Talk:Norman Podhoretz

message: I have deleted the line stating He is an American neoconservative because it is redundant. Not two sentences later, we are told he became associated with the neoconservative movement in the 70s. Also deleted the footnote referring to an article calling him the Godfather of neoconservatism. Anyone familiar with neoconservatism knows that Irving kristol is considered the Godfather of neoconservatism  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Spiker 22 (talk • contribs) 10:07, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Introduction 

message: Norman Podhoretz is mentioned on the list of Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients in the Presidential Medal of Freedom wiki-entry. (According to the Senate website linked there, he received it June 23, 2004.)
Should there be some mention that he received this award, and why?
--Wbakker2 16:53, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: There certainly should be a mention.  On a separate issue, does anyone know why the bulk of the article is pulled from a copyrighted source? I don't see any permission. -Willmcw 22:10, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I've deleted it. It was from "Family ties connect US right, Zionists" by Jim Lobe at  "Pakistan's most widely circulated English language newspaper." -Willmcw 01:37, Mar 1, 2005 (UTC)
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The article says "He is believed to be a member of the Council on Foreign Relations".  I don't think the CFR membership list is secret, so this information should be available.  And who "believes" he's a member?  Presumably the person who wrote that sentence.  If the author doesn't know whether Podhoretz is a member he shouldn't be speculating in the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.232.225.237 (talk • contribs) 04:20, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Medal of Freedom?

message: Puffy John Podhoretz, who has been known to flirt with danger when devouring cream pies, dismisses the number of dead and horribly mangled as insignificant compared to Vietnam. Yes, Puffy, they are, but give it time and they will not be. Podhoretz, incidentally, qualified his statement by announcing that he had not served in the army. Gee, thanks, and here I thought you were a Silver Star winner and a volunteer to boot
http://www.amconmag.com/12_15_03/taki.html
Robert Kagan and William Kristol were giddy with excitement at the prospect of Armageddon. The coming war “is going to spread and engulf a number of countries. … It is going to resemble the clash of civilizations that everyone has hoped to avoid. … [I]t is possible that the demise of some ‘moderate’ Arab regimes may be just round the corner.”
Norman Podhoretz in Commentary even outdid Kristol’s Standard, rhapsodizing that we should embrace a war of civilizations, as it is George W. Bush’s mission “to fight World War IV—the war against militant Islam
http://www.amconmag.com/03_24_03/cover.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by Paleocon (talk • contribs) 05:14, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Podhoretz and WW4 

message: The article has one sentence in it about Podhoretz's Army service: something along the lines of "He also served in the Army..." Does anyone have further information about this beyond the years of service as noted in the article? (For example, whether he was an officer (and thus served after college), whether he was commissioned through ROTC or OCS, and/or any other details of his career in the military.) If anyone had more information please put it in the article - it seems to me that the Army service was a rather important part of Podhoretz's life and thus the information would add significantly to the article. KNVercingetorix (talk) 01:59, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: In what way do you get the impression that "Army service was a rather important part of Podhoretz's life"?
~ Spiker_22 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Spiker_22 (talk • contribs) 06:21, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Army Service 

message: This article has been edited anonymously by Berman and Company, who are lobbyists for amongst others the American Beverage Institute, the Center for Consumer Freedom, the Center for Union Facts and the Employment Policies Institute.
IP address of 66.208.14.242 traces to Berman and Company, see the Whois report. I Spy With My Big Eye (talk) 10:53, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Warning: Lobbyists [[Berman and Company]] at work  

message: Hello! Pardon me if I made mistakes on my first edit. I very slightly changed the wording in this section
to better reflect a neutral standpoint. Ms. Clo (talk) 07:16, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vietnam section 

message: This article has been revised as part of a large-scale clean-up project of multiple article copyright infringement.  Earlier text must not be restored, unless it can be verified to be free of infringement. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions must be deleted. Contributors may use sources as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 00:47, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright problem 

message: he is well known for his views on the cold war, 60s era protests and cultural change, and then support for Reaganism, and as an example of a the neoconservative journey from social democrat/liberal.  There seems very little on his views of the cold war, rather more on his views of post 2000 events (when he was really a much more marginal figure) and the oddity (and I suspect a cherry picked out of context quote) about his views on history. Ricardianman (talk) 21:41, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  political views section seems oddly shaped