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‘I Can’t Link Those Two Events’

By | 01.16.09 | 9:31 am

Vice President Dick Cheney’s exit interview with PBS’ Jim Lehrer has to be seen to be believed, and Ben Craw has the video. Editor & Publisher has the transcript.

CHENEY: … And if I were to look for one where there was a miscalculation on my part,

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Bill Richardson Off the Cuff

By | 12.03.08 | 3:05 pm

Via Dana Goldstein, Esquire rounds up some quotes, anecdotes and nyuk-nyuks from the new Commerce Secretary-designate (and possible post-Clinton secretary of state?). Here’s my favorite, with a guest appearance from Saddam Hussein:

Saddam had these small, black eyes. I started giving him my spiel, which was, “I

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Robert Kagan Lies About Bush Lying About Iraq

By | 10.28.08 | 1:50 pm

Here I was, all set to debunk Robert Kagan’s bloviations about how it’s an “absurd conspiracy theor[y]” to say that President George W. Bush lied about the basis for the Iraq war, when Matt Duss of the Center for American Progress beat me to it.

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John McCain: Friend of a Friend of a Friend of Saddam Hussein

By | 10.14.08 | 4:08 pm

Well, if Sen. Barack Obama is supposed to be “palling around with terrorists,” then why not go there?

Murray Waas reports for the Huffington Post that the announced head of Sen. John McCain’s presidential transition team — call it the power of positive thinking — was part of an More…