Yesterday, on Meet the Press, Tim Russert asked Rudy Giuliani one unexpected question towards the very end of the interview, inquiring about the former mayor’s opinion on a House energy bill that would increase fuel efficiency in cars. “That isn’t the way I think it should be done,” Giuliani said. “I think what we should […]
He may already have a get-out-of-jail-free card in hand, but Scooter Libby has been trying to overturn his felony convictions anyway. Something about trying to clear his “good name,” as if that were still a possibility. This morning, Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff gave up and ended his legal ordeal. Former White House aide […]
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: * The Republican presidential candidates met for a genteel debate in Miami last night, appearing on Univision for a Spanish-language event. (Questions were asked in Spanish and translated to English for the candidates. […]
The Cuban Missile Crisis is one of those landmark crises of the 20th century that Americans should be familiar with. One need not have been alive in 1962 to appreciate that the world was on the brink of a catastrophic conflict. Indeed, even if someone wasn’t familiar with the historic record, the Cuban Missile Crisis […]
By some measures, Andrew Young is an American hero. The former mayor of Atlanta, Young was a champion of the civil rights movement and a close ally of Martin Luther King in the 1960s, he was a popular mayor of Georgia’s biggest city, he was a successful member of Congress, and drew plaudits as Jimmy […]
Late last week, we learned that the CIA destroyed videos of U.S. officials torturing detainees. The administration has said the destruction was necessary to protect the identity of those doing the torturing — a claim that no one can take seriously — while the reality-based world notes that the CIA appears to have obstructed justice. […]
When Rudy Giuliani sat down with Tim Russert yesterday on Meet the Press, there was more interest than usual, in large part because the interview was unexpected. The former mayor rarely sits down for lengthy on-air interviews, and when he does, it’s exclusively for partisan journalists at Fox News. With that in mind, for Giuliani […]
In July, in one of the lower points for presidential campaign coverage, the Washington Post’s fashion writer, Robin Givhan, wrote an odd, 746-word piece about an outfit Hillary Clinton wore on the Senate floor showing a very modest amount of cleavage. “With Clinton, there was the sense that you were catching a surreptitious glimpse at […]
In September, Hillary Clinton appeared on all five Sunday morning shows, but drew the most attention for laughing at some of the questions she was asked. As The Daily Show documented in a now-infamous clip, Chris Wallace asked the senator about “hyper partisanship,” and Clinton laughed. Wolf Blitzer asked about some attack from Rudy Giuliani, […]
Yesterday, the AP highlighted some absurd comments from Mike Huckabee, offered during his 1992 Senate campaign, when he advocated isolating AIDS patients from the general public and warned that homosexuality could “pose a dangerous public health risk.” “If the federal government is truly serious about doing something with the AIDS virus, we need to take […]