tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-1244034 2009-11-03T16:12:45-05:00 Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful . . . and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. George Orwell, 1946 TypePad tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834523b6869e20120a64fe813970b 2009-11-03T16:12:45-05:00 2009-11-09T11:31:16-05:00 Max Holland Print The Washington Post’s supposedly best-kept secret during its Watergate coverage—the identity of its inside source—was no secret to Richard Nixon By Max Holland When W. Mark Felt unmasked himself as Deep Throat, in May 2005, the ballyhoo was dampened by...<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WashingtonDeCoded?a=XasclGQyuJ8:eIwo-bGCin8:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WashingtonDeCoded?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WashingtonDeCoded?a=XasclGQyuJ8:eIwo-bGCin8:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WashingtonDeCoded?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WashingtonDeCoded?a=XasclGQyuJ8:eIwo-bGCin8:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WashingtonDeCoded?i=XasclGQyuJ8:eIwo-bGCin8:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WashingtonDeCoded?a=XasclGQyuJ8:eIwo-bGCin8:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WashingtonDeCoded?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WashingtonDeCoded?a=XasclGQyuJ8:eIwo-bGCin8:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WashingtonDeCoded?i=XasclGQyuJ8:eIwo-bGCin8:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WashingtonDeCoded/~4/XasclGQyuJ8" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.washingtondecoded.com/site/2009/11/richard-nixons-own-deep-throat.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834523b6869e20120a5d9812a970b 2009-10-11T13:31:15-05:00 2009-11-06T04:07:09-05:00 Max Holland Print By Max Holland Under the editorship of Graydon Carter, Vanity Fair has become the most reliable purveyor of Camelot nostalgia. Over the last decade, either the glossy magazine or vanityfair.com has published 19 articles, book excerpts, or photo spreads about...<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WashingtonDeCoded?a=JWcusJPtcKU:TnA8Amj4jYM:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WashingtonDeCoded?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WashingtonDeCoded?a=JWcusJPtcKU:TnA8Amj4jYM:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WashingtonDeCoded?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WashingtonDeCoded?a=JWcusJPtcKU:TnA8Amj4jYM:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WashingtonDeCoded?i=JWcusJPtcKU:TnA8Amj4jYM:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WashingtonDeCoded?a=JWcusJPtcKU:TnA8Amj4jYM:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WashingtonDeCoded?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WashingtonDeCoded?a=JWcusJPtcKU:TnA8Amj4jYM:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WashingtonDeCoded?i=JWcusJPtcKU:TnA8Amj4jYM:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WashingtonDeCoded/~4/JWcusJPtcKU" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.washingtondecoded.com/site/2009/10/the-vanity-of-vanity-fair.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834523b6869e20120a5bab560970c 2009-09-11T16:51:45-05:00 2009-09-12T08:09:04-05:00 Max Holland Print The Death of Conservatism By Sam Tanenhaus Random House. 123 pp. $17 By Andrew Hartman American politics has often been an arena for angry minds. In recent years we have seen angry minds at work mainly among extreme right-wingers, who...<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WashingtonDeCoded?a=ivZnsdlZw9w:YHEYScyNKwk:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WashingtonDeCoded?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WashingtonDeCoded?a=ivZnsdlZw9w:YHEYScyNKwk:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WashingtonDeCoded?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WashingtonDeCoded?a=ivZnsdlZw9w:YHEYScyNKwk:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WashingtonDeCoded?i=ivZnsdlZw9w:YHEYScyNKwk:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WashingtonDeCoded?a=ivZnsdlZw9w:YHEYScyNKwk:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WashingtonDeCoded?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WashingtonDeCoded?a=ivZnsdlZw9w:YHEYScyNKwk:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/WashingtonDeCoded?i=ivZnsdlZw9w:YHEYScyNKwk:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WashingtonDeCoded/~4/ivZnsdlZw9w" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.washingtondecoded.com/site/2009/09/the-death-of-conservatismand-other-vital-center-illusions.html