Tag: Weekly Standard

Blogging While Coptic

NYT blogger asks if Weekly Standard writer was unduly influenced by religion

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Samira Ibrahim / AP

A New York Times blogger became ensnared in controversy yesterday after asking a Weekly Standard author whether he was a Coptic Christian and if this played a factor in his reporting on anti-American and anti-Semitic activist Samira Ibrahim.

Kristol in the Clear

UPDATE: Milbank, Weigel issue corrections on Hagel quote

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William Kristol / Wikimedia Commons

A pair of reporters inaccurately attacked Weekly Standard editor William Kristol this week for using what they claim is a false quote attributed to Chuck Hagel, President Barack Obama’s likely nominee for Secretary of Defense.