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The performance in Lie Another Day was flawless. Bill Clinton effortlessly lied his way through a speech criticizing the Democrats for failing to get out their message in the recent campaign without him suffering from the least bit of self-conscious irony that HE was the one acting as the chief Democrat cheerleader. Then when Clinton castigated Democrats for standing by and not answering criticism of Tom Daschle while he was one of those standing by, it was a delicious hypocrisy that… OOPS! You say the movie I'm supposed to be reviewing is not Lie Another Day but Die Another...

Three months before CNN political analyst Bill Schneider praised Senator John Kerry’s “intelligence,” Washington-based CNN political reporter Chris Black joined the effort to elect Kerry President by becoming Communications Director for the Heinz Foundation headed by Kerry’s wife, Teresa, the widow of the late Pennsylvania Senator John Heinz.     Black was hired to “rein in Teresa” after an embarrassing, very un-First Lady-like interview with the Washington Post, the New York Daily News reported in August. (This item has been in my pending file for awhile and today I finally found a hook for it.)     George Rush and Joanna Molloy reported in...

ASHINGTON - Senator John F. Kerry says the 2004 presidential campaign he is contemplating will be modeled on the maverick, straight-talk bid that Republican Senator John McCain made for the White House in 2000. In a long profile in today's New Yorker magazine, Massachusetts' junior senator said winning the Democratic nomination will depend on making connections with people across party lines and winning the support of Republicans and Independents who can vote in Democratic primaries. ''People are jaded, people are cynical - there's a breach of faith,'' Kerry told writer Joe Klein. ''You have to reestablish a way to connect...