Greg Sargent

By now you may have heard that during her interview with Larry King, First Lady Laura Bush lamented to her host that newspapers refuse to put good poll numbers for her husband -- that would be the President -- on their front pages. She said, "when they're good...

New York Times editor Bill Keller and L.A. Times editor Dean Baquet have jointly published an Op-ed in today's Times about their publication of stories on the U.S.'s secret financial surveillance program. Read it and you'll see that the entire piece is strikingly devoted to making the case...

Actually, no, that isn't parody. I've been conducting a rather bracing on-the-record email interview with Melanie Morgan, the sometime guest on MSNBC and right-wing talk show host on San Francisco's KSFO-FM. You may recall that Ms. Morgan recently said that she'd happily countenance the slow and agonizing execution...

Did you know that a right-wing talk show host has just said that she would have "no problem" with it if Bill Keller were "sent to the gas chamber" for publishing the big Times piece on the U.S.'s secret financial surveillance program?

And no one even blinked.

The host was...

Thomas Kean, the Republican former governor of New Jersey who co-chaired the 9-11 Commission, has said in an interview with me that he doesn't think the Times's publication of its story on the U.S.'s secret financial surveillance program put American lives at risk.

In the interview, Kean also defended the...

OK, so via Romenesko we now know that White House press secretary Tony Snow has now told Editor and Publisher that the New York Times won't have its press credentials taken away, as National Review has demanded. Nor do many commentators appear to think...

Last week, over at my blog, The Horse's Mouth, I wrote that I'd asked the publicist for NBC Today whether Ann Coulter would be welcome on the show after having opined that 9/11 widows were "enjoying their husbands' deaths." The publicist wrote back that Coulter would...

It's an argument you hear with depressing familiarity: If you don't embrace the "hawkish" positions of Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and Joe Lieberman on Iraq, then you're automatically a partisan who's putting the interests of the Democratic Party before those of America. Today Marshall Wittman writes:

"To their...

As many around the blogosphere are noting this morning, the fact that Karl Rove managed to extricate his lip from the hook at the end of Patrick Fitzgerald's fishing line has inspired the media to begin chanting a new version of that old favorite, the "Bush-is-on-the-rebound" chorus. With...