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Market Goes Out on a High Note
Stocks are back up, and we're re-naming today Tumultuous Thursday.
Posted 09/18/08 in Daily Intel : Scenes From a Meltdown
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The President Offers Comforting Words About the Economy During Our Time of Need
Ha, not.
Posted 09/18/08 in Daily Intel : Scenes From a Meltdown
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RNC Speakers Rally Troops to Best of Their Abilities
The first night of the Republican convention had scattered compelling moments and one great speaker, but as spectacle, it fell flat.
Posted 09/03/08 in Daily Intel : Early and Often
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Heilemann: Five Things the Audacity of Hope World Tour Taught Us About Obama
His campaign has stones. He's in McCain's head. But he needs to get McCain in his own head.
Posted 07/29/08 in Daily Intel : Early and Often
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‘W.’ Trailer: Even Oliver Stone Wants to Be Judd Apatow
Apparently Stone intends to market this thing like a spiritual sequel to 'Step Brothers.'
Posted 07/28/08 in Vulture : Trailer Mix
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President Bush Sums Up the Financial Crisis the Best Way He Knows How
"Wall Street got drunk," the president said, "and now it's got a hangover." Also, Donald Trump Jr. invests in India, 'Esquire' editors decide to flash people, and more, in our daily roundup of finance, real-estate, media, and law news.
Posted 07/23/08 in Daily Intel : Company Town
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How Sweet! Bush Gives Obama a Gift
Welcome to the first general-election policy debate! (That sounded more exciting in our head.)
Posted 05/16/08 in Daily Intel : Early and Often
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How George W. Bush Became Hollywood's Eccentric Uncle
The leader of the free world is so unimportant that even self-righteous Hollywood blowhards can't be bothered to get angry at him.
Posted 04/24/08 in Vulture : The Take
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Oliver Stone's Bush Biopic Now Even Funnier: Rob Corddry to Play Ari Fleischer
On Monday, we jokingly suggested that Oliver Stone's W might be a comedy. Today, we were proven right.
Posted 04/10/08 in Vulture : Apropos of Nothing
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Oliver Stone's Bush Biopic Will Be the Comedy Hit of 2009
Are we finally getting a movie version of 'That's My Bush!'? It sure looks like it!
Posted 04/08/08 in Vulture : Apropos of Nothing
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Spitzer–Mortgage Industry Connection
Amid all the vengeful glee on Wall Street, the Ashleymania, and the coverage that has accompanied Spitzer’s fall, one aspect of the story has been underexplored, according to journalist Greg Palast: Could the Lonesome Gov’s fall have had something to do with the Fed's $200 billion bailout of the subprime-mortgage industry, which Spitzer conspicuously opposed and which coincidentally occurred on the same day as his resignation? It was a federal investigation which uncovered Spitzer, Palast points out, and his outing could be seen as unusual.Senator David Vitter, Republican of Louisiana, paid Washington DC prostitutes to put him in diapers (ewww!), yet the Senator was not exposed by the US prosecutors busting the pimp-ring that pampered him. Naming and shaming and ruining Spitzer — rarely done in these cases — was made at the ‘discretion’ of Bush’s Justice Department.
Palast, a cult hero in underground journalism circles (he’s the winner of six “Project Censored” awards), doesn’t really unload any evidence as much as speculate at sinister motives, but it's interesting, and better than watching Ashley’s maddeningly chaste dance moves on some scrub’s cell-phone camera. —Josh Ozersky Eliot’s Mess [Greg Palast] Predatory Lenders' Partner in Crime [WP]Posted 03/14/08 in Daily Intel : White Men With Money
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And It Will Become Necessary to Destroy the Country in Order to Save It
Sorry, this has no New York connection and is outside our usual bailiwick and all that, but, still:
How did this man get elected twice? Bush to Invoke Vietnam in Arguing Against Iraq Pullout [CNN] Related: Bush's Iraq-Vietnam Parallel [The Lede/NYT]Posted 08/22/07 in Daily Intel : In Other News
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Good-bye, Mr. Turd Blossom
Sometimes, Monday mornings can actually be kind of pleasant. Karl Rove, Top Strategist, Is Leaving the White House [NYT]Posted 08/13/07 in Daily Intel : In Other News
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President Bush and His Toy Car
The front page of yesterday's Times offered a photo of President Bush and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown merrily golf-carting around Camp David. We glanced at the shot, amused by the cowboy president's attempt to do his squinty-eyed tough-guy look while piloting a conveyance most often used on the manicured fairways of Shinnecock or in the retirement communities of Boca. We were about to flip the page when we noticed something: A placard on the front of the vehicle labels it "Golf Cart One." We chuckled to ourselves, and we thought that it's sort of the perfect presidential vehicle for this particular commander-in- chief, for his underpowered golf cart of a presidency. Then we got worried; were we being unfair? Perhaps this isn't Bush obnoxious frat-boy humor ("I'm the president, and it's my golf cart, so it's Golf Cart One. Heh heh heh.") but rather a longstanding tradition. So we asked President Clinton's spokesman. Did that administration, too, call the presidential scooter "Golf Cart One"? The e-mailed reply came late in the day: "Nope." Good.Posted 07/31/07 in Daily Intel : In Other News
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Bush Commutes Libby's Sentence, New Yorkers Shrug
The Times is indignant, Gawker is indignant — hell, we're even feeling a little indignant — that President Bush commuted convicted perjurer Scooter Libby's 30-month prison sentence yesterday afternoon. "I respect the jury's verdict," Bush said yesterday. He continued: "But I have concluded that the prison sentence given to Mr. Libby is excessive," which is basically the opposite of respecting the verdict. (He also said back in 2003, when the Plame leak first came to light, that "if there is a leak out of my administration … and if the person has violated the law, the person will be taken care of." Just not too harshly.) But we wondered: Are average New Yorkers indignant, too? A quick 20-person poll later — our interns asked twenty passersby in front of the office on Madison Avenue — it seems they're not, or at least not as much as we'd hoped. Damn. Questions and tallies after the jump.Posted 07/03/07 in Daily Intel : 20-Person Poll
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Blair Departs, and Bush Throws Him a Bone
So Tony Blair is now, officially, no longer Britain's prime minister, having tendered his resignation to Queen Elizabeth II earlier today. He's off, presumably, to become the Quartet's Mideast peace negotiator, while Gordon Brown has been approved by the Queen as his replacement. For President Bush's take on his great ally's departure, we refer you to low in the AP news item:"Tony's had a great run and history will judge him kindly," Bush told Britain's The Sun tabloid in remarks published Wednesday. "I've heard he's been called Bush's poodle. He's bigger than that."
See, that's real friendship. Bush thinks of Blair — excuse us: Tony — as something much bigger than a poodle. A golden retriever, perhaps. Maybe even his St. Bernard. Gordon Brown to Take Over From Blair in Britain [AP via NYT]Posted 06/27/07 in Daily Intel : It Just Happened
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How the Other Half Thinks: Advise George Bush!
The trouble with polls these days? They're all biased. Those damn liberals don't ask whether you think George W. Bush is doing a great job in office but whether you'd like to see him kicked to the curb. That, you should understand, is a rigged question. Thankfully, the Heritage Foundation has stepped in to fix the problem; the right-wing D.C. think tank has sent a survey to "Conservatives and Republicans Only," the results of which they promise will end up on the desks of some very powerful people in Washington. Through what can only be an act of Daniel Ellsberg–like political bravery, a copy of that survey arrived at the home of a neither conservative nor Republican magazine writer in the very blue state of New York. So what can we learn about the conservative mind from this leak? Well, according to the Heritage folks, most media surveys are "inaccurate … because they don't ask the right questions." So what are the correct, unbiased questions?Posted 06/07/07 in Daily Intel : Early and Often
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Since U Been Making Him Money
Sony BMG chief Clive Davis doesn't like Kelly Clarkson's music, even though it makes his label a lot of money. Barbara Corcoran dropped trou for a bunch of people who commented that she'd lost weight. Ellen Barkin returned some diamonds she was loaned to wear to a Darfur benefit at Cannes at 3 a.m. Usher has taken to calling in radio stations to complain about hosts who make fun of his fiancée. President Bush promised a bunch of Vietnam vets that he'd read a book that alleges that Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, among others, were responsible for keeping soldiers in Southeast Asia even after the U.S. withdrew from the region. In her new book, former venture capitalist Christine Comaford-Lynch compares Barbara Walters to a small action figure.
Posted 05/30/07 in Daily Intel : Gossipmonger
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Just How Bad Are Things in Iraq?
There's a new Times/CBS poll out today on the Iraq war, and it's bad news for Mr. Bush. "Americans now view the war in Iraq more negatively than at any time since the war began," as the Times bluntly put it. Six in ten say the country should have stayed out of Iraq in the first place, the paper reported. Three of four say things are going badly there. And a whopping 63 percent disapprove of Bush's overall performance as president, with only 30 percent approving. The one bit of good news is that a majority support continuing to finance the war, assuming the Iraqi government meets benchmarks. But it's a poll of all Americans. What do New Yorkers think? We asked the first twenty people we found on Madison Avenue in front of the office. Oddly, only 45 percent said the country should have stayed out of Iraq (we think maybe we phrased that one wrong). Otherwise, the locals are even more pessimistic than the rest of the country. By a lot. The questions and tallies are after the jump.Posted 05/24/07 in Daily Intel : 20-Person Poll
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All They Are Saying…
Moveon.org's "Emergency Veto Rally" converged on Union Square at rush hour last night to protest President Bush's veto of the Democrat's war-funding bill, which set a date for troop withdrawal. The youngest protester looked to be about 3; the oldest no doubt saw plenty of anti-Vietnam rallies as well. There were some college kids, too, but not many. Whither the young radicals? (On the other hand, the college kids probably came up with our all-time favorite rally chant, replacing words in a Ludacris lyric: "Move Bush, get out the way, get out the way Bush, get out the way.") —Everett BoguePosted 05/03/07 in Daily Intel : Photo Op
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