“I’m not a gun owner and, as I think as is the case for the more than half the people in the country who also aren’t gun owners, that means that for me guns are alien. In the current rhetorical climate people seem not to want to say: I think guns are kind of scary and don’t want to be around them.” PeopleThinkingWantKindMeanCountrySeemsHalfCasesGunClimateCurrentsScaryAliensOwnersRhetoricalGun Owners Author:Josh Marshall
“The Federalist Society is this conservative legal organization. And I think, for the Bush administration, being a member of the Federalist Society meant you were - a reliable, ideological, partisan Republican. It wasn't enough just to be registered as a Republican, or to be - have a generally conservative judicial philosophy, or prosecutorial philosophy. It meant that, basically, meant that you were a real movement conservative, a Party regular. That's what being a Federalist Society member means.” ThinkingMeanRealEnoughPhilosophyPartyRepublicanConservativeIdeologicalJudicial Author:Josh Marshall
“Officials and journalists live in parallel but separate realities; they see and talk to each other, may have a meal and gossip together, but their worlds never touch, because officials use words that don't mean what they say, while for those reporters in Vietnam - Halberstam, Peter Arnett, Morley Safer, and others - words were vessels of reality.” WorldMeanRealityTogetherJournalistGossipVessel Author:Josh Marshall
