Two Editorials
[Michael Kinsley joins us with a thought that he’d rather not hold for print]
Newspaper editorials don’t get much attention these days, and most are written as if they don’t even want attention. But there were two screaming for attention yesterday.
An extraordinarily vindictive editorial in The New York Times not only …
At the Los Angeles Times, the self-destruction continues. The editorial page editor, Andres Martinez, was driven to resign yesterday over the discovery that his girlfriend works for a PR firm used by a Hollywood producer who was invited to be a guest editor for an opinion supplement called Current. (Got that?) The suspicion is that …
David Brooks has an excellent column today, and not for the usual reasons that liberals praise Brooks (and he drives conservatives crazy): because he comes halfway toward us. It’s because, in discussing the US Attorneys story, he nails a distinction that I, at least, was struggling with. (This is undoubtedly because I’m old and used …
It’s Gerald Grinstein, CEO of Delta Airlines, who emerged from retirement to lead that company through and out of bankruptcy. According to today’s Wall Street Journal, Delta will come out of bankruptcy this spring with a market cap of $10 billion. Grinstein will continue to collect his annual salary of $338,000 until he leaves the …
If I may interrupt the very enjoyable festival of reading other people’s email for a moment, there was a remarkably under-reported development yesterday that demonstrates, I think, President Bush’s loss of authority in the past few months. Elias Zerhouni, the head of the National Institutes of Health, testified to a Senate committee that …
Well, AnaMarie, first of all, thank you for noting how long I’ve been “doing this pundit thing.” Some day I’ll bore you with my tales of blogging from Valley Forge. That Washington—what a card. After a couple of drinks, he would take his wooden teeth and…
But not now, not now. Now I’m wondering: if no one is saying “that …
We’ll see what this next round of documents reveals, but the ball-moving development of today in the US Attorneys story is Adam Cohen’s piece on the Times Editorial Page. It plugs a big hole in the argument that this is a big deal story and not just, in the words of our Attorney General, “an overblown personnel matter.” …
Larry Small is in trouble again. A page one Washington Post story details some of the expenses he has put in for as Secretary of the Smithsonian (the top job at the world’s largest museum). Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), Small’s nemesis in this drama, has escalated his accusation from “champagne lifestyle” to “Dom Perignon lifestyle.” I …
