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The Blog (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Politico reporters will give right-wingers the kind of fair treatment that they can get almost nowhere else, but in this piece on McCain's shift on cap and trade includes a line that just drips with bias. Reporter Lisa Lerer, wrongly in my opinion, attributes McCain's shift on cap and trade to a changeover in staff -- in particular the departure of Mark Salter, who was always pretty green for a Republican....
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The Plank (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Sometime last year, I remember watching a video of Barack Obama addressing his campaign staff in Chicago. The talk took place after Obama had won the Democratic primary. It was a pep talk, and the theme was, “Now it’s really serious, we have to win.” One thing Obama said stood out. He said that if John McCain won, none of the important issues facing the country would be solved, and...
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The Immoral Minority (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Is Palin really going rogue? Hardly. Getting even is more like it. Palin's biggest score to settle is with those senior advisers--Republicans all--in the John McCain campaign, on whose shoulders Palin lays the blame for her failed and tortured debut on the American political stage last fall. Most notable among them, of course, is "The Bullet," Steve Schmidt, who took over McCain's teetering...
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First Read (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
From MSNBC's Norah O'DonnellSen. John McCain's longtime friend and former chief of staff, Mark Salter, has just issued a statement about Palin's accusations. Salter, who co-authored McCain's books, defends Nicolle Wallace's actions throughout the campaign. Palin suggests in the book that Wallace was a double-agent for Couric because Wallace had worked at CBS News prior to the campaign. From Salter:...
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Political Wire (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
According to a new book, Sarah from Alaska by Scott Conroy and Shushannah Walshe, tensions within Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign "boiled over on Election Night last November when Sarah Palin, McCain's running mate, repeatedly ignored directions from senior staffers who told her she would not be delivering her own concession speech," CNN reports. "Palin's speechwriter Matthew...
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The Corner (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Don’t miss Mark Salter’s piece on Frank Rich on the homepage today. What struck me about Rich’s Sunday column is that he apparently doesn’t realize that, on his own terms, the Afghan war was won -- by George W. Bush. If there are only 100 members of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and little danger of them coming back (and little hope of improving such a corrupt, impoverished country),...
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National Review Online (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
T he older I get, the more my opinions of people are shaped by perceptions of their character rather than by their politics, a compensating blessing for the various indignities that replace the vanities of youth. Hypocrisy, especially when accompanied (as it usually is) by a lack of humility, is the character flaw I despise most. Were I to nominate one columnist as a spiritual godfather to the ranks...
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Swing State Project (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
? AZ-Sen : Does the persistent rumor of a J.D. Hayworth primary challenge to John McCain boil down to nothing more than a Hayworth grudge against former key McCain aide Mark Salter (and thus a way for Hayworth to keep yanking McCain's chain)? That's what the Arizona Republic is proposing, pointing to a 2005 dust-up between Hayworth and Salter over immigration reform. Hayworth, for his part, says that...
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Amspecblog (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
Brian Faughnan has an interesting post about the potential primary challenge to the mercurial John McCain by conservative former Rep. J.D. Hayworth. It seems that McCain alter ego Mark Salter...
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Red State (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
Former Congressman JD Hayworth is reportedly considering a primary challenge to John McCain. In explaining his rationale recently, he made a serious allegation about McCain’s loyalty to party : Hayworth charged that in 2005 Salter tried to “blackmail” him into stopping his public criticism of McCain’s comprehensive immigration-reform bill. Hayworth said his chief of staff got...
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The Plank (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
Via Ben Smith, I see that John McCain is hosting a fundraiser for Mitt Romney in Phoenix next week. Back in January of 2008, this would have seemed more unlikely than Obama picking Hillary as his Secretary of State. But as Sasha Issenberg reported out a few weeks ago for this Boston Globe Magazine article on Romney, Mitt did a pretty masterful job of getting on McCain's good side once McCain secured...
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neo-neocon (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
I’ve already weighed in on the birthers, and let’s just say I’m not particularly simpatico. But the following sentence from this piece by Mark Salter caught my eye: Today’s “birthers,” are no more offensive or weird than those who believe the Bush Administration was complicit in planning the attacks of September 11 or [...]
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Pax Plena (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
The media double-standard I wrote about last week regarding Congressman Joe Wilson's outburst was really a mere warm-up act to former McCain Chief of Staff Mark Salter's piece below. After excoriating the present state of incivility, Salter takes the press to task for being complicit in the problem. Here's an excerpt: But our political discourse won't begin to recover any civility until we get some...
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The Corner (Free subscription) | 09/15/2009
Mark Salter, a supremely gifted writer, has a piece very worth reading , “The Media's Pathetic Double Standard.” Salter’s core point is this: Today's "birthers," are no more offensive or weird than those who believe the Bush Administration was complicit in planning the attacks of September 11 or invaded Iraq to increase the profits of defense companies. And, yet, it only...
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Power Line (Free subscription) | 05/25/2009
John McCain grew up the son and grandson of bona fide war heroes. In Faith of My Fathers (written with Mark Salter), McCain reveals that each had a rebellious streak and a skeleton or two in the closet. McCain notes that in the closing days of World War II his grandfather was relieved of his command. Although his father suffered no such professional disgrace, McCain reveals that he was an alcoholic....
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