Walter Shapiro

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@SenhorRaposa Biden has said that his first appointee would be an African American woman. — PolitiTweet.org

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I think after Sondheim at 90, I will hesitate before I criticize the video quality of telecasts from Joe Biden's basement. — PolitiTweet.org

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@opinion_joe It wasn't even interrupted by a showing of "Heidi." — PolitiTweet.org

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@HelenKennedy You win with that one. — PolitiTweet.org

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@paolo_lim Put me down as states that discourage absentee voting and have no provisions whatsoever for early voting. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MarkLeibovich Yes. I couldn’t find the whole thing online. But I remember this extended Libeling riff from “The Wayward Pressman.” — PolitiTweet.org

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The lede by A.J. Liebling on the death of Stalin: "Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments." https://t.co/aLl0gzgSPT — PolitiTweet.org

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@petersagal You win the evening. Kudos. — PolitiTweet.org

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Thought for the night: If things are this crazy with Trump in public, can you imagine what we will learn when the don't-blame-me memoirs come out after the 2020 election. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ProfCiara Yes. But only after explaining to the students that if I assigned my book on the 2004 campaign to every seminar that I taught -- and I taught every year until 8737 -- then and only then would my book make back its advance. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Profepps Ah, the famed German lack of a sense of irony. I have always blamed it on listening to too much Wagner at an impressionable age. — PolitiTweet.org

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I so remember reading about Winston Churchill joking in Parliament during the Blitz, 'We will fight them on the beaches with Lysol. We will fight them in the fields with Clorox." Even the opposition benches joined in the laugher over the PM's sarcasm. — PolitiTweet.org

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@joelockhart The thing with Trump is that the more desperate he gets (dwindling polls), the more likely he is to double down on the conduct and comments that have gotten him into trouble in the first place. He is the ultimate one-trick pony. — PolitiTweet.org

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Axiom of politics: If your opponent is self-destructing, stay out of the way. — PolitiTweet.org

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Major axiom of politics: If you're opponent is self-destructing, stay out of the way. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jackshafer @jdawsey1 Was Fauci's uncle an MIT professor? — PolitiTweet.org

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@ProfCiara You know Trump's uncle was an MIT professor so Trump -- with such good genes -- has to understand medical science. — PolitiTweet.org

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This is the cycle that Trump is locked into: Only 23% of Americans have a high degree of trust in what Trump is saying. Poll numbers like these (or the horserace numbers) prompt Trump to lie even more flamboyantly that drives down his trust numbers. That leads to more lies... — PolitiTweet.org

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@SteveWCarlson @HotlineJosh According to the Philadelphia Inquirer of October 4, 1918, 139 people died the prior day. All this material is available online and in John Barry's excellent book. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ElizabethDrewOH @maggieNYT @JohnJHarwood Go with the mood. And the mood is probably one that only lasts 23 minutes. — PolitiTweet.org

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It explains why there are a lot of Republicans who support to Trump to the grave and beyond. — PolitiTweet.org

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@StevenHerbert @BeschlossDC I'm going from the Philadelphia papers on October 4. What I do know from reading the John Barry book "The Great Influenza," is that Philadelphia was run by a particularly corrupt and ineffectual GOP political machine. — PolitiTweet.org

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This is one of the most frightening pictures in American history. The parade was September 28. By October 3, there were 52,000 cases of influenza in the city, according to the official count. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Profepps @joshtpm Shouldn't Las Vegas have a city manager for that job? — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattizcoop @HotlineJosh I always watched her moves as a Rove protege. That’s why the conversion is so revealing. — PolitiTweet.org

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It's a big tent Trump Party these days. — PolitiTweet.org

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But five years between them in age. — PolitiTweet.org

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I've heard of Children's Crusades, but this is getting ridiculous. Pretty soon everyone in the White House Mess will be discussing midterms. — PolitiTweet.org

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@AshleyRParker I know they are 70 years old. But reading Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe books are oddly comforting for me right now. You can start anywhere. But “The Silent Speaker” should give you a sense of the series. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jwgop @RudyGiuliani @FoxNews @realDonaldTrump They double down, of course, Maybe charge that the Veterans Administration doctors are closet Democrats or part of the Deep State. Trump's remedy can't be dangerous because Trump's uncle was an MIT professor. And genius is hereditary in the Trump family as his sons demonstrate. — PolitiTweet.org