William Safire

Welcome back, Garrison Keillor Welcome back, Garrison Keillor
Salon's former columnist returns, just in time to solve the Rove-Plame-Cheney mystery.
Right Hook Right Hook
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
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 Joe Conason's Journal
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 Right Hook
New York Post's Ralph Peters tags Wesley Clark a softy on terror, while Coulter sees a devious Hillary plot.
"Shut your mouth" "Shut your mouth"
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? Is the pro-Israel media lobby losing its grip?
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?
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
If we really cared about Cuban children, we'd end the embargo.
Letters to the editor
Readers squawk over Conason's offer of crow Plus: Electronic music isn't dead; a new club for Bush watchers.
Fresh feathers, Mr. Safire?
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
The pundit and language columnist crafts a potboiler of sleaze and slander in the republic's infancy.
Put a price on his head
Now that we've won the war and silenced the critics, let's put a bounty on Milosevic.
"Hardball" strikes out
Chris Matthews mistakenly identifies a Clinton friend on the air as the "jogger" who frightened Kathleen Willey.
Gone with the windbags
The election took some of the steam out of the Washington Punditocracy's hot air balloon.
Gone with the windbags
The election took some of the steam out of the Washington Punditocracy's hot air balloon.
Gloves off
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!
Hating Hillary

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