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Tonight's Barbara Walters special (the one about Barbara, not by Barbara) included cameos from her cross-network colleagues, including Tom Brokaw talking about Barbara's legs, and LesleyStahl talking about how Barbara "brought serious magazine journalism up against sitcoms and dramas, and made it succeed." One problem, Stahl's first name was misspelled. It's Lesley. I...
“Evil” 18th Century “Neanderthal”? CBS's LesleyStahl: “I’m surprised at how many people really, really hate you. These are some things we’ve been told: ‘He’s evil;’ ‘He’s a Neanderthal;’ ‘He’s going to drag us back to 1789.’ They're threatened by what you represent and what you believe in.” Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia: “These are people that [...]
Feddie and I have been having a discussion about this exchange from last week’s “60 Minutes” in which Antonin Scalia and LesleyStahl discuss the constitutionality of torture and we decided to throw it open to the good readers here at SA to weigh in on just what Scalia is saying. Is he saying, as I [...]
Breaking from a tradition of rarely giving interviews, members of the high court are making themselves more accessible. Granted, sometimes there is a book to promote. There's Antonin Scalia chatting with LesleyStahl on "60 Minutes." There's Scalia speaking at length on National Public Radio. And there he is again, taking questions from high school students on C-SPAN.
When asked about abortion and other topics during an interview with LesleyStahl on CBS' "60 Minutes" Sunday, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia confessed "to being a social conservative" but said it "does not affect [his] views on cases,"...
Possibly signaling a new era of openness, Scalia and several court colleagues are granting interviews WASHINGTON — There's Antonin Scalia chatting with LesleyStahl on "60 Minutes." There's Scalia speaking at length on National Public Radio. And there he is again, taking questions from high school students on C-SPAN.
When asked about abortion and other topics during an interview with LesleyStahl on CBS' "60 Minutes" Sunday, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia confessed "to being a social conservative" but said it "does not affect [his] views on cases," USA Today reports (USA Today, 4/25). "On the abortion thing, for example, if indeed I were ...
In case you missed Justice Scalia on 60 Minutes, we bring you the links to both parts of LesleyStahl's interview. It's a worthwhile grading distraction! (cmb)
"Antonin Scalia is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life." LesleyStahl fluffs Antonin Scalia on national television.
In her two-part profile of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia aired on Sunday night's 60 Minutes, LesleyStahl seemed repeatedly surprised by how Scalia in person isn't the “polarizing figure” who protesters call a “fascist,” as she conceded: “ What's interesting is the difference between how you appear in person and the image that you have . Because the writings are so often combative,...
"I'm a CBS man," Roger Mudd tells HuffPo 's Rachel Sklar , "no matter how many times you heard me say, 'Roger Mudd, NBC News.'" Mudd, who left CBS News for NBC News in the early 1980's after Dan Rather got the post- Walter Cronkite anchor job Mudd wanted, was feted by LesleyStahl last week at a party to celebrate his new book , The Place To Be: Washington, CBS, and the Glory Days of...
Last night, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia granted his first broad-based television interview, to LesleyStahl on CBS's 60 Minutes. There he explained that the torture of detainees does not violate the 8th Amendment's ban on “cruel and unusual punishment” because, according to Scalia, torture is not used as punishment: STAHL: If someone’s in custody, as [...]
Last night on 60 Minutes , Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia sat down for an interview with LesleyStahl. In addition to nervously laughing at Scalia's jokes, Stahl brought Scalia back to the Queens neighborhood he grew up in and P.S. 13, where Scalia went to elementary school. And it was there that Scalia revealed the true key to understanding this mysterious, brilliant mind:...
