The Post-Gazette Backs Barack

Charm and “change” key to the steeltown daily’s choice

By Clint Hendler   Apr 17, 2008 at 08:47 AM

On Monday, Hillary Clinton strode into the Pittsburg Post-Gazette’s downtown offices for an hour-and-fifteen-minute meeting with the paper’s editorial board.... More

Bilal Hussein to be freed. Really!

By Clint Hendler   Apr 15, 2008 at 02:55 PM

I’m ecstatic to be proven wrong. Bilal Hussein, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Iraqi Associated Press photographer who was detained by U.S.... More

Obama’s Ignored Bundlers

Thank you, WaPo, for showing the obvious.

By Clint Hendler   Apr 11, 2008 at 01:14 PM

When news broke on Tuesday that Barack Obama claimed his campaign had created a “parallel public financing system” by raising... More

Quote me once, shame on you. Quote me twice…

By Clint Hendler   Apr 10, 2008 at 05:23 PM

Wow. So, last month, you’ll remember, Samantha Power resigned from her perch as an Obama foreign policy adviser shortly after... More

And That’s the Rest of the Story…

By Clint Hendler   Apr 10, 2008 at 03:33 PM

Wondering what Mitt Romney is up to today? Oh, don’t lie. Sure you are! Paul Harvey, the 89-year-old radio host... More

Pulitzer-Spurned Editorialists Speak

By Clint Hendler   Apr 10, 2008 at 02:08 PM

When the Pulitzer Prizes were announced on Monday, there was a curious gap: No award was given for editorials. There... More

Charges Against AP’s Hussein Dismissed

By Clint Hendler   Apr 9, 2008 at 06:27 PM

A headline like that would seem to be very good news for The Associated Press, which has been working to... More

The Superdelegate Black Box

Haven’t heard of the ‘add-on delegates’? They hurt Clinton

By Clint Hendler   Apr 4, 2008 at 02:38 PM

As the Democratic contest sputters along, race watchers have become uneasy friends with a ballpark set of delegate numbers: It... More

Say It Ain’t Joe!

By Clint Hendler   Apr 3, 2008 at 11:07 AM

Recently, I’ve found chatty “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough to be just as serviceable as any other MSNBCer. But it’s... More

A Super Mess

The Times’s slowpoke superdelegate survey

By Clint Hendler   Apr 3, 2008 at 10:19 AM

On Tuesday, The New York Times ran a by-the-book campaign roundup: McCain spoke in his family’s hometown, Clinton channeled Rocky,... More

Newsflash: HUD Scandal Broke Last Fall

National Journal series was largely ignored by rest of the press

By Clint Hendler   Apr 1, 2008 at 04:20 PM

Yesterday, Alphonso Jackson, Bush’s HUD secretary, resigned. “His tenure,” as the AP put it, was “tarnished by allegations of political... More

The Inevitable Chelsea Shield

By Clint Hendler   Apr 1, 2008 at 12:01 PM

There’s much chatter today that Chelsea Clinton, while headlining a North Carolina State campaign event for her mother, was once... More

When Sports Metaphors Overstay

By Clint Hendler   Mar 31, 2008 at 02:52 PM

Just like the Clinton campaign, it does not appear that CNN planned for a contest lasting past February. So, seeing... More

But Editor, I Thought She Was a Whore!

By Clint Hendler   Mar 31, 2008 at 10:31 AM

This would have to be rather high on the list of corrections an editor would really rather not have to... More

What Can be Learned from Lichtblau?

Reading the NSA tea leaves right

By Clint Hendler   Mar 28, 2008 at 02:49 PM

Yesterday, Slate published a 1,733 word adapted-extract from Eric Lichtblau’s upcoming book, Bush’s Law: The Remaking of American Justice. The... More