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Rules for Radical Conservatives |
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MICHAEL WALSH |
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Our Guest:
Michael Walsh
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After graduating from
the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York in 1971, he
became a reporter for the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle in
February 1972, where he shared the New York State Publishers
Association first prize for reporting with two colleagues for a
series of articles about heroin in Rochester. In May, 1973, at
the age of 23, he became the paper's classical music critic.
Walsh was named chief classical music critic of the San
Francisco Examiner in November 1977, where in 1980 he won an
ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for music criticism. He became music
critic of Time magazine in the spring of 1981,[2] where his
cover story subjects included James Levine, Vladimir Horowitz
and Andrew Lloyd Webber. |
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From 1997-2002 he was a
visiting fellow of the University Professors, Professor of
Journalism and Professor of Film & Television at Boston
University. He is currently Vice President of the board of the
Wende Museum, devoted to East German and Soviet art, artefacts
and scholarship, in Culver City, California.
Since February, 2007, Walsh has written for National Review both
under his own name and using a fictional persona named David
Kahane, the name of which "...is borrowed from a screenwriter
character in (the movie) The Player." [3] This persona has
evolved into one of "...a Hollywood liberal who has a habit of
sharing way too much about the rules by which they live to a
conservative audience." [4]
In January, 2010, in collaboration with Andrew Breitbart, he
launched
BigJournalism.com ,
devoted to media commentary and criticism. Since December 3,
2010, he has written a weekly opinion column for the New York
Post,[5] and in late June 2012 became a featured columnist at PJ
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About the book |
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The vast right wing
conspiracy has found its General Patton, and his name is
David Kahane. Kahane's pseudonymous, satiric column for
National Review Online, lampooning the Left via his
Hollywood-radical persona—Stephen Colbert's liberal
doppelganger—is must-listening for political aficionados
of all stripes. Now, from the inside, Kahane proudly
exposes the secret and not-so-secret winning strategies
(and vulnerabilities) of the Left and gives desperate
conservatives a roadmap to victory, in a
take-no-prisoners manual modeled after Alinsky's Rules
for Radicals, C. S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters,
Machiavelli's Prince, and, of course, the Chicago Way. |
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From
Publishers Weekly |
The pseudonymous
columnist for the National Review Online ("a kind of reverse
Stephen Colbert), Kahane showcases his conservative philosophies
in all their prescient glory. A time-travelling Ginsbergian
introduction makes it clear that this is a battle cry, not a
think piece: "I was present when the Sodomites came for Lot's
sons and rejected his living daughters... I was there at
Belshazzar's Feast, when the moving hand writ large upon the
wall: mene, mene tekell upharsin... I was there when Pilate
washed his hands of the Christ, when the Czar and his family
were murdered, when Oswald's bullet went through the back of
Jack Kennedy's head." Kahane's fondness for language often lends
his rebuttals of liberal thought a beat poet's madness; the
whole enterprise, however, reads more like a rant than coherent
thought, making it difficult at times to find the needle of
argument in his haystack of propaganda. Those who follow Kahane
(the name of the screenwriter in The Player who was murdered
behind the Rialto theater) will no doubt be delighted; those you
don't will of course steer clear, taking the author's lead in
making no attempt whatsoever to find common ground. (Sept.)
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refers to the Hardcover edition. |
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LLC. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover
edition. |
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