Walter Shapiro

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@opinion_joe I know that. But the Times still partly operates on the assumption that the physical copy of the paper is the one for eternity. If you search for the June 4, 2020, Times online in, say, 2024, you would still get the physical replica and not all the online pieces. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@MarkLeibovich I'm waiting for some skittish Republican to try, "Yes, I did read it. But I don't remember it." — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@HelenKennedy This being the Times, one guess is that they are holding it until tomorrow and plan to surround it with critical responses. But this just a wild guess. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@RachelBitecofer True. But if this were such a point of principle for the Times editors, you would think that they would run in print. Also, the Times publishes a much higher percentage of its Op-Eds in print than, say, USA Today. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

I was equally confused when I got my print edition. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Awesomely hard to be funny and grave at the same time. But this line did it: "Seeming to think that the nationwide protests over police brutality were actually a request for more of it, police around the country arrived at peaceful demonstrations Monday night clad in riot gear." — PolitiTweet.org

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@lefoudubaron I live in Manhattan. I heard the constant ambulances in April and early May. I certainly believe the numbers of unneeded deaths caused by the virus. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Today or tomorrow America will hit a sad benchmark: The death toll from Covid-19 will become greater than the seating capacity of the nation's largest stadium: The Big House in Ann Arbor with seating for 107,601. Here is what a full stadium looks like: https://t.co/nyqSXYmBKR — PolitiTweet.org

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Line of the day and it is still early. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@OsitaNwanevu Maybe we should divide the agenda into a). The 2020 election; and b). After 2020. The issue now is simply what is the best way to drive Trump out of the White House. And I for one remain happy to embrace Republicans and generals who will help with the 2020 part of the equation. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@opinion_joe @okrent I see that Mad Dog is very mad at Trump. Finally. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

I can't wait for Republican and military night at the Democratic convention. I suspect that there will be a wide and impressive array of speakers talking about their disillusionment with Trump: https://t.co/o8YOWtyKnH — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Interesting aspect of new Monmouth Poll: More voters believe that Biden rather than Trump would do a good job on handling the economic recovery from Covid-19. Biden is 54%-45%. And Trump is 47%-52%. It's not just race where Biden has an edge. https://t.co/oLuRM8obLJ — PolitiTweet.org

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"The events contradict the president’s claim Wednesday that he went to the bunker simply to inspect the secure location." I have also read about Napoleon's inspection tour of the Russian countryside which had nothing to do with a retreat from Moscow. https://t.co/O6yqmcetEk — PolitiTweet.org

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The lack of a tradition of resignation in protest was also a lament during Vietnam when few took this option. William Jennings Bryan resigned as Secretary of State in 1915 in protest over the warlike tone of Woodrow Wilson's letter to Germany after the sinking of the Lusitania. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ClydeHaberman Ah, the joys of feeding lines to a champ. — PolitiTweet.org

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It reminds me more of the Sermon on the Mount. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Churchill always had an aide who carried an unopened Bible in a white $1400 MaxMara handbag. It's in all the World War II histories. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@HotlineJosh I don't think Applebaum was comparing systems, but explaining complicity. But your question is fascinating: If Trump loses, will the GOP leadership disown him and airbrush their current silence? Or will they join him in claiming the election was a diabolical conspiracy? — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Can we just cancel the 2020 baseball season and put us all out of our misery. Otherwise we will end up with a 19-game season with tied games after seven inning decided by home-run derbies and every team but the Orioles (which I root for) in the playoffs. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

It's as good as advertised. The section comparing Mitt Romney to Lindsey Graham is fascinating. As are the discussions of decisions made in East Germany in the late 1940s on how to deal with a Soviet regime. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@ShanaLin4 Because democracy itself is on the line in this election. Everything else is secondary. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

What I hope and pray is that the Bernie supporters will understand that the biggest possible tent is the only way to achieve a big victory that will permanently remove Trump and the stain of Trumpism. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@seandriscoll "Gestapo tactics in the streets of Chicago." And Daley screaming at Ribicoff with words that you didn't have to be much of a lip-reader to understand. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@cbctom Trust me, in 1968 one didn't need 24-hour cable to see what was happening in Chicago. The broadcast networks covered it constantly as they switched from the convention floor to the tear gas and nightsticks. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

"The whole world is watching" was a refrain by antiwar protesters at the 1968 Chicago Convention in response to the "police riot" by Mayor Daley's cops. The words are equally applicable today. As are the words from "Hill Street Blues" to the police: "Let's be careful out there." — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@Profepps @SenatorCollins Bold words about her "pain" or her "polls"? — PolitiTweet.org

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@GradyForrer @JamesFallows I assume that Hermes is exploring whether to introduce a new Birkin bag with the Bhagavad Gita — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@JamesFallows Also, in my defense, Trump never entered the church. So he was like a sidewalk preacher holding up a Bible that came out of a white Max Mara bag. (By the way, I wonder if you can also request the Koran and the Book of Mormon from Max Mara). — PolitiTweet.org

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@JamesFallows But Ivanka is Jewish. All I can add is that Thomas Cromwell, the off-stage founder of the Church of England, would have been much tougher on the quarantine than Boris Johnson, let alone Trump. This, of course, comes courtesy of Hillary Mantel. — PolitiTweet.org