Obama Running Away with European Vote
Barack Obama would easily win the presidency if the citizens of France, Germany, and the United Kingdom were doing the voting rather than Americans, Gallup reports. Unless I've missed something, Europeans aren't eligible to vote in our elections. These surveys nonetheless provide interesting insights into how different cultures view things. Gallup's Zsolt Nyiri, Frank Newport, and Jeffrey Jones provide ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on July 23, 2008 12:07
Press Corps Patriotism
Jonah Goldberg yearns for the golden days of yore, when American journalists wore their patriotism on their sleeve. In a recent speech at the National Press Club, Katie Couric expressed somber disapproval of the jingoistic excesses after 9/11. Among the things that vexed her: "The whole culture of wearing flags on our lapel and saying 'we' when referring to the United ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on October 3, 2007 11:01
Caption Contest Winners
The Walk a Mile for a Camel Edition OTB Caption ContestTM is now over. (CBS NEWS 60 MINUTES/Handout/Reuters) Winners: First: Greg Tinti - I didn't realize you were that close with Mel Gibson... Second: charles austin - Mike Wallace calms a jittery President Ahmadenijad by telling him that the ticking sound he hears is just the ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on August 14, 2006 21:43
Mike Wallace Says Ahmadinejad an Impressive Fellow
Mike Wallace came out of retirement to interview Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Wallace found him to be "an impressive fellow." Indeed, he might have a little man-crush on him, remarking, "He's actually, in a strange way, he's a rather attractive man, very smart, savvy, self-assured, good looking in a strange way." Twenty-seven years after a chilling sit-down with Ayatollah ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on August 10, 2006 09:13
President Bush on Larry King Live (Transcript and Video)
President and Mrs. Bush were on Larry King Live last night on the occasion of the commander-in-chief's 60th birthday. It was a wideranging but frank discussion of world events and the personal side of the world's most stressful job. NYT television columnist Alessandra Stanley began her story on the interview with the rather bizarre opener, "Two kinds of celebrities go ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on July 7, 2006 08:53
Reporters And Citizenship
Marc Danziger highlights an exchange from a PBS roundtable discussion from twenty years ago that I remember well. James Fallows describes in hindsight a dialogue between the late Peter Jennings, then anchor of ABC World News Tonight, and CBS's Mike Wallace about a hypothetical war they were covering. With Jennings in their midst, the northern soldiers set up a perfect ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on June 28, 2006 07:17
Caption Contest Winners
The I'm Just a Sweat Transvestite Edition OTB Caption ContestTM is now over. (Time Pictures of the Week - Warren Clarke / EPA) Winners First: McGehee - "Didn't I see you in Blokeback Mountain?" Second: Adjustah - Kevin Federline's first music video was a disaster... Third: FormerHostage - Caution: Objects in the mirror may be closer ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on March 20, 2006 18:54
