Continuing Mittpolooza today, I found his “leaked” playbook to be highly amusing, especially in its brazen sales-speak. I’m particularly enamored of the phrase “Primal Code for Brand Romney,” which makes him sound a little like a Michael Crichton novel. I also love that it’s a Power Point presentation. Next year’s Oscar-winner, …
As you may have heard, Mitt Romney’s great-grandfather was a polygamist. It’s hard for me to think of a reason why a rational person would hold this against Romney, but it’s not hard at all to think of a reason why an opposing campaign would want that information out there: Did you know Mitt Romney is a Mormon? IT’S TRUE!
I went on …
One of the jurors on the Libby trial has been dismissed for having gained information about the case outside the courtroom. It could be as minor as seeing a headline, but that’s happened before (the Howie Kurtz mishap) — it seems like the information must have been more substantial than that to warrant dismissal.
In any case, the jury …
And I had to poke around in a little-noticed literary journal called “The New York Times” to find it:
My favorite thing about this chart — as pointed out by a friend of mine — is that it appears to equate David Geffen and Donald Rumsfeld, which can’t be pleasant for either of them. (Geffen would remind us that he is more …
OMG! HAVE YOU SEEN THIS BREAKING NEWS!!! HOT HOT HOT!! DRUDGE RED SIREN POLITICO EXCLUSIVE from yesterday:
Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut told the Politico on Thursday that he has no immediate plans to switch parties but suggested that Democratic opposition to funding the war in Iraq might change his mind.
Gosh, that sounds …
Remember back when the Round Mound of Rebound was flirting with the idea of getting into politics? I heard another nail being pounded into that coffin recently, when — in the midst of a half-time report — Barkley responded to an aside about some player involved in a fight being Christian by saying (from memory here): “Christians have …
Within the boundaries of the blogosphere (and according to Joe!), the Obama won yesterday’s snowball fight — he “refused to back down,” while HRC’s team apparently got caught playing a little fast and loose with titles (Geffen is not Obama’s “campaign finance chair“). But yesterday’s praise (some of it in comments here) for the Obama …
Anyone seeking to debunk the theory the Washington pres corps cares more about cocktail parties than, you know, the news may want to pack it in now.
I mean, I actually think the accusation that correspondents are too cozy with the admin is overhyped but I sort of hung my head when Richard Wolffe started talking about how his kids love …
This Hillary-Obama dust-up over Hollywood fundraisers has all the pyrotechnics — and meaning — of a Michael Bay movie, starting with the offending MoDo column itself. The constant thump of Oscar-nominated titles (“Hillary is not David Geffen’s [wait for it] dreamgirl,” and “The babble here is not about [here it comes!] ‘Babel.”), …
Some safe bets:
• At least one reporter will lead with a description of Libby’s lawyer Wells tearing up as he delivered his last lines.
• No one will be able to make much sense of what those last lines were; as near as I could tell, they were “I’ve been protecting him for a month. Give him back to me … [sob] Give him back to …
By now, even those of you are so cut off from the outside world that you are reading Swampland on your holiday have probably heard about Tim Hardaway’s bone-shatteringly stupid explication re: the gays:
“You know, I hate gay people, so I let it be known. I don’t like gay people and I don’t like to be around gay people. I am homophobic.
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Hillary’s “never apologize, never explain” approach to her Iraq vote has confused me for awhile and I agree with Joe that, as far as primary voters go, it will soon become clear that hewing to this line was a mistake on her part. (Though she’ll never admit that, either.)
Her stubbornness is puzzling not just because the vote itself may …
Amanda Marcotte, no longer restricted by working for the Edwards campaign, tries out for the Clinton one.
Not that getting this rather cliched — yet irresistible — joke out here and now will stop others. Prediction: A version of this joke, even less funny and by that time unbearably dated, will appear on next week’s “Half-Hour News …
