Screenshot of the day
Unfortunate timing for the vaunted White House communications team. During today’s presidential speech on “progress” in Iraq: Sometimes, a picture says a thousand words.
Unfortunate timing for the vaunted White House communications team. During today’s presidential speech on “progress” in Iraq: Sometimes, a picture says a thousand words.
I know Fox News’ Sean [tag]Hannity[/tag] is probably a little nervous about this year’s midterm elections, but I didn’t know he was this nervous. On the August 29 edition of his nationally syndicated radio program, Fox News host Sean Hannity sought to encourage Republican voters and candidates to ensure a Republican victory in the November […]
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: * New Jersey’s closely-watched Senate race remains tight in the latest Fairleigh Dickinson University PublicMind poll. The survey shows state Sen. Tom Kean Jr. (R) ahead of Sen. Bob Menendez (D), 43% to […]
The WaPo had a good, front-page piece today on the White House’s latest “major public-relations offensive” on Iraq, and included a couple of tidbits that haven’t been reported elsewhere. In particular, the Post noted the repeated use of straw-men arguments emanating from the administration, and did what reporters should do far more often: asked the […]
Just to put a period on this week’s entertaining online whodunit, Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) finally acknowledged publicly yesterday that he put a hold on a bill to create a searchable database of government contracts. Bloggers, from both sides of the aisle, had narrowed the list of suspects to three, prompting the pork-loving Alaskan to […]
When Republicans on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue are particularly distraught, and feel as if their caucus and grassroots allies really need a jolt, they have one fallback idea they always turn to feel better. It’s not Iraq demagoguery, gay bashing, or tax cuts for millionaires — it’s [tag]conservative[/tag] [tag]judicial nominees[/tag]. The [tag]White House[/tag] announced […]
In the unlikely event you haven’t seen it elsewhere, [tag]Keith Olbermann[/tag]’s commentary at the end of last night’s [tag]MSNBC[/tag] broadcast was one of those rare moments in television journalism that demands to be seen, considered, and passed on to others. It’s exceedingly unusual to hear this kind of commentary in a time in which journalists […]
As part of my ongoing fascination with the oddly anti-GOP articles appearing in Insight magazine, an off-shoot of Sun Myung Moon’s far-right Washington Times, the latest issue suggests the Bush White House is trying — and failing — to contain a growing split within the Republican Party. President Bush has been trying to maintain a […]
I suspect readers are probably getting a little tired of my ongoing fascination with the president’s alleged reading habits, but in yesterday’s interview with NBC’s Brian Williams, Bush addressed the issue for the first time publicly. WILLIAMS: We always talk about what you’re reading. As you know, there was a report that you just read […]
The president sat down with Brian Williams yesterday for an interview, and the NBC anchor raised a question I haven’t heard mentioned in a while. WILLIAMS: The folks who say you should have asked for some sort of sacrifice from all of us after 9/11, do they have a case looking back on it? BUSH: […]