My suggested headline for this week’s column was apparently was too cryptic. And this is pre-Palin, too.
RIGHT-WING PUNDITS MUST EXPLAIN ALLURE OF NOT-SO-STRAIGHT TALK
East Valley Tribune, Aug. 31, 2008
Alan Wolfe, in The New Republic, noticed that even the most partisan conservative hack occasionally feels compelled to give oh-so-sincere-sounding advice to Democrats. Like we’re supposed […]
Continued...The buzz this week is not about the RNC follow up in the Twin Cities to last week’s DNC show in Denver. Politics this week is all about being non political.
Politics seems to have been trumped as both sides are unified in showing their support for the close to two million residents of the Gulf […]
My suggested hed was “McCain’s Foreign Policy: You Don’t Want To Get Him Angry!” but it turns out my editor is also a Mystery Men fan, and we swapped lines with each other. I believe it is said in the Tribune newsroom that Bob Satnan, he shovels well. Newspaper version is here.
Casanova Frankenstein: Captain Amazing […]
Continued...My suggested headline was “My Pitch For Maricopa County’s Hottest New Realty TV Show” but the editor thought more direct was more better. Plus I got a block quote of the first sentence of the fifth ‘graf (“Becoming a full-time TV star….”) and almost all of my extra capital letters made it past the copy […]
Continued...My suggested headline was “Swallowing Their Own Medicine” but apparently that wasn’t specific enough. A newspaper-looking version of the column is here.
REPUBLICANS GET A TASTE OF THEIR OWN MEDICINE
East Valley Tribune, Aug. 10, 2008
Thanks to vote-by-mail, we now enjoy the formerly “last minute hit piece” often weeks ahead of Election Day. And, despite scads […]
The column got edited while I was 10 time zones away in Istanbul. My suggested title was “The ‘People of the Book’ Need a New Political Playbook” but that got cut. Unfortunately, the editor’s choice uses “Neocon” as shorthand for “Jewish,” which is a debate I don’t want to get into. (Yes, there apparently are […]
Continued...A great deal of the public attention about philanthropy is generated by large, dramatic gifts by rich people or even maga- rich people—the sort of people s who tend to be unaffected by short-term economic fluctuations. But while splashy donations like the $100 million the Blackstone Group’s Steven Schwarzman committed to the New York Public […]
Continued...My suggested title, above, didn’t make the cut; the Herman’s Hermits reference was just too obscure. My editor also has issues with the Bruce Willis joke, because he considers Die Hard the best Christmas movie ever, which is apparently why they show it every year right after It’s a Wonderful Life.
THEY SAY IT’S DIFFERENT, BUT […]
This column is now part of a series, in response to a mention of Andrew Thomas in a prior column which rated a response from his office, and unfortunately for both readers and me, it’s marred by a factual error; Joe Arpaio didn’t endorse anybody in 2004, he was friends with the “instant Democrat” who took […]
Continued...It’s a “just do the math” wonkfest special this week for the holiday weekend. My suggested headline was “When The Candidate’s A Special Interest” but the editor disagreed, and after all my weeks of you reading me kvetch about the headlines – people, he was right. There, I said it. This is a wonkier version of the […]
Continued...