Exclusive Excerpt 2: ‘Man of the World: The Further Endeavors of Bill Clinton’
What they found in the flattened villages left Bill Clinton and his companions stunned, stricken, overwhelmed. There simply wasn’t much left of those places, their small stone houses and concrete storefronts all tumbled into a jagged rubble of rocks, broken red roof tiles, and smashed wood beams, all strewn amid streets that nobody had cleared, two months after the quake.
Exclusive Excerpt: ‘Man Of The World: The Further Endeavors Of Bill Clinton’
There was no means of escape from the gang of perhaps a dozen or so reporters, which felt to Bill Clinton like a horde of hundreds who suddenly had total access to him. Nor did Clinton feel he could simply walk away without answering any of their questions—some friendly, some not so friendly.
How Clinton Emails Became The New Whitewater: A ‘Scandal’ In Search Of A Crime
Recall that Whitewater, the-hard-to-follow pseudo-scandal sponsored by The New York Times in the 1990s, dragged on so long that it became hard to recall what the Clintons’ alleged original sin was. (Losing money on a real estate deal is against the law?)
The Latest Clinton Email ‘Scandal’ Is Still…No Scandal
Everyone in Washington, including the reporters who wrote these breathless stories, knows that the same kind of communications have occurred every day, at every level of government, for the past hundred years. It’s only a “scandal” if the Clinton Foundation is involved.
WATCH: This Is What Goes On At Trump Rallies
According to the footage released earlier this week, Trump rallies are a space where his supporters feel comfortable expressing extreme and racist, offensive behavior.
Endorse This: Trump’s Boorish Behavior ‘Comes With The Dinner’: ‘Morning Joe’
“It’s boorish behavior, you wouldn’t want it occurring to your daughter by a guy, but it’s Donald Trump.”
Tax Transparency: Sanders Again Promises Full Disclosure
It is also puzzling that the media generally and the top newspaper editorial pages in particular remain so tolerant of stonewalling on taxes by all the candidates. That wasn’t their attitude toward disclosure four years ago, when Mitt Romney tried that strategy.
Only The Ballot Box Can Beat Clinton, Not Bogus ‘Scandals’
When the corrections and retractions reach critical mass and the “investigative” articles start to read like Henry James novels — i.e. diffuse and impenetrable — the end of a given “scandal” episode is near.
Why Do Voters Say Hillary Clinton Is Untrustworthy?
You might be sick of hearing about Hillary’s damn emails, but they’re still getting coverage.
Trump Questions NATO, Asia Nuclear Weapons Ahead Of Washington Summit
In another sharp departure from historic U.S. policy, Trump said in an interview published on Sunday by The New York Times that he would consider letting Japan and South Korea build their own nuclear weapons, rather than rely on America for protection against North Korea and China.
Former NYT Executive Editor Tells Politico: The Times Gives Hillary Clinton Unfair Scrutiny
“Where I think Hillary Clinton faces, you know, certainly more of a burden is that the controversies she’s been in are immediately labeled, you know, Travel-gate or Email-gate… if you actually asked people what about any of these controversies bothers them, they don’t know anything specific about any of them.”
‘NY Times’: Trump’s “Mammoth Advantage In Free Media” Helps Him Win Primary After Primary
The New York Times reported on March 15 that part of the reason Trump “wins primary after primary with one of the smallest campaign budgets” is that he “dominates” earned media.
Hillary Clinton: “I’ve Gotten More Votes Than Anybody Running On Either Side”
Is she right? My back-of-the-envelope calculations show that Clinton has received more than 4.1 million votes in primaries and caucuses.
1922 Description Of Hitler Echoes 2016 Description Of Trump
The New York Times’ first mention of Adolf Hitler sounds incredibly similar to current depictions of Donald Trump.
After Super Tuesday, It’s Time For The Press To Drop Its Doomsday Clinton Coverage
The cyclical waves of she’s-doomed coverage have become as tiresome as they are predictable.
Clinton, Kasich Win ‘New York Times’ Endorsement In U.S. Presidential Race
Editorial board calls Hillary Clinton one of the most “deeply qualified presidential candidates in modern history.”
Fool Me Twice, New York Times…
In my experience, you can fool a golden retriever exactly twice with the old hidden ball trick. So if the paper’s latest blunder is any indication, a golden retriever is overqualified to edit ‘The New York Times.’
Trump Is A ‘Dangerous’ Bigot Spewing ‘Racist Lies’
History may someday note that Trump has almost single-handedly revived the art of two-fisted newspaper editorial writing. Just because he is such a scoundrel and a worm.
Colorado Shooter Was Adulterous, Abusive Evangelical Obsessed With The Apocalypse, ‘N.Y. Times’ Reports
As long as he believed in God, he trusted he had a get-out-of-Hell-free card, no matter what violence he advocated or inflicted upon the people in his life.
Trump Denies Mocking Reporter’s Disability At Campaign Rally
Kovaleski “should stop using his disability to grandstand and get back to reporting for a paper that is rapidly going down the tubes,” Trump said in a statement,
No, Journalists Don’t Have Dramatic License
Anonymous sources are tricky enough, but journalists simply have no business contriving dramatized scenes with dialogue and characters — describing their innermost thoughts and feelings with no attribution whatsoever. To do so is inherently deceptive.
Public Editor: No Problem With Dowd Column, But News Story Needs Correction
On national television, Joe Biden went out of his way to correct the record: “Nothing like that ever, ever happened.” Nothing like that – and Maureen Dowd’s column, which set the tone of subsequent sensational coverage in the New York Times and everywhere else, was a lot like that.
Dowdgate? Biden Insists Deathbed Scene With Son Beau Never Happened
Appearing on ’60 Minutes,’ Vice President Biden denied that the affecting deathbed scene between him and his older son Beau, as famously recounted by Maureen Dowd, had ever occurred.
Latest Gowdy Fakery: Name Of CIA Source In Clinton Email Was No Secret
So here is yet another absurd episode, humiliating both for Rep. Trey Gowdy and the journalists who promoted this fraudulent story, and highly reminiscent of the bogus “criminal referral” leak that made the front page of the New York Times last summer.
Weekend Reader: ‘Killing The Messenger: The Right-Wing Plot To Derail Hillary And Hijack Your Government’
My instincts told me that if we just gave the Hillary email story another poke or two, the whole house of cards would collapse.