Nico offers an important preview of what to expect on Sunday morning’s top-rated public affairs show. This weekend, NBC will air a special edition of Meet the Press addressing “Faith in America.” The only two guests scheduled are evangelist Rick Warren, author of “Purpose Driven Life,” and Newsweek editor Jon Meacham, author of “American Gospel.” […]
The mainstream media’s hostility for blogs is hardly new, but it’s been particularly intense lately. On Wednesday, Wall Street Journal editor Joseph Rago told readers, “(P)osts oscillate between the uselessly brief and the uselessly logorrheic; complexity and complication are eschewed; the humor is cringe-making, with irony present only in its conspicuous absence; arguments are solipsistic; […]
People magazine recently asked the president about Mary Cheney’s pregnancy. To his credit, Bush was relatively supportive: “I think Mary is going to be a loving soul to her child. And I’m happy for her.” Apparently, Peter LaBarbera, a prominent anti-gay activist, was hoping for a little more. President Bush has been too timid about […]
This is just too amusing not to share. Todd Shriber, the communications director for U.S. Rep. Denny Rehberg (R-Mont.), went to attrition.org in September looking to hire a hacker or two for a fairly straightforward task: he wanted someone to break into Texas Christian University’s computer system and change his grade point average. That’s not […]
At a certain point, it seemed as if the White House was intentionally trying to destroy the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Bush had tapped [tag]Ken Tomlinson[/tag], a Karl Rove ally, whose partisan, ideological, and generally ridiculous tenure became laughable. By August, it became almost farcical when we learned [tag]Tomlinson[/tag] ran a “horse racing operation” out […]
Today’s installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn’t generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers: * Research 2000 released a poll of Iowa Dems yesterday, asking who they prefer in the 2008 presidential race. John Edwards and Barack Obama led the field, tied at 22%. Outgoing Iowa Gov. […]
Rep. [tag]Virgil Goode[/tag] (R-Va.) had the unfortunate luck of doing something offensive and stupid on a relatively slow news week, when political reporters are looking for something interesting to write about. By showing his rather blatant bigotry towards Muslims, Goode made this one easy. He might as well have walked around the Capitol with a […]
Let’s hope this wasn’t some kind of trial balloon. Veterans Affairs Secretary Jim Nicholson gave qualified support yesterday to renewing the draft – a suggestion that rattled the White House. “I think that our society would benefit from that, yes, sir,” Nicholson said of replacing the all-volunteer force with a tough draft purged of the […]
Bush’s “compassionate conservatism” apparently doesn’t extend much to the issue of presidential pardons. The White House announced a new round of pardons yesterday, which is common at the end of the year, but it’s a fairly short list and the president is still on track to be one of the stingiest in American history. President […]
Following up on an item from Saturday, we learned late last week that Middle East analyst [tag]Flynt Leverett[/tag], who served under Bush on the National Security Council and is now a fellow at the New America Foundation, wrote an op-ed for the New York Times criticizing the Bush administration’s policy towards [tag]Iran[/tag] and recommending a […]