Showing posts with label OIP Derangement Syndrome. Show all posts
Showing posts with label OIP Derangement Syndrome. Show all posts
11 December 2015

OIP Derangement Syndrome Trumping Facts

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Recently a reporter from the Washington Post sat in on a focus group organized by Frank Luntz, the GOP pollster and message-shaper. Luntz...
27 November 2015

Turkey in the Straw Poll

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This week Public Policy Polling released the results of a Thanksgiving survey ( PDF download ) which provided new evidence of OIP Derangem...
20 November 2015

Weighing the Woes of White Americans

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Janell Ross in the Washington Post this week: In a new poll released by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) on Tuesday [ PDF do...
21 November 2014

The Benghazi Strain of OIP Derangement Syndrome

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One easy diagnostic test for OIP Derangement Syndrome is an abiding belief in conspiracies and secrets surrounding the fatal attack on the ...
14 November 2014

Family Fairness, Then and Now

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Back in early October, The Hill reported : Congressional Republicans are outraged that President Obama may take executive action on immig...
07 November 2014

Aggregation

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This is a snapshot from Talking Points Memo, my favorite site for political news. It shows the aggregation of several polls over recent w...
31 October 2014

The Cloture Wars

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Earlier this week Farah Stockman wrote in the Boston Globe about presidential nominations in recent years: To see how contentious nominati...
03 October 2014

“Three Times as Many Threats as His Predecessors”

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Earlier this week the Washington Post published an exposé of how an intruder got further into the White House than the Secret Service ha...
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26 September 2014

Gingrich’s Leap of Language

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On Tuesday morning, President Barack Obama spoke about the expansion of the US war in Afghanistan and Iraq into ISIL-occupied Syria. The Whi...
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19 September 2014

“He’s got a lot to do with that”

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From the New York Times , a textbook example of OIP Derangement Syndrome preventing someone from seeing her best interests: The Affordable...
05 September 2014

When OIP Derangement Syndrome Is in Fashion

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Last week President Barack Obama held a news conference to address the US economy, foreign policy challenges, and other topics. And one da...
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29 August 2014

General’s Death Exploited by People with OIP Derangement Syndrome

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On 14 August, Maj. Gen. Harold Greene was interred at Arlington National Cemetery, nine days after he had been shot and killed by an Afghan ...
22 August 2014

Show Me OIP Derangement Syndrome

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Back in 1984 the journalist Michael Kinsley wrote that a Washington “gaffe” occurs when a politician accidentally tells the truth. We had an...
15 August 2014

Keith Ablow Lets His OIP Derangement Syndrome Hang Out

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This week’s example of OIP Derangement Syndrome comes from Keith Ablow, a FOX television psychiatrist and writer of thrillers featuring a ha...
18 July 2014

OIP Derangement Syndrome in Crises

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Did the shooting down of a passenger jet over breakaway eastern Ukraine this week prompt America’s right-wing pundits to rise above OIP Dera...
16 May 2014

OIP Derangement Syndrome in Wolfeboro

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For many years my family vacationed a couple of weeks each summer in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, so I was especially interested in this exampl...
18 April 2014

Captain America and the Threat of OIP Derangement Syndrome

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As I noted yesterday , some right-wing media organizations responded to The Lego Movie with complaints that it was anti-business. (Others...
11 April 2014

Getting the Message on OIP Derangement Syndrome

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This week’s study in OIP Derangement Syndrome is Rep. Jack Kingston of Georgia, one of three members of Congress running for the Republica...
04 April 2014

Whatever It Is, They’re Against It

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This week Quinnipiac University released one of its regular polls of Americans’ views on political issues. As most people would expect, t...
28 March 2014

The Deep Roots of Inflation Fears

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Back in 2006, the historian Michael O’Malley wrote an article for Common-place about links between fear of economic inflation (money losing...