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							<title><![CDATA[A Trump Presidency Is No Longer a Punchline]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Russ Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Let&rsquo;s get one political reality clear: the 2016 presidential election revolves around Donald Trump. Nearly every story about the campaign is, in part, put through the Trump lens. It still baffles me, as well as anyone following the primary season who&rsquo;s truthful enough to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Paul Krugman Is Just Phoning It In]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Russ Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At one time I reasoned that reading Paul Krugman&rsquo;s twice-weekly columns in The New York Times was like, as a kid, eating your vegetables before moving on to the meat or Sara Lee chocolate swirl cake.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Walker's a Top-Tier Candidate. Now What?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Russ Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[So far this year, in the conservative press, The Wall Street Journal&rsquo;s Daniel Henninger stands alone in recognizing that while the Republican presidential free-for-all is entertaining, at least in the early going not a single candidate has articulated a coherent strategy to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mainstream Media Scared to Death of Walker]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Russ Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Not all Democratic National Committee flacks disguised as reporters/pundits are as transparent as Michael Tomasky, who collects paychecks from The Daily Beast. Instead of dismissing the large field of potential Republican presidential candidates as &ldquo;astonishingly weak&rdquo; as...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Williams' Professional Fate Is Irrelevant]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Russ Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Who watches the network (or cable) nightly evening news broadcasts anymore? That&rsquo;s not an entirely facetious question, for while NBC, ABC and CBS still draw millions of viewers at 6:30 or 7:00&mdash;half the number of just a few decades ago&mdash;the era of the &ldquo;anchor&rdquo;...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Time's Running Out for The New Yorker]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Russ Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I&rsquo;ve no exact idea of how the Newhouse family&rsquo;s Advance Publications/Conde Nast are faring financially, but you needn&rsquo;t be a media analyst to figure that it&rsquo;s a bleak picture. Skip all the obligatory razzmatazz about the once powerful company&rsquo;s enthusiastic...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Most People Don't Care About NYT's PR Disaster]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Russ Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There&rsquo;s just one thing you need to know about Jill Abramson&rsquo;s dismissal from The New York Times: it doesn&rsquo;t matter.Despite the raucous carnival of news articles, anguished or celebratory blog entries, Tweets, punditry and Facebook ruminations about NYT publisher Arthur...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bush Is Really a Stalking Horse for Rubio]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Russ Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Jeb Bush is a politician, a profession in which a Krugmanesque ego is essential, so I&rsquo;m certain he&rsquo;s basking in the all the news stories&mdash;pro and con&mdash;about (again) the possibility of his seeking the GOP presidential nomination in 2016. And I guess he has moments,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Left Wing Can't Contain Its Fantasies]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Feb 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Russ Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Left-wing Democrats have the ability, especially at election time, to express the sort of giddiness that confounds not only Republicans but centrist members of their own Party as well. Looking at today&rsquo;s political climate at face value&mdash;with Barack Obama&rsquo;s sub-par...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bloomberg Nation: A Whisper to a Scream]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Russ Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A week hasn&rsquo;t yet passed since the successful manhunt in Boston, yet given the increasingly short attention span of Americans in general, and the media in particular, the horrific Marathon bombing and its aftermath is nearing a point where it&rsquo;s compartmentalized, like a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Washington Post Endorse Romney/Ryan?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Russ Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The possibility of a left/centrist daily like The Washington Post endorsing a Republican candidate for president is, at first glance, a far-fetched notion that even blinkered GOP partisans wouldn&rsquo;t dare mention in mixed political company. The ridicule would be overwhelming. Yet The...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Believe That Obama's for the &quot;Small Guy&quot;]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Russ Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I&#194;&#146;ve recently returned from a brief vacation in Bermuda, where my family was generously put up in the commodious lower floor of my brother&#194;&#146;s house in Tucker&#194;&#146;s Town. It was Cup Match weekend, an annual holiday that revolves around a cricket match&#194;&#151;Somerset took the honors this...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bulletin: American Culture Has Evolved]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Russ Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The following sentence is a lament about American culture and character: &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve long thought that public dissatisfaction is about more than the economy, that it&rsquo;s also about our culture, or rather the flat, brute, highly sexualized thing we call our culture.&rdquo; The...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Media Blind to Obama's Gaffes]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Russ Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s extraordinarily difficult to be surprised by the mainstream media&rsquo;s flagrant obeisance to Barack Obama&mdash;Jeremiah Wright seems like a decade ago&mdash;but I shook my head in disgust earlier this week after the President made an especially arrogant remark during an...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama and Liberal Intelligentsia Shed Dignity]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Russ Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama has yet to add a &ldquo;killer rabbit&rdquo; incident in his growing list of parallels to Jimmy Carter&rsquo;s failed presidency, and his quiver of good luck arrows isn&rsquo;t so depleted that he&rsquo;s attracted a principled Democrat to mount a challenge for the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Media's Pack Mentality on 2012 Gets Worse]]></title>
							<link>http://www.splicetoday.com/politics-and-media/call-off-the-gop-primaries-pundits-have-already-nominated-romney</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Russ Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ross Douthat, in his weekly New York Times op-ed column last Sunday, inadvertently provided readers with a valuable primer on today&rsquo;s political culture. Going out on a limb, Douthat&mdash;paired with Times colleague David Brooks as the paper&rsquo;s putative...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Barack Obama Dumb?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Russ Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A mere four months ago, most readers looking at the above headline would undoubtedly shake their heads and think the author was a gun-for-hire Tea Party provocateur and quickly click away from the page. But the political climate has changed dramatically this summer, and even hard-core...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[This All Doesn't Bode Well for 2nd Obama Term]]></title>
							<link>http://www.splicetoday.com/politics-and-media/obama-i-m-a-loser-baby-so-why-don-t-you-ditch-me</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Russ Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s nearly impossible in the current Beltway environment&mdash;soiled by  elected officials so out of touch with their constituents that they&rsquo;d  all be voted out of office today if that were an option&mdash;to make an  educated guess on the fate of the national (and by...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hamlet on the Rio Grande: GOP Waits for Perry]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Russ Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Which Republican politician wrote the following words?&ldquo;We are as  a nation, on paper, almost bankrupt&hellip; [We can&rsquo;t] have a foreign policy  unless we have the money to pay for it. We do not have an army unless we  can fund it&hellip; We do not have alliances and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Ongoing Nightmare of College Admissions]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Russ Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The most important question here is what can be done about tuition spiraling out of control? Seems like not much when there will always be those willing to pay.Keeping in mind that you'll get in somewhere was the best salve to all the stress this process creates. That's something that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What's So Funny About American Voters?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 16 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Russ Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Maybe Time&rsquo;s Joe Klein was having a really crummy day. Maybe he&rsquo;s feeling the pressure of blogging about the midterm elections&mdash;in addition to writing old-fashioned columns that afford him more than 15 minutes to gather his thoughts&mdash;so that Politico won&rsquo;t...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Two Men Who Are David Brooks]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 10 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Russ Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The New York Times' occasionally conservative columnist  is vexing, alternating between narcissism and common sense, but it's not  yet his time to defect to The Daily Beast.The uplifting news earlier this week that Howard Kurtz, The Washington Post&rsquo;s ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Paul Krugman Finally Flips His Lid]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Russ Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Krugman jumped the shark some time ago.  He went from academic economist to Paris Hilton (fame for fame sake) in no time.  What's next, Krugman business wear for the middle class?michael moore lite'....by bout 200 poundsat least Michael Moore made some good films....Krugman has done...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Islamophobia is the 'New McCarthyism?' Please.]]></title>
							<link>http://www.splicetoday.com/politics-and-media/islamophobia-as-the-new-mccarthyism-doesn-t-wash</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Russ Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There's always going to be bigoted idiots, so let's stop with the senseless comparisons.How many roads must a man walk down before he realizes the ghost  of Joseph McCarthy is not lurking around every corner? It&rsquo;s a pertinent  question today, in the midst of a tumultuous...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Are in Finger-Pointing Mode]]></title>
							<link>http://www.splicetoday.com/politics-and-media/squabbles-on-the-left-as-obama-morphs-into-carter</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Russ Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Great piece.  Although sometimes I feel a little twang of sympathy for the President as his weaknesses are punished by right-wing media grotesques like Beck and Hannity, I cant help but recall the beatings that Republicans have endured for the past eight years. If you dish it you have to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The American Dream Won't Die]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Russ Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The slapdash stenography of today&rsquo;s media industry&mdash;whether it&rsquo;s mainstream, the blogosphere, social networks or electronic&mdash;has precluded all but a smattering of thoughtful commentary. There are exceptions in the magazine trade, long essays in publications like...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Contemplating President Mitch Daniels]]></title>
							<link>http://www.splicetoday.com/politics-and-media/contemplating-president-mitch-daniels</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Russ Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[And if he could energize the Tea Partiers they would give him the momentum to make a good run of it.If he can maintain a low profile, he may have a shot.  It seems that today, Republicans big mouths are their worst enemy.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Celebrity-Journalist' Myth Ruined Reporting]]></title>
							<link>http://www.splicetoday.com/politics-and-media/how-the-celebrity-jounalist-myth-ruined-reporting</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Russ Smith</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Media's Never-Ending Funeral]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Russ Smith</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Left-Wing Redistributionists Seize the Moment]]></title>
							<link>http://www.splicetoday.com/politics-and-media/oh-what-a-lovely-recession</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Russ Smith</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Great piece, Russ.There are lots of signs of Far Lefties licking their chops at the opportunity to control the business world and to paternalistically enlighten the underclass.But the pendulum won't stay left forever as ours is fundamentally a centrist country. The excesses and mistakes...]]></description>
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