By Kat Stoeffel 7/05/12 6:00pm

Notable Quotables

Ex-Politico Reporter Receives Impressive Public Shaming from Ex-Wife

Joe Williams—the senior White House reporter who was suspended from and later left Politico—is having a rough couple of weeks.

Mr. Williams, a former D.C. deputy bureau chief for The Boston Globe, had his impartiality called into question when, during an appearance on MSNBC, he said that Governor Mitt Romney appeared on Fox and Friends so often because he was most comfortable around other white people. (Apparently, being cognizant of race now constitutes a liberal bias.) The Washington Free Beacon flagged the video, and soon Breitbart.com and The Daily Caller unleashed their liberal media bias-sniffing hounds, scouring Mr. Williams’s Twitter and uncovering one retweet of a lewd joke about Ann Romney and the following critique of Politico: “what’s most irritating is the overlay of blatant racism. that’s the secret sauce in the Politico shitburger.” Read More

By John Koblin 11/03/08 10:01pm

The Morning After: What Happens at Politico?

"We have no doubt that traffic will dip—how much, we don’t know—following the election," wrote Politico editors Jim VandeHei and John Harris in a memo to staff today.

In part, the memo is an explanation of how Politico will try to make the transition from 2008 to 2009, a year when news Web Read More

By Staff 5/31/05 10:02am

The Hillary Strategy

Here’s something a little more coherent than “Hillary moves right.”

Bill biographer John Harris, in the Washington Post, writes that “the recent record makes it clear that Hillary Clinton has staked her future on precisely the same brand of centrist political strategy that her husband fashioned a decade ago — using many of Read More

By Ted Widmer 5/30/05 12:00am

A Calm and Considered LookAt a Vast, Divisive Presidency

The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House, by John F. Harris. Random House, 504 pages, $29.95.

Presidents move in the polls long after they leave office, and armchair historians can hold endless conversations about who belongs with the great, the near great and the mass of lesser mortals. Harry Truman departed the White House Read More

By Joe Conason 5/14/01 12:00am

See, I Told You: The Conspiracy Lives!

I always knew that someday, someone in the Washington press

corps would notice the right-wing conspiracy. After all, it has been operating

under their upturned noses for these many, many years. On May 6, my faith was

finally vindicated with the appearance of a startling article by one of The Washington Post ‘s most able Read More