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Category Archives: Mickey Kaus
Predicting Hillary’s Breakdown
Mickey Kaus writes: The Anchoress predicted the cryin’ on January 2: What I dread most in this political season is the "genuine" moment – and it is coming, soon, sometime between today and tomorrow, or tomorrow and New Hampshire – … Continue reading
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The Looming John Edwards Love Child Scandal
From BigHeadDC: From Politico today: Recently Couric got attention with CBS’s “Primary Questions” series — especially since one segment focused on asking candidates the uncomfortable question about marital infidelity, which was linked prominently on the Drudge Report. Is it just … Continue reading
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Campaigning Can Be Fun
Mickey Kaus writes: On Samizdata, Paul Marks offers a fairly common defense of Fred Thompson: Fred Thompson is in the middle of a 40 town Iowa tour – so he is hardly lazy. And he does go on television shows … Continue reading
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Does MSM mean “Media Saves McCain”?
Mickey Kaus blogs for Slate.com: Howie Kurtz goes to bat against Romney’s anti-McCain ad with a defense that’s much more misleading than any ad I’ve seen: Romney’s description of McCain’s failed immigration bill — which was backed by President Bush … Continue reading
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And They Don’t Keep Coming
Mickey Kaus writes: …The LAT reports on a decline in incoming illegal immigration, and the paper has some numbers. … Mexicans who say they plan to seek work abroad: down by a third. … Border arrests: down by 20%. … … Continue reading
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Where’s the MSM’s Coverage Of John Edwards Love Child Scandal?
Mickey Kaus blogs for Slate about this: Still impressive, near-total lack of MSM pickup of the National Enquirer‘s Edwards scandal allegations.** My guess regarding MSM thinking is 1) Nobody wants to hurt Elizabeth Edwards and 2) Everybody figures that if … Continue reading
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Congress Guts The Fence
Mickey Kaus writes: Congress’ Fence-Gutting: Get the old gang back together one more time? Provisions buried in the huge omnibus spending bill about to pass Congress gut the program to build a border fence, according to Republicans–and they appear to … Continue reading
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Chuck Hagel For President?
Mickey Kaus blogs: Reminder: Back in January, the courageously incoherent Sen. Chuck Hagel called the "surge" "the most dangerous foreign policy blunder in this country since Vietnam, if it’s carried out." He got lots of glowing coverage. But whatever the … Continue reading
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Mickey Kaus Defends His Scandal Coverage To Bob Wright
Click here for BloggingHeadsTV. Mickey blogs: "Hillary’s people "despise Obama," reports David Corn in a fine piece of schmoozalism. They "don’t need any prompting in private conversations to decry Obama as a dishonest poser." Hillary has (not uncleverly) asked, """How … Continue reading
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Get Rich Off Liberal Bias
Mickey Kaus writes: At a lecture today at the Milken Institute, economist/blogger Tyler Cowen said he didn’t think the sub-prime mortgage crisis was such a big deal. That’s always been my untutored sense–it seemed clear the MSM was hyping the … Continue reading
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