Bob Herbert

Liberals Hating on Hillary: 'Loathing Seems a Lot Less Irrational'
By Mark Finkelstein | January 26, 2008 | 6:08 PM EST
On the east and west coasts today, two liberal columnists unleashed a torrent of vitriol at Hillary and Bill Clinton. At the Los Angeles Times, contributing editor Jonathan Chait [a past master of political hatred] asked Is the right right on the Clintons? Consider these blistering excerpts [emphasis added]:
  • Something strange happened the other day. All these different people -- friends, co-workers, relatives, people on a liberal e-mail list I read -- kept saying the same thing: They've suddenly developed a disdain for Bill and Hillary Clinton. Maybe this is just a coincidence, but I think we've reached an irrevocable turning point in liberal opinion of the Clintons.
Bob Herbert Does His Best to Talk Down the Economy
By Tom Blumer | November 11, 2007 | 8:45 PM EST

One of the many downsides of the mid-September takedown of its TimeSelect firewall by the New York Times is that the general public must endure exposure to the uninformed rants of Bob Herbert. Mr. Herbert's "Recession?