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April 15th, 2006 at 7:24 pm keller’s bloodthirsty warmongering in his nyt column, added to the parrot-like columns of tom friedman & william safire, helped bush & his chicken-shit team sell americans on the idea of going into iraq when anybody with half a brain knew bush was lying, hans blix was telling the truth & saddam was posturing so as to keep iran at bay
sionnach commented on the word william safire
William Safire, the conservative columnist and word warrior who feared no politician or corner of the English language, died Sunday (September 27th, 2009) at age 79.
The Pulitzer Prize winner died at a hospice in Rockville, Md. The cause of death was pancreatic cancer, family friend Martin Tolchin said.
Safire spent more than 30 years writing on the Op-Ed page of The New York Times. In his "On Language" column in The New York Times Magazine and more than a dozen books, Safire traced the origins of words and everyday phrases such as "straw man," "under the bus" and "the proof is in the pudding."
Associated Press.
September 28, 2009
seanahan commented on the word william safire
The greatest of the language mavens.
September 28, 2009