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Clinton advisers criticize Obama mailerBy BETH FOUHY Associated Press Writer Posted on Fri, Feb. 01, 2008 NEW YORK --Advisers to Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton Friday complained vehemently about an Obama campaign mailer that criticizes Clinton's health plan, with one adviser likening the mailer to "Nazis marching through Skokie, Illinois." Clinton communications director Howard Wolfson disavowed the analogy leveled by Len Nichols, a health policy expert at the New America Foundation who has consulted with Clinton and other candidates on their proposals. But the remark still reflected the emotional dispute over how best to achieve universal health care, a key concern...

Here’s something for the really hardcore, political geeks. Fred’s first Iowa mailer. http://bp1.blogger.com/_5d_fpdUHmxc/R0MC_gjyK1I/AAAAAAAAAhw/ep7W574fYPc/s1600-h/dont+compromise.jpg Much talk is about campaigns’ tv commercials but in Iowa mailers are very important. Disclaimer: I work for Friends of Fred Thompson, Inc.

On a recent visit to New Zealand, I happened across a book that I had long intended to read, In the Belly of the Beast, by Jack Henry Abbott. (Before the advent of the Internet, which equalised world prices, New Zealand used to be the best place in the English-speaking world for second-hand books.) The name probably faintly rings a bell. He was a career criminal, and had spent the vast majority of his life in penal institutions of one kind or another. At the time he first wrote to Norman Mailer, he was serving a sentence of up to...

Now journalism has become an offshoot of the welfare state. Every last cigar-smoking fraud of a middle-aged reporter, pale with prison pallor, deep lines in his cheeks, writing daily pietisms for the sheet back home about free enterprise, is himself the first captive. It is the best free ride anyone will find since he left his family’s chest. Your room is paid for by the newspaper, your trips to the particular sports attached to the event ...are by chartered limousine. Who but a Soviet bureaucrat, a British businessman, a movie star, or an American reporter would ride in a chartered...

I'm beginning to see why one would want to write a blog. At present, I have a few thoughts I can certainly not prove, but the gaffe over the Michael Isikoff story in Newsweek concerning the Koran and the toilet is redolent with bad odor. Who, indeed, was Isikoff's supposedly reliable Pentagon source? One's counter-espionage hackles rise. If you want to discredit a Dan Rather or a Newsweek crew, just feed them false information from a hitherto reliable source. You learn that in Intelligence 101A. Counter-espionage often depends on building "reliable sources." You construct such reliability item by secret item,...

Dennis Miller is scheduled to make another appearance Wednesday night on a new edition of NBC's Tonight Show with Jay Leno. This week's Weekly Standard magazine carries a piece reviewing Miller's move to the right and recounting some of his latest material, lines you may have caught in his new pre-taped segments for FNC run Friday night on Hannity & Colmes and Saturday afternoon on Weekend Live with Tony Snow. An excerpt from, "Miller's Crossing...to the right side of the political street," by Eric Pfeiffer in the July 28 Weekly Standard: Dennis Miller insists he's not an across-the-board conservative, which...

<p>May 9, 2003 -- DON'T invite Dennis Miller and Norman Mailer to the same party.</p> <p>Miller trashed Mailer in a May 5 op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal for the novelist's arguments against President Bush's liberation of Iraq. And now Mailer has responded with a "Dear Dennis" letter, published in the Journal yesterday.</p>

The day before making another appearance on NBC's Tonight Show, actor/comedian Dennis Miller penned an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal making fun of author Norman Mailer's latest anti- U.S. and Bush-hating jabs. At the top of Miller's May 5 piece the Journal ran this quote from Mailer taken from a Mailer column in the London Times last week: "With their dominance in sport, at work and at home eroded, Bush thought white American men needed to know they were still good at something. That's where Iraq came in....The great white stars of yesteryear were for the most part gone,...

<p>"With their dominance in sport, at work and at home eroded, Bush thought white American men needed to know they were still good at something. That's where Iraq came in. . . .</p> <p>When The Wall Street Journal asked me to react to Mr. Mailer's latest daft screed, I almost took a pass. I've never written an opinion piece for a newspaper before, and furthermore I know as much about Norman Mailer as I do about Mary Quant. I think they were both kinda hot for a few minutes in the '60s.</p>

‘There’s just too much anger, too much ruptured vanity, too much shock, too much identity crisis. And, worst of all, too much patriotism.” With this scathing analysis the great novelist Norman Mailer, self-appointed shrink to the American people, celebrates the first anniversary of the attack on the twin towers, adding for good measure that “we have a pre-totalitarian situation here now”. Mailer’s rumbustious rhetoric, displayed in an interview in today’s Sunday Times Magazine, is certainly undimmed by the years. Yet from my own modest travels in America and conversations with Americans since September 11, he might be describing a different...