Doing the Digging

By Clint Hendler   Oct 13, 2008 at 05:17 PM

I just put up a piece that criticizes Howard Kurtz (and others) for not giving the straight dope on the... More

Palin Broke the Law, Says Investigation

But on Sunday, and since, journalists let her off the hook

By Clint Hendler   Oct 13, 2008 at 05:00 PM

Ask any public relations hack, and they’ll tell you that Friday night—especially if it comes before a long weekend—is a... More

How Not to Start an Interview

By Clint Hendler   Oct 10, 2008 at 03:36 PM

Palin isn't the only politician from the north side of the the 49th parallel having trouble in TV interviews. Here's... More

Palin and her Press

Hard questions, second guesses, and conflict up North

By Clint Hendler   Oct 10, 2008 at 11:41 AM

Over the last weeks, Sarah Palin’s brief public career—especially her time as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska—has been thoroughly examined by... More

About that Ayers NYTimes quote…

By Clint Hendler   Oct 9, 2008 at 05:29 PM

I had it in mind to write something about this McCain quote from today: "Look, we don't care about an... More

E-gads! A blog!?!

Norm Coleman is not platform agnostic

By Clint Hendler   Oct 9, 2008 at 04:06 PM

Blog. Say out it loud. Blog! If you say it right, it almost sounds like a nasty word. (It’s got... More

Kristol: Wrong on Wright. Twice.

By Clint Hendler   Oct 6, 2008 at 09:55 AM

New York Times columnist Bill Kristol gets a Palin interview before any of his colleagues on the, you know, news... More

That Pesky Filter

By Clint Hendler   Oct 2, 2008 at 10:28 PM

Palin really appreciates having the ability to speak with people "without the filter of the mainstream media telling viewers what... More

Oh, that Court!

By Clint Hendler   Oct 2, 2008 at 10:22 PM

Is Biden's Supreme Court answer meant to bring something else up in voters' minds? More

Branches!

By Clint Hendler   Oct 2, 2008 at 10:16 PM

Gwen picks up where The Hill left off, and asks if the VP's office is in the Executive branch or... More

Win a War

By Clint Hendler   Oct 2, 2008 at 10:07 PM

Can we ask why, exactly, McCain knows how to win a war? And what wars he's won in the past?... More

WWVD?

By Clint Hendler   Oct 1, 2008 at 02:09 PM

Who doesn't love a Voltaire quote? Here's one of my favorites: ...the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman,... More

McCain at the Register

By Clint Hendler   Oct 1, 2008 at 11:38 AM

Give John McCain credit for taking the time to meet with The Des Moines Register's editorial board. It may not... More

Frontpage Signals

By Clint Hendler   Sep 30, 2008 at 12:20 PM

When is the last time that you can remember that the entire front page of The New York Times was... More

A bookish mea culpa

By Clint Hendler   Sep 30, 2008 at 10:30 AM

Timesologist Gabriel Sherman has a good catch from over the weekend. In a Times book review of Bob Woodward's The... More