I’ve been bumped from the Colbert Report because of a Stephen Colbert cast-related medical emergency. Rescheduled for September. UPDATE: I did tape a shocking bombshell of an interview with Colbert last night. It has been held until September–allegedly–because of the storm of protest that will ensue when it airs and also because Colbert took so [...]
A few weeks ago, Mitt Romney said he supports adding an anti-abortion amendment to the U.S. Constitution, as called for in the Republican Platform. Now he says he would allow individual states to determine for themselves what to do about abortion. Another flip-flop? That’s how it looks to ABC News and to the Washington Post. [...]
TIME Assistant Managing Editor/Swampland Intern Michael Duffy (Have we mentioned he’s a best-selling author?*) wants to know: I’m just an intern here, but here’s what I’m curious about this morning: Has Fred Thompson picked a date to get into the race yet? I gather he has agreed to a debate in New Hampshire in September [...]
In the new issue of dead-tree TIME, my Washington Bureau colleague Amanda Ripley takes an in-depth look at GOP frontrunner Rudy Giuliani’s chief selling point in his 2008 campaign for the White House, and finds that it isn’t entirely what it’s advertised to be. She writes in part: This much is indisputable: Giuliani knows what [...]
