Chris Matthews For Senate
By Roger Stone Friends of mine who are friends of Chris Matthews tell me that despite the withering profile in the NY Times Magazine by Mark Leibovich that Chris continues to ponder and is likely to make a race against Sen. Arlen Specter, who is receiving treatment for his recently returned cancer. Putting aside the […]
Will Cuomo Nail Pataki?
By Roger Stone In this space I predicted Andrew Cuomo’s current investigation into NY State’s Police would likely uncover extensive misuse of NY State Police for political purposes including the leak of confidential documents which were used to destroy the political career of Congressman John Sweeny, who was opposed by the daughter of a Pataki […]
Nixonland
A new book by Rick Perlstein traces the period between Lyndon Johnson’s triumphant 1964 victory in the near universal belief that there was a national Liberal consensus, through the tumult and upheaval of the ’60’s to the remarkable comeback of Richard Nixon. Perlstein’s book is not a biography, but more importantly, a correct analysis that […]
Howell Raines: Politics of Aggression
By Howell Raines You wouldn’t know it from the campaign so far, but we may be living at the end of the age of smashmouth media coverage. When one of the wise old birds of British and American print journalism, Sir Harold Evans, invited me to Washington for the annual awards dinner for The Week, […]
Spirit of ’76
At least this year’s Presidential contest features a real contest for the Democratic nomination that will go to the Convention. The last time in recent history that the country had such a contest was in 1976 when former Governor Reagan challenged President Gerald Ford. While I am immensely proud of my role in helping elect […]
Trixter Rates Obama Dirty Trick
By Roger Stone As dirty tricks go, the Mickey Kantor scam perpetrated on the Clinton camp by someone who is obviously for Barack Obama, has it all; racial hatred, audio, arguable unintelligible voices and no traceability. It’s a masterpiece, a classic. By sending everyone running to review the audio of the war-room it made fools […]
A Good Cigar Is A Smoke
By Roger Stone For some reason cigars and cigar smokers are inexorably linked with politics and politicians in the publics mind. The image of the cigar-chomping political boss is an American stereo type is as old as Boss Tweed, George Washington Plunkitt, Richard Daley, Frank Hague and Carmine DeSapio. JFK was a cigar smoker and […]
Patakiland Sweats
By Roger Stone Former New York Governor George Pataki and his minions have every reason to be concerned about Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s probe of the New York State Police and past political abuses of the State Police Force. Pataki regularly used the State police and their investigative files. A real probe by Cuomo will […]
Black Socks Redux
By Roger Stone I am happy to note that the New York Post reported today that a second call girl who they have confirmed spent paid time with Eliot Spitzer has now confirmed for Federal Authorities that the ex-governor does indeed wear black mid-calf length socks during his sexual escapades. I first reported this information […]
Kristen Gone Wild
By Roger Stone So the over-priced call girl who tricked with Eliot Spitzer at the Mayflower Hotel is now suing Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis claiming that the entrepreneur made films of her when she was under age. Francis had a signed release in which Ashley ‘Kristen’ Dupre asserts that she is 18 years […]
