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Class War

2004

• July 28 -- Howell Raines' Anti-Republican Rage
Now that former Executive Editor Howell Raines is off his NYT leash, his shrieking excoriations of Republicans are even more entertaining: "As long as affluent, educated Republicans are allowed to control wealth in this country, they're willing for the rednecks to pray in the public schools that rich Republicans don't attend, to buy guns at Wal-Marts they don't patronize, to ban safe abortions that are always available to the affluent, and to oppose marriage for gays who don't vote Republican anyway."

 

• August 12 -- Randy Cohen’s Continuing Class War
The Times ethics columnist wastes no opportunity to stoke class war: “What rankles here is not your vulgar display of wealth. These days, many people are more apt to envy the rich than to throw snowballs at their top hats (unfortunately, in my view).”

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