From: Gene McAloon 

Fallows has got his heart in the right place. Unfortunately he needs to do
some work on his brain. I recall his shedding crocodile tears in Canopus
about the divisive and ultra-partisan nature of much of the media. He felt
it was unprecedented and a sick symptom of our sick times. He was wrong of
course as I attempted to point out to him on a number of occasions.
Particularly in the early years of the republic, the press was even more
partisan and downright bilious in its coverage of politics. That kind of
thing recurred periodically with the media in this country. But Fallows was
having none of that. He thought he had a good whipping boy and a good story
to go with it. He didn't.

Did he really expect anyone to plow through that whole article in the
Atlantic, practically parsing Bush's speech sentence by sentence?  What in
god's name was his editor thinking when he decided to publish it?  Fallows
method of criticizing the speech is not the way such things are done. It
reads like the mistake of some college kid and I can't imagine any English
prof giving such a thing a passing grade.

Poor Fallows; all heart and little brain. A presidential speech writer. Indeed.

On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 10:12:31 -0500, "John Beamish"
 wrote:

>http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2004/01/sotu-address.htm
>
>"Bill Lucy"  wrote in message
>news:MPG.1a80d0f5db03ef6198becf{at}news.barkto.com...
>>
>> I would like to commend an essay in the current issue of The Atlantic,
>written by
>> ex-Canopian James Fallows. It goes into quite a lot of detail regarding
>this
>> inability.
>>
>> Especially regarding the current administration.
>>
>

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