Salon: Obama’s SOTU Message Was ‘Bye-Bye, Reagan Conservatism’

Tom Johnson
January 22nd, 2015 9:46 PM
Elias Isquith contends that “after eight years of George W. Bush,” America “was in such rotten shape that Obama had little time to do more than stave off the next crisis,” but that by this past Tuesday night, favorable economic developments gave Obama “an opportunity to boast of changing the ‘trajectory’ of the country like few presidents before him and none since Ronald Reagan.”
 

Gun-Control Leader Whines Media Elite Gives In to Powerful Gun Lobby

Tim Graham
January 5th, 2015 2:26 PM

It’s always mind-boggling when left-wingers complain the media isn’t liberal enough, but it’s just happened at the hard-left site Salon.com. Under a headline insisting “The NRA is losing” – right after the Left took it on the chin in the midterms – Elias Isquith shared spin with Moms Demand Action leader Shannon Watts. In this case, they’re whining that the media’s walked away from covering “…

 

Salon: Hillary, Like Reagan, Thinks ‘Conquering “Evil” Is the Sp

Tom Johnson
August 18th, 2014 1:55 PM
It’s widely known that when Hillary Clinton was in high school, she was a big fan of Barry Goldwater’s 1964 presidential campaign. But would Hillary, if elected POTUS, take after the 20th century’s uber-conservative, Ronald Reagan, at least in terms of a hawkish foreign policy? Elias Isquith made that case in a Saturday article in Salon. Isquith scrutinized the ideas Hillary expressed in her…