Walter Shapiro

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@DKarol @BrendanNyhan @mattyglesias @ProfHansNoel I assume the perfect model of this is Mondale to Dukakis to Clinton. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Chris_arnade Great. Troy fascinates me. My family lived there from about 1870-1900. I spent a bit of time in Troy researching my book on my con-man great uncle, “Hustling Hitler.” And I grieve over the soul-destroying results of 1960s urban renewal. — PolitiTweet.org

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Reminds me of the Greta Garbo quote about the Soviet purges from "Ninotchka": "There are going to be fewer but better Russians." — PolitiTweet.org

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@Chris_arnade Wish you had done Troy across the river. Much inequality but glorious 19th century architecture. — PolitiTweet.org

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@lmlauramarsh @alex_shephard I actually can see a case for “Midnight’s Children.” I ended up voting for Ulysses, Catch-22 and Harry Potter. Make of it what you will. — PolitiTweet.org

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@lmlauramarsh @alex_shephard No Hemingway. No Roth. No Faulkner. No Bellow. No Rushdie. I am tempted to vote for Harry Potter to highlight the absurdity of it all. But I might go quirky and vote for “Catch-22.” — PolitiTweet.org

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@helaineolen Wait until this ersatz scandal comes to a boil. I can see the attack ads for Cookware-gate. — PolitiTweet.org

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@maggieNYT This illustrates one of the few unalterable truths about presidential politics — no non-incumbent since Nixon 1960 has been handed a nomination without a serious fight. And even Nixon had to finesse Rockefeller. — PolitiTweet.org

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@catherinejross_ By Saturday of that horrible weekend, I couldn't take watching TV non-stop. So I convinced my parents in Connecticut to let me go to DC with a high-school friend. It was my first flight. And we stood in the cold for hours waiting to view the casket in the Capitol Rotunda. — PolitiTweet.org

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@barbaraslavin1 I was living in Norwalk, Connecticut, and I remember going to a newsstand to get all the papers the day after the assassination. And there was this crusty news vendor, who I remembered as grumpy, crying his eyes out. — PolitiTweet.org

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For those who wonder, high-school chemistry class. And, yes, the teacher continued to try to finish the lesson. Also, the wrenching shock of JFK's death is still the defining moment of a generation even though so many horrors (MLK, RFK, Vietnam, 9/11, Covid) followed. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JohnRobertAnde3 Having read Joe Liebling on the death of the "World," I will have to see this. By the way, doing historical research from 1910-1930, the "World" was such an interesting paper unlike the stodgy Times and Herald-Tribune. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JohnRobertAnde3 I don't recall "Deadline USA" which is my own damn fault. But ultimately I would go with "The Front Page" or "His Girl Friday." — PolitiTweet.org

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Such a sad sentence: "The parade is the official kickoff to the holiday season in downtown Waukesha." https://t.co/5wvczjcenr — PolitiTweet.org

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What group could be a more credible validator than the IOC for Peng Shuai's safety: "The IOC said Peng 'explained that she is safe and well, living at her home in Beijing, but would like to have her privacy respected at this time.'” Sounds so convincing: https://t.co/Q5GAFJTmTp — PolitiTweet.org

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@jackshafer @michaelscherer @tylerpager @WaPoSean Someone from the left trying to be Bernie Sanders Redux. It's not precedented -- both Carter in 1980 and Bush in 1992 faced primary challenges in their reelection bids. — PolitiTweet.org

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Regarding Peng Shuai: "The IOC press office said Thursday that 'quiet diplomacy offers the best opportunity to find a solution.'” I assume the IOC found that don't-make-waves phrasing in the files from 1936 in Berlin. https://t.co/WlMQkgnUMl — PolitiTweet.org

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Least surprising headline of the weekend: "We fact-checked Representative Kevin McCarthy’s eight-hour speech and found a number of false or misleading claims." It's the front-page Times web headline. The story itself has a far more boring headline so I am not providing a link. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JohnJHarwood: biggest question facing Biden/Democrats now is not whether Congress enacts BBB that's very likely biggest question is w… — PolitiTweet.org

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@RonRosenbaum1 Molly Ivins used the line to describe Pat Buchanan’s fiery “culture war” speech to the 1992 Republican convention. — PolitiTweet.org

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@RonRosenbaum1 That joke — no matter how appropriate — should only be used with an acknowledgment of the great Molly Ivins. — PolitiTweet.org

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@CharlesPPierce I vaguely recall an empire that stretched from London to India and beyond as well. — PolitiTweet.org

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Just remember that it's only four hours before the lunar eclipse starts getting good. Will Kevin "Fidel Castro" McCarthy still be talking? — PolitiTweet.org

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Will the moon be in eclipse when the House finally votes on the Biden social agenda tonight? — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @rollcall: OPINION — Nothing is more enraging than the failure of Democrats to remember that the alternative to Biden is not Bernie Sand… — PolitiTweet.org

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@ArthurHochstein @jestei Plymouth gin and a twist. Still searching for the vermouth of my dreams. — PolitiTweet.org

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@lmlauramarsh @jestei Since vermouth is not the central ingredient — to the least — in a gin martini, I buy only smallish bottles. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jestei I figured as much. But I didn’t know it until somebody In a liquor store told me. So I maybe unduly rushed into public service mode. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jestei Don’t know who told you to refrigerate the vermouth, but they are right. Also change bottles regularly since vermouth decays like wine. These are hard-won lessons of a martini drinker. — PolitiTweet.org

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I am reeling from the breathtaking stupidity of the follow up question: Did you send them a letter resigning? It’s like asking me to search my records for a letter resigning from the Cub Scouts. — PolitiTweet.org