Who is Newsweek's cover story author Niall Ferguson

[ProSense]

Why America Needs McCain - Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson on John McCain and Iran
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xgj0s3

Krugman's response to Ferguson's Newsweek piece posted here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021161814

[KurtNYC]

1. At least he put his own name on his bogus hit piece

unlike their editor Joe Klein when he wrote the hit piece of Clinton, "Primary Colors."

After months of emphatic denials, the anonymous author of a best-selling tale of political intrigue and deceit emerged yesterday at a hastily called news conference to reveal his own true colors: "My name is Joe Klein and I wrote 'Primary Colors.' "

Mr. Klein, a Newsweek columnist and an occasional commentator for CBS News, offered no apologies for lying to friends and colleagues, insisting that he had guarded his secret in the same way that journalists protect news sources.

http://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/18/us/columnist-s-mea-culpa-i-m-anonymous.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm

Newsweek has as much credibility as Romney.

[Spider Jerusalem]

2. Niall Ferguson is a highly reactionary right-wing British historian

who thinks that the US should fully embrace its role as the natural successor of the British Empire in the fullest sense.

[flamingdem]

6. Was he born in 1840 or what!?! n/t

[Recursion]

14. He's a mixed bag. Some of his historical books are very very good

Just don't believe anything he says about the world after, say, 1950 or so.

[freshwest]

13. Yes, some people have forgotten we wanted out of that empire.

[truedelphi]

3. Newsweek is in the same category as TIME magazine - basically

Journalism of and by the CIA news mongers.

For instance, right before the 2004 election, Newsweek did attack pieces on John Kerry, one of which went to great lengths to prove that his wife had to explain the rules of baseball to him. (This "fact" was based on a photograph that showed what POSSIBLY might have been her explaining something to him, but apparently the writer "knew" what she was saying.)

Oh, and that particular article had Howard Fineman's name attached to it.

[virgogal]

8. I think Kerry's Manny Ortiz faux pas stirred up the

entire baseball thing which,of course,is nonsense.

[immoderate]

4. A guy who THINKS he knows something.

--imm

[progressivebydesign]

5. Nothing like a right-wing foreigner writing a smear op-ed on the US PResident.

Does Newsweek have any decent people working there anymore?

Or are they the new Enquirer? I mean.. I could almost see it if it was written by someone who was actually a fucking American.. but a british historian? WTF? From the UK? The irony is not lost on me.

[KeepItReal]

7. An advisor to John McCain writes the cover story?!?

GTF outta here with that mess.

[JoePhilly]

9. Oh wow ... this Newsweek story is going to backfire big time.

This guy wants Romney to win so there will be a war with Iran. Period.

That's such an easy rebuttal to this idiot. One simple video clip tells the entire story.

[dgauss]

10. A fill-in host for Rush Limbaugh - he's full of it.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

17. He's that anti-woman, anti-elderly, anti-disabled fill-in?!? from that to the NW Cover? SHAME

Yes, I've listened to him - He tries to outdo Limbaugh with his crap - to please his overlord.

[a la izquierda]

11. I remember a grad seminar in which we read his book Colussus.

Talk about a drag. Take a bunch of Native American historians (with a few Latin Americanists thrown in for good measure), and make them read that drek.
We all wanted to throw ourselves out of our seminar room windows by the end of the night. I think the professor did, too.
Egotistical, and way too much diarrhea-of-the-brain.

[Recursion]

12. One of our better historians, despite his political idiocy

"The Pity of War" is probably the best book written about the First World War. And "The Ascent of Money" is one of the best histories of capitalism since Marx. Also, as a bit of trivia, he's married to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who was the star of the movie that got Theo Van Gogh killed.

[Spider Jerusalem]

15. "The Pity of War" is not too bad, if you overlook his central thesis.

Which is that Britain should have stayed out of WWI because if Germany had won the result would have been a continental EU 60 or 70 years ahead of schedule, and Britain would still have its empire.

[Recursion]

16. Good point. His "should's" are questionable, his "did's" are usually really good.

And I like his use of economic data (and my God there are pages and pages of footnotes in that one) which is something histories of WWI have tended to ignore. "The War of the World" I'm still digesting -- just from a quality of writing standpoint it's not nearly as good.

[lonestarlib]

18. This guy is a frequent guest on Bloomberg.

[ThoughtCriminal]

19. Fail Nerguson?

Wait? Who?

[Cha]

20. Did Newsweek even FACT CHECK their

cover story? Can any hack write stupid lies and make it on their cover?

Thx for uncovering the rock on this rw stooge, ProSense.

[ProSense]

21. You don't understand

"Did Newsweek even FACT CHECK their"

Fact checking doesn't count in "fair and balanced" coverage. If it did, Republicans would be shit out of luck.

I mean, facts have a liberal bias. To compensate for that, the media has to handicap Republicans.

"Fair and balanced": Democrats criticize using facts, and Republicans counter using opinions laced with made up shit.

[Cha]

22. I want this to BACKFIRE ON

NewWEAK!

[Tom Ripley]

23. This would be troubling if anyone still read Newsweek

I have spent far too much time in waiting rooms the past few years
and I rarely see it even there

[truedelphi]

29. Very apropos. I only see it in the waiting rooms,

And read it if I am waiting a very long time. I never forgave Howard Fineman for his making John Kerry seem like a fool. And I never could figure out why Olbermann enshrined him as a Talking Head on MSNBC...

[Tom Ripley]

31. I only pick it up if I have exhausted all of the copies of Highlights for Children :)

[Cha]

24. Found this in the comment section on

the obama diary..

[font size=large]Did @Newsweek or @TheTinaBeast fact check @nfergus's article? The mistakes and BS LIES are embarrassing. thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/…

19 Aug 12 ReplyRetweetFavoriteJournalists are pissed off about this article. They’re articles and tweets pointing out the LIES that are rampant in these moronic article. The Journos have been mocking Ferguson on twitter for his erroneous nonsense. How desperate is Tina Brown that she features this crap on the cover page?

A lot of subscribers on twitter say they’re calling NewsWeek and revoking their subscriptions. At the rate Tina’s going, NewsWeek won’t be around at the end of Pres. Obama’s second term."[font]

Glad this seems to be Trending on Twitter!

[ProSense]

25. Good. Newsweek

needs to be called out on this bullshit.

[Cha]

26. Andrew Sullivan is calling out Ferguson's Lies on thedailybeast, too..

with an indepth rebuttal.

This was his last sentence..

"More to come. The piece is sadly so ridden with errors and elisions and non-sequiturs it will require a few more posts."

http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/08/fisking.html

[hifiguy]

27. Sully took him down hard. Really hard.

And he's a friend of Sully's. Which shows that Sullivan has genuine intellectual integrity.

[Cha]

28. Yes! So much better coming

from a friend. Better for Democracy..

[truedelphi]

30. Tina Brown first destroyed The New Yorker, which went

From being a readable journal that had featured such stand out writers as Rachel Carson and John Hershey, to people who did fluff pieces on the Chief Executive of Monsanto. Big Corporations all good, all the time.

I thought at that time in the mid nineties that she was a CIA lackey, but now that she is in charge of a CIA-run publication, it all makes sense.