This is precious: Then there is Richard “Is This America?” Kovacevich, the chairman of Wells Fargo. Late last week, Kovacevich gave a talk at Stanford University, complaining about how unfair it is that the government forced his bank to take $25 billion in bailout money last year when it could have easily raised private capital …
Response from the Politico’s Michael Calderone
I emailed the reporter, Michael Calderone, who wrote the JournoList piece and asked him to respond to criticism that the existence of the list was hardly a surprise, per John’s earlier post. He was kind enough to respond: Obviously, I’m aware there are other lists. But the point here is that JList serves as a …
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Back in the saddle again
The special election campaign in NY-20 (Kirsten Gillibrand’s old seat) has turned into an amazing shitstorm for Republicans. When last we left it, the race — which should be a gimme for Republicans for a variety of reasons (big rej advantage, experienced candidate with great name ID) — appeared to be tight, largely because of …
How was anyone to know?
As an aficionado of Richard Cohen stupidity I can’t believe I didn’t see this earlier (MM via Atrios): What Jon Stewart needs is Jon Stewart. He could use a droll comedian to temper his ferocity and correct him when he’s wrong, as he was about the financial media, particularly CNBC and its excitable analyst Jim …
Instant icon
If our entire era could be described in a single picture, it would be this one (from Fairfield County Look via TPM): the current head of AIG Financial Products (the division that lost all the money) wearing a Che Guevara tee-shirt at a cocktail party. But who am I to talk? I’ve got a Che …
Freeze, baby, freeze
There’s an interesting back-and-forth between Ross Douthat and Michael Kinsley about stem cell research. Douthat writes (in a somewhat “sneery” reply to an earlier Kinsley piece on the issue, as Kinsley puts it): As should be clear from other examples, at home and abroad, most pro-lifers would like to heavily regulate fertility clinics, and would support efforts to give every …
He’s still big time in the Village
This is weird, though predictable. Beltway reporters are attacking Gibbs for his “I guess Rush was busy” comments about Dick Cheney. Here’s Chip Reid (via TPM): Reid: Can I ask you, when you referred to the former Vice President, that was a really hard-hitting, kind of sarcastic response you had. This is a former Vice …