Former President Bill Clinton today unleashed a salty stream of epithets to describe former New York Times reporter and current Vanity Fair writer Todd Purdum, calling him “sleazy,” “dishonest,” “slimy” and a “scumbag.” The former president made the comment at a local campaign event after I asked him if Purdum’s much-commented upon Vanity Fair story was weighing on his mind. Tightly gripping this reporter’s hand and refusing to let go,

Glenn Greenwald (a/k/a “Rick Ellensburg,” “Thomas Ellers,” “Ellison,” “Wilson” and “Ryan”) and Radley Balko are both atwitter over John McCain hiring the Weekly Standard’s Michael Goldfarb to be his deputy communications director, because of something Goldfarb once wrote.  Both quote him, but do not include a link included in Goldfarb’s original April 2007 blog post, about a conference call in which former Senator George Mitchell advocated a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq: Pam Hess,

I apologize for taking up site time and space with this exchange, but it really does relate to the issue of identity politics. You may recall that many years ago in the midst of financial crisis Dartmouth College gave its alumni the opportunity to elect half of the trustees in exchange for a capital infusion. Now the Board, shocked by the election of a number of petition trustees not selected

On Iraq, Excitable Andy has been “trying to understand better: the surprising success (after a rocky start) of the Iraqi Army in Basra, the neutralization of the worst parts of the Sadr forces in Sadr City, increasing success in Mosul, and four-year lows in sectarian violence.”  Apparently, he’s been busy for the last ten months and confused by Iranian propaganda. Sully now frets that Barack Obama must not be caught

Having spent part of my morning watching MSNBC in the breakfast room at a Residence Inn in Salisbury — a 20-minute session that, as a complement to scrambled eggs and turkey sausage, included interviews with Tim Russert, Robert Wexler (D-FL), Dan Rather, and a lot of proto-hagiographizing of Scott McClellan (at one time rumored by lefty activists to be a closet homosexual and self-hating gay man living a fetid lie,

Todd Purdum (a/k/a Mr. Dee Dee Myers) has an article in the upcoming issue of Vanity Fair title “The Comeback Id,” which attacks former President Clinton, suggesting he is out of control personally and consumed by “cavernous narcissism.” Ross Douthat thinks that “[i]t’s interesting that Purdum and VF are coming out with this piece now, with Hillary Clinton’s campaign more or less finished,” missing the rather obvious point that it is coming

Although it has popped up in the comments here, I have avoided commenting on the claims at Larry Johnson’s No Quarter blog regarding a rumored video of Michelle Obama making racially inflammatory comments, supposedly referring to “Whitey.”  Johnson himself claims he will have “news” on the purported video later this morning. As I write this (late Sunday), I have no idea what that “news” will be, whether such video exists, etc.  The