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Tony Blankley, Right-Wing Propagandist, Dead at 62

January 9, 2012January 10, 2012 Jon Ponder

I have been tuning in to “Left, Right and Center,” the NPR political chat show produced here in Los Angeles (Santa Monica, to be precise), for so long that when I first became a regular listener the “right” was represented by Arianna Huffington, when she was a conservative — which was so long ago, as she has said, that it was back when Dennis Miller was funny.

On the show, the “left” was and is represented by Robert Scheer, formerly of the Los Angeles Times and now editor at Truthdig. The “center” was and is represented by the show’s host, Matt Miller.

After Huffington finally came to her senses and revised her ideology toward the center, she continued to participate in an essentially left-leaning but officially non-aligned position. She was replaced on the right by Tony Blankley.

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Tony Blankley, Right-Wing Propagandist, Dead at 62

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

— Don Moynihan

“Musk’s behavior is emblematic of tech’s most heinous figures, who now feel emboldened to enter the analog world with the same lack of care and arrogance with which they built their sloppy platforms.”

— Kara Swisher

“If they want to try to annihilate Ontario, I will do everything — including cut off their energy with a smile on my face. …They rely on our energy, they need to feel the pain. They want to come at us hard, we’re going to come back twice as hard.”

— “Speaking Monday at a mining convention in downtown Toronto, Ontario Premier Doug Ford doubled down on threats to cut electricity exports to U.S. border states if the tariffs go through,” the Toronto Sun reports.

“The White House has become an arm of the Kremlin. Every single day you hear from the National Security Advisor, from the President of the United States, from his entire national security team, Kremlin talking points.”

— Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), on CNN.

“America’s abrupt turn from moral beacon and defender of the free world is unsurprising, given the fundamental immorality of the Trump administration. If you have the morality of a gangster, you will behave like a gangster.”

— Noah Smith

Numerati

31

+$1 trillion

“The U.S. debt and deficit problem worsened during President Donald Trump’s first month in office, as the budget shortfall for February passed the $1 trillion mark even though the fiscal year is not yet at the halfway point,” CNBC reports.

172,000

240,000

-2.8%