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"My Break with the Extreme Right," generating lots of controversy
By Michael Fumento
My Salon.com article "My Break with the Extreme Right" is creating quite the furor.
Another Conservative Defector Denounces the Movement," Washington Post, By Jonathan Bernstein, May 25
"Breaking With Movement
Conservatism Over Its Ugliness," The Atlantic, By Conor Friedersdorf, May 25
"Bartlett,
Sullivan, Frum ... And Fumento," Andrew Sullivan, The Daily Beast, May 25
"Another
One Leaves the Movement," David Frum, The Daily Beast, May 24
"Apostate Conservatives, Ryan Cooper, Washington Monthly blog, May
25
"The Right Wing Tilt Toward
Mass Hysteria,"
Huffington Post blog, by Zaki Hasan, May 29
"Another Prominent
Conservative Takes On The New Right," Doug Mataconis, Outside the Beltway Blog, May 24
"Fumento
on 'Today's Right-Wing Darlings'" Jonathan Adler, Volokh
Conspiracy (Major Right-wing Blog), May 25
"Former National Review Writer
Renounces the Right:
"The New Hysterical Right Cares Nothing for Truth or Dignity," by Charles
Johnson (Highly Influential Former Right-Wing Blog)
"Moderate Republicans Eaten by the Far Right -
Or rather, looking in the mirror?" by Siguhu, The Daily Kos
(Extreme-Left Blog), May 24
"Writer Michael Fumento Quits
Conservative Movement, Calls It 'Hate, Anger And Fear Machine'"" by Dan Avery, QUEERTY (Gay
Web site), May 25
"Conservative
Quits Right, Cites Allen West 'Extremism,' Malkin 'Hate,'" The New Civil
Rights Movement Web site, by David Badash on May 25
"Writer Michael Fumento Quits Conservative Movement, Calls It "Hate, Anger And...", Agency of Books to Worldwide, May 26
On the other hand, a former editor of mine at the Wall Street Journal, James Taranto, dismissed a highly-researched piece of 2,700 words with a solid argument and tons of links with a single tweet: "In what alternative universe is Michael Fumento a 'prominent conservative'?"
That's it; everything I wrote in Salon.com devastated in 144 characters or less. In Taranto's mind, anyway.
My credentials are clearly stated in the piece, and include about a score of articles for newspaper for which Taranto works including the original expose of Erin Brockovich and a piece that denied a newspaper a shot at the Pulitzer Prize for alarmist reporting that heretofore had everybody convinced. Oh, and my classic piece that snuffed out the alleged black church burning epidemic of 1996. Yeah, Wall Street Journal. Now try VERY HARD to recall one piece that Taranto has ever written that's had any impact on any issue in the U.S?
That said, it's true I haven't appeared in those vaunted pages in seven years. That's when the rabid right took over. If you couldn't work in some nasty gratuitous attack on the left, they didn't want you.
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