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freethinker · Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 2:12 pm Post subject: ...missing columnist...

Whatever happened to Paul Greenberg, the conservative writer from Arkansas..? Though I didn't always agree, I really enjoyed hearing his opinion. i miss him
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Cylinsier · Master Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 13229 Location: Oh shi-

Still writing:

http://www.arkansasonline.com/staff/paul-greenberg/
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freethinker · Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 2:45 pm Post subject:

Thanks Cy, i must have spelled his name wrong in my search
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Brant · Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 3:06 pm Post subject:

We dropped him in favor of Mona Charen. I'm no fan of Charen, but I loathed Greenberg.
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freethinker · Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 4:53 pm Post subject:

I loathe Mona Charen. I know what she's gonna say, and then she says it.

Greenberg had that Mike Royko flair of telling a story and slipping his message in, between the lines...Entertaining and informative...

I doubt anyone's gonna be reading this, so i can speak my mind. I love Marcia Biddle because she skirts seriousness in favor of telling a good story. I like Dolinar 'cause she's a serial optimist. The woman from China, Dorothy Mecklenberg, (sorry if I screwed up her name) is also a good story teller, and i'm madly in love with Kathleen Parker, even though she's a conservative...And I really really miss Erma Bombeck
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Brant · Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 5:05 pm Post subject:

I think David Brooks and George Will are reasonable conservatives. Greenberg is not. In his book, anything done by Democrats is pure evil. Charen is an ideologue, and not a very good writer. I think Paul Krugman, Nick Kristof and Tom Friedman are excellent. Even though we were not on the same wavelength politically, I loved William F. Buckley. But no one will ever take the place of H.L. Mencken.
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amom · Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 5:44 pm Post subject:

I like to read Mary Beth Dolinar (I went to school with her!), Scott Paulsen, and one of the new community columnists, Laura Zoeller. I can relate personally to their stories. Byron's and Harry's columns are usually a good read, too. I find I stay away from the political columns...I get my share through this forum. Wink

Not that I don't read them, I just don't read them often enough to form opinions about their writing skills. Now, there are some letters to the editor writers that I refuse to read...they are just plain idiotic! (But, true to form, I won't mention any names.) Embarassed

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ellipses · Mod Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 9218 Location: WashPa!

The letters to the editor make my day... I'd off myself if I didn't have that to look forward to every morning.
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