William Safire - Salon.com http://dir.salon.com/topics/william_safire/?source=rss&aim=william_safire en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Tue, 26 Jul 2005 10:07:00 PDT Welcome back, Garrison Keillor By Garrison Keillor Tue, 26 Jul 2005 10:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2005/07/26/plame_affair/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2005/07/26/plame_affair/index.html?source=rss Salon's former columnist returns, just in time to solve the Rove-Plame-Cheney mystery. Right Hook By Mark Follman Tue, 26 Jul 2005 10:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/right_hook/2004/11/17/cabinet/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/right_hook/2004/11/17/cabinet/index.html?source=rss Conservatives cheer Condi, scratch their heads over Colin, and see bright days ahead for Bush's faith-based team. Plus: Rich Lowry cackles with glee over the prospect of more blacks voting Republican. William Safire, minister of disinformation By Barry Lando Tue, 26 Jul 2005 10:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/02/21/safire/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/02/21/safire/index.html?source=rss The New York Times runs corrections when reporters get a middle initial wrong. So why does its conservative columnist get away with glaring errors that shape world affairs? Joe Conason's Journal Tue, 26 Jul 2005 10:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2003/12/18/thursday/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2003/12/18/thursday/index.html?source=rss Safire & Co. peddle an apparently bogus memo as "proof" of a Saddam/al-Qaida connection. But the blame for 9/11 may lie closer to home. Right Hook By Mark Follman Tue, 26 Jul 2005 10:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/right_hook/2003/09/24/Clark_WTO/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/right_hook/2003/09/24/Clark_WTO/index.html?source=rss New York Post's Ralph Peters tags Wesley Clark a softy on terror, while Coulter sees a devious Hillary plot. "Shut your mouth" By Tim Grieve Tue, 26 Jul 2005 10:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/03/25/liberties/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/03/25/liberties/index.html?source=rss As radio giants censor antiwar musicians, TV networks bully pro-peace actors, and Attorney General John Ashcroft prepares a new assault on civil liberties, a climate of intimidation creeps over America. Is the pro-Israel media lobby losing its grip? By Eric Boehlert Tue, 26 Jul 2005 10:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/04/17/media/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/04/17/media/index.html?source=rss Polls show that the American public increasingly sees two sides to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict -- despite the best efforts of the neoconservative punditocracy. Where's the media mea culpa? By Joe Conason Tue, 26 Jul 2005 10:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/col/cona/2002/03/28/whitewater/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/col/cona/2002/03/28/whitewater/index.html?source=rss Though the final Whitewater report clearly shows the Clintons were innocent, the New York Times and Washington Post arrogantly refuse to admit they were wrong. The Elian metaphor By Joe Conason Tue, 26 Jul 2005 10:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/col/cona/2000/04/25/cuba/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/col/cona/2000/04/25/cuba/index.html?source=rss If we really cared about Cuban children, we'd end the embargo. Letters to the editor Tue, 26 Jul 2005 10:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/letters/2000/03/16/conason/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/letters/2000/03/16/conason/index.html?source=rss Readers squawk over Conason's offer of crow Plus: Electronic music isn't dead; a new club for Bush watchers. Fresh feathers, Mr. Safire? By Joe Conason Tue, 26 Jul 2005 10:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/col/cona/2000/03/14/ray/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/col/cona/2000/03/14/ray/index.html?source=rss You always wanted to have your crow and eat it too on the Clinton scandals, so now it's time for you to keep your word. "Scandalmonger" by William Safire By Katharine Whittemore Tue, 26 Jul 2005 10:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2000/03/01/safire/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2000/03/01/safire/index.html?source=rss The pundit and language columnist crafts a potboiler of sleaze and slander in the republic's infancy. Put a price on his head By Joe Conason Tue, 26 Jul 2005 10:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/col/cona/1999/06/15/slobodan/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/col/cona/1999/06/15/slobodan/index.html?source=rss Now that we've won the war and silenced the critics, let's put a bounty on Milosevic. "Hardball" strikes out Tue, 26 Jul 2005 10:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/col/cona/1999/05/18/hardball/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/col/cona/1999/05/18/hardball/index.html?source=rss Chris Matthews mistakenly identifies a Clinton friend on the air as the "jogger" who frightened Kathleen Willey. Gone with the windbags By Gary Kamiya Tue, 26 Jul 2005 10:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1998/11/05/newsa950313373/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1998/11/05/newsa950313373/index.html?source=rss The election took some of the steam out of the Washington Punditocracy's hot air balloon. Gone with the windbags By Gary Kamiya Tue, 26 Jul 2005 10:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1998/11/05/cov_05newsa/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1998/11/05/cov_05newsa/index.html?source=rss The election took some of the steam out of the Washington Punditocracy's hot air balloon. Gloves off By Jonathan Broder Tue, 26 Jul 2005 10:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1998/05/12/news/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1998/05/12/news/index.html?source=rss Over the next two weeks, President Clinton and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will undergo a very public battle of wills over the future of Middle East peace. Armchair pundits to Clinton: Bring us the head of Saddam Hussein! BY ERIC ALTERMAN Tue, 26 Jul 2005 10:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/media/circus/1997/11/26/26media/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/media/circus/1997/11/26/26media/index.html?source=rss Hating Hillary By Andrew Ross Tue, 26 Jul 2005 10:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1996/01/13/hotb/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1996/01/13/hotb/index.html?source=rss