Before boarding a flight to the U.S. on Sunday, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said that he was heading to Washington “handsome and tanned.” This was a joke–if you can call it that. Back in November, after President Obama won election, Berlusconi had described the new American leader as “young, handsome and sun-tanned.” Apparently, the [...]
Despite the occasional English-language sign toted amid the protesting masses in Tehran, one fact remains: the protests in Iran this week, unlike the turmoil that preceded the 1979 Iranian revolution, does not have so much to do directly with the United States. The dispute now gripping the Iranian streets is one of domestic politics in [...]
Eighteen years ago CNN got one of its first big scoops covering the first Gulf War when they convinced the Iraqi government to let them install a four-wire – an uncensored hard telephone line – between Baghdad and Atlanta enabling them to cover Operation Desert Storm’s January bombing of the Iraqi capitol live when every [...]
Hahid Siamdoust tells us what it is like.
This White House response to an apparent result that is not what this country had hoped: Statement by Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on the Iranian Election Like the rest of the world, we were impressed by the vigorous debate and enthusiasm that this election generated, particularly among young Iranians. We continue to monitor the entire [...]
Something for the weekend: This one’s for you, Swampland commenter Sacredh. (H/T: Our White House Photo Blog)
Packing continues here in the DC Bureau. (I’ve decided to keep the campaign button from Al Gore’s 1988 presidential bid, and toss my old files on Bob Packwood.) Before they shut down our computer line here in the DC, I wanted to post this link to Paul Slansky’s weekly index, which this week takes us [...]
This morning’s House debate on tobacco legislation brought us this argument: [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.c-spanarchives.org/flash/cspanPlayer.swf" fvars=" pid=286988-1 ; clipStart=2921.32 ; clipStop=2935.00 ; autoplay=0 " width="365" height="340" /] Which was followed by this one: [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.c-spanarchives.org/flash/cspanPlayer.swf" fvars=" pid=286988-1 ; clipStart=3050.32 ; clipStop=3116.08 ; autoplay=0 " width="365" height="340" /] Public Service Announcement: “The Swampland Surgeon General has determined that [...]
(I’m posting this for Joe Klein, who emails it in from Tehran:) I’ve just returned from a day of poll-watching in various Tehran neighborhoods. The lines are long…but I’m worried that the votes might not be counted correctly. In fact, we may be headed for a government-rigged Palm Beach County-style election controversy. Here’s the problem: [...]
Things are likely to be a little quiet here in Swampland today, as we are packing up and moving to a new Washington Bureau. Part of the process is trying to figure out what to take and what to toss. I’m agonizing over things like whether to throw out my notes from the 1996 Bob [...]
