Walter Shapiro

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@IanDon It shifted me from the Mets to the Baltimore Orioles since I was living in DC at the time. And I never came back to the Mets. — PolitiTweet.org

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@powellnyt Only Trump — and not other presidents like Lincoln and Roosevelt — has discovered the key to eternal life. And that is, of course, a legal ban on death certificates. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MarkLeibovich Maybe Ticket Carlson discovering that a top writer for him is a racist. By the way, why does Tucker even have a writer? Didn’t he once know how to write himself? — PolitiTweet.org

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@merbroussard Pro Tip: Get the ugliest glasses case that you can find in Day-Glo colors. Yellow or orange aid the search. Brown or black cases are a tragic mistake. — PolitiTweet.org

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@merbroussard Growing up, I made merciless fun of my mother for complaining that she couldn't find her other pair of glasses and was being asked by the family (namely me) to watch TV with reading glasses rather than endlessly search. I wish she were around to see me struggle to find mine. — PolitiTweet.org

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@DailyRuctions Furor? Brouhaha? Uproar? — PolitiTweet.org

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@MilliganSusan Biden's strategy is devilishly clever. It is in Chapter Five of the Communist Manifesto. — PolitiTweet.org

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@dollymad1812 @mattizcoop @murphymike @bopinion Since Rhode Island isn't a swing state, I think her popularity at home doesn't matter much. The real issue is whether Biden things she would do a good job as VP and whether she would be a drag on the ticket. — PolitiTweet.org

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@WoodardColin @MHackman Color me embarrassed. But then, I was always more a "Life of Brian" fan. — PolitiTweet.org

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@lisatozzi @ClydeHaberman Probably, you were in the wrong car on the subway. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ClydeHaberman You would think that someone would be resourceful enough to post videos of the street fighting over Bari Weiss in the Bronx and on Staten Island. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ClydeHaberman Try the Outer Boros. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MHackman Even as doggerel, the rhythms of the lines are badly off. — PolitiTweet.org

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@joelmsiegel I think I'm entitled to still be enraged at M. Donald Grant. — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattizcoop @murphymike @bopinion Gina Raimondo -- on her I do have strong opinions. All very positive. And as VP she would keep alive the Democrats' impressive streak. The last time that they nominated a ticket without a graduate of Harvard or Yale was in 1984. — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattizcoop Okay here goes. 1). I support diversity of opinions at news organizations; 2). I think James Bennet got a bum deal; 3). I don't know Bari Weiss and 4). I have rarely read her. If that isn't Switzerland, it strikes as, at least, Sweden. — PolitiTweet.org

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The Bari Weiss flap seems to be the biggest thing to hit New York since the Mets traded Tom Seaver. I am still in mourning over Seaver, so I will leave the strong feelings about Bari Weiss (pro and con) to others. — PolitiTweet.org

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@BobShrum Trump in a single day in publishing has generated more books that he's read. — PolitiTweet.org

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@SenatorZero @ClareMalone Maybe Barack Obama when he was a Senator or earlier. Michael Bennet (aside from the nepotism problem until recently) could probably do it. Oddly enough, going back to the 1980s and 1990s, I might place a long-shot bet on Phil Gramm. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ClareMalone That one made me laugh. And they brief me every morning on Zoom. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ClareMalone Do you really think it was me writing all these tweets? — PolitiTweet.org

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@fairleyraney Long ago, National Lampoon published a parody local paper whose name (and here I'm going from memory) was the "Dacron Democrat-Republican." — PolitiTweet.org

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@ClareMalone My problem with the Cotton Op-Ed was that he obviously didn't write it himself. (Decades ago I placed three Op-Eds in the Times while working for a senator). And staff-written pieces by politicians should have a much higher standard of relevance and argument to be published. — PolitiTweet.org

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A very interesting thread. I think the real question about publications catering to their audiences is at what point does cheerleading endanger honest journalism? Also how much intolerance is there for well-ground opposing viewpoints? That said, I believe in opinion journalism. — PolitiTweet.org

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A close competition for my favorite sentence, but here is the winner: "Just looking at this picture of the president in his mask made me so strong that I had to go buy a different, fiercer brand of deodorant." — PolitiTweet.org

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A really important story since any third-party wasted votes for Mr. West would have taken votes away from Biden. That's certainly the message of Jill Stein and Gary Johnson from 2016. — PolitiTweet.org

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A harp player running the CIA might have scuttled the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion. — PolitiTweet.org

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@blakehounshell Taiwanese baseball is far too mainstream for the Times. Go with badminton in the Himalayas. — PolitiTweet.org

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To paraphrase Mandy Rice-Davies during the Profumo Affair, "He would say that, wouldn't he?" — PolitiTweet.org

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@daschloz @alexburnsNYT My favorite tweet of the evening for its understanding of the 1940s Democratic Party. — PolitiTweet.org