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Mrs. Smith Goes to Washington (We’re F*****d)

by Philip Weiss12 September 2008

Today I announced I wasn’t going to write about my wife. My wife and I just watched ABC News with Charlie Gibson teasing his interview with Sarah Palin. My wife’s smart about people. She said, “Slam dunk.” She said Palin…

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Charlie Gibson Secretly Judges Sarah Palin

by Philip Weiss12 September 2008

I heard Charlie Gibson’s commencement address at the elite New York high school, the Dalton School, last June. The tone was: aw shucks but I went to Princeton; I’m just an ordinary guy, I did poorly in economics, but I’m…

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Matthews Suggests AIPAC Scripted Palin’s Rote Answer on Israel

by Philip Weiss11 September 2008

Sarah Palin gave a scary answer to Charlie Gibson on Israel, saying she supported Israel’s prerogative to attack Iran, and under his questioning said in a rote way, three times, that the U.S. has no right to “second guess” Israel’s…

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Palin the Lobbyist-Basher Was Vetted– by the Israel Lobby

by Philip Weiss8 September 2008

I keep saying that my side is winning, inside Jewish life. Well, here’s another Jew for whom the Israeli occupation is a sine qua non of his understanding of Israel: bookseller Ira Glunts, taking on the Israel lobby, and commenting…

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So She Tried to Ban Shakespeare. Has She Ever Read Him?

by Philip Weiss8 September 2008

A list of books then-mayor Sarah Palin allegedly was targeting to ban from the Wasilla public library is getting wide circ on the net. Shakey’s on there–Merchant of Venice. So’s Mark Twain. The LATimes is not going with the list…

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