Walter Shapiro

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

This is the stupidest political gesture since antiwar activists from Ann Arbor vowed to sit-in on I-94 from Detroit to Chicago until the Vietnam War was over. Oddly enough, this late 1960s tactic failed. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

By implication, a moderate in this sense is someone who wants to give Hillary a fair trial, while a passionate conservative is someone who is willing to skip the judicial phase entirely. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien will certainly recognize the nostalgic words, "Time for some traffic problems in Ft. Lee." — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Why do I get an extra hour to sleep on the one weekend when I am too hyper about the election to sleep? — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@brianros1 @republicofspin @MichaelMcGough3 Well Hruska was the Noblest Roman of Them All. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@MichaelMcGough3 @republicofspin Don't forget: C Students are entitled to a seat on the Supreme Court just like those elitists from Harvard and Yale. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

I sense that a lot of Democrats wish that early voting had begun on January 21, 2017. Or even the afternoon of Inaugeration Day. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

I am old enough to remember when the AMA went to war against LBJ and the Democrats over Medicare. — PolitiTweet.org

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Great cover. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@SusanPage So do I. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@fordm @AdamSerwer Don't confuse what theoretically could happen with what is likely to happen. And what is likely to happen is that Biden wins a decisive victory. — PolitiTweet.org

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@barrypiatoff I was also on the Clinton fly-around that ended the campaign. Mostly though Bill gave the speeches in an increasingly raspy voice. — PolitiTweet.org

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Reporters on that fly-around were given baseball caps with the inscription, "96 Hours to a White House Beat." It was both clever and poignant since almost everyone knew that Dole was poised to lose. — PolitiTweet.org

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The more I hear about this dastardly deed from Tucker Carlson, the more I assume that his big mistake was not using Fedex, which reputedly the Deep State has not yet penetrated. Or to go back to McCarthy, "I have in my hands, 210 UPS shipping labels..." — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Prompted by Glenn Greenwald's war on editors, I offer a story from the WPost in the 1980s. A foreign correspondent filed a piece with a particularly self-indulgent bit that provoked ridicule when published. His editor's explanation: "If I liked him, I would have taken it out." — PolitiTweet.org

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@laura_lrnzo You win. I officially retire all my Tucker Carlson jokes. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

It's the another example of the sinister workings of the Deep State that tried (and failed) to steal Tucker Carlson's UPS package. Now they repress Greenwald. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

This is the most heartening news imaginable. It's like what they said after Watergate: "The system worked." — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Trump’s last rally of the 2016 campaign was in Grand Rapids. Trump clearly has an innate sense of (ha!) political poetry. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@MilliganSusan You’re right, it does. Now I got to figure out a minor thing called the plot. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@Bencjacobs @jmartNYT @daveweigel That tweet is so historically knowledgable that I go to bed happy. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MandHF According to the NY Times clip that I consulted to double-check my memory, Bentsen was indeed there, though I don't remember him. https://t.co/e7hwopE2wk — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

I was in McAllen with Mike Dukakis, just after the 1988 Democratic convention, on a steamy late July evening. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

The Deep State controls the scanners and the Chinese secretly censor all US email. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

I think I think I can make a fortune selling "Arrogant Swamp Bro" T-shirts and sweats. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@DKarol Yes, the Times did oversell him. I know the initial description of "Anonymous" was pretty vague, but the implicit assumption was that the Times would only devote this much fanfare to someone who was a top official. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Will I ever get back the hours I squandered in 2018 on the guessing game under the assumption that "Anonymous" was someone I had heard of at the time? — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

The 2020 early vote numbers now equal the total turnout for 1968 election. The 1968 race featured a candidate named George Wallace whose rhetoric has now been echoed by Donald Trump. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

This is a terrific podcast. It is also perfect listening for home workers as they commute from the bedroom to the living room. Seriously, my kudos to @Dr_CMGreer and @harrysiegel for having me on. And, yes, I'm pretty bullish on Biden. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Once again, the coverup is worse than the crime. Baseball endured a 10-day delay in the World Series in 1989 because of the earthquake. Baseball could have handled a delayed Game 6. But Rob Manfred, as inept as the Trump White House, assumed no one would find out about Turner. — PolitiTweet.org