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That’s how Morton Kondracke described John Edwards’ performance against Vice President Cheney tonight. I concur.
Cheney raises Sen. Edwards’ lousy record on defense and intelligence matters, and Edwards yaps pointlessly about…”Meals on Wheels.”
Edwards’ cloying closing statement was stunningly weak compared to Cheney’s stalwart, policy-packed summation.
Three quick media notes:
1) Gwen Ifill deserves strong praise for [...]

Gave a book-related lecture earlier tonight at Johns Hopkins. Many thanks to the JHU College Republicans for a good time. There were a few unhinged malefactors, but it was otherwise a low-key event (especially compared to this). Was excited to meet Gregory Kane, a lonely voice of sanity at the Baltimore Sun. If you haven’t [...]

University of North Carolina law professor Eric Muller has been guest-blogging about my new book this week over at The Volokh Conspiracy. He enlisted the aid of his friend and author Greg Robinson in his endeavor. I welcome the debate from the Eric-Greg tag team and others who have actually read the book and are [...]

The Wonkette-ization of the Washington Post continues. I’ve just learned that the Post is planning a Washington Post Magazine front-page cover story on Jessica Cutler because, you know, she just hasn’t gotten the attention she deserves. Here’s the e-mail I received from April Witt, a Post staff writer:

—– Original Message —–
From: [...]

The Washington Post’s Richard “Fluff Daddy” Leiby announces that the other half of the Skankette twins has signed on as a reporter/analyst/what-EVER for MTV News (”News”) during the Democratic National Convention:
That foul-mouthed red-haired vixen known as the Wonkette (Ana Marie Cox of Arlington) has leveraged her popular political gossip site, Wonkette.com, into a gig with [...]