By [email protected] (Andrew Kreig) As war clouds move to the Ukraine, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations delivered a well-received address April 24 at the Overseas Press Club’s 75th anniversary dinner. But U.S. officials like Samantha Power are part of an administration that aggressively fights internal and external critics. Therefore, her celebration of bold […]

By [email protected] (Andrew Kreig) In March 2007, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman argued in Department of Injustice that partisan tactics of Bush administration prosecutors like New Jersey U.S. Attorney Chris Christie were likely to be more dangerous than the purge of nine other U.S. attorneys for political reasons. The new book Ruthless Ambition: The […]

By [email protected] (Andrew Kreig) The major U.S. media have ignored for the most part Seymour Hersh’s blockbuster column April 4 reporting the Obama administration’s deceptive accounts of notorious killings in Benghazi and Syria. Several major outlets declined to publish his column The Red Line and the Rat Line. That is their right, of course, and […]

By [email protected] (Andrew Kreig) Momentum is building for a nomination of a third Bush to become president despite the family’s record of secret and scandalous actions enriching themselves and their cronies. Developments abounded this month of positive media treatment of Bush family gatherings and announcements. Shown below is a sample of recent clippings. Several are […]

By [email protected] (Andrew Kreig) The political reputation of the Bush family continues on the upswing. Momentum is building for a third Bush nomination despite widespread disapproval of George W. Bush by the end of his term in 2009. Developments last week included positive media treatment of a Bush family gatherings and announcements. The dynastic power […]

By [email protected] (Andrew Kreig) A hard-hitting new book skewers New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie as a career-long bully, opportunist and phony. Ruthless Ambition: The Rise and Fall of Chris Christie by former New Jersey State Assemblyman Louis Manzo, left, credibly portrays the onetime early favorite for the GOP 2016 presidential nomination. “How could a man […]

By [email protected] (Andrew Kreig) The nation’s media provided remarkably little support to an Alabama journalist jailed for five months while he fought against prior restraint of his investigative reporting. A part-time state judge freed blogger Roger Shuler March 26 after Shuler spiked columns alleging an affair between a reputed congressional candidate and a lobbyist. With […]