Cuomo, Clarified. Mostly.

The Observer’s tape recorder ran out before Andrew got up to speak at the Stonewall Democratic Club (blame Alan Hevesi!), so I asked the Times’s Pat Healy for his transcript of the event, and he kindly obliged.

The controversy is over whether Andrew Cuomo denied that anti-gay Koch fliers ever existed, or simply Read More

Politics

How Did Vito Vote?

Now Sweeney and King don’t have much to worry about in voting for the DeLay rule. Sweeney’s secure and popular, and nobody thinks King — who hangs out with Jack Newfield, for God’s sake — is in the pocket of Republican leadership.

” I don’t even get along with DeLay,” King told me. Read More

Book Review

Somebody’s Gotta Tell It: The Upbeat Memoir of a Working-Class Journalist , by Jack Newfield. St. Martin’s Press, 336 pages, $25.95.

The Last Editor: How I Saved The New York Times , the Washington Post , and the Los Angeles Times from Dullness and Complacency , by Jim Bellows. Andrews McNeel Publishing, 349 pages, $28.95. Read More

My Critics Might Be Right, But I May Run Anyway

It was Wednesday, Sept. 6, around midnight, and we were sitting at a regular table at Elaine’s, last one on the right before the alcove leading to the party room, kitchen and restrooms. My controversial friend, the often-dismissed and (by white people, at least) hugely underrated Reverend Al Sharpton, was sitting alongside me. I’m proud Read More

Clinton’s No Kennedy: Just See This Movie

It was Jacqueline Kennedy who introduced Robert F. Kennedy to the Greeks, to Aeschylus. This was after 1963, of course, after Dallas. According to Michael Knox Beran’s new biography of Robert Kennedy, The Last Patrician , “Jacqueline Kennedy introduced her brother-in-law to the tragic poetry that helped him make sense of his own sufferings–and put Read More