• February 13, 2012

sam stein

Remember Sonia Sotomayor, the Puerto Rican judge and potential Supreme Court pick who is, according to important legal insiders, an annoying retarded loser? Here’s another “knock” on her chances: she’s a Type One diabetic. She was being so dumb and annoying one day that God gave her diabetes. Does this spark a wider debate about [...]

HERE’S A FUN PRESS CORPS GAME CALLED “STEAL POLITICO’S SEAT!” We rather like the anecdotes in this FiveThirtyEight post about how oppressed bloggers are always trying to steal Politico‘s seat at White House press briefings, only to be caught minutes later by confused Politico reporters. This could be a fun daily game! So we ask [...]

The whole political Internets were abuzz (WITH JEALOUSY) all day yesterday about how lil’ old Sam Stein, the workmanlike Huffington Post blog reporter, got to ask Obama a very serious question at his primetime press conference about prosecuting Bush and Cheney for their various crimes against everyone. White House press conferences will devolve into Atrios [...]

Be sure to check your liberal New York Times Magazine this week, as star reporter Robert Draper has put together “an explosive story… on the inner workings and combative personalities of what has been a wild few months for the McCain campaign,” according to the Huffington Post’s Sam Stein. You can read his preview here, [...]