Walter Shapiro

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@JohnRobertAnde3 @ClydeHaberman Help me. I can only remember seven: Times, Herald Trib, the World Telegram, the Journal American, the News, the Post, the Mirror. Are we counting the Racing Form or the Daily Worker? — PolitiTweet.org

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Against that awesome standard, the best that I can come up with is "Don't vote." — PolitiTweet.org

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@ryangrim @cam_joseph @nielslesniewski @Bencjacobs @StevenTDennis And Connecticut’s baseball team would never have to change its name. We would be the Cleveland Nutmegs. — PolitiTweet.org

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@cam_joseph @nielslesniewski @Bencjacobs @StevenTDennis @ryangrim We would have called it West Greenwich and it would be the hedge fund capital of the US. — PolitiTweet.org

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@nielslesniewski @Bencjacobs @StevenTDennis @cam_joseph @ryangrim Growing up in Connecticut, I always believed that we were entitled to a slice of Ohio. We never should have yielded. — PolitiTweet.org

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@john_armbruster @JessicaHuseman Couldn't be fixed because it was the only way it could be passed given the loss of a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. All the House could do was to pass in 2010 a flawed Senate version that everyone in Obama Land wished could have been amended for fixes and improvements. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JessicaHuseman Remember Obamacare couldn’t be fixed in the legislative process and it led to lasting problems. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JessicaHuseman Obviously, the bill needs to be trimmed down to have a chance in the Senate. Right now the conversation should be over what in HR1 is essential. — PolitiTweet.org

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@pattmlatimes That's the Fussell book I remember vividly. — PolitiTweet.org

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@brianros1 The shaving mirror does a lot of encouraging. — PolitiTweet.org

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@pattmlatimes Thanks for reminding me. I always meant to read it. — PolitiTweet.org

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@rmeszoly I don't know if Geisel was worse than the norm for that era. I suspect not. But I think you could can find dozens of cartoonists during World War II whose work was similarly offensive to contemporary eyes. — PolitiTweet.org

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Sadly, very sadly, these sentiments were almost everywhere on the home front during World War II. To put Theodore Geisel and his dehumanizing caricatures in the context of his era, I strongly recommend "War Without Mercy" by John Dower. https://t.co/VpdZQmzMPq — PolitiTweet.org

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Terrific @JillDLawrence column. Worth recalling: From 1953-55, with an evenly divided Senate, control of the chamber changed almost monthly with nine (!) deaths and a resignation. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MichaelMcGough3 Same with me. And let’s just say that my workout routine doesn’t require any audible material longer than haiku. — PolitiTweet.org

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There are also things called transcripts that you can skim in four minutes rather than having to watch for an hour. — PolitiTweet.org

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@mseyfang I will take a trip to my kitchen. — PolitiTweet.org

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And a five year who met FDR who be just in his or her early eighties now. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MichaelMcGough3 @senatorshoshana Today's favorite oddball factoid. — PolitiTweet.org

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Rousseau had a lasting appetite for the rich. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @freedlander: I feel fairly certain that I know more people who have a take on the internal leadership decisions of Teen Vogue than have… — PolitiTweet.org

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@jackshafer By the way, I am eager to go back to the newspaper life of New York before the war on one small condition -- I can take antibiotics with me. I guess in this mood, rereading Liebling is the only possible next step. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jackshafer Thank you for the Stanley Walker anecdote. It prompted me to read the entire lengthy obit from 1970. It is a reminder of how much glorious eccentricity that we have lost over the years. — PolitiTweet.org

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Put me down as torn between Lassie and Rin Tin Tin. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@svzwood Barney’s is a model for safe outdoor lunching. They have a shed with plenty of ventilation. — PolitiTweet.org

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@lisatozzi I know. Just a bit of strained, very strained, late-night humor. — PolitiTweet.org

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@lisatozzi A crazy theory: A governor who is not fighting for his political survival would have been tougher on opening things at a time of continued high risk. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jamesoliphant They've been burned. — PolitiTweet.org

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@readywriting I'm not excusing the mistake. But I know from long experience with magazines that errors that originate with an editor can crop up in the final copy. I am not giving a pass to the author. I'm just saying that we don't know. — PolitiTweet.org

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I just realized that I am much more employable than most. No one (absolutely no one) can find my social media posts from high school. — PolitiTweet.org