A MEDIA THAT MEDIATES. Katharine Seelye over at The New York Times’ indespensable The Caucus blog — your daily one-stop shop for colorful vignettes from the field and the latest polls — nicely fact-checks Karl Rove‘s latest jab at Hillary Clinton and finds (surprise) that’s he’s not quite telling the truth: contrary to what Mr. […]
Garance Franke-Ruta
Garance Franke-Ruta is a former senior editor at the Prospect. Her work has also appeared in The Washington Post, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications. She was a 2006 recipient of a fellowship at the Joan Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University.
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GIULIANI’S LEARNING CURVE….
GIULIANI’S LEARNING CURVE. (Photo: Rudy Giuliani (L) and Gene Hart, Greenfield, Iowa, August 15, 2007) (Photo: Rudy Giuliani (L) and Gene Hart, Greenfield, Iowa, August 15, 2007) The Atlantic‘s Matt says “something’s amiss when Rudy Giuliani spends 6,000 words on foreign policy and doesn’t mention Pakistan at all.” That’s not the only thing that’s amiss […]
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OPTICS BEFORE PRINCIPLES….
OPTICS BEFORE PRINCIPLES. The apparent appeal of Fred Thompson to Republican voters is something that, as Sam is finding, can be a bit mystifying to those on the outside of such circles. During the course of a long conversation last night with a leading figure in the Iowa Republican Party, I asked why so many […]
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RICHARDSON: “MY BLOOD…
RICHARDSON: “MY BLOOD BOILS” OVER “UGLY” IMMIGRATION QUESTIONS. New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson opened up about his personal dislike of the present immigration debate in front of an audience of Iowa Hispanics yesterday. “I don’t like the immigration debate,” Richardson told a meeting of the Heritage of Latino Americans (HOLA) Wells Fargo affinity group at […]
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GROWING HOSTILITY TO…
GROWING HOSTILITY TO GIULIANI IN IOWA? Polk County G.O.P. Chair and blogger Ted Sporer has a sharp run-down on the winners and losers of Saturday’s straw poll in Ames over on his site, The Real Sporer. Most intriguing is his report of growing hostility to former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani on the part of […]
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THE TRUE STORY…
THE TRUE STORY OF THE NAFTA SUPERHIGHWAY. (Photo: Sign at a Ron Paul event in Ames, Iowa, August 10, 2007) If the questions Mitt Romney receives at campaign events in Iowa are any indication, there is a great deal of concern in the state at the level of the Republican base about the possibility of […]
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This Year’s Charade
Mitt Romney may be campaigning as the compassionate conservative, but, as George W. Bush has shown, winning the right wing’s backing guarantees a right-wing president.
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All Trivial! All the Time!
From John Edwards’ $400 haircuts to Hillary Clinton’s cleavage to Barack Obama’s swimming trunks, the line between political journalism and the gossip pages appears to have broken down.
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CH-CH-CHANGES. The first…
CH-CH-CHANGES. The first Yearly Kos conference in Las Vegas had two basic story lines. For conference participants, it was, “Wow! So that’s what you look like in person!” And for the press it was some mix of “Geez, these people are so much more normal than I expected!” and “Huh, maybe they are a little […]
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TOE-TOUCHING. One of…
TOE-TOUCHING. One of the cliches in new media circles is the newbie technology reporter, the person who has not been following blogs and online media for a long time and who comes into the complex story in medias res and is consequently easily confused. Today’s newbie example appears to be otherwise experienced New York Times […]