... I realized how rarely I get my news this way. It's irritating -- simultaneously too fast and too slow. I vastly prefer to read the news, and by that I mean read the news on the internet. For many years, I got the news fro…
Press report. I'm watching the coverage on Fox News. Two things I noticed about it: 1. At one point, about 10 minutes ago, the on-air journalists were expressing too much excitement, to the point where we were commenting: &q…
I thought he was withdrawing from the political fray, but apparently, he was redeploying. Here he is , botching up a storm. The long national nightmare continues. Anticipated next scene: Kerry proffers some mind-bending explana…
NYT film critic Manohla Dargis writes about the movie "Hounddog," saying something that resonates with me: “Hounddog” and the media storm that accompanied its world premiere on Monday expose the contradictions that gri…
The NYT's "Public Editor," Byron Calame, writes about the dispute that arose when Linda Greenhouse -- the NYT's Supreme Court reporters -- gave a speech that revealed some of her personal political opinions. [S…
Condoleezza Rice responds to the substance of Bill Clinton's FOX News Sunday remarks. That link is to the NY Post article. The NYT report is, by contrast, very minimal, but it does include a line about what she thought of …
Says Arianna Huffington interposing deep thoughts for what might otherwise be "popping champagne corks" after Clinton's performance on "Fox New Sunday." Huh? Okay, I've got my bearings. You see, Clint…
You read the transcript yesterday. You saw the clip. Now, you've seen the whole interview. Impressions? Knowing he was going to get mad, I watched him carefully before he got mad. He had a very relaxed and jovial manner as h…
Bill Clinton has been injecting himself into the news a lot lately, and it inevitably gives his critics a new opportunity to go through the case against him. Criticisms that would seem stale and be ignored suddenly get the spotl…
Nancy Pelosi is on Fox News Sunday this morning, and I'm just fast-forwarding through the whole thing. It's nothing she's saying. I'm not even going to wait to hear what she says. It's that crazily overlifted…
Oliver Stone's movie "Alexander" is getting such abysmal reviews that it can't all be chalked up to red-state homophobism . But if the movie weren't so horribly long and boring, it might be a laugh to see t…
How awful of John Kerry to give Osama bin Laden credit for determining the outcome of the election! I'm sure bin Laden appreciates your acknowledgement of his influence, which is exactly what he seemed to want. This is from …
Brit Hume talks about bloggers on Fox News Tonight. He interviews Scott Johnson of Powerline , and asks if it's fair call bloggers "guys in their living room in their pajamas" and "what about the charge that yo…
From a surviving Beslan terrorist : "Of course I pitied the children, I swear to Allah. I have children myself. I didn't shoot. I swear to Allah," he said. "I don't want to die. I swear to Allah, I want to …
On Fox News this evening a panel of commentators was asked about the supposed problem of Clinton's surgery and Hurricane Frances overshadowing Kerry's attempt to fight back after the Republican Convention. I was struck by…
William Safire, the former speechwriter, displayed some speechwriter vanity on Meet the Press when he was asked about Kerry's proposal to refrain from accepting the Democratic nomination at the convention. Safire said it woul…
Kerry's proposal to refrain from accepting the nomination at the convention has been characterized as a trial balloon, so the reaction on the Sunday morning news analysis shows is important. I was struck by the contrast betwe…