Despite all the excitement surrounding the Plame Game, we don’t want to overlook the race to determine who’s going to beat Bush next year. With this in mind, I’m doing what I always do on the first of the month — returning to my completely subjective rankings for the Democrats running for president. As always, […]
Some believe political blogs reached the “big time” in December when blog writers such as Josh Marshall and Glenn Reynolds sunk their teeth into the Trent Lott/Strom Thurmond affair. While traditional media outlets — print, radio, TV — missed the story initially, blogs went wild, kept the story alive until the rest of the press […]
The president was in Chicago yesterday for a campaign speech, but those pesky reporters wanted to ruin everything. For some reason, they wanted to hear Bush’s thoughts on the fact that his White House is under a criminal investigation. Go figure. Bush’s communication staff crafted an interesting rhetorical two-pronged approach for the president. Point one […]
Just to follow up on the last post, the universe of reporters with direct knowledge of the Novak Two is fairly big. And while they’re not revealing their sources to the public, they’re not shy about talking to other reporters. In the Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz’s media column today, he noted that he spoke to […]
A funny thing happened yesterday when Bush walked up the steps at Andrews Air Force Base to board Air Force One. The president turned around to wave, as presidents are prone to do, and no one was looking at him. All the cameras were focused at the bottom of the steps, where Karl Rove stood. […]
Larry Johnson, a former CIA analyst and counter-terrorism official at the State Department, offered a devastating assessment of the Plame Game (my working title for the Wilson/Plame/White House scandal) on PBS last night (via Atrios). Bush’s supporters who are desperately arguing that the illegal leaks aren’t a “big deal” should definitely consider what Johnson had […]