Tucker Carlson is, right now, interviewing actual whores on MSNBC about the ethics of revealing clients’ names: “This seems like a violation of a code.”
Insert bloggers’ ethics panel joke here.
UPDATE: A colleague writes: “That’s a first.” Actual whores on cable news not so much a first, ones that get paid for sex, well, …
On a day when one GOP candidate endorsed the origin myth of Psychlos, I’d be remiss not to draw your attention to the candidate who thought that ferret owners were psycho:
“There is something deranged about you.… The excessive concern you have for ferrets is something you should examine with a therapist.… There is something really,
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A reminder that George Bush’s vision for Iraq has been evolving for quite some time.
This makes Bush’s “my favorite philosopher is Jesus” answer look positively Lincoln-esque:
When asked his favorite novel in an interview shown yesterday on the Fox News Channel, Mitt Romney pointed to “Battlefield Earth,” a novel by L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology. That book was turned into a film by John Travolta, a
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TotT is a daily rundown of campaign events, compiled by Katie Rooney.
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) celebrates last week’s official entrance into the presidential race with a fundraising reception in Westminster, Calif. tonight at 6 p.m. hosted by a local assemblyman. But not just anyone can get into this party — it costs $1,000 per person …
Many of our commenters have been asking (okay, demanding) that we respond to it. And I’ve been agonizing over the cost/benefit of doing that, considering how it is certain to generate a blogswarm. There’s a lot of anger out there at the media in general, and because we have opened up this blog to comments, we feel the brunt of it, aimed …
Over at National Journal, Murray Waas has this indicating that AG Alberto Gonzales had delegated “to two of his top aides — who have since resigned because of their central roles in the firings of eight U.S. attorneys — extraordinary authority over the hiring and firing of most non-civil-service employees of the Justice …
Funny because it’s true….
PRESS CORPS: (Applause.)
Q Where ya been? (Laughter.)
MR. SNOW: Just hanging out. Thank you so much, it’s great to be back.
Q We thought Rove double-deleted you. (Laughter.)
Good to have you back, flute-playing guy.
Now, about those emails…
UPDATE: Geez, guys, I haven’t seen the Moyers
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Some advice from a first-time campaign correspondent: Never leave your computer on the charter. Also, invest in a broadband access card. My limited posts from my limited time on the Straight Talk Express are due mostly to lack of internet access and in part to the almost complete lack of news.
I don’t have much to add to the traditional …
TotT is a daily rundown of campaign events, compiled by Katie Rooney.
While we don’t know where most of the presidential candidates themselves will be today, we do know this much – several of them are leaving today’s campaigning to their surrogates. Former Sen. John Edwards‘ (D-NC) wife Elizabeth has a packed schedule in New …
From elsewhere on TIME.com, here’s the excerpt and here’s Michael Duffy’s interview.
As if it weren’t daunting enough that so many other big states moving their presidential primaries up to February 5, Florida is considering stepping on South Carolina by holding its on January 29. As Adam Smith reports in the St. Petersburg Times, the national parties are threatening to punish Florida by taking away some of its delegates …
He has a resume that trumps every other candidate in the 2008 Democratic field: Governor, U.N. Ambassador, Congressman, cabinet secretary. He has rescued hostages and negotiated with some of the toughest characters on the planet. So it seemed fair to ask: Why isn’t New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson doing any better in the …
