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| - Daniel Johnson worked until recently as an associate editor of The Daily Telegraph, before becoming a freelance writer in 2005. He is the son of the author Paul Johnson. He currently writes a weekly opinion column in The New York Sun which is very sympathetic to neo-conservative viewpoints. For example, his article from 25 November 2005 about the Al Jazeera bombing memo taunted the press outrage that had occurred, and added: "shutting down Al Jazeera would be desirable from the Anglo-American point of view... [I]f Qatar, a Gulf state that is nominally an ally of America (on which it relies for its independence), has allowed its capital to become Al Qaeda's principal propaganda base, it has no right to expect America automatically to refrain from punitive action on its territory."
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| - Daniel Johnson worked until recently as an associate editor of The Daily Telegraph, before becoming a freelance writer in 2005. He is the son of the author Paul Johnson. He currently writes a weekly opinion column in The New York Sun which is very sympathetic to neo-conservative viewpoints. For example, his article from 25 November 2005 about the Al Jazeera bombing memo taunted the press outrage that had occurred, and added: "shutting down Al Jazeera would be desirable from the Anglo-American point of view... [I]f Qatar, a Gulf state that is nominally an ally of America (on which it relies for its independence), has allowed its capital to become Al Qaeda's principal propaganda base, it has no right to expect America automatically to refrain from punitive action on its territory." In Johnson's 21 December 2006 column, of which all references to have since been deleted from the New York Sun's website, so is only available via blogs on the web, he wrote about attending the award ceremony at the White House where his father received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and of his many personal acquaintances in the following paragraph: Whenever I visit America, I come back aglow with the munificent hospitality and friendly curiosity I encounter everywhere. It began at the entrance to the White House, where we were reacquainted with the Aquinas of our day, Michael Novak. Bob Tyrrell, editor in chief of the American Spectator, gave me a royal—sorry, presidential—welcome at his fine old Alexandria house, replete with ante-bellum [sic] artifacts and courtesy to match. Charles Krauthammer, peerless polemicist of the Washington Post, invited me to celebrate my first-ever Chanukah with his family and guests, including the great Irving and Bea Kristol. Finally, I was entertained by my old college friend Myron Ebell, fearless campaigner against environmental hysteria at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and his family, who reminded me of how civilized America still is compared to Europe.
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