Jeanine Pirro: Sympathy for the Devil
It's like watching a mortally wounded animal. You're only sorry that it has to suffer and that there's nothing you can do about it.
Jared Kushner Just Not That Into You
New York Observer owner Jared Kushner may have enjoyed this schmooze with Marisa Tomei and Lili Taylor last month, but one skirt he's definitely not chasing is that of GOP state attorney general candidate Jeanine Pirro. Kushner's presence on a "host committee" for a Pirro breakfast isn't really a level of intimacy…
Jared Kushner Endorses Only Cause More Hopeless Than Newspaper Business
"Next" you say? New York Observer owner Jared Kushner's record of federal campaign donations have been all straight-line Democratic — senators Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer, even the defenestrated Joe Lieberman. So what's he doing on the hosting committee for a shakedown breakfast in honor of Jeanine Pirro, doomed…
New York Politics: Gay Terrorists Want To Rape Your Babies
It's apparently Pedophile Day in state politics: The News' Ben Smith notes a controversy concerning the image above, used in a flier by failed Attorney General candidate Sean Patrick Maloney. Gay City News claims that the image perpetuates a stereotype of gay men preying on young boys. Smith finds the concern…
Reminding You There's Someone Running Against Hillary...
We've always imagined that the hardest part of being a political flack — or any sort of flack, really — is having to pretend to believe in someone and his cause just because he's the guy signing your paychecks.
Tax Fraud, Shmax Fraud
News comes today that Jeanine Pirro, the Westchester Country district attorney, will run against Hillary Clinton for U.S. Senate. They're both hard-charging, well-known, charismatic women. And they both have husbands who've been in the public eye. "Ms. Pirro's advisers also believe that in a Senate race," observes…
