Greg Sargent

ROBERT SHRUM DISPUTES JOE KLEIN’S ACCOUNT OF KERRY CAMPAIGN. Robert Shrum, the chief strategist for John Kerry‘s presidential campaign, is disputing some aspects of a forthcoming account by Joe Klein of the 2004 campaign, saying Klein’s version is “inaccurate” and “misleading.” In his latest Time magazine column, Klein published an excerpt of the book, one […]

THE BIG STORY: STILL WAITING TO BE TOLD. Before this point gets lost in the din of the latest leak disclosures, it needs to be said, as loudly as possible, that the big story has yet to be told, and in that regard, Murray Waas‘s previous scoop about Karl Rove is even more important — […]

PODHORETZ FLOATS FLIMSY RIGHT-WING PUSHBACK ON LEAK STORY — AND PUNTS. The emerging right-wing spin about the leak revelations was perfectly captured in John Podhoretz‘s column today in the New York Post. Since these arguments are certain to be aired again and again in coming days, they need to be debunked, and quickly. And it’s […]

A LEAK ISN’T REALLY A LEAK. GOT THAT? The White House appears to have adopted a novel approach to spinning their way out of yesterday’s explosive revelations about Scooter Libby‘s testimony that President Bush authorized the leaking of classified intelligence. From today’s Washington Post: A senior administration official, speaking on background because White House policy […]

CNN VS. TPM. This is really something. First Josh Marshall catches CNN swiping the photo TPM Muckraker posted of Brian Doyle‘s mugshot. Seems CNN accidentally left the “TPM” logo in the picture. Then, when TPM called out CNN on it, CNN posted a new version of the picture on their home-page– apparently scrubbed clean of […]

A MORAL IMPERATIVE, INDEED. To add to Matt‘s point about John Kerry‘s op-ed today, I expected that there would be far more interest throughout the liberal blogosphere in the current Los Angeles Times series on wounded soldiers. The series has been extraordinary, a powerful and graphic illustration of Kerry’s insistence that keeping the soldiers there […]

HIATT TARS DEMS. Fred Hiatt‘s Washington Post column today slams the Democratic Party’s “Real Security” plan. His chief objection appears to be that it’s way too short on platitudes for his liking. Hiatt writes: The first thing you might notice is that the Democrats implicitly reject almost everything the Bush administration says about how Sept. […]

HILLARY RAISES BIG BUCKS IN TEXAS BUSH COUNTRY. Senator Clinton did a great deal of fundraising around the country in March, and her private fundraising schedule — which was passed along by a source — shows that she raked in big bucks in that most impenetrable of red-state strongholds: Texas. The schedule lists a dozen […]

BOLTEN’S FUTURE PLANS? BUSH DOESN’T KNOW. According to today’s New York Times, here’s part of what President Bush had to say yesterday about the promotion of Josh Bolten to chief of staff: Asked in an interview with CNN Espa�ol whether more changes were coming, Mr. Bush replied: “Josh has just begun to take a look […]