BEING a losing leftist in Minnesota has Garrison Keillor gnashing his teeth in impotent rage. After Norm Coleman soundly trounced Walter Mondale in the U.S. Senate race, Keillor launched a limp attack on the senator-elect on salon.com. Recalling a dinner party in St. Paul at which then-mayor Coleman gave a speech about native son F. Scott Fitzgerald, Keillor snipes, "[It] was soon clear to anyone who has ever graded ninth-grade book reports that the mayor had never read Fitzgerald," reports the Washington Post. Page Six.
And this regarding Pardongate, also from Page Six:
FORMER Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak has federal prosecutors fuming by refusing to answer their questions about his role in the Marc Rich Pardon-gate scandal, even while traipsing around Manhattan like a Hollywood celebrity. Barak was dining in high style at Michael’s and at the Waldorf recently, even as he ignored an Oct. 27 deadline to provide prosecutors with answers to a list of questions they sent him as part of a deal with Israeli authorities.
Now the feds are so miffed with Barak that the Israeli embassy in Washington is warning the peripatetic ex-PM he could be arrested the next time he steps foot in the country, reports Israel’s Ha’aretz newspaper. U.S. prosecutors believe that Barak used his influence to get Bill Clinton to pardon the disgraced financier, who hid out in Switzerland for 17 years rather than face prosecution for massive tax evasion. An Israeli government source dismissed the possibility that Barak would be arrested here, calling the likelihood "zilch."