The New Yorker may or may not be atop of Sarah Palin's reading list (one sort of assumes not) but that hasn't stopped The New Yorker from reading and reviewing Sarah Palin's memoir Going Rogue. This perhaps shouldn't come as such a surprise, the magazine has recently been dipping its roguish toes in coverage of the Right's most headline-making figures -- Glenn Beck made an appearance a few weeks back, as did the tea partiers. But still, it has to be a sort of triumph on the part of Sarah Palin, (sneering or otherwise, depending on how you feel about the magazine) that her influence is now such she has warranted a near 4,000 word review -- penned by Sam Tanenhaus, no less, who is moonlighting from his regular gig at the The New York Times Book Review, so a double whammy of sorts in the 'liberal media elite' category. (more...)

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Who: Jon Meacham (Newsweek) in conversation with Sam Tanenhaus (New York Times)
What: The Cooper Union’s “Sam Tanenhaus: The Death of Conservatism”
Where: The Cooper Union’s The Great Hall
When: September 30, 2009
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"We're talking to ourselves. It's like we have built this conservative ghetto — like the Warsaw Ghetto — where we have put ourselves ideologically in a box, and we shout and scream and yell at each other, but we need to get out and we need to start talking to the center of America where elections are won ." — Joe Scarborough on MSNBC's Morning Joe, in discussion with Sam Tanenhaus about his latest book, The Death of Conservatism, on the echo chamber of current Conservative thought, and how it's totally like being walled off in an overcrowded, disease-ridden plot of land where Germans went on killing sprees and then deported people to concentration camps. (more...)