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"Washington Monthly denounces my Obama article"

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Anonymous Paulus said...

As I mentioned a couple of months ago, there was an attempt going around D.C. to kill my American Conservative article "Obama's Identity Crisis" before I'd even finished it.

Was Konetzki a lone gunman or are you suggesting he was part of a conspiracy to kill your piece?

4/18/07, 2:03 PM

Blogger Steve Sailer said...

He sent out emails and rallied support for himself in his attempt to kill my piece.

4/18/07, 2:16 PM

Anonymous Steve W said...

"There was an attempt going around D.C. to kill my article" turns out to be one low-level editor who received zero support from his supervisors. How did you ever survive this vast conspiracy?

4/18/07, 2:46 PM

Anonymous Harry said...

Seems he ended up shooting himself in the foot. Can't think many prospective employers would think much of his spilling the beans over something so trifling. Still, he did provide an insight into the workings of the magazine. This Kara Hopkins sounds like my kind of woman. Is she hot?

4/18/07, 3:00 PM

Blogger Leonard said...

Being a non reader myself, I just want to confirm that the wedding does not happen in the last 2 pages, right?

Further, how many pages are spent on each? If the wedding takes up a chapter and the conversion a page, then I think that Konetzki's interpretation (that the book ends with the wedding) is at least supportable. It may or not be my interpretation, but I could see how a "progressive" might think it. So, it would not be a "lie".

4/18/07, 3:00 PM

Anonymous da said...

How does a guy lie Konetzki get a job at AmConMag? What are his credentials and bonafides?

4/18/07, 3:06 PM

Anonymous onetwothree said...

_soaring oratory_

Insert substance into pipe. Apply fire to substance. Breathe in.

Soaring oratory? Excuse me? Something about gay friends in the red states? Very soaring indeed. Soaring like a cinder block's first swimmming lesson. Oh, but, wait...we're just going along with the received wisdom.

_could help ease America’s racial tensions because his mother was white and his father was black_

Ah, yes, that will do it. The people who are presently "tense" will definitely un-tensify because of that and the facts surrounding it. The cinder block has landed.

4/18/07, 3:29 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Steve:

While I disagreed with most of the conclusions in your Obama piece, I nonetheless found it thought-provoking and interesting, and it got me to actually go and read Obama's book, which I found to be enjoyable and illuminating. And I hadn't realized until I read it that Obama's Luo people are Nilotic in origin-- tall, lean relatives of the Tutsi, Hima, and Dinka peoples. Interesting that Obama shares a lot of the stereotypical Nilotic traits-- intelligent, hardworking, but ascetic and humorless-- rather than ones more associated with West Africans and their American descendants.

4/18/07, 3:34 PM

Anonymous tommy said...

He inspires, they say, with his youth, intelligence, and soaring oratory. He transcends race.

Transcends race my ass. The guy is stuck on race. His latest cheap attempt at tying Imus' comments to the Virginia Tech incident only confirms it.

4/18/07, 4:01 PM

Anonymous JP Hartley said...

...the notorious Taki Theodoracopulos, a high-society columnist for London’s Spectator and heir to a large Greek shipping fortune.(In late March, millionaire California software developer and pro-immigration activist Ron Unz took over as publisher.)

Does this mean Taki is no longer connected with American Conservative? And anyone have an idea how large this fortune he inherited was/is worth?

4/18/07, 4:06 PM

Blogger Alex said...

Taki has started yet another magazine, Takimag.com (online only). Sailer has written for it.

4/18/07, 5:31 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Konetzki wrote:

At this point, I should mention that I’m a progressive. I didn’t even know [The American Conservative] existed until a former colleague encouraged me to apply for an assistant editor position at the magazine last November, suggesting that it might be a good first step toward a career in journalism.

The guy is hilarious.

4/18/07, 5:52 PM

Blogger Jeff Burton said...

Konetzki had another specific charge - that you misrepresented an incident involving his grandmother and a black panhandler. I'd be interested to hear you response to that.

4/18/07, 7:12 PM

Anonymous Hal K said...

I hadn't noticed the part about the new publisher of American Conservative being pro-immigration the first time through, so I am glad someone called attention to this. This is a bit troubling. If they start printing pro-immigration articles I will probably not renew my subscription.

4/18/07, 9:17 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Liberals don't want to think. They'd rather feel. Another sad result of over-feminizing America.

4/18/07, 10:30 PM

Anonymous tggp said...

I had always scoffed when those dominant in the right nowadays said that paleos or AmConMag weren't "real conservatives", but maybe that rubbed off on Konetzki enough to confuse him into thinking it wasn't a conservative magazine. I don't think I'd apply at "The American Progressive" or something like that even if I was trying my make my way in the publishing world.

4/18/07, 11:11 PM

Anonymous James Kabala said...

Maybe we can blame Konetski for the fact that my issue often arrives later or not at all.

4/19/07, 4:45 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I liked Barack Obama before I read this stuff. He's definitely hamming it up with the old school (tired) rhetoric.

He teaches his daughter to look up to those rough looking Rutger's basketball players? I believe that for about, hmm, less than half a second.

4/19/07, 1:15 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I will never vote for OBAMA as long as affirmative action/quotas are enforced in schools and business. If you lived in a large city like Chicago you probably know what I mean. For the rest of you please move in to a large city and find out what diversity means. No wonder people are running fro the suburbs and beyond.

4/22/07, 7:04 PM

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