Doris Kearns Goodwin has always been at war with post-partisanship

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Wed, 09/24/2008 - 4:04pm — vastleft

Haw! Read Digby re: Doris Kearns Goodwin's revisionist history about partisan politics.

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Maybe she's started eavesdropping

By bringiton on Wed, 09/24/2008 - 5:48pm

on a different Party line.

Meh...

By Historiann on Wed, 09/24/2008 - 6:50pm

She was flogging a book when she wrote the post-partisanship unity crap. Her publisher doesn't want her flogging her books about FDR, which are from the previous decade I think.

Who goes to her for political advice, anyway? She's a regular commentator on PBS: <> Don't get me wrong: I'm not defending her, I'm just explaining that in order to flog her book, she had to come up with a timely hook for the newspapers.

As Renoir said...

By vastleft on Wed, 09/24/2008 - 6:54pm

"Everyone has reasons for bullshitting about post-partisanship."

For clarity...

By Damon on Thu, 09/25/2008 - 2:17am

Are we using "flogging" to mean "hawking"? Flogging has a much different meaning than peddling.

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But, we've always been at war with Eastasia...

Webster's def

By vastleft on Thu, 09/25/2008 - 5:14am

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionar...

3c: to promote aggressively : plug

Learn Something New

By Damon on Thu, 09/25/2008 - 5:51am

You learn something new, everyday, I guess. I'd never heard it use to mean peddle.

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But, we've always been at war with Eastasia...

To my ear, it carries a derisive connotation

By vastleft on Thu, 09/25/2008 - 5:56am

like "there s/he goes again, beating that dead horse."

I have, didn't give it a thought

By lambert on Thu, 09/25/2008 - 9:47am

It looks like old-fashioned, "English-y" English to me, just like peddler. see dictionary.com.

I see how a reading that's, er, richer is possible, but I saw the meaning as "sell intensively," period, on first reading.

So, yes, "unintentional" -- for some meaning of intent.

[ ] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.

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"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi

Oh, so purely unintentional!

By Historiann on Thu, 09/25/2008 - 9:23am

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