Reader L.G. alerted me to an interesting comment Brit Hume made yesterday on Fox News Sunday. Host Chris Wallace noted the deadly bombing in the parliament building inside the Green Zone and asked Hume if the violence “makes it awfully hard … to claim progress.” Hume, not surprisingly, didn’t see it that way. (from a […]
Long-time readers will no doubt recall the story of the Denver Three. In March 2005, Denver residents Alex Young, Karen Bauer, and Leslie Weise obtained tickets from their Republican congressman to a public town hall meeting on the president’s Social Security plan. Someone working at the event noticed an anti-war bumper sticker (“No Blood For […]
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: * We saw the Q1 fundraising totals for the presidential candidates a couple of weeks ago, but those numbers didn’t reflect how much of their coffers the candidates spent and how much cash […]
Three years ago, there were a few interesting studies measuring public awareness when it came to current events. The National Annenberg Election Survey found that those who watched “The Daily Show” were the best informed news consumers, while a study from the Program on International Policy Attitudes found that Fox News viewers were the least […]
With the news developments in the prosecutor purge scandal coming fairly quickly over the last couple of days, let’s not overlook the fascinating insights from Michael Battle, who just so happened to be the hatchet man who fired the eight U.S. Attorneys, and then resigned when the heat arrived. There have been a variety of […]
A month ago today, a reporter asked White House Press Secretary Tony Snow if the president might have been directly involved in suggesting the purge of U.S. Attorneys. Snow said, “Anything’s possible … but I don’t think so.” Keep that background in mind when you consider a very interesting item from The Albuquerque Journal that […]
With [tag]Attorney General[/tag] [tag]Alberto Gonzales[/tag] poised to testify under oath tomorrow before the Senate Judiciary Committee, the embattled AG is engaged in a bit of p.r. offensive, publishing a WaPo op-ed and previewing tomorrow’s testimony. It’s hard to offer any real analysis of Gonzales’ previews; he doesn’t exactly say much. (James Brown’s “Talkin’ loud but […]