Meet Mark Halperin, world’s most pathetic journalist. Halperin, who runs ABC’s conventional wisdom assembly line, The Note, co-wrote a book with the Washington Post’s John Harris ironically entitled The Way to Win. Regardless what the book says, Halperin’s winning strategy appears to involve publicly debasing yourself beyond any hope of redemption. Glenn Greenwald, whose […]

Slate’s Jacob Weisberg is getting a tingly feeling in his political pants over a potential Barack Obama-John McCain matchup in 2008. Since Weisberg’s political appetites are a reliable reflection of Washington’s pundit class, we can all look forward to a steady diet of Maverick reruns until the 2008 primaries begin or one of the senators […]

Corruption, torture, thievery, sexual improprieties, coverups, lies … if the GOP were a city, anyone taking a last look at it as they fled would turn into a pillar of salt. Maybe that’s why religionists such as Focus On The Family’s James Dobson refuse to turn their backs on the party despite the decidedly un-Christian […]

Oh, the perils of blogging. Joe Lieberman’s communications director, Dan Gerstein, has some fundamental differences with his boss. In March of this year, Gerstein wrote on his now-dormant blog that “I disagree with Lieberman about the conduct of the war in Iraq” and that “I view Bush as one of the worst leaders in American […]

More than half of Friday’s White House press briefing was consumed by Dick Cheney’s Tuesday endorsement of waterboarding. The various exchanges between reporters and press secretary Tony Snow could be boiled down to this: Reporter: “Do you think we’re stupid?” Snow: “Not really, but what am I supposed to do?”
Here’s what Cheney said in response […]

In his Washington Post column today, Dan Froomkin flagged a Dick Cheney interview in which Cheney appeared to acknowledge and endorse US use of the technique known as waterboarding.
Q Would you agree a dunk in water is a no-brainer if it can save lives?
THE VICE PRESIDENT: It’s a no-brainer for me, but for a […]

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Now that the majority of Americans view […]

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State department official Alberto Fernandez now says […]

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Harsh words about US […]

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