The Pentagon has released all of the documents that it turned over to the NYT for their story on the retired military officers that play both sides of the analyst/contractor fence. TPM has some excerpts, including audio of, well, a pep rally: It was an emergency meeting called because earlier in the month, several retired [...]
Is Saturday Night Live a news show? SNL Politics launched this week, an archive of all of your favorite broad topical sketch comedy scenes! It’s still a little underdeveloped (the actual “archives” don’t seem to work), but as the only network show that tried to correct for overly fond coverage of Obama, their sweet-tart take [...]
No, you say? Then why, in a survey last year, was he ranked one of the most admired journalists in America? (I know, I know — many of you think “admired journalist” is a contradiction in terms). A lot of Americans get their news, or a portion of it, from Stewart and Colbert (and Leno, [...]
are the subject of my story in the new issue of dead-tree TIME. For a campaign that seemed to have everything going for it, some very basic tactical misjudgments proved to be devastating.
David Ignatius has an interesting column today, raising the possibility of war with Iran. In the past, Ignatius has shared my skepticism about the possibility that the Administration would jump this shark–the military is very much opposed to it–but what happens if Bush launches a targeted air and special ops strike on the Qods Force/Hezballah [...]
Corporate cousin Entertainment Weekly (EW to the hip) has a great read about the making of Oliver Stone’s sure-to-be-controversial movie on the sitting President of the United States. Josh Brolin plays Dubya, Elizabeth Banks is Laura. The movie is slated to premier late this year, while Bush is still in office. Here’s the cover:
George Bush implied over the weekend that one reason for the global food crisis is Indians are eating too much. The comment didn’t get much attention in this country, but apparently it has in India. Buried way back on A18 of the Washington Post is this small story: Overnight, Indians reacted with outrage at what [...]
