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Mary Matalin

For the Love of Blogging

Bella DePaulo | Posted 06.19.2009 | Media

Read More: Scientific Claims, Karl Rove, Singled Out, Pay, Books, Msm, Matrimania, James Carville, Mary Matalin, Media, Singles, Myths, Atlantic Magazine, Tucker Carlson, Happiness, Consciousness-Raising, Marriage, Ed Rendell, Singlism, Susan Boyle, Snark, Health, Janet Napolitano, Comments on Blogs, Blogging, Media News
Bella DePaulo

When I first started blogging, I never imagined it would become one of my favorite things to do.

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Mary Matalin Signs On As CNN Contributor

cnn.com | Posted 04.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Cnn, Mary Matalin, Television, Media News

Republican strategist Mary Matalin has signed on to serve as a CNN political contributor, the network announced Thursday. The former Crossfire co-h...

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Happy Birthday James Carville. Now Retire.

Pete Cenedella | Posted 10.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Howard Dean, Democratic Leadership Council, James Carville, 50-State Strategy, Mary Matalin, Dlc, Barack Obama, Ponzi Scheme, Politics News
Pete Cenedella

This is a birthday card to James Carville, on a day when polls show most Americans rejecting the negative campaigns and the spin-mongering that he has...

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Politics as Bloodsport: A Conversation with Stefan Forbes, Director of Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story

Brad Listi | Posted 10.03.2008 | Home

Read More: Owen Glieberman, Gop, Karl Rove, John McCain, New Releases, Iran-Contra, Ronald Reagan, Howard Fineman, Tucker Eskew, George W. Bush, Stefan Forbes, Michael Dukakis, Boogie Man, Documentaries, Mary Matalin, Ed Rollins, Democrats, Entertainment Weekly, Movies, Sarah Palin, Willie Horton, Lee Atwater, Brad Listi, George H.W. Bush, Fox News, Republicans, Political Films, Director Interview, Film Directors, Political Strategy, Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story, Home News
Brad Listi

Atwater's playbook is still winning Presidential races from his grave. He's the patron saint of political operatives and spinmeisters everywhere, and a hero to Republicans for his unrepentant vision of politics as war.

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John McCain as a Hood Ornament

Bella DePaulo | Posted 08.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Good Government, Cronyism, Ronald Reagan, Liberals, George W. Bush, Marital Status, Bullies, Iraq, 2008 Presidential Election, Media, Michelle Malkin, Maggie Gallagher, Wall Street Journal, Michael McManus, Conservatives, Ceos, Pat Roberson, Katrina, George Allen, Wrecking Crew, John McCain, Regulatory Agencies, Rush Limbaugh, Brownie, Science, Fema, Gipper, Monica Goodling, Mary Matalin, Gangsters, Barack Obama, Thomas Frank, Armstrong Williams, Gingrich Revolution, Baghdad, New York Times, Lobbying Reform, William Kristol, Bill O'Reilly, Politics News
Bella DePaulo

The New York Times has William Kristol on its opinion page, and the Wall Street Journal now has Thomas Frank. What Kristol writes could be called scho...

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McCain Needs to Be Asked If He'll "Repudiate and Denounce" Jerome Corsi

RJ Eskow | Posted 08.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, John McCain, Hillary Clinton, Glenn Beck, Mary Matalin, Jerome Corsi, Barack Obama, Politics News
RJ Eskow

It's more reasonable to ask McCain about Corsi than it was to ask Obama about Farrakhan. The Democrat and the Nation of Islam leader are not linked. Corsi and the GOP are.

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Jerome Corsi's Greatest Hits

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 08.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: "North American Union, Hillary Clinton, Jerome Corsi, Mary Matalin, " John Kerry, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

Corsi has been referred to as a "conservative gadfly." But the word "gadfly" implies someone who is well intentioned and who seeks to provoke thought in others, not a lying, white supremacist, propagandist.

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Jason Linkins

Joe Klein Lowers The Boom On Corsi, Matalin, McCain

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jerome Corsi Obama Book, John McCain, Fear Watch 2008, Jerome Corsi, Joe Klein, Mary Matalin, Obama Nation Author, Barack Obama, Politics News

Joe Klein, who's been recently fighting the same sorts of base attacks, makes a stern denouncement of the entire Swift Boatesque operation behind Jero...

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"Who Is Mary Matalin?"

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 08.14.2008 | Home

Read More: George Stephanapoulos, Obama Nation, Corsi John Kerry, Mary Matalin, Mayhill Fowler Jerome Corsi, Corsi Swift Boat, Obama Nation Mayhill Fowler, Mayhill Fowler, Matalin Corsi, Matalin Fowler, Corsi Fowler, Corsi Obama, Obama Nation Attck, Jerome Corsi, Obama Nation Slander, Obama Nation Swift Boat, Jake Taper, Home News
Mayhill Fowler

Mary how could you? Jerome Corsi? You could've at least edited this "piece of scholarship" you chose to publish. Although it's probably useless, I should set the record straight about the things Corsi says in his book about my husband and me.

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Jason Linkins

Obama Nation Author Assailed By All Parties On Larry King Live

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, John McCain, Media Matters, Mary Matalin, Obama Nation Author, Barack Obama, Larry King Obama Nation, Politics News

Jerome Corsi, Swift Boater and author of the newly released Obama Nation, appeared on Larry King Live last night to defend his smear-plagued, yet best...

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Matalin: 'Obama Nation' Attack Book "Good Piece of Scholarship"

Richard Silverstein | Posted 08.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jerome Corsi Obama Book, The Obama Nation, Mary Matalin, Obamaphobia, Barack Obama, Unfit for Command, Mary Matalin Book, Politics News
Richard Silverstein

Jerome Corsi, the right-wing pamphleteer who wrote Unfit for Command, and helped set the tone for the Swift Boat attacks on John Kerry in 2004, is b...

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Jason Linkins

McCain's Bush Problem: Matalin Hints At Key Vulnerability

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Video, Mary Matalin, Politics News

Mary Matalin, apparently a huge fan of the plodding delivery of conservative talking-points whilst standing in front of a hypnotically swoony green ba...

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Harry Potter And The Political Class

Leonce Gaiter | Posted 05.31.2008 | Home

Read More: Tom Friedman, Lawrence Wilkerson, Paul Wolfowitz, Colin Powell, Charles Krauthammer, Scott Mcclellan, Mother Jones, Donald Rumsfeld, Harry Potter, Mary Matalin, David Addington, Dick Cheney, Home News
Leonce Gaiter

To read the memoirs and interviews pouring out of the Bush Administration, none of his people were happy. They were all wary and at variance with his policies. Yet they all stayed and carried out his orders.

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Rush Limbaugh Claims Victory in Pennsylvania

Michael Carmichael | Posted 04.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Operation Chaos, James Carville, Hillary Clinton, Mary Matalin, Rush Limbaugh, Barack Obama, Rush Limbaugh Sabotage, Right Wing Conspiracy, Politics News
Michael Carmichael

Since Limbaugh is claiming that thousands of Republicans are changing their party affiliation to corrupt the presidential election process, none of the other closed primaries are above suspicion.

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The White Working Class is Not a Cardboard Cut-Out

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 04.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hillary Clinton, Republican Talking Points, Mary Matalin, Rush Limbaugh, William Kristol, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

The media spectacle of right-wing multimillionaires like Rush Limbaugh, Mary Matalin, and William Kristol proclaiming themselves the defenders of the ...

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Two More "Judases" for Obama

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 04.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Judas, Wyoming, Fox News, James Carville, Mary Matalin, Lee Hamilton, Dave Freudenthal, Barack Obama, Indiana, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

Former Indiana Congressman Lee Hamilton, who spent three decades in the House of Representatives, served as the top Democrat on the 9-11 Commission, a...

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James Carville, Mary Matalin Leave Washington

Washington Post | Posted 03.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mary Matalin, James Carville, Carville, Politics News

The Washington Post's Reliable Source reports: The quintessential Beltway power couple are escaping the Beltway: Mary Matalin and James Carville are ...

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Hillary Clarifies '3AM': "I Was Asleep, Dreaming of Landing In Bosnia Under Sniper Fire"

Paul Abrams | Posted 03.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Howard Wolfson, James Carville, Hillary Clinton, Bosnia, Mary Matalin, Mark Penn, Mel Gibson, Bill Richardson, Politics News
Paul Abrams

Howard Wolfson further explained Clinton's 3AM claims by noting that "she was ready at 2AM prior to changing the clocks to daylight savings, when 2AM became 3AM."

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Mixed Marriages In Politics

Lloyd Garver | Posted 02.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Celebrity Political Endorsements, James Carville, Maria Shriver, Mary Matalin, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Politics News
Lloyd Garver

If Matalin and Carville are so smart, if Arnold and Maria have so much influence, how come they can't even convince their own spouses?

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Mary Matalin To Publish Rove's Memoirs

New York Observer | Leon Neyfakh | Posted 12.21.2007 | Media

Read More: Threshold Editions, Karl Rove, Rove Memoir Matalin, Karl Rove Memoir, Mary Matalin, Mary Matalin Karl Rove, Media News

After weeks of speculation, it's finally official: Karl Rove's memoirs will be published by Threshold Editions, the conservative-minded imprint of Sim...

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Why Does Tim Russert Repeatedly Give Carville And Matalin A Platform To Promote Their Candidates?

New York Observer | Steve Kornacki | Posted 11.26.2007 | Media

Read More: Tim Russert James Carville, Tim Russert, Carville Clinton, Mary Matalin Meet the Press, James Carville, Mary Matalin, Matalin Thompson, Tim Russert Mary Matalin, James Carville Meet the Press, Media News

For the love of God, please stop enabling them. "Only 39 days until the Iowa caucuses," Tim Russert gravely intoned over the dramatic John Williams "...

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A Scooter Matalin Carville Halloween

Jerry and Joe Long | Posted 10.31.2007 | Politics

Read More: Halloween, Libby Commutation, Matalin Libby, Libby Commuted Sentence, Hillary Clinton, Mary Matalin, 2008 Election, Scooter Libby, Matalin Libby Letter, Politics News
Jerry and Joe Long

Amid all, there is heartwarming news. This is the first Halloween Scooter Libby can enjoy, commuted from the consequences of his actions.

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Putting the "Fun" in "FundRace"!

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 10.18.2007 | Media

Read More: Fundrace, Goldman Sachs, Bill Clinton, Jeffrey Bewkes, Huma Abedin, Henry Kissinger, Lehman Brothers, Dennis Kucinich, Doug Band, Jessica Seinfeld, James Carville, Richard Parsons, Hillary Clinton, Mary Matalin, Media News

As we mentioned yesterday, HuffPo recently launched our addictive FundRace™ feature, which lets you search the donor database by name, address, z...

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Exclusive: The Paradox That Is Scooter Libby

Murray Waas | Posted 01.17.2007 | Politics

Read More: Murray Waas, I. Lewis Libby, Patrick Fitzgerald, Paul Wofowitz, Prewar Intelligence, National Journal, Joseph C. Wilson IV, Iraq, Valerie Plame, Mary Matalin, American Prospect, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Murray Waas

During my own reporting on Libby, one close friend who had served with him in the White House told me: "He's no freelancer. It's incomprehensible that the Scooter we all knew one day turned into some sort of loose cannon."

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