Walter Shapiro

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@TimothyNoah1 @jackshafer @AlecMacGillis I found an older citation. William Jennings Bryan, mockingly referred to a "Willie Bryan" is described as a "born loser" in 1901. It's the bottom item in this clip: https://t.co/dLiNNNVCDU — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

He didn't. This is the Times being gullible. It took me all of 7 seconds to find a criminal described by the police as a "natural-born loser" in a 1920 story in the Philadelphia Public Ledger. The phrase was also used in a short story in the 1929 Ottawa Citizen. I could go on. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@awgaffney @lmlauramarsh Problem with that analysis is that we don't have a parliamentary system. And Democrats don't have Clement Atlee's 183-seat 1945 margin in Congress. If Biden had won in an Atlee-sized landslide, we would be having a different conversation. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@dceiver I yield. St. Louis in the musical didn't offer much more privacy than Gopher Prairie. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@dceiver I'm a major NYC booster. But you could live in a NY apartment for 20 years and never meet "The Boy Next Door." — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@dceiver There's also a wonderful stage (adapted for the pandemic) production of "Meet Me in St. Louis" showing nightly at the @IrishRep. I really recommend it: https://t.co/yvybXfJveq — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@dceiver In 1904, St. Louis was the fourth largest city in America. This was not Gopher Prairie, Minnesota. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

RT @fairleyraney: @MrWalterShapiro Great insights in @MrWalterShapiro's column: - A deft assignment of T's supporters into three clear cat… — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Me: "Without the White House as a backdrop for Trump’s craziness, without every cable TV network regarding the president as a profit center, regurgitating and amplifying his lies and libels each day, the hope is that the contagion that afflicted democracy will slowly fade." — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@richgalen That was the moment when I too realized this one was for the ages. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

This may simply be the best obit of 2020. In fact, it is on a level that inspires both awe and laughter. Kudos to @margalitfox. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@k8croy @Graniteprof @henryolsenEPPC @bkarbour @heathbrown @JeffGulati @jjkeller44 The Cardinals? Or is one year winning 5 games with the Browns in 1953, which probably would have qualified as the Ace of that staff? — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@jamespmanley To think that Trump would do that to a man who was his Economic Roy Cohn. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Of all the things that bring tears to my eyes at the end of this sad year, nothing is more emotionally wrenching than the news that Steven Mnuchin has lost his all-important credibility over Trump's repudiation of the Covid stimulus deal. https://t.co/P3aoiaOpv9 — PolitiTweet.org

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@Graniteprof @henryolsenEPPC @bkarbour @heathbrown @JeffGulati @jjkeller44 Whitey Ford. Helped that I was a lefty with a lot of pent-up guile -- and absolutely no skill. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@DavidKusnet Always thought that the 1956 campaign has been unfairly forgotten by history, even with the Ike landslide. A second ballot VP fight featuring JFK. Also, Teddy Whirte was originally going to write “Making of the President 1956” but his magazine, Colliers, folded midyear. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

“How long O Lord?” Is that the speech? I haven’t read the article yet. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@KatrinaNation @thenation Thank you for this. Bill was also my favorite editor at the WPost in the early 1980s. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@SStossel @mckaycoppins @CaitlinPacific It was written more than 80 years ago. And Waugh was a reactionary in his era. That said, it is devilishly funny. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@SenatorZero @LizGoesOn I haven't seen the movie recently. But I did see tonight, the wonderful Irish Repertory theatrical production of "Meet Me in St. Louis" done remotely during the pandemic. Here's the link if you're curious: https://t.co/yvybXfJveq — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Written in 1944 in the midst of war-time, so it has a special resonance right now. And I'm a huge @LizGoesOn fan so this is a treat. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@iamavig Then why doesn't everyone have 6000-people events with singing and no mask wearings? It sounds like fun. But if you want to deny the science of how the virus spreads, that's up to you. But I'm bowing out. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@iamavig Two quick points and I'm done: 1). I have favorite jewelers on 47th Street with whom I have long relationships, but stories like this means that I won't go back for months. 2). If I would react the same way to crazed Christians in NYC who insisted on 6,000 person indoor events. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@iamavig @rollcall I would react like that to any community that in the middle of the worst pandemic in a century wantonly ignored the minimal requirements of public health. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

After reading this, no one will ever again wonder why Phil Gramm’s lavishly funded 1996 presidential campaign never caught on. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@nielslesniewski I am a tad curious exactly what Trump did to reelect Susan Collins. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

I wish I knew where everyone involved worked, so I can avoid coming anywhere close to them during the work week. It doesn't exactly sound like a strategy to encourage jewelry shopping on 47th Street. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

And I read every word. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@PeterTedeschi I have had the same experience. Which is why the three words that will get you banned from TV these days are "I don't know." — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@JamesFallows I predict our mutual efforts in this direction will be ignored. — PolitiTweet.org