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  • Flack, political operative, speechwriter, novelist,...

    Rated Sep 29 • 1 review • blogs, news, obituaries • slate.com

    Old Bill sucked shit through a rag when it came to doing his prime news gathering. For those smitten with his wordsmithing trumping other weaknesses, I'd offer the Jonathon Alter or Eric Alterman pieces as proof positive that they were thin veils for his mean schlockery..... May he and Bob Novak meet in the Styxian netherworlds and play pinochle thru eternity and keep pulling jokers out of each others bums...


    When his scooplets panned out, as they did during the Carter administration, winning him a Pulitzer Prize, Safire the reporter would take a bow. When they didn't--see his contributions on Whitewater, the Vince Foster suicide, Wen Ho Lee, Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden, the Mohamed Atta connection to Iraqi intelligence, and Iraqgate--Safire the opinionator would either say the jury was still out or just move on without correcting the record.

    In an August 2003 Washingtonian profile by Harry Jaffe, Safire filibustered the case against correcting his Iraq and Bin Laden views by saying, "I don't feel the need to correct the record until the facts become clear." In an Aug. 21, 1995, New Yorker "Talk of the Town" piece, David Remnick chided Safire for having led Times readers astray with a 1987 column asking rhetorically if the Gorbachev-led Soviets weren't still out "to dominate the world." (For more on Safirean overreach, see Eric Boehlert's 2004 piece in Salon.)

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    Flack, political operative, speechwriter, novelist, columnist, and hack. - By Jack Shafer - Slate Magazine

  • Belatedly, Egypt Spots Flaws in Wiping Out Pigs -...

    Rated Sep 20 • 2 reviews • middle east, news, modern living • nytimes.com


    It is unlikely anyone has ever come to this city and commented on how clean the streets are. But this litter-strewn metropolis is now wrestling with a garbage problem so severe it has managed to incite its weary residents and command the attention of the president.


    Autumn

    A touch of cold in the Autumn night--
    I walked abroad,
    And saw the ruddy moon lean over a hedge
    Like a red-faced farmer.
    I did not stop to speak, but nodded,
    And round about were the wistful stars
    With white faces like town children.


    --T. E. Hulme

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    Belatedly, Egypt Spots Flaws in Wiping Out Pigs - NYTimes.com

  • Features by category & Magazine Roundup - signandsight

    Rated Sep 11 • 1 review • news • signandsight.com

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    Features by category & Magazine Roundup - signandsight

  • Pope blames atheists for global warming

    Rated Sep 01 • 31 reviews • news • examiner.com

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    Pope blames atheists for global warming

  • Bush Refuses to Read Cheney's Memoir, Calling It 'A Book'...

    Rated Aug 14 • 1 review • humor, news, politics • smirkingchimp.com

    On a day when Washington was abuzz with the news that former Vice President Dick Cheney planned to publish a tell-all memoir, former President George W. Bush offered his personal reason for not reading it. 



    "I have no intention of reading Dick Cheney's book," Mr. Bush told reporters, "because it's a book." 



    Mr. Bush said he was "surprised" that Mr. Cheney was publishing a book that reportedly is critical of him because "if you're trying to communicate some criticism to me, a book is pretty much the last place you'd put it."

    For his part, Mr. Cheney confirmed reports that his memoir will be ghostwritten by the author James Frey.

    Elsewhere, in an official statement, John Edwards said, "There are two Americas, and I have children in both."

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    Bush Refuses to Read Cheney's Memoir, Calling It 'A Book' | The Smirking Chimp

  • http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009...

    Rated Aug 12 • 1 review • law, politics, news • washingtonpost.com


    Turdblossom arriving at his attorney's office on May 15th

    Former White House political adviser Karl Rove played a central role in the ouster of a U.S. attorney in New Mexico, one of nine prosecutors fired in a scandal in 2006 over political interference with the Justice Department, according to transcripts of closed-door testimony released Tuesday.

    Harriet Miers, then White House counsel, said in testimony June 15 to House Judiciary Committee investigators that Rove was "very agitated" over U.S. Attorney David Iglesias "and wanted something done about it."

    The committee released more than 5,400 pages of White House and Republican National Committee e-mails, along with transcripts of closed-door testimony by Miers and Rove. Committee Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., said the documents reveal that White House political officials were deeply involved in the firing of Iglesias and the other U.S. attorneys.

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    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/11/AR2009081102288.html?wprss=rss_nation/wires

  • The Morning News

    Rated Aug 11 • 16 reviews • news • themorningnews.org

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    The Morning News

  • Walter Cronkite, Cub Reporter, Meets Gertrude Stein -...

    Rated Jul 28 • 2 reviews • literature, news, arts • nytimes.com



    A 1935 profile of Gertrude Stein from The Daily Texan, unearthed by the student newspaper of the University of Texas at Austin and published at its Web site, was written by Walter Cronkite, who was an 18-year-old undergraduate at the university when he wrote it. (Mr. Cronkite's memorial service was on Thursday; a report by Brian Stelter is here.)

    Speaking to Stein in advance of her appearance at the university's Hogg Auditorium on March 22, 1935, Mr. Cronkite wrote that, even though he "imposed upon her at a late hour last night," the author was "genuine -- the real thing in person. Her thinking is certainly straightforward; her speech is the same."

    After recording her attire ("a mannish blouse, a tweed skirt, a peculiar but attractive vest affair, and comfortable looking shoes"), Mr. Cronkite talked with her about the proper role of the writer and the impact of the Great Depression, then in its sixth year.

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    Walter Cronkite, Cub Reporter, Meets Gertrude Stein - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com

  • The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia

    Rated Jul 25 • 2 reviews • news • nytimes.com

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    The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia

  • Henry Louis Gates: Déjà Vu All Over Again - Stanley...

    Rated Jul 24 • 2 reviews • education, african american, news • nytimes.com


    I flashed back 20 years or so to the time when Gates arrived in Durham, N.C., to take up the position I had offered him in my capacity as chairman of the English department of Duke University. One of the first things Gates did was buy the grandest house in town (owned previously by a movie director) and renovate it. During the renovation workers would often take Gates for a servant and ask to be pointed to the house's owner. The drivers of delivery trucks made the same mistake.
    Now, in 2009, it's a version of the same story. Gates is once again regarded with suspicion because, as the cultural critic Michael Eric Dyson put it in an interview, he has committed the crime of being H.W.B., Housed While Black.

    He isn't the only one thought to be guilty of that crime. TV commentators, laboring to explain the unusual candor and vigor of Obama's initial comments on the Gates incident, speculated that he had probably been the victim of racial profiling himself. Speculation was unnecessary, for they didn't have to look any further than the story they were reporting in another segment, the story of the "birthers" -- the "wing-nuts," in Chris Matthews's phrase -- who insist that Obama was born in Kenya and cite as "proof" his failure to come up with an authenticated birth certificate. For several nights running, Matthews displayed a copy of the birth certificate and asked, What do you guys want? How can you keep saying these things in the face of all evidence?

    He missed the point. No evidence would be sufficient, just as no evidence would have convinced some of my Duke colleagues that Gates was anything but a charlatan and a fraud. It isn't the legitimacy of Obama's birth certificate that's the problem for the birthers. The problem is again the legitimacy of a black man living in a big house, especially when it's the White House. Just as some in Durham and Cambridge couldn't believe that Gates belonged in the neighborhood, so does a vocal minority find it hard to believe that an African-American could possibly be the real president of the United States.

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    Henry Louis Gates: Déjà Vu All Over Again - Stanley Fish Blog - NYTimes.com