It’s official. Karl Rove said so, as noted in this report in the Austin American-Statesman: “All major news organizations now blog,” Rove said. He also declared most of us extinct (though he had trouble remembering the name of the news organization that, per Ana’s post below, gave the Republicans the gift of “slow bleed”): Rove [...]

A report in the Army Times suggests the Pentagon has finally figured out they have a shameful problem on their hands at Walter Reed. The problem: too much talking to the media.

The Politico’s John Harris explains how soundbites are born: “Even as the House begins debate on a resolution opposing President Bush’s plan to send 21,500 more U.S. combat troops to Iraq, leading anti-war groups are preparing a multi-million dollar TV ad campaign and grassroots lobbying blitz designed to pressure vulnerable incumbent lawmakers to end their [...]

Given the arrogance and distemper of the Bush Administration, it’s kind of tough for even our best friends, like the Brits, to remain solid U.S. allies these days…but I’ve got to say that Max Boot raises an important point in his column today. Our NATO allies simply aren’t pulling their weight in Afghanistan. This is [...]

Remember all that hand-wringing about how Obama wasn’t “black enough” to win black voters’ support? Well, a couple of weeks later: notsomuch.

Cheney’s trip around the world this week has produced some of the more memorable dispatches to press.release@whitehouse.gov in this administration. First, the “unreportable” actions of the leg out. Then the long search for a bunk (“After we nearly had a collision on the tarmac with a fuel tanker, our bus wandered around the base in [...]

What is it about highly-paid outside consultants (and less highly paid White House officials) who are unable to keep their confidential strategy memos, campaign playbooks and debate prep videos from being lost, stolen or otherwise leaked? Remember the imbroglio over the George W. Bush debate prep materials that were mysteriously sent to a Gore campaign [...]

Look, I like a good Cheney-drinks-the-blood-of-the-living joke as much as the next person, but it’s also true that sometimes folks go over the line, as appears to have happened at the Huffington Post in reaction to the suicide bombing outside Cheney’s camp in Afghanistan [they appear to have been taken down]: “To (sic) bad they [...]

Continuing Mittpolooza today, I found his “leaked” playbook to be highly amusing, especially in its brazen sales-speak. I’m particularly enamored of the phrase “Primal Code for Brand Romney,” which makes him sound a little like a Michael Crichton novel. I also love that it’s a Power Point presentation. Next year’s Oscar-winner, anyone? The conventional wisdom [...]