Comments on: Confessions of a Left Wing Wall Street Journal Junkie

By: Idetrorce

Idetrorce — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 00:49:26 +0000

very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
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By: Valerusd

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By: FemduarmaOned

FemduarmaOned — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 22:53:55 +0000

You don’t really need or want that lifestyle, it might hurt y’all slowly more…….Just tell him you
don’t wanna repeat something your not too proud of z7uas.

By: Brenda

Brenda — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 02:10:11 +0000

I’m in love! Please don’t be creeped out by such a declaration from a 60-something old fart, Zbignew. It’s just that one so seldom finds anyone who even halfway understands the stuff in the WSJ (including the “cognitive elite” who think/claim they do). And I have never before come across anyone who explicates it even a fraction as well as you have done.

Kudos for having the starch to read the WSJ thoroughly day after day through the years. I’ve tried, unsuccessfully. Oh, I understand it pretty well, thanks to my MBA from the University of Chicago (does that qualify me for the “cognitive elite”?). But I get hives reading the self-serving views of the uber-right. Just like seeing the faces of or hearing the voices of Bush/Cheney/Rice, et al. — which is why I turn off the radio or mute the TV when they come on. And when I can’t shut down the electronics? I close my eyes, plug my ears and yodel “lalalalalala” until they’re gone.

So you go right on reading now that the deal is, indeed, done. But have the last laugh. Bike over to the library and read it for free.

And give us more articles. I would have paid tuition far more gladly if my B-school professors had been half as clear as you in explaining economics and finance.

By: João

João — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 23:03:31 +0000

Nice article! ;)
but besides all the democrats i prefer Obama, he´s much more left wing than Hillary, she voted “yes” to the invasion of Irak. Obama´s tought about Irak and Mexican immigrants are really good, and being those the mains concerns of America nowadays i think that is the best way to you. Im not American, but i prefer Obama in the lead, in fact i prefer everyone except the “nazis-republicans”, oh sorry, than the republicans, my mistake.

By: Phil

Phil — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 22:58:04 +0000

“If more liberals would read more widely, there would be fewer liberals. But liberals are very careful to limit their reading to what their peers consider acceptable.”

Most people, regardless of political ideology, limit their reading largely to things they agree with. In my critical thinking classes, I require my students to read an op-ed expressing a view they disagree with.

Would there be fewer liberals if liberals read more widely? That depends what you mean by liberal. If you mean it in the very general sense of left of center in US politics, then I doubt it. It’s the right that consistently relies on myths to support its world view. Many of my students are woefully poorly read and quite conservative. I generally see their views becoming more liberal the more they are exposed to wider perspectives.

On the other hand, if you mean by liberal someone in the ideological orbit of the Democratic Party, then you may be right, since the Democrats rely on their own set of myths. But someone who abandons the Democrats after reading more widely is quite likely to move further to the left.

Zbignew Zingh mentions several excellent reasons for leftists to read the WSJ, but I don’t see that any of those will change when Rupert Murdoch becomes its proprietor. Keep on spying on the ruling class, Mr. Z., and maybe write a few columns letting the rest of us know what you’ve discovered.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 15:18:59 +0000

Engaging story and a good way to remind us that the elites are happily jabbering away about their power plays right in front of us. Let them continue to think that there are only two kinds of people here: those in their conversation and the rest of humanity, who they believe are too powerless to do anything and anyway, mostly too stupid to understand all this. It is not just hoi polloi who are capable of forgetting history and suffering the consequences. Glad to find your article and this site.

By: CH

CH — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 07:01:41 +0000

Good to see Mr. Zingh’s a liberal who reads more widely and remains a liberal. If you can save $9/week then do so, Mr. Zingh! There are other ways to get the WSJ without paying for it. The library, perhaps.

By: Bill

Bill — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 04:09:29 +0000

I think you may have tweeked some of the “elites” warped consciouses , when you stated that the working guy , and his her pensions will take the whack from subprime woes – I agree . Funny how they hold out the stick to us , get richer and then take our money away . Marx was right .

Oh…. on the politics bent . Hillary will not win the elections . Wrong senator from a wrong state. Bill

By: mhr

mhr — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 01:41:47 +0000

If more liberals would read more widely, there would be fewer liberals. But liberals are very careful to limit their reading to what their peers consider acceptable. In reality they are reminiscent of the old Index of the medieval church that forbade believers from reading certain books. I was a liberal until I decided I was old enough to read what I felt like reading. What I got was an education and I became so well informed about the truth that I am no longer a liberal. I’m free!

By: cemmcs

cemmcs — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 22:07:58 +0000

Great essay! It was a pleasure to read. And that is so true about Marx.

By: Troy

Troy — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 21:24:34 +0000

Hillary is not a Liberal democrat as I would like But I will still vote for her. I would
not go as far as calling her a Republican..

By: hal sanders

hal sanders — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 17:57:17 +0000

You’re pompous. Why do you think most of us give a rip why you read what?

By: Randall Gaylor

Randall Gaylor — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 14:34:37 +0000

Well done …
Of course, out here in beef country that does have a double meaning.