Katie Couric

Thanks for the memories. Now please go away. Yes, we’re talking about you, Rudy Giuliani. And you, Wolf Blitzer. We no longer wish to be a swing state. Henceforth the residents of the state of Minnesota promise to vote reliably Democratic. Or Republican. It doesn’t much matter which — just as long as you people promise to stop showing up in our little slice of the frozen tundra seeking to feel our pain. But to memorialize the horrors visited upon us during the (still ongoing) campaign season, we offer — in honor of our favorite member of the Statewide General Election Canvassing Board — the G. Barry Anderson Awards.

CBS has released another clip of Sarah Palin’s interview with Katie Couric. The question, posed to both Palin and Joe Biden: What’s the best and worst thing Dick Cheney has done as vice president. “He has done more harm than any other single high elected official, at least in my memory, in terms of shredding [...]

KATIE COURIC:Have you ever been involved with any negotiations with the Russians?
SARAH PALIN: We have trade missions back and forth. We do. It’s very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia, as Putin rears his head and comes into the airspace of the United States of America, where do they go? It’s [...]

There’s something mordantly funny about watching the stenographers and voice talent of the Washington press corps fulminate about Scott McClellan’s admissions regarding the paper-thin pretexts on which the Iraq War was sold by the White House. You get the feeling they resent his flouting club rules more than anything else. Did they not wait their [...]