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  • To paraphrase William Safire, Bush is genitically unable to tell the truth.

    Bush on Mary Cheney’s Baby - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2006

  • Unlike lightning rods such as William Safire, Maureen Dowd or Paul Krugman, Herbert doesn't often engender virulent chat-room debates.

    Raw Copy: The Power Of The Times 2007

  • In fact, conservatives such as William Safire, Bob Barr and former Reagan associate deputy attorney general Bruce Fein have all voiced criticisms.

    Mail Call 2007

  • Since September 2003, when Brooks joined the op-ed page, there has typically been another conservative or libertarian columnist at the Times, such as William Safire or John Tierney.

    Hot Air » Top Picks 2009

  • HPFacebookVoteV2. init (302503, 'William Safire', 'Not a hopeless hypochondriac of history, nor a nabob who was negative and nattered, maven of the English tongue whose wordy mystery he believed to English-speaking people mattered, he was a columnist the New York Times allowed to disagree with its opinions.

    Gershon Hepner: William Safire 2009

  • The contraction of web + log surfaced among English-based web users in the late 1990s, but gained global momentum after Google joined the web in 1998.2 In 2002, William Safire, the late New York Times columnist, introduced blog and blogger to his readers, and floated his post–9/11 concept of all combined blogs forming blogistan.3

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • The contraction of web + log surfaced among English-based web users in the late 1990s, but gained global momentum after Google joined the web in 1998.2 In 2002, William Safire, the late New York Times columnist, introduced blog and blogger to his readers, and floated his post–9/11 concept of all combined blogs forming blogistan.3

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • In his memoir, former Nixon speechwriter William Safire told of his displeasure with a Yom Kippur sermon in which the rabbi warned "not to let our country be divided and polarized by those who use the technique of alliteration"—referring to Vice President Spiro Agnew's critique of "nattering nabobs of negativism."

    The White House's Advice for Your Rabbi Tevi Troy 2011

  • Not surprisingly, my recent column on an ugly 1988 experience with AIPAC, the Israeli government, and late New York Times columnist William Safire elicited some controversy.

    MJ Rosenberg: AIPAC: A Lobby Without Parallel MJ Rosenberg 2011

  • It was the more moderate AIPAC that enlisted Israel's U.N. ambassador, Binyamin Netanyahu, to call New York Times columnist William Safire and urge him to threaten me.

    MJ Rosenberg: AIPAC: A Lobby Without Parallel MJ Rosenberg 2011

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