Walter Shapiro

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Since I purposely avoided the Trump speech, I am the perfect target audience for the estimable @JillDLawrence and her top-notch colleague @DavidMastio to give me the rundown: https://t.co/XLHWk1l3Ok — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@ClydeHaberman That wins the evening. My work here is done. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@ClydeHaberman I know. I apologize for the pedantic nature of my prior tweet. My staff, which maintains my Twitter account, has been severely admonished. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@ClydeHaberman Deliberately didn't watch either. But why are you certain than the whines were in new bottles? — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@mirandayaver That's the decision that I have made as well. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@stuartpstevens Wasn't the original name for CPAC Confederate Political Action Committee? — PolitiTweet.org

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@mauryisl @JournalYear Yes, I can see the case for "The Way We Live Now" since it isn't part of a series. But in its denunciation of the financial excesses of 19th century London, it is pretty bleak for Trolllope. — PolitiTweet.org

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@mauryisl @JournalYear I hope you're starting with the six Palliser novels. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

For Sunday afternoon, I 'umbly offer my piece on the 'umble Uriah Heep and the joys of reading Dickens as an antidote to the pandemic. It is in the wonderful @JournalYear: https://t.co/7aYPLjS9Uh — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JournalYear: Even though Donald Trump and his balloon-sized ego are about to reappear at the CPAC convention, the defrocked president c… — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@alex_shephard It does sound British. But I am on a lonely mission to Americanize it as a superior noun. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@JohnRobertAnde3 From my brief baseball phase my favorite was probably Whitey Herzog who gave me a pre-game hour in the dugout because we were in Montreal for a late season game and few traveling reporters were there. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MartyDavis Seems awfully formal. What we are looking for is a substitute for “shot.” — PolitiTweet.org

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@EBOlady Longer words are clunky in conversation. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

I love the word “jab.” So much less violent than the word “shot.” Also a much more accurate description of getting the vaccine. And let me add that I am not normally a fan of Britishisms. — PolitiTweet.org

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@StevenHerbert Too too short a gig. I was writing about politics for Time in the early 1990s -- and they were for a while without anyone to cover Sports. So I grabbed baseball and wrote some of the most over-researched pieces in the history of journalism. — PolitiTweet.org

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Thank you for posting this. In addition to being a baseball announcer only matched by Vin Scully, Ernie Harwell, during my very brief sojourn as a baseball writer in the early 1990s, was exceptionally kind to a guy who didn't know his way around. — PolitiTweet.org

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@roberns Thanks. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

In impeaching Biden is their goal President Kamala Harris? Or are the gung-ho about wiping out the entire 2020 presidential ticket and making Nancy Pelosi president? — PolitiTweet.org

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@roberns I remember some of those anti-smoking ads vividly. And the rate of smoking plunged in the era that the ads were on TV, funded by the tobacco settlement. I am baffled why there isn't money for a major TV fight against the virus. — PolitiTweet.org

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Somehow I suspect that there was a huge jump tonight for Google searches for Kathy Hochul. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

My wife asked me about an hour ago, who was the lieutenant governor of NY. In this Cuomo-centric state, I couldn't remember even though I cover national politics and live in NYC. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@powellnyt I wonder how many NY Democrats are spending the weekend mulling the risks and odds on a primary challenge to Cuomo. I’d guess probably more than a dozen have suddenly changed their Sunday plans. — PolitiTweet.org

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@rachel_x_graves My heart goes out to you about your struggles. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@freedlander @Bencjacobs I was just trying to appease an elemental force so it wouldn’t turn on me. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Bencjacobs @freedlander That one produce an audible giggle. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@cebpollster Duffey needed (I think) 15% at the organization controlled state convention to get on the primary ballot. His strategy: Go to small towns like Southington (or send people like Newman) because small towns weren’t beholden to John Bailey like, say, Bridgeport. — PolitiTweet.org

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@SenatorZero @ScottGottliebMD The problems right now -- unlike a month ago -- seem to be infrastructure to schedule appointments and deliver the shots plus demand. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@SenatorZero I hope people come around to rationality when they see that other people have survived their jabs and are infinitely safer in the middle of a pandemic. But the lack of advertising -- except at the margins -- remains stunning. — PolitiTweet.org

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@SenatorZero That so depresses me. And I don't doubt the reality of this nutcase view among certain leftwing doctors. — PolitiTweet.org