Walter Shapiro

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@RachelSB I'm with David Plouffe on this: “The difference between third and fifth in Iowa could be the difference between staying in and dropping out of race. And if you need to come in third but you came in fifth you’ll say, ‘Shoot, if only I had spent three or four more days in Iowa.’” — PolitiTweet.org

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@GenePenise @Bencjacobs Just the boring Yankees playing the boring Red Sox. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MsChiChi @Bencjacobs This is the local edition of the print NY Times. There are two non-obscure local teams playing major-league baseball. I don't see any NY teams in the Champions League. — PolitiTweet.org

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Another typical Sunday with the NY Times (print) sports section: Once again there is more space devoted to European soccer than red-blooded American baseball. — PolitiTweet.org

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@pattmlatimes @JerryBrownGov Pete Buttigieg wasn't born in 1976 when Jerry Brown first ran for president. — PolitiTweet.org

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@CarlosLozadaWP I wish I had more bandwidth than 280 character to complain about this usage. — PolitiTweet.org

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Most interesting column of the weekend by far: @Peggynoonannyc comes out for censuring (but not impeaching) Trump on moral grounds over his attempts to obstruct justice. She thinks it might fly in the Senate. https://t.co/zJiJ3f3Jck — PolitiTweet.org

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@SBengali @ktumulty @pbump Another favorite, once a speciality of the Wall Street Journal, is to start your 8th graf with "True..." Then the rest of that graf refutes the entire premise of the article. Then the piece continues where it left off in the 9th graf without ever acknowledging the "True..." graf. — PolitiTweet.org

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Mueller and Pelosi have old-fashioned beliefs in institutions. Mueller's message to her: "My institution (the justice department) cannot indict a sitting president. But your institution (the House) can vote to impeach Donald Trump." From my @guardian piece https://t.co/W4hhmNgWMG — PolitiTweet.org

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@Emma_Dumain Serious question: Is there any precedent in IA, NH or SC for a major statewide candidate to endorse in a presidential nomination fight and thereby risk some of his or her party support? That’s why a Harrison endorsement doesn’t make sense in crowded SC presidential race. — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattizcoop @JamesFallows Oddly enough, Rubio is the one who surprises me. Totally ambitious and probably smart enough to realize that Trump will leave wreckage behind for the GOP. Another one who absolutely does know better is Portman, who is next on the ballot in 2024. — PolitiTweet.org

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If Bill de Blasio is the answer, I am petrified to hear the precise question. — PolitiTweet.org

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This defense of @maggieNYT is so on the money. The only thing that depresses me is that frenzied critics on the left don’t get how meaty her Trump coverage has been. — PolitiTweet.org

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@dick_nixon Also the whole Sleepy Joe thing seems an effort to take Trump’s age and mental acuity off the table. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ktumulty I am thrilled that his files have not totally gone to waste. It was just that I had such high hopes in advance for the Reagan biography -- and was so disappointed by the result, especially about the White House years. — PolitiTweet.org

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@fmkaplan You may be right about the lack of cooperation from the people closest to Reagan, but, still, I wanted a biography a little more focused on the White House than Reagan's days as a lifeguard. — PolitiTweet.org

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@RicknShira My problem with his Reagan bio was less the fictional "device" and more his disinterest in or inability to decipher Reagan in the White House. I admire his other accomplishments but this one was a major loss. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Andyrhondaluke Just for laughs: I have written thousands of articles. I challenge you to find a sentence of mine praising Castro, Chavez or the Iranian regime. — PolitiTweet.org

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@eloyboy13 Morris devoted almost none of his book to Reagan's actual time in the White House. Close Reagan associates like William French Smith (who died in 1990) cooperated with no other major biographer. But Morris did almost nothing with the White House years. — PolitiTweet.org

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The late Edmund Morris was a gifted writer and I'm sure an admirable person. But the tragedy of how he squandered never-to-be-equaled access to the Reagan White House and Reagan's closest advisers remains haunting. https://t.co/Y7Hgs8dwnB — PolitiTweet.org

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Proud that my con-man great-uncle Freeman Bernstein (the subject of my book "Hustling Hitler") was part of the Broadway sporting crowd (including George M. Cohan, Eddie Foy and Sam Harris) who took a special deluxe train from NYC to Toledo for the fight. https://t.co/aw0U40I5ox — PolitiTweet.org

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@tse_____ @BrennanCenter @marwilliamson Maybe it's a coincidence that I also dismissed ludicrous male candidates like Mike Gravel in the same article. What, in God's name, are Williamson's qualifications to run for president? — PolitiTweet.org

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@ed_kilgore I am almost certain it never happened. Certainly not since the dawn of modern primaries in 1968. Maybe in party caucus fights in the 19th century. But remember JFK at 43 was considered historically young. — PolitiTweet.org

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A Memorial Day thought: I wonder how slavishly Trump would have praised Pol Pot. — PolitiTweet.org

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Stop what you're doing -- and read @dianefeldman on all the ways that primary polls can prove to be misleading. This is the best primer I've seen on how things with almost all public polls can and will go wrong: https://t.co/UTFO0Mth1K — PolitiTweet.org

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Almost all questions in a headline should be answered with a "no." But this ludicrous question should be answered with a resounding "no." https://t.co/u5ASQVSOn4 — PolitiTweet.org

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End the stupid and ineffective camouflage and bring back liberal. It is the antonym to conservative. Too often an election is between a proud conservative and a timorous Democrat who says he or she doesn’t believe in labels. — PolitiTweet.org

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They must be overwhelmed with volunteers. — PolitiTweet.org

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I am seriously worried that in September, the Democrats will go to just one debate with a maximum of 10 candidates thereby turning senators and governors into un-persons. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@HelenKennedy I hope you're not going for the "early-bird special." — PolitiTweet.org