This one is NOT from the awesome TIME White House Photo Blog, and it requires a click, but we couldn’t resist it. From Vanity Fair (and via our friends at Hotline), comes this 1976 David Hume Kennerly photo of a pre-Dark Side Dick Cheney. (I’d post the photo itself, but the High Sheriffs tell me [...]
Rudy Giuliani’s relationship with the disgraced Bernard Kerik is now officially an issue in the Republican presidential primary. Campaigning with John McCain, former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge had this to say of the man that Giuliani recommended to replace him: “We’re not talking about some urban city patronage job,” Ridge told The Associated Press. [...]
I’m running very low on juice here at O’Hare, but I just wanted to poke my head in and say that, yes, in that whole Hillary-tip story, the person who came out looking the best was Anita herself. Her quote: “You people are really nuts,” she told a reporter during a phone interview. “There’s kids [...]
Oh, for heaven’s sake. Just to show there are no new stories in politics (or maybe that should be “stories,” with that whole air quote thing), consider this AP report from Hillary Clinton’s first Senate campaign in 2000: First Lady’s Tip Is in the Mail SECTION: National political LENGTH: 111 words DATELINE: ALBION, N.Y. Sometimes [...]
An early SwampCast today, as I’m heading out to Iowa this afternoon to cover the Iowa Democratic Party’s Jefferson Jackson Dinner and all the hubbub it generates (sign wars!). The ‘Cast will attempt to explain why everyone who is anyone who covers politics will be in Des Moines tomorrow night.
The most interesting thing about the Clinton did-she-leave-a-tip-or-not bruhaha yesterday was the ferocity and speed with which the Clinton campaign pushed back — with reporters at least. One can assume that’s because they know this is the kind of story, true or not, that sticks to a candidate like, uhm, an expensive hair cut. There [...]
