Dan Froomkin
Washington Post
Media Briefing
December 1, 2006
Will v. Webb
George F. Will’s Washington Post opinion column yesterday, accusing newly elected Virginia Senator Jim Webb of acting like a “boor” when he didn’t respond warmly to Bush’s question about his son, a Marine in Iraq, has inspired furious response in the blogosphere and among washingtonpost.com readers, who have […]
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August 4, 1986
“GOP Senate candidate Mike DeWine voted in 1986 to prevent important sanctions against the white apartheid regime in South Africa.”
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I really don’t believe there is an anniversary celebration of the 1896 Supreme Court decision which allowed de jure segregation in public places and–if there were–I doubt Senator Allen would attend. I am uncertain […]
Here is a CNN transcript from Wolf Blitzer’s SITUATION ROOM. Lynne Cheney is on a book tour. Her interview took place after Dick had said dunking detainees was a no-brainer. He added later that he did not mean water-boarding (proscribed by Geneva Accords & most humans) and the Bush administration does not torture. They’re quite […]
VIRGINIA RESULTS: ALLEN–1; ED OTT–2; POL POT–3; JAMES WEBB–N/A.
“Some Voting Machines Chop Off Candidates’ Names
Computer Glitch Affects Voters in 3 Jurisdictions; Error Cannot Be Fixed by Nov. 7
By Leef Smith
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, October 24, 2006; B04
U.S. Senate candidate James Webb’s last name has been cut off on part of the electronic ballot used by […]
I wonder if his father would be proud of this oinker.
“Allen’s Undisclosed Stock Options Were Worth Up to $1.1 Million
By Michael Forsythe and Miles Weiss
Oct. 10 (Bloomberg) — Stock options that Senator George Allen described as worthless were worth as much as $1.1 million at one point, according to a review of Senate disclosure forms […]
Five years of undisclosed stock options with companies he had favored while governor and help with an army deal for another company for which he held stock options are new allegations against George Allen and his crumbling campaign for a second senate term and ill-conceived ‘08 White House run. I think he’s a Christian, no?
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“(North Carolina State professor Edward J.) Sabornie said he has now decided to let his name be known because he was upset by how Allen responded this week to the Salon story. “What George said on Monday really kind of inflamed me — that it was ‘ludicrously false’ that he ever used the n-word,” Sabornie […]
Because George Allen needs moolah and help from W., he sent his own limo to the White House so the president could enjoy the view. The men could have made the trip faster with athletic shoes, but Allen likes to watch them bleed when they return to his carriage house.
“(By Leslie E. Kossoff — Associated […]
“Well dig yields centuries-old artifacts
By DIONNE WALKER,
Associated Press Writer
Tue Jul 25, 9:47 PM ET
Sometime around 1610, archaeologists figure, a thirsty colonist in Jamestown set his brass pistol on the side of a well as he pulled up some water and accidentally knocked the weapon in.
It’s one explanation for a cache of rare finds the archaeologists […]
Webb flier draws anger
BY TYLER WHITLEY AND PETER HARDIN
Jun 10, 2006
TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITERS
Webb said it was not anti-Semitic, but if anyone was offended by it, “I apologize.”
He said Miller had played the race card by misrepresenting his views on affirmative action.
The two candidates for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate appeared on Washington Post […]