Walter Shapiro

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

If you ever have written for a newspaper, if you have ever filed on deadline, then you have to see "Ink," the homage to old-time British tabloids now on Broadway. Yes, it's about the early years of Rupert Murdoch, but it also is so wonderfully evocative of newspapers. — PolitiTweet.org

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Richard Nixon's "favorite mayor" became the kind of senator who made you believe in the institution and the two-party system. And it is worth remembering that controlling nuclear weapons (a Lugar crusade) remains one of the biggest issues of this era or any era since 1945. — PolitiTweet.org

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No surprise that @JillDLawrence deftly zeroes in on the biggest question raised by Biden's candidacy: "Can a lifelong establishmentarian... be simultaneously civil, bipartisan and ruthless?" The Charlottesville part of his announcement hints that he can. https://t.co/XOnsrx5s5W — PolitiTweet.org

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Just about the softest "ask" in political history. From a Cory Booker Facebook ad: "I’m not asking you to be all in for me and only me. It’s far too early for that. But if you think my voice belongs on the national debate stage, chip in to our campaign today." — PolitiTweet.org

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@dianefeldman If I had another 200 words for the column, I would have included quotes from your latest email newsletter about the folly of early polling in Iowa. I am a huge fan of the "View from the Pearl." — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattizcoop @AlecMacGillis Good theory, but then why not Madison? — PolitiTweet.org

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Surprised that nobody has pointed out the huge step for gender equality in the NRA leadership fight. It is a man (Wayne LaPierre) who is the one who is accused of abusing a clothing allowance. — PolitiTweet.org

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@BrendanNyhan This is the moment when I fail to understand all those dejected liberals who are convinced that Trump is following some clever strategy that will get him re-elected without appealing to anyone but his 38 percent. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Margoandhow Alas, you have to be a student of history to know who Queen Marie of Romania was. — PolitiTweet.org

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@johnmsides @vavreck I used both "The Gamble" and "Identity Crisis" with my students at Yale this year. And, boy, has "discovery, scrutiny, decline" worked well with Beto, in particular, this year. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ClydeHaberman @LynnSherr @ktumulty Many people are uncomfortable with the idea that something like the identity of the 2020 Democratic nominee is "unknowable." A refusal to make predictions also is terrible television. But the more you know, the more you know that you know less. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ktumulty Golly. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ktumulty: .⁦@MrWalterShapiro⁩ hits this one out of the park — https://t.co/Xp4nrPDM3J — PolitiTweet.org

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I tried to include the big lessons I have learned — with humility — from covering 10 campaigns and starting on my 11th. — PolitiTweet.org

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My polling lessons: "No one knows how many Democrats will participate in the Iowa caucuses. New Hampshire primary voters have often dramatically changed their minds at the last moment. And national polls gyrate wildly after Iowa and New Hampshire." https://t.co/AuqUTfqOrW — PolitiTweet.org

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@greenfield64 As a New Yorker, I ask, "Why?" — PolitiTweet.org

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My favorite sentence from a movie-star obit this year: "The president of Republic Pictures, [discovered] her in a bathing suit poolside at the home of her brother-in-law Billy Gilbert, the comedian renowned for his spasmodic sneezes." https://t.co/A4GjRFezG7 — PolitiTweet.org

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@ClydeHaberman @powellnyt I disagree: Bridge players have deep respect for a bid of "Seven No Trump." — PolitiTweet.org

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@jmartNYT You don’t get enough 1936 political jokes on Twitter. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Hailey_Fuchs That one made me laugh. — PolitiTweet.org

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Pete Buttegieg was five years old when Biden first declared for president. — PolitiTweet.org

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In the history of modern politics, no candidate had gone 32 years between his first presidential campaign and his last. (Of course BIden can run again in 2024). Biden will be breaking his own 20-year record in 2007. — PolitiTweet.org

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@DaveKelley6 Problem with these pre-hearing meetings is that no one is really pressed to be succinct and follow up the prior Democratic questioner. — PolitiTweet.org

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@maryamitin @digby56 It's was Butterfield. But he was questioned by Fred Thompson during the Watergate hearings. Sorry if my original tweet caused confusion. — PolitiTweet.org

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@joeff53 @digby56 I think it came out in private sessions the morning of the hearing. But my point was that a committee minority counsel was the one questioning a key witness. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JennyLynBader I have covered Washington for decades. And I am pretty sure that I have never blurted out “the other side of the aisle.” Okay, maybe if I was looking for deodorant at CVS and I was on the wrong side of Aisle 7-B. — PolitiTweet.org

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Small observation on tonight's CNN marathon: I understand why Amy Klobuchar, after two terms in the Senate, occasionally blurts out "the other side of the aisle." But why does Pete Buttigieg, as a mayor, also use that off-putting Washington cliche? — PolitiTweet.org

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@KathaPollitt What has impressed me tonight with Warren and Klobuchar is that they are much better at this stage of the campaign than most of their (yes, male) Democratic counterparts were in 1999, 2003 and 2007. — PolitiTweet.org

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Watching the CNN marathon of town meetings and anticipating those that come will later tonight, I simply don't understand the criticism of the quality of the 2020 Democratic candidates. — PolitiTweet.org

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@digby56 The biggest revelation during the Senate Watergate hearings (the existence of the White House taping system) came out during the questioning of, yes, the Republican counsel. Fred Thompson. — PolitiTweet.org