{"id":1241,"date":"2004-08-12T18:24:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-12T18:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1241"},"modified":"2012-12-27T09:38:50","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T15:38:50","slug":"1241","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/12\/1241\/","title":{"rendered":"List of Columnist Who Bill McClellan Is No"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t normally read Bill McClellan because I think he’s obnoxious, and find his columns common, predictable, and rather simplistic. It’s obvious he’s trying to champion the common man, but I don’t care to read about most of the people whom he champions.<\/p>\n

To make it clear, I have created this handy chart of columnists you can easily use in the sentence, “Bill McClellan is no….”<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
John Kass<\/p>\nBob Greene<\/p>\nMary Schmich<\/p>\nClarence Page
\n <\/tr>\n
Steve Chapman<\/p>\nEric Zorn<\/p>\nRichard Roeper<\/p>\nNeil Steinberg
\n <\/tr>\n
John O’ Sullivan<\/p>\nGeorge Will<\/p>\nAnna Quindlen<\/p>\nMike Royko
\n <\/tr>\n
Studs Terkel<\/p>\nRobert Novak<\/p>\nJames Lileks<\/p>\nMark Steyn
\n <\/tr>\n
Jim Stingl<\/p>\nWhitney Gould<\/p>\nMike Nichols<\/p>\nAndrea Peyser
\n <\/tr>\n
Steve Dunleavy<\/p>\nCharles Krauthammer<\/p>\nMichelle Malkin<\/p>\nAnne Applebaum
\n <\/tr>\n
Robert J. Samuelson<\/p>\nBob Rybarcyzk<\/p>\nThe Night Cabbie<\/p>\nDavid Nicklaus
\n <\/tr>\n
80% of college op-ed columnists.<\/p>\nCatherine Galasso-Vigorito<\/p>\nMost Suburban Journal<\/i> Opinion Shapers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

That’s a start.<\/p>\n

This is the only time I am going to mention it. If I let my animosity towards other commentators eat at me, I’ll start writing like Neil Steinberg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t normally read Bill McClellan because I think he’s obnoxious, and find his columns common, predictable, and rather simplistic. It’s obvious he’s trying to champion the common man, but I don’t care to read about most of the people whom he champions. To make it clear, I have created this handy chart of columnists […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-st-louis-post-dispatch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12338,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions\/12338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}