Her 1999 conversation with Monica Lewinsky remains the highest-rated news interview in television history. [Daily Beast] WHEN WALTERS arrived to sit next to Harry Reasoner his salary had to be raised, because as the first female news anchor in television history, Barbara Walters was getting paid more than the man. However, Walters’ $1-million-a-year contract also [...]
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Top Story — Jesse Helms Man Judge Sentelle Leads Three-Judge Panel to Reject Obama’s NLRB Recess Appointments
THE DECISION announced today is a stunning and very sobering end to an otherwise spectacular week. It is also wholly and completely political, proved through involvement of Chief Judge David Sentelle, who was responsible for Ken Starr’s appointment back during the Clinton witch hunt. Read this oldie but a great one from James Carville to [...]
Brian Schweitzer on Hillary in 2016: “It’s Lights Out”
THIS IS going to start very soon after the November election, the priming for 2016. “If Hillary runs, she walks away with the nomination and then beats whichever Republican,” Schweitzer said of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. “It’s lights out.” [Burns and Haberman] I’m exhausted already just thinking about it. As for Hillary, many progressives [...]
Ben Bradlee Questions Deep Throat and Red Flag in Flower Pot
Did that potted [plant] incident ever happen? … and meeting in some garage. One meeting in the garage? Fifty meetings in the garage? I don’t know how many meetings in the garage … There’s a residual fear in my soul that that isn’t quite straight. – from “Yours in Truth: A Personal Portrait of Ben [...]
America is a Woman
**updated** The bishops’ opposition to contraception is not an argument for a “conscience exemption.” It is a way of imposing Catholic requirements on non-Catholics. This is religious dictatorship, not religious freedom. – Contraception Con Men, by Garry Wills Mama’s pleased. This whole free contraceptive mandate has the First Lady written all over it. …and maybe [...]
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