Again, I somehow didn’t get the alert on this one so no preview, other than this, from The Page, quoting Wolfson: “We do not believe that Senator Obama has passed the commander in chief test. But there is a long way between now and Denver.” Yeah, maybe the Princeton Review has a class! Direct audio [...]
First of all, “Emperor’s Club“(where Spitzer was “involved”) sounds so… colonial. And, uhm, self-flattering. Second of all, I love it when people clothe (as it were) unseemly activities in the jargon of the marketplace because they think it’ll make it sound less obscene. This sounds pretty white-slave-y to me (emphasis mine): We specialize in marketing [...]
Leading the NYT website: ALBANY – Gov. Eliot Spitzer has informed his most senior administration officials that he had been involved in a prostitution ring, an administration official said this morning. Mr. Spitzer, who was huddled with his top aides inside his Fifth Avenue apartment early this afternoon, had hours earlier abruptly canceled his scheduled [...]
The prospect of McCain running against Obama is clearly driving some conservatives quite batty: Take Bill Kristol’s assertion that McCain should tap Clarence Thomas. Yeah, because he’s ….totally non-controversial! Another conservative columnist, farther down the food chain, has proposed Condoleezza Rice. Because she’s had so much… success in international diplomacy! I don’t want to get [...]
Wherever John McCain goes, he rails against pork barrel spending, including the millions of dollars that the federal government spends to study the DNA of grizzly bears. “I don’t know if it was a paternity issue or criminal,” the Republican nominee deadpans. And the bear scientists never fight back. They have just silently taken the [...]
Having highlighted Charlotte Allen’s disastrous op-ed for the Post’s Outlook section last Sunday, I wanted to follow up with this good dissection by Post ombudsman Deborah Howell of the paper’s thinking behind the story (not to mention Katha Pollitt’s smart critique from Friday). Kudos to Warren Bass for getting it right, though I’m still kind [...]
I’ll give this to the Times’ inevitable “what happened to the Clinton campaign?” story, they’ve done a better job than the WP did of making the piece about “what this tells us about her” rather than simply a gruesome, crunch-by-crunch recounting of a train wreck. That said, I’m not sure that quotes like these, from [...]
