E.J. Dionne, Jr. — of all people — traces the ills of Sen. Hillary’s Clinton’s supposedly “inevitable” candidacy to bad organization: The major flaw in the early story line is that there never was a Clinton machine in the sense of a well-populated organization skilled at turning out votes. Clinton campaigns have always been top-down operations focused on message and media. The Clintons have never lived in a world of
February 16, 2008
The Mugniyahnce of the Press [Dan Collins]
Thomas Joscelyn at The Weekly Standard: The assassination of Mugniyah has been widely reported in the press. Most accounts have gotten the details of his early career right. They have noted Mugniyah’s role in some of the first Islamist terrorist attacks against the United States, including the bombings of the U.S. embassy and U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983 and a series of hijackings and kidnappings throughout the 1980s
Dems 2008: It’s the NYT’s story and they’re sticking to it [Karl]
The main campaign story at New York Times right now is about Al Gore possibly playing the “honest broker” for a peaceful resolution to what could be a battle royale between Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton over the Democratic presidential nomination. But how honest is the New York Times? First, the Gore-y part: Democratic Party officials said that in the past week Mr. Gore and other leading Democrats had held private talks
