Walter Shapiro

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

My @newrepublic piece: "This is -- as Joe Biden would say -- 'an inflection point.' And while the president has done an exemplary job in managing the crisis, Biden has been too reticent in explaining the stakes to the American people." https://t.co/qlgAZPRPJ8 — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

RT @newrepublic: The president needs to speak to the country about Russia's invasion of Ukraine in primetime, @MrWalterShapiro writes. http… — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@JamieStiehm Especially since in the Quinnipiac Poll 71 percent of all Americans (including 66 percent of Republicans) say that they would accept higher gas prices to cut off Russian oil. https://t.co/UsyNS9tmaz — PolitiTweet.org

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WPost cynical headline: "Democrats embrace politically risky strategy on rising gas prices." My response: Don't you know there is a war going on? Sometimes doing the right thing trumps politics. https://t.co/anyRTbROgp — PolitiTweet.org

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@RockpathWV @emv52 @RoamtheDomes @Leeday22 @ClydeHaberman @JeffWice @carolynryan The firing of Julis LaRose for ingratitude was a seismic event. — PolitiTweet.org

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@emv52 @RockpathWV @RoamtheDomes @Leeday22 @ClydeHaberman @JeffWice @carolynryan I keep toying with the idea of writing a book on the 1956 presidential race. You've got a 2nd ballot at a convention, the Hungarian uprising, Suez, GOP efforts to get Nixon off the ticket. And me being one of two students in my second grade class for Stevenson rather than Ike. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JohnRobertAnde3 When the New York Times pulled out of Russia, I walked to my book shelf and got down my dog-eared copy of "Berlin Diary." I vaguely remembered that Shirer had left Berlin because reporting had become impossible even though the U.S. would still be a neutral for another year. — PolitiTweet.org

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From "Berlin Diary": Why William L. Shirer stopped reporting from Berlin in late 1940: "The military and political censors say that they cannot allow me to say anything that would create an unfavorable impression of Nazi Germany in the United States." Sound familiar? — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

The poem really go to me. Please read the entire article. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

"What do you do when the whistle-pause-boom comes comes your way and you’re in the open? It’s a numbers game. First you look for somewhere to hide, preferably in a side ditch with soil." Beautifully written and tear-streaked war coverage. https://t.co/Y53ABKgIdH — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@JRBoh Herblock lives! — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@laura_lrnzo Well, technically, the three Senate parties in the early 1970s are all represented on buildings: Liberal Democrats (Hart), Republicans (Dirksen) and Southern Democrats (Russell). I just want an honorable non-racist senator, but to make it happen I would give the GOP the nod. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@ZacMcCrary @Bencjacobs Bingo. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@Bencjacobs @ZacMcCrary I wish I knew more of how ardently Gorman represented the below the Mason-Dixon line aspects of Maryland in the 19th century. But clearly he was infinitely smarter than Bunning. But, hell, so was a baseball. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ZacMcCrary I could happily live with Margaret Chase Smith, John McCain, Bob Dole or virtually any deceased senator who was not the quarterback for Senate segregationists. I recognize that I can't get my true wish: Naming the building for Paul Wellstone. — PolitiTweet.org

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I have been thumping to take Russell's name off the Senate building since 2017. And I was far from the first crusader for this obvious name change: https://t.co/n1BKs4yRih — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@SoupandtheCity How do I insult females to calling Andrew Cuomo "thuggish"? And I can't see how the sexually neutral phrase "ardent defenders" is harassment. And with that, I say "good night." — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

I am so glad that the thuggish Mr. Cuomo has such ardent defenders. I am not trying to convict him. I am just saying that this is how you earn redemption. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@TCurry_Himself I haven't read them all, but this was the book that best framed the story for me: https://t.co/alsFFtHwX3 — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Memo to Andrew Cuomo: The way to restore your good name is to take the John Profumo route and quietly do good works for 20 years after a scandal. But Cuomo's shameless impatience illustrates that nothing with him has changed or will ever change: https://t.co/z7yMH9IyAb — PolitiTweet.org

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@HelenKennedy The excerpt that ran in the @wsjournal over the weekend was swarmy in its right-wing politics, grotesquely self-congratulatory and devoid of much of anything about Trump that is particularly new. — PolitiTweet.org

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Celebrity anchoring in war-time. In which the anchor becomes the story, which is a hell of an American-centric response to a global tragedy. — PolitiTweet.org

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To make this more pointed, courtesy of Axios: "Secretary of State Tony Blinken told CNN's Jake Tapper on 'State of the Union" from Moldova this morning: '[W]e’ve seen very credible reports of deliberate attacks on civilians, which would constitute a war crime.'" — PolitiTweet.org

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Very relevant today with Russian conduct: The Jewish refugee jurists who developed the concepts of "genocide" and "crimes against humanity" used in the Nuremberg trials both came from and studied law in Lviv. From a fascinating book, "East West Street." https://t.co/DMtkDdSBLk — PolitiTweet.org

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Don't dither: Can we put aside our deep political divisions for a few weeks, and get through Congress the aid Ukraine needs immediately? Also, America must take the political risks of higher gas prices by cutting off buying Russian crude. https://t.co/8ha5JOLIZK — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

RT @newrepublic: Little that Biden said to Congress and the world Tuesday night was new or notably different from his recent afternoon spee… — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

I would guess that there are three or four times more inflation stories than jobs stories. And the reason is because the return of inflation is new -- and job growth is an old story. And journalism always over-covers things that are different than last month or last year. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

I spent the morning doom-scrolling. And, boy, are things depressing. But enough about baseball. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

From the latest Zelensky statement: "We warn everyone that not a single nation every [sic] shelled nuclear power stations. For the first time in the history of humankind, the terrorist state commits nuclear terrorism." Not since 1962 have I ever been as frightened about nukes. — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattizcoop @politico You win the evening as Politico might put it. — PolitiTweet.org