Showing posts with label New Yorker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Yorker. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

New Yorker buys Ryan's bull

Howie Klein of Down With Tyranny blog is unimpressed -- to say the least -- with Ryan Lizza's "billion word" profile of Paul Ryan in the New Yorker :
Lizza's ponderous Ryan feature starts off badly, with an assurance that Ryan's "mastery" of the budget is almost legendary. Only for Inside-the-Beltway dolts... like Ryan himself, a third rate flim flam man who has managed to take in some 4th rate pundits-- and who don't know much about economics. He does know a lot of greed, selfishness, Madison Avenue marketing techniques and how to persuade gullible journalists and dumber politicians he's a serious figure.
Read Klein's million word analysis here.