[She paid a visit to the] Crossfire ... I really want you to notice, Tucker, that this is a wingtip. It's a right-wing wingtip. |
[To follow the news on television the past couple of days, looters have pretty much taken over the Gulf Coast in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.] The fear, of course, ... is that looting contributes to the sense that things are out of control, and that lawlessness begins to snowball, and that stealing becomes murder. |
a bold and good thing to do. |
Absolutely. As long as there's not too much emotion and sharing involved, I'm completely, completely in favor. |
Al Gore was campaigning on the day of his sister's death, as records of both his interview and his speech that day make clear. But that's hardly the point: Weeks by her side in the hospital would not make up for the cheap way he treated her memory at the Democratic convention last year. |
Al Sharpton is much smarter and funnier than he can seem in a television context. He is a smart politician and political strategist. He can give you a extremely cogent wrap of the primary, for example... He is also a real preacher who actually believes in God, unlike many of the preachers in my denomination, the Episcopalians. |
American officials have bent over backwards to show how sensitive they are to Muslim culture. It didn't seem very effective. They seem to be worried about winning the respect of other people. |
American society changed this week, and almost no one noticed. Republicans in Congress decided to drop a bill that would have kept women off the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan. |
As a print journalist, you can be frustrated by people who don't call you back, parts of the story you can't get. TV gets you access to everyone because people call you back. It also allows you to satisfy your curiosity. I am a very curious person. |
At a time when the Boy Scouts are being hounded in the worst way by state and local governments around the country over the gay issue... that could have been a campaign issue. |
Avoid boring, conventional people like death is what we are going to do. I'd rather have someone with a facial twitch with something interesting to say than the prettiest former federal prosecutor in all of Los Angeles. |
Billy Tauzin is one of the most interesting people in Washington. He is smart, funny, and interesting. |
Bush is not a social conservative. |
Bush takes personal pleasure and pride in working with Democrats. I don't know how successful he'll be in working with Congress, but I'm convinced he's going to try hard. |
Bush's brand of forthright tough-guy populism can be appealing, and it has played well in Texas. Yet occasionally there are flashes of meanness visible beneath it. |