Scott Stantis isn’t the only media person upset because Kamala Harris isn’t playing the game right, though it should be noted that he’s not one of the celebrity journalists who aren’t getting proper respect. Still, he’s right: She hasn’t made the usual rounds that aspiring politicians are expected to make, and as a result a […]
I will confess that my appreciation of RJ Matson’s cartoon is tainted by my lack of knowledge about donkeys. I know they have a reputation for being stubborn and my understanding is that it is well-earned. However, I have some knowledge of horses, and I know that if you face a horse and pull on […]
John Cole shows both reactions to Biden’s press conference. He gets the time wrong: It was just under two hours, hardly four, but still a prodigious effort. The dual response, I think, is between those who did the assigned homework — who watched the conference and judged it for themselves — and those who fake […]
Ann Telnaes takes a more cynical, disappointed view of last night’s press conference than I do, but I find it hard to argue with her. Biden was thoughtful and sharp throughout the nearly two-hour presser, and I felt he exhibited candor, including his admission that he was likely going to break up the Build Back […]
The ship is unstuck and we’ve got to get back to other topics and other tropes. Mike Luckovich (AJC) noted the problem conservatives had when Biden nailed his press conference, but they managed to edit together a few random moments when he paused and one when he dropped a subject and moved on. It helps […]
I don’t know which is worse, that Ann Telnaes (WashPost) has so well critiqued yesterday’s press conference, or that her colleagues Margaret Sullivan and Jen Ruben called it before it happened. I quoted Sullivan in yesterday’s CSotD as saying that, first of all, the White House press corps know more about political jousting than about […]
David Rowe begins today’s conversation with this delightful take on everything. Fauci’s deadpan expression captures his serious intent, while his expertise is shown in the charts on his desk, ready for use in his testimony, his framed degrees and his overflow of books. But despite his having shut the door and put a “closed” sign […]
The twelve jurors were all writing very busily on slates. `What are they doing?’ Alice whispered to the Gryphon. `They can’t have anything to put down yet, before the trial’s begun.’ The Attorney General of the White House is going to hold a press conference at 9:30 to discuss a report nobody (except his […]
Let’s get the political piece out of the way first: In today’s Non Sequitur, Wiley Miller comments on the new rules for press briefings at the White House. I’m okay with the new format, not because it’s a victory for press freedom, of course, except to the degree that it is. I don’t believe in […]