This week’s Washington Times’ column: At the exact moment Jon Favreau is receiving high praise in pre-inaugural media puff pieces, the 27-year-old chief speechwriter for President-elect Barack Obama (not Jon Favreau, the Hollywood actor/ director) finds himself in a minor
Washington Post: Former president Bill Clinton has agreed to make public 200,000 donors to his presidential library and foundation as part of an agreement with President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team designed to allow his wife — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton
Washington Post: Reports by Fox, the New York Daily News and other media outlets indicated that Burress suffered a non-life-threatening injury when he accidentally shot himself in the leg.
Washington Post: The move came after members of the People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) broke through police lines and roamed through the sprawling $4 billion terminal, southeast of Bangkok, as startled tourists looked on.
Washington Post: Fifty-seven percent of the print and broadcast stories about the Republican nominee were decidedly negative, the Project for Excellence in Journalism says in a report out today, while 14 percent were positive. The McCain campaign has repeatedly complained
Also on Thursday’s show: Washington Post columnist Mike Gerson joins us to assess the campaign.
Also on today’s show: Washington Post cartoon mocks Palin’s religion & Karl Rove dresses down Alan Colmes.
Washington Post: Yemen is the ancestral home of Osama bin Laden. Al Qaeda has maintained a steady presence here, especially as fighters from the militant group return from Iraq.
Washington Post: David Gregory, the NBC newsman and White House correspondent who also hosts a program on MSNBC, will take over during such events as this fall’s presidential and vice presidential debates and election night.
Washington Post: Despite a recent promise from Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean not to make Sen. John McCain’s age — he turns 72 in August — an issue in the presidential campaign, a senior Democratic operative has started a
CNN/Washington Post media reporter Howard Kurtz weighs in on the Private Scott Beauchamp “Shock Troops” controversy that has the New Republic’s credibility hanging in the balance.
Tucker Carlson and guests Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post and columnist Bob Franken converse about the New York Times’ article that explains how Hillary Clinton is getting the attention of The Drudge Report.
This C-SPAN segment is an account of the Washington Post story about the president’s apology to the Wiccan wife of and Iraq War victim. The Post article is in the related link.
The Washington Post‘s Jackson Diehl argues that the U.S. has chosen the “wrong allies” in Egypt by siding, effectively, with the military regime. Instead, he says, we should be supporting the secular liberals currently in prison for organizing protests: Ahmed Maher,
