principles. The number of real rebels in the music industry can be counted on the fingers of one hand – minus the thumb.
Hating Bush is about as rebellious as tinting your hair blue.
With the right marketing and accompanying Video(s), a CD entitled “President Bush molests handicapped children”, could be a hit.
Mark Morford
Check out this devastating take-down of the Bush gambling addiction.
“Hating Bush is about as rebellious as tinting your hair blue.”
I agree with this. Hating Bush is the majority American opinion, as well as world opinion. Liking Bush is most comparable to choosing to have terrible body odor — sure, it’s not conventional, or “the norm,” but some people just don’t care that they are objectively revolting.
I sincerely hope that you don’t expect me to agree with anything you typed after, “I agree with this.” You obviously had no idea what I meant. Or, you were just being your usual, obnoxious, brainless, self.
Barry Saunders
Tom
“Frank and Dugger, let me be the first to salute you! Truly you are modern day Churchills, standing athwart history, shouting can t someone else do it?
I have no idea what you’re talking about. Can’t someone else do what?
Dugger
Frank, when you threaten people with violence on this board, are you planning to have the neighbor kid fight that battle, too?
Fight and pay for the war, Dugger.
Tom
I served 27 and paid my taxes. And the chickenhawk argument, should that be what you are talking about, is idiotic IMO. If I were making a stupid argument for or against the war, it would be so whether I served or not. People with opposite viewpoints served and didn’t serve.
Dugger
Only if it’s you, and the neighbor kid is under 9 yrs old. I want the fight to be between intellectual as well as physical equals.
Anyway, the whole “Frank is violent” meme was played out months ago.
Where the hell have you been?
I really have to object to labelling Mort Zuckerman and Joe Klein as “liberal”
My God. Where is Tom Oliphant?
JK
Tom Oliphant
Michael Hiltzik.
Oops, might need to check that.
Frank D: Repack: please don t lecture me on either the music industry or on principles. The number of real rebels in the music industry can be counted on the fingers of one hand – minus the thumb.
Well aren’t YOU special! I have roadied for the same rock band for 38 years and I play guitar in two others. I have spent more time in recording studios than you spent sitting in high school classes. Many of my friends play in international touring musical acts or work on the crews. I have worked on shows with every major rock act of the sixties and seventies and I see more platinum records at my friends’ houses than I see Frisbees.
Last week, after a sold-out performance, a lifelong friend who is a multi-platinum recording artist and double Grammy winner put his arm around me when he took his bow, after I declined his offer to join the band onstage to play the encore. I’m sure that happens to you all the time.
And you don’t think I know anything about the music business? Tell me how you learned so much more about it than I have after a lifetime of involvement
Gee,repack, that’s a whole lot of response for a very short statement — and I didn’t even say what you are saying I said.
And you don t think I know anything about the music business?
What I said was, “Please don t lecture me on either the music industry or on principles.”
Need I remind you that the comment of yours to which I responded was pretty much common knowledge, and in no way reflected any great knowledge on your part of the music industry?
By the way, I’ve actually heard of them! So, I must know something about music, since AllMusic calls them “One of the last and more obscure bands to emerge from the late-’60s San Francisco psychedelic scene”
So, not only didn’t I say you don’t know anything about music, but I’ve actually heard of this band that you’ve been rolling out amps for for thirty years.
So? Now what? Do I get free tickets to their next concert?
Better yet — send me one or two of their CD’s — I’ll play ‘em on my Internet radio show…
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its a pretty good list. I have been compiling my own and will send you the link when I am done.