Today, The New York Times‘ Brooks Barnes offered a hard-hitting A1 investigative report on how Angelina Jolie manipulates the press, especially how she uses access to her family to further her own agenda.
Writes Mr. Barnes:
Shifting the focus is one of Ms. Jolie’s best maneuvers, magazine editors and publicity executives say. When she Read MoreJoe Biden delivered a policy speech today about Pakistan, perhaps the most overlooked issue by either party in the 2008 presidential race.
For months, he’s been the presidential candidate most vocal about the national security threat posed by Pakistan. During the Democratic debate in Philadelphia, he suggested that instead of saber-rattling over Iran’s Read More
When Pervez Musharaff refused today at a White House news conference to answer the question of what threat was made against his government after 9/11, by the United States, he cited his contract to his publisher, Simon & Schuster, saying he couldn’t talk till the 25th, when his book is published. The White House press Read More
The big story at the tail end of last year was Muammar el-Qaddafi’s announcement that he was shelving Libya’s program to build atomic weapons. He gave his reasons during a phone call to Italian president Silvio Berlusconi: “I will do whatever the Americans want, because I saw what happened in Iraq, and I was afraid.” Read More
