Walter Shapiro

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

If you are going to read just one piece on the Royals (and I personally have a limit), this by Caitlin Flanagan is the one to read: https://t.co/QjiVg1d5k0 — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Shockingly enough, I missed your original tweet. But words cannot describe how much I love "Sermon on the Mountebank." — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@Dr_CMGreer Damn. I am now desperately searching for a loophole in my original tweet. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@heathbrown How Shermanesque was my tweet? Do I have a loophole? — PolitiTweet.org

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@mcurtisnc3 Absolutely not. I was just commenting on the fact that finding enough time to listen to all the good podcasts would even be a challenge for someone who had a commute as long as the original Columbus. — PolitiTweet.org

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@TimothyNoah1 How much wiggle room do I have in my "I'm not announcing a podcast" tweet? — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@joelmsiegel All I can say is that I share Groucho Marx's aversion to any Clubhouse that would have me. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Today's public service announcement: I am not launching a podcast. In fact, I doubt if I will ever launch a podcast. You will thank me someday. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

From an ad on Twitter: "No passengers. No bosses. Just you, your tunes, and the road. Sign up now and start making money!" It sounds so mellow and laid-back. Until you discover that you are being recruited by DoorDash, which just loves its drivers spending hours with their music. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MoviesSilently Thank for this. I found it mesmerizing and even glimpsed Leon Trotsky in the background. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Hitherto Joe Tumulty, who was Wilson's top political adviser, was the most famous Tumulty ever. But that will abruptly change next month with the publication of a certain book. — PolitiTweet.org

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The Trumps have done so well in the gambling industry. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

While Biden is very very late to hold a press conference, I would urge ignoring the claims that it is the longest for any president in a century. Before Eisenhower, presidential press conferences were off-the-record so there was no risk of a misstep. — PolitiTweet.org

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My piece from last week that still stands up. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

First example of "badass" as a noun in the Merriam Webster unabridged dictionary is from 1991 and it describes a man. Not listed at all in the "Oxford Shorter Dictionary" from 1993 or Webster's Third International. https://t.co/WBjS3xCe8Q — PolitiTweet.org

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@Profepps It would be great to be part of a country like Greenland without a legislative body controlled by the filibuster. And Danish democracy ain’t half bad either. I know because I watched “Borgen.” — PolitiTweet.org

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@dceiver I worried every night that Copenhagen would be a distant memory. And Marines would be storming the beaches of Greenland. — PolitiTweet.org

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I routinely check the online pages of the New York Times and Washington Post about now every night. I cannot describe the joy of living under an administration that allows me to go to sleep without worrying that we will nuke Denmark before dawn. — PolitiTweet.org

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Personally, I would rather read about "The Playboy State Grows Up." Of course, George Smathers, the hard-partying JFK buddy, was a Florida senator in 1954. — PolitiTweet.org

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@BruneElections @SenhorRaposa This is why no one ever should write Cabinet speculation scorecard pieces immediately after an election. They are invariably massively wrong. — PolitiTweet.org

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Well he is a handsy governor. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@robclt Too many if clauses for me to really analyze 1972. But remember Bobby and women would have become a major theme after Chappaquiddick and Teddy in 1969. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @rollcall: OPINION — @MrWalterShapiro shares a few lessons from the pandemic that go beyond the most obvious lesson of them all: Don’t h… — PolitiTweet.org

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@SendStephen Oh, they would have tried everything at the convention from rules challenges to platform fights to credentials challenges. I just don't think that the votes were there for any of these gambits to have worked. — PolitiTweet.org

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@DemocraticLuntz One quarter of the 1968 delegates — according to @EKamarck in her “Primary Politics” — were chosen in 1967. They were organization soldiers and not free agents. Many of them also supported the Vietnam War and disliked long-haired demonstrators. — PolitiTweet.org

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No. I spent a lot of time wading through news clips a while back — and I concluded that Humphrey’s lead in delegates was unassailable. — PolitiTweet.org

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This is a glorious moment for any author. Savor it plus oodles of pictures. Can’t wait to read it. — PolitiTweet.org

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@DickPolman1 Nor did I. Thank God. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

This morning I woke up filled with gratitude that I am not Andrew Cuomo. — PolitiTweet.org

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@KeithELaughlin @newrepublic I had a lot more to say about the 2009 package and its failings, but I feared it would clutter up the piece. — PolitiTweet.org