Eugene David
...The One-Minute Pundit

Tuesday, February 15, 2005


KLUMPH! KLUMPH! KLUMPH! KLUMPH! Arthur Miller's death has become a KNEE-JERK THING. ON THE LEFT, E. J., one of the most tiresome columnists of any stripe, calls the late playwright courageous, and as we know from reading too many predictable op-edders, praise like this is usually self-directed. ON THE RIGHT, Terry Teachout, writing for THE WALL STREET JOURNALS CONSERVATIVE EDITION'S FREELOADERS REVIEW, says Miller was bad, presumably because he was -- LIBERAL, and while I respect and admire Mr. Teachout he's done the well-it's-my-employer-so-I'll-parrot-its-politics shtick before. That said, I am more inclined to believe Mr. Teachout, in part because 10,000 NEWS HACKS said the same things about Arthur Miller last week, in part because the only things E. J. reads are his own columns.

I stick by my obituary.

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