By GottaLaff Maybe he was as frustrated as many of us have been, and felt things weren't moving efficiently enough. Just speculating. Then again, he could have just been fed up with working for BushCo holdovers : The Pentagon's top detainee affairs policy appointee has quit the Defense Department just seven months into the job , a Pentagon spokesman said Tuesday. Phillip Carter, a former Army captain...
Today: Rachel chats with Ana Marie Cox, Nate Silver, and Eliot Spitzer. Plus Jeff Corwin! Friday night on The Rachel Maddow Show is Anything Can Happen Night, and this one was no exception. This time Rachel had a panel party! I’m trying to be a grownup and stop pretending that it turned into a slumber party, but so far it’s not working. At any rate, Rachel welcomed Air America Radio’s...
Oh my. Frank Rich takes off on Palin today. I've avoided writing about Palinophobia and the Palinopalooza currently raging in the blogosphere right now because others are doing such a great job. And, well, Andrew Sullivan . Enough said. But Frank Rich is pushing me over the edge. He admits to having read the book, which is something. I've got the book but I haven't read it yet; I'm still into this...
By FRANK RICH NYT AT last the American right and left have one issue they unequivocally agree on: You don’t actually have to read Sarah Palin’s book to have an opinion about it. Last Sunday Liz Cheney praised “Going Rogue” as “well-written” on Fox News even though, by her own account, she had sampled only “parts” of it. On Tuesday, Ana Marie Cox, a correspondent...
By GottaLaff Good news and hope for those detainees who should not be there in the first place: Farhi Saeed bin Mohammed, an Algerian national who was captured in Pakistan and turned over to the U.S. military after fleeing from Afghanistan, was ordered released from the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay by a U.S. District Court judge yesterday, according to the human rights group CagePrisoners....
Cox, Hovell, Summers, Aigner-Treworgy and Memoli. Photo courtesy of Campus Progress. Ana Marie Cox moderated a panel discussion with former 2008 presidential campaign embed reporters at GWU this week, in conjunction with Campus Progress and the Institute for Politics. The first panel was made up of ABC's Bret Hovell , former NBC embed turned "Colbert Report" researcher Adam Aigner-Treworgy...
Tonight I received my copy of Going Rogue, which I pre-ordered from Amazon the day it was available. I won’t be reviewing it tonight, because unlike Ana Marie Cox, who defrauded the Washington Post and its readers with a review wherein she admits to not having read a third of the book, I fully intend [...]
If you've turned on a television this week, opened a newspaper, or logged on to a computer, you're probably aware of the Most Important News Story Of The Year (MINSOTY): Sarah Palin, or someone in her employ, has written a book. Given Palin's inability, during an interview with CBS' Katie Couric, to name a single newspaper she reads, the fact that she is now a published author does have a certain...
By GottaLaff This is disturbing, but sadly, not surprising: The CIA built one of its secret European prisons inside an exclusive riding academy outside Vilnius, Lithuania , a current Lithuanian government official and a former U.S. intelligence official told ABC News this week. Where affluent Lithuanians once rode show horses and sipped coffee at a café, the CIA installed a concrete structure...
Oprah Winfrey's interview with Sarah Palin on Monday to discuss Going Rogue "scored the talk show host her highest rating in two years," according to the Live Feed . At Palin's first book signing -- this morning in Michigan -- the Detroit Free Press reports that more than 1,500 people lined up in very cold temperatures. Mary Matalin , publisher by day and Republican strategist by night, notes...
I cannot claim to have read Ana Marie Cox’s entire review of Sarah Palin’s new book. I stopped cold when I read this line: I cannot claim to have completely read “Going Rogue” — I had to skim the last 150 pages (or more than one-third). I only got the thing into my hands late [...]
IMAO the former governor of Alaska is scaring the panties off the left, especially the men. The Hammer on the so-called reviews on "Going Rogue" by The Barracuda The Art of the Unintellectual Critique of Palin's 'Insufficient Intellectualism' There are thoughtful arguments to be made against Sarah Palin's future as a national politician, her persona as a conservative folk hero, her political...
I've just had nother of my periodic clean ups of the side bar menu and removed a number of dead links. Caratacus has gone as have Jon Swift , Larry Ayers , Mingshi's Kendo and Green Ink . All have stopped blogging, apparently. The Postman has gone private. Guy Fawkes has taken himself off to another site which I can't be bothered to find. Wonkette has gone too wacky since Ana Marie Cox left. Iraq War...
I don't really see much point to newspapers running dueling reviews of a single book -- it's sort of feckless, isn't it? Well, shucks! if you didn't like this take on the book, we've got another one column over that may be more to your liking? I guess when you're running low on subscribers, you have to do something to be all things to all people! That said, the Washington Post 's decision to run a...
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