Oy. There goes the MSM again, trying to distract the American people with cynicism and verbiage, even in the midst of a story about policy. Such are the conclusions of TAP’s Ezra Klein and Atlantic’s Matt Yglesias who link to my Fuzzy Math Tax Plan story this morning. Since I have downed beers in both [...]
Don’t bother to read it. It’s Monday. It’s summer. Surf over to Perez Hilton, instead. (Shia got a DUI!) Or have a debate at the water cooler about John McCain’s dogs or Barack Obama’s hip. It’s not like we are electing a president who has to have policies that are actually real. My new story [...]
Dr. No gets front-page treatment today from both the Washington Post and the New York Times.
This is the sort of thing you put on the air when: 1. You’re desperate. 2. Your Middle East policy has been superseded by events and abandoned by your allies. 3. You apparently have nothing substantive to say about America’s future role in the region and the world. If you watched both Obama and McCain [...]
I’ve been wondering about the near-evaporation of Muqtada al-Sadr Mahdi Army movement. This piece reinforces what I’d been hearing from other sources: that the Mahdi Army was as much a criminal enterprise as it was a political movement. The rise of Maliki as an actual national leader continues. The rationale for the continuing presence of [...]
The charter landed about a half-hour ago in Chicago, to news that the McCain campaign has launched what Halperin is calling its “toughest attack ad yet.” But there’s a little problem with this line: And now, he made time to go to the gym, but cancelled a visit with wounded troops. Sure enough, the accompanying [...]
The latest pool report has this revealing little exchange between a possible future President and a possible future Prime Minister: Obama told Cameron he plans to take a week off in August. The two men then began to chat about the need for time to recharge. Obama then shared some advice he said he was [...]
My London-based TIME colleague Catherine Mayer e-mails this account of what it looked like from the other end of the press scrum: The special relationship came pretty much unstuck today. You see, the British press and especially the still photographers felt that the US press corps was getting preferential treatment. You were allowed to stand [...]
If there is a perfect metaphor for the way that Obama seems to giving Europe the vapors, it was the first question he got this morning from the famously ferocious British press corps: Do you believe there’s a special relationship between the United States and Britain? He might as well have been asked, “Do you [...]
