Safire

Brooks, the reigning conservative on the paper's op-ed page now that William Safire is leaving, is coming under fire for his recent column about Red State "natalism" and birth rates in which he quoted writer Steve Sailer's finding that President Bush "carried the 19 states with the highest white fertility rates."

If I can make it there, I'll make it anywhere: Steve Sailer 2004

Brooks, the reigning conservative on the paper's op-ed page now that William Safire is leaving, is coming under fire for his recent column about Red State "natalism" and birth rates in which he quoted writer Steve Sailer's finding that President Bush "carried the 19 states with the highest white fertility rates."

Archive 2004-12-12 Steve Sailer 2004

Safire is like the stopped clock - right twice a day.

Balkinization 2004

Safire is like the stopped clock - right twice a day.

Balkinization 2004

William Safire is play­ing fairy god­pun­dit to con­ser­v­a­tives, com­plete with ran­dom Hillary Clin­ton reference.

Just Two Short Months Ago « Snarkmarket 2004

He doesn't come right out and say it, but Safire is still nursing the idea that somehow, some way, Hillary Clinton will run.

December 2003 2003

William Safire is all torn up about same-sex-marriage - or s-s-m as he coyly calls it - because his libertarian/conservative ( "libcon") views of personal freedom are clashing with his old-guard conservative views of protecting the status quo.

December 2003 2003

William Safire is suggesting that if Dean doesn't get the Democratic nomination, he'll split off and go for a third-party run, which will hand Bush a Nixon/Reagan-sized landslide and lead to arrogance and tyranny from the Republican majority.

December 2003 2003

Mr. Safire is an old hand at deflecting damaging news - he was a speechwriter for Richard Nixon - and he has an almost spasmodic ability to point to others; you don't think he doesn't mean to include Hillary when he talks about the "BosNyWash corridor," do you?

May 2004 2004

The man, John Reagan McCrary, a radio host and publicist, called Safire nearly "glacial" in pressure situations.

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