Nov 4 2009

Charlie Crist on the Stimulus Now: "I didn’t endorse it"; Charlie Crist in February: "I support it"

During a CNN appearance on Wednesday, Charlie Crist said of Obama’s stimulus package:

“I didn’t endorse it. I didn’t even have a vote on the darn thing. … But I understood that it was gonna pass and I wanted to be able to utilize it for the benefit of my fellow Floridians.”
Charlie Crist during a February [...]

Oct 15 2009

On Twitter, CNN’s Rick Sanchez Retracts Limbaugh Smear

It looks like CNN has been so busy the past 24 hours running news stories on its website and on air about Meghan McCain’s existential Twitter crisis, that Rick Sanchez’s own Twitter page was only place where he could find the space to issue a mealy-mouthed apology for falsely attributing a racist quote to Rush [...]

Sep 26 2009

Quote of the Century (So Far)

I snitched it out of a great Beldar post; he’s back to classic form after — well, you know. (We won’t go into the whole “lost fortnight” thingie, with the nylons and the egg salad and the dwarf tossing. Don’t ask him about it; he’ll claim he doesn’t remember a bit of it… [...]

May 29 2009

Sotomayor’s Unpredictability

The New York Times reports “Sotomayor’s Appellate Opinions Are Unpredictable, Lawyers and Scholars Say“. The story isn’t that surprising when one considers this 1996 Sotomayor quote that Ed Whelan dug up:

“The public expects the law to be static and predictable. The law, however, is uncertain and responds to changing circumstances. … the public fails to [...]