Walter Shapiro
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Just chronicled ninth presidential campaign as Yahoo columnist. Teaching at Yale. In midst of researching book on my con-man great uncle who cheated Hitler.
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Anthony Weiner video book-ended by baby and Huma. Never good sign when you have to say you're running and “Look, I made some big mistakes."
Yankee attendance woes: In 2009, I bought $250 seat for column on Stadium's tasteless excess. Ticket office just called to woo me back.
RT @Merrillmarkoe: Read Apple avoided billions in taxes using "Gimmicks and schemes" so imagine how delighted I was to find the icon under …
@markzbarabak Remember the 2004 "genius" of Lieberman and Wesley Clark in skipping Iowa.
Great Moment in Redundancy: Pat Toomey just showed off erudition by saying Federalist Papers were "written anonymously under pseudonyms."
In chilling reminder that life imitates art, James Rosen, Fox News reporter fingered as a "co-conspirator," is author of John Mitchell bio.
RT @AndrewsSuzanna: FBI's full warrant vs Fox rpter's emails. Back to flower pots and parking garages for journos & sources http://t.co/9Xd…
FBI's Affidavit For Search Warrant Of Fox's James Rosen
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@lrozen my best theory on Obama's war on leaks is Bill Ayers secretly taught con-law class in Chicago. Real Obama ignorant of Constitution.
My "Rough Rules for Responsible Scandal Mongering." CJR column on opining on a dime when it's not your reporting: bit.ly/14JhD8l
Columbia Journalism Review
cjr.org — I have been commenting on Washington scandals for nearly four decades-ever since the dead-drunk Wilbur Mills, the unduly lionized chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, was stopped by the police in the middle of the night accompanied by a stripper, Fanny Foxe, who immediately dove into the Tidal Basin.
Moving and surprising Anne Applebaum piece (wapo.st/18QVB70) about World War II Polish orphans thriving in, yes, New Zealand.
Anne Applebaum: Polish orphans provide lesson in thriving
washingtonpost.com — All three were born in eastern Poland, and all three were arrested and deported, along with hundreds of thousands of other Poles, after the Soviet invasion in 1939. Soviet soldiers and police packed families into boxcars and exiled them to Siberia or central Asia, where many died of illness or starvation.Sign up to discover more journalists who cover Politics, U.S., Media and more.
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