Walter Shapiro

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@merrillbro Seems very good. But why am I only hearing about this in a tweet, instead of seeing it every time I turn on the TV or pick up my iPhone? — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@SenatorZero Unless Rand Paul is your doctor, I'm stunned by this medical advice. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@merrillbro It is stunning that Mothers Against Drunk Driving got more media attention from Madison Avenue than mask-wearing and vaccines. — PolitiTweet.org

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Paging Don Draper: Where is the biggest ad campaign in US history explaining that masks were used during the plagues and the influenza epidemic? This is basic public health to protect you -- not a liberal plot. 3/3 — PolitiTweet.org

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Paging Don Draper: Where is the biggest ad campaign in US history telling Americans in their 30s and 40s about the horrors of getting a "long-haul version" of Covid? And stressing that it is far far worse than the flu. 2/3 — PolitiTweet.org

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Paging Don Draper: Where is the biggest ad campaign in US history urging Americans to get vaccinated as soon as they are eligible and telling them how to get an appointment? And also stressing that the vaccine is totally safe and the side effects minor. 1/3 — PolitiTweet.org

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Could you text the Rules Committee to see if they would also accept a "blistering critique"? — PolitiTweet.org

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I am so sorry. I got to know Joe Duffey and his late wife Anne Wexler so well during the 1976 Carter campaign. And I was also at the Connecticut convention in 1970 when Joe qualified for his primary race for the Senate. What a loss. — PolitiTweet.org

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Someone should also ask the mask-less at CPAC, the question raised by @TimothyNoah1: Why are they violating Hyatt Hotels private property rights by not complying with the rules of a private company? https://t.co/zvkBv5lmjv — PolitiTweet.org

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A terrific piece that does more than "unpack" like a suitcase that you lugged to CPAC. It talks about the hypocrisy of zealots for property rights when Hyatt Hotels demands a mask everywhere on the premises. Maybe CPAC is truly filled with socialists who hate private property. — PolitiTweet.org

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@markzbarabak @latimes @melmason Welcome to the Columnists Guild. You will love our December conference in the Bahamas with the 2021 theme: "Columnizing in Warm Climes." Also, can't wait for your reports from Davos. And, of course, the TED Talk. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JoshGotbaum Too many Democrats also fail to understand that Chuck Schumer would be the Minority Leader right now if Manchin had not kept his WV seat in 2018. — PolitiTweet.org

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@noamchomsky726 @dceiver Limit the $6-for-$1 to the general election and I'm in. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jonathanalter More likely, Trump claims that he has already saved the economy and no further Covid funding is needed. And hidden in the bill are secret payments to Venezuela as thanks for rigging the election. — PolitiTweet.org

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@dceiver That said. I really am not that combative. Really. I'm just a campaign finance obsessive who immediately saw major flaws in HR1. Public financing for primaries will lead to a wave of nut-case nominees, including some off-the-wall Democrats. — PolitiTweet.org

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@dceiver Not all of these candidates. My point is that HR1 needs to be trimmed down to the provisions that are essential to safeguard the right to vote. Right now, it is a good government wish list gone amok unchecked by urgency or a sense of 2022 priorities. — PolitiTweet.org

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@dceiver There are many aspects of HR1 that are questionable and not directly relevant to the right to vote. The campaign finance provisions, for example, give a $6-for-every-$1 raised match for the primaries. Do you know how many QAnon candidates that will fund? — PolitiTweet.org

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@dceiver Deeply disagree. Biden and Schumer can count Senate votes. Minimum wage hike was never going to make it this time around. Since it’s a four-year increase it doesn’t need to be on the same timetable as the mid-March end to added unemplotment benefits or funds for testing/vaccines. — PolitiTweet.org

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@geneweingarten You mean Mr. Potato Head (or now gender-less Potato Head) isn't used with real potatoes any more? That is the worst potato scandal since Dan Quayle tried to spell one. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JohnJHarwood Isn't this the moment in the familiar story when leftwing Democratic groups announce that they will hold a major protest against Joe Manchin. Maybe even threaten a 2024 primary in that liberal state of WV. — PolitiTweet.org

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Could someone introduce McConnell to the guy who gave a fiery anti-Trump speech immediately after the Senate impeachment vote. I think McConnell and this other guy would find a lot to talk about. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ron_fournier @greenfield64 But they are prepared to run against -- as they have in every congressional off-year election beginning in 1982 -- Republican plans to cut Social Security. Or maybe it's "kitchen table economics" this time. Nothing is as repetitious as Democratic messaging in House races. — PolitiTweet.org

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Here is the full story. In 1940, the renowned stripper Georgia Sothern begged wordsmiths to come up with a high-toned word for her occupation. In April 1940, Mencken noted that the scientific name for molting produces "ecdysist and ecdysiast." — PolitiTweet.org

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@MartyDavis @lowellmickwhite Thank you. Thank you. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

I discovered, based on the first dictionary that I consulted, that the word was formed from the verb "ecdysis" which is the scientific term for an insect shedding its skin. Aren't you glad you know that? — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@lowellmickwhite You have given me my project for today — checking to see if it originated with Mencken. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Every newspaper columnist in the 1930s during the Gypsy Rose Lee Era and the last gasps of burlesque used this word on a regular basis to put a high-toned gloss on stripping. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

RT @JillDLawrence: Don't miss @MrWalterShapiro's take on the week's most stunning political-literary news (he knows his characters well, bo… — PolitiTweet.org

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A breathtakingly good @powellnyt piece on the race, class, entitlement and, yes, administrative stupidity at Smith. This piece is a model about how you should write about these issues: https://t.co/YK9RiphErR — PolitiTweet.org

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@tristawinnie I was the most surprised person in the world when I ordered it. Now I can't wait for the translation to arrive. — PolitiTweet.org