Tom Frank on Bittergate

Apparently Tom Frank is going to have a Wednesday column in the Wall Street Journal starting May 14.  I thought this piece in the WSJ was pretty interesting.  Closing paragraph:

If Barack Obama or anyone else really cares to know what I think, I will simplify it all down to this. The landmark political fact of our time is the replacement of our middle-class republic by a plutocracy. If some candidate has a scheme to reverse this trend, they've got my vote, whether they prefer Courvoisier or beer bongs spiked with cough syrup. I don't care whether they enjoy my books, or would rather have every scrap of paper bearing my writing loaded into a C-47 and dumped into Lake Michigan. If it will help restore the land of relative equality I was born in, I'll fly the plane myself.

So say we all.

Comments

[Brian]

Here's an insightful, if profane, piece from Joe Bageant regarding the controversy.

http://www.joebageant.com/joe/2008/04/media-shit-stor.html

[Matt Zemek]

Funny, Jack, how Bill Kristol is at the NY Times, and Frank will soon start a regular column at the Wall Street Journal.

Tokenism runs amok.

PS--Bill Kristol's columns are being widely read. I thought Times readers would have more integrity than to validate that which should have been viewed as unacceptable.

*sigh*