Toobin’s Tales
By Roger Stone Jeff “Tubesteak” Toobin came to writing about politics from the law instead of media or political activism or employment, which explains why he, along with the fact checkers at the New Yorker, is so precise. Toobin sees politics with a fresh eye. He is engaging company and we had a great time […]
Michelle Obama Hit Next?
Roger Stone The Presidential contest between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama is likely to be roiled in coming days by revelations that Michelle Obama made racist comments in a speech for which there is allegedly an indelible record. This is why Hillary Clinton is still in the race and why her people have been in […]
What’s Joe Saying?
By Roger Stone MSNBC Joe Scarborough pounded the desk Primary night contending that “Conservatives will not support John McCain in November.” What planet is he on? Self appointed Conservative Leaders inside the beltway abhor John McCain, but McCain more than held his own in the most conservative parts of Florida in Tuesday’s Primary. I myself […]
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 […]
