I have no problem at all with the older fellow’s inconsistencies
Tag Archives: american politics
REVIEW: Taft 2012
Book by Jason Heller
The Weigel affair: shooting the watchdog
Friday’s big American media story was the resignation of Washington Post weblogger and conservative-movement specialist Dave Weigel, who came under pressure when gossips obtained some of his tart-tongued and borderline nutty private e-mails to Journolist (a controversial private online club for young liberal media personnel which itself collapsed amidst all the chaos and poo-flinging). By a weird happenstance, Canada’s most remote, reclusive correspondent actually knows Weigel slightly. In February 2008, at the peak of the presidential primary campaigns, I spent a week slouching around the Washington offices of Reason, the libertarian magazine where he then worked.
Sarah Palin is unstoppable
How she’s changing the face of American politics
Memories of Rideau Club-catered Dinners Past
And to think just a few weeks later, one of these three dining companions would be investigating allegations that another had leaked classified information that may have given a temporary boost to the Democratic candidate favoured by the third.