Did Wonkette Not Get Ana Marie Cox's Memo Re: Tony Snow
(h/t Snarking Dawg)From Ana Marie Cox's post to the "Swampland" blog at Time magazine:Let
me say that I did some self-cringing last week, when I choose to
describe Tony as the "most fun" press secretary of the administration.
I was looking for something non-controversial, non-partisan and true to
say about the guy. "Fun" seemed like something he'd appreciate -- he is
fun. The biggest change in…
Time's Tumulty: Attorney Firings Deserve 'Massive Commitment of Journa
Writing in the "Swampland" blog for Time magazine today, Karen Tumulty insisted the U.S. attorney firings deserved "massive commitment of journalistic resources" before going on to cite a study showing that media attention in the past few weeks has skewed heavily towards the non-scandal scandal:... And
before all our commenters jump on me, let me stipulate: I think the
unfolding U.S. Attorneys…
Never Too Young to Indoctrinate: 'Why Mommy Is a Democrat
Oy, did Google's algorithims ever misfire. There at the top of my Gmail inbox this morning was an ad, which the Google wizards presumably determined to be geared to my predilections, for a book called . . . "Why Mommy Is a Democrat."I suppose Google was right, in the sense that the ad piqued my interest, though the odds of my buying a copy of the book are as remote as Outer Mongolia. But let'…
GMA’s Stephanopoulos Wants His Scalp: Just When Will Gonzales be Fir
Friday’s "Good Morning America" featured Democrats talking about Democratic hopes. Anchor Chris Cuomo, the son of liberal Governor Mario Cuomo, and George Stephanopoulos, former White House aide to President Bill Clinton, discussed the firing of eight U.S. Attorneys and pushed the speculative Democratic talking points of whether Attorney General Alberto Gonzales would be fired. Stephanopoulos,…
CBS's Cohen: Reno/Gonzales Comparisons Are 'Apples & Oranges
CBS legal analyst Andrew Cohen seems to indirectly respond to my March 14 blog post with a March 15 salvo over at CBS's "Couric & Co." blog. [Scroll below for a NYT story from March 1993 that noted that it was unusual for the AG to be involved in the holdover resignation process] Some cyber folks, trying to attack the credibility of eminent
professors Stanley Katz and Stanley Kutler, took…
