MSM on Benghazi: “not optimal”
The question that starts my column today: “Is there a mainstream media cover-up of an Obama administration cover-up in the wake of the 9/11 Benghazi attack that left four Americans dead? Chronicle...
View ArticleElection predictions, anyone?
Let me start off saying that I do not deem myself to be a strong predictor. What I want to happen influences what I think will happen. But as the election looms, like a lot of people I find myself...
View ArticlePress pack reliably focused on Jeep fumes, not Benghazi
I was on CNN’s Reliable Sources this morning with host Howie Kurtz and guest Bill Press. I do believe that the media are giving the Obama administration a pass on Benghazi, as I’ve written before. The...
View ArticleMy plan for election night — hide
OK, so you’re a conservative columnist working for an Obama-endorsing newspaper in ultra-progressive San Francisco, and it’s the day of a presidential election, which many deem to be too close to call....
View ArticleIs it wrong to mention Clinton impeachment?
No surprise. Today’s column on a New York Times story on Hillary Clinton’s possible run for the White House in 2016 — which left out Bill Clinton’s impeachment — has infuriated a few readers. Here are...
View ArticleRomney at the bat — with links
ROMNEY AT THE BAT ( With humble apologies to Ernest Lawrence Thayer, who wrote the poem “Casey at the Bat,” first published in the San Francisco Examiner in 1888:...
View ArticleHollywood, home of the brave
At the Golden Globe awards last night, Jay Roach, the executive producer of HBO’s “Game Change,” gushed that the cable network stands for “Heroic Brave Operation.” Roach also said the actress Julianne...
View ArticleEXCLOO! Sutter Brown’s state of the dog (with video)
For those of you who can’t get enough of California’s first dog, Sutter Brown, here’s a video of our latest interview, conducted Thursday after Gov. Jerry Brown’s State of the State address. Here’s my...
View ArticleObama: “What more do you think I should do?”
During his press conference today, President Obama said that if the economy goes sour, it’s the fault of Republicans who wouldn’t give him another tax increase, and insist on enforcing the $85 billion...
View ArticleOops, Chronicle forgot Democrat under ethics cloud
Today, the Chronicle’s national News of the Day briefs included this story: 1 Ethics probe: The House Ethics Committee is investigating Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, over allegations of wrongly taking...
View ArticleIllegal immigrant RIP at AP
Why did the Associated Press change its Stylebook on the term “illegal immigrant” just as Washington is about to release proposals for immigration reform? That’s what I asked the AP’s Director of Media...
View ArticleDole: GOP should be “closed for repairs”
On “Fox News Sunday,” Chris Wallace interviewed Bob Dole. In the interview, Wallace asked, “Could people like Bob Dole, even Ronald Reagan – could you make it in today’s Republican Party?” Watch the...
View ArticleEric Holder’s media mess (with video)
I was on CNN’s Reliable Sources Sunday with Howie Kurtz, Dana Milbank and Lois Romano discussing the Eric Holder mess. I cannot stress enough how unnecessary the search of Fox News’ James Rosen seems...
View ArticleFirst lady thinks she’s second fiddle to first dog
In a recent interview, California First Lady Anne Gust confessed, “It’s hard in my household to get any attention, between my husband and the dog.” The dog of course is California’s first pooch, Sutter...
View ArticleA new home for San Francisco Fountain
The best part about Ruth Asawa’s “San Francisco Fountain” is that people like it. As Chronicle architeture critic John King wrote, “This is folk art with a populist flair, 41 bronze panels that cloak a...
View ArticleObama’s nonfundraising event in California
Friday’s White House event in San Jose was the oddest presidential appearance I’ve ever covered. To start, the White House did not schedule the event until after The Chronicle ran this story by Carla...
View ArticleFrom Moscow With Love
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his comrades gave a telephone press conference call about Edward Snowden Monday. I took away two things. 1. Assange doesn’t answer a lot of questions. He won’t...
View ArticleDon’t push kids to change gender identities
Assembly member Tom Ammiano has introduced a bill that would require public schools to allow children to change their gender identities, and then have access to the bathrooms, locker rooms and sports...
View ArticlePresident’s economic plans must be good, reporters like them
During his big economic speech in Illinois, President Obama reminded the crowd that he has 1,276 days left in office. All he cares about, he asserted, is making this country “work for working...
View ArticleWhat’s wrong with this news? The KTVU purge
When I first saw the KTVU video in which anchor Tori Campbell gave the fictional names of the Asiana pilots — Captain Sum Ting Wong, Wi Tu Lo, Ho Lee Fuk and Bang Ding Ow — I laughed. I laughed out...
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