So it turns out Times editor Dean Baquet refused to publish the Clinton campaign’s pushback email about the egregiously botched “criminal referral” story the paper published. I’m not going to get on the outrage bandwagon over that. This is high stakes Kabuki on both sides. The Clinton campaign may actually be happy they refused to publish – a better story than having their letter published in the paper.
But … there’s still something highly instructive we can draw from this. It is a really good object lesson on how much more wildly the Times gets played by Republicans than it ever does by Democrats. Fox and the RNC wouldn’t be playing them like a fiddle at this point.
Shocking photos of that Orthodox fanatic stabbing Israeli celebrants at the Jerusalem Pride parade.
A desperate Chris Christie rebrands himself as the protector of delayed commuters in epic bowl-swirl flip-flop.
That cretin dentist who shot Cecil the lion is part of a long American tradition.
Trump: “I’d get along very well with Vladimir Putin.” Watch.
After taking Huckabee to task over “ovens” comment, Lindsey Graham says Iran deal is like the West’s capitulation to Germany at Munich.
I think they lost me at “self-aiming sniper rifle.”
I’m not sure you can really understand American politics until you watch this short video of a focus group of Trump supporters from New Hampshire. Just watch.
Why 20 states say raping your wife isn’t as bad a crime as ‘regular rape.’
You may think Roswell is just about UFO culture tied to the alleged incident in 1947. But there’s trouble brewing between the town’s UFO industry and the growing population of conservative Christians who among other things believe the alien abductions that happen so often in town are actually carried out or fed into people’s minds by Satan’s minions.
“I had these stereotypical alien abduction experiences when I was a kid,” Guy Malone tells me. “Little creatures with big black eyes were raping me and trying to eat me and trying to operate on me.”