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SinisterRouge
01/22/09

In reply to The Media War Over Caroline Kennedy
What a shitshow this turned out to be. Way to fuck it up Caroline and Paterson. Idiots. It's like they've never seen the press before.
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City_Dater
01/22/09

In reply to The Media War Over Caroline Kennedy
In this case, the Why is likely not nearly as joyful and interesting as the What. Caroline Kennedy can say she's "dropping out" to sit next to Uncle Teddy, spend more time with her kids, raise chinchillas... all that matters is that Paterson isn't appointing her, and this is good news.
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Aaron Altman
01/22/09

In reply to The Media War Over Caroline Kennedy
I honestly cannot believe that the Kennedy-friendly Times would - without question - attribute Caroline's dropping out to her reported concern over Ted's health. He had been hospitalized with a serious medical condition before she announced her intentions. Apart from his collapse at the inaugural luncheon on Tuesday, what was so different then from yesterday? Seems the Times just went ahead and swallowed whatever the Kennedy camp gave them.
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Seeräuber Jenny
01/22/09

@Aaron Altman:

Thank goodness for the comments. It showed that readers could read between the lines. Although in fairness, what could the reporters do, esp. on these crazy deadlines, except report what they were told by an unnamed "person"? To express skepticism in the story without a source would have been blatant editorializing.
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Seeräuber Jenny
01/22/09

@Seeräuber Jenny:

(For some reason, my comments keep getting submitted prematurely; don't know what I'm doing.)

I'm not ready to write her political obituary yet; I actually do think she could win a major race if she really worked at it; but I never got the impression that she wanted it that much.
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saythatscool
01/22/09

In reply to The Media War Over Caroline Kennedy
Dream Post Hed:

Caroline in the Pity.
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Weegee's bored
01/22/09

In reply to The Media War Over Caroline Kennedy
Caroline just doesn't want to be the latest Kennedy to drive off a bridge
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PandoraSpocks
01/22/09

In reply to The Media War Over Caroline Kennedy
That's exactly what happened, Ryan. And I must say, I am very sad...
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FormerEnglishMajor
01/22/09

In reply to The Media War Over Caroline Kennedy
Holy Max Factor - how much makeup is David Gregory wearing in that picture??
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blix
01/22/09

In reply to The Media War Over Caroline Kennedy
I'm not asking you who is on second.
Who is on first!.
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lalaland13
01/22/09

In reply to The Media War Over Caroline Kennedy
And meanwhile, Mark Halperin put "SHOULD SHE STAY OR SHOULD SHE GO?" with a picture of The Clash on his site.

Well, I don't know if he did, but it wouldn't surprise me.
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BadUncle
01/21/09

In reply to New York's Camelot Envy
Isn't it kind of unseemly - bordering on suspiciously defensive - for New Yorkers to expend so much energy dissing DC?

FWIW, I worked there for a couple of years, working in neither politics nor the bureaucracy - like a lot of that city's residents. And there's great food, great music, FREE museums, and a great quality of life - mitigated by a hellish climate.
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stoprobbers
01/21/09

@BadUncle: When I went up to Boston for college and went to a museum there for the first time, and was asked to pay I was completely and utterly confused. Pay? For a museum? What?! Mind = blown.
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poppedcollar
01/21/09

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The problem with D.C. is that if you're not in college and you're in your 20s, you're (and I use this because its appropriate) a douche who's only wondering how the next person you meet can possibly help your political ambition. Not that NYC doesn't have that for particular industries, but in DC its only politics, all the time.
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vamusical
01/21/09

@poppedcollar: gotta love sweeping generalizations of douchebaggery by someone named "popped collar".
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stoprobbers
01/21/09

@vamusical: Ha!
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stoprobbers
01/21/09

In reply to New York's Camelot Envy
Seriously? Now that DC finally has a chance to make progress on Home Rule, have money re-routed back into the city by a first family that cares in order to rebuild after the 1968 riots, and to get a modicum of respect from the rest of the nation as a city in its own right, as oppposed to simply the seat of government, and this is how New York (and its commentors) respond?

DC doesn't have an inferiority complex. New York does. If you guys are so fucking threatened by our little city then New York must really be the pit of shallowness and predictability I've been hearing so much about. Maybe if you stopped caring so much about what name brands you wear or what kind of cred your neighborhood has you could go back to being a cultural center and stop devoting so much ink to why our city isn't actually "cool."

Meanwhile, here in DC we're going to attend the weekly Obama-hosted poetry readings, the free concerts the first family will be sponsoring, the charity events hosted by Michelle to start re-funding and reviatlizing the nation's capital. Because you know what? We get enough pretentious assholes with each wave of government. No need to add New Yorkers into that mix.
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vamusical
01/21/09

@stoprobbers: I'm personally OK with people hating dc if it means all the inauguration tourists clear the hell out and let my commute time get back to normal.
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stoprobbers
01/21/09

@vamusical: Mmmm, true, true.

I'm just sick of people hating on DC. We have the government here. THE WHOLE THING. Isn't that punishment enough?
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bess marvin, girl detective
01/21/09

@stoprobbers: the person who wrote this article is bashing NYC, not the other way around. new yorkers are simply sick of hearing about what hot new city is supposed to replace us. It happens about every year or so. it's tired.
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If_I_Had_a_Poodle
01/21/09

In reply to New York's Camelot Envy
dc -- it's where the jobs are.
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dado
01/21/09

In reply to New York's Camelot Envy
Two years ago New York Magazine declared that London had eclipsed New York in terms of influence and cachet. Sixteen years ago it was Los Angeles. It's worth noting that the British pound has gone from 2.10 to 1.37 in that time period, and Los Angeles' single greatest contribtution to Western civilization remains right on red.
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BookishLookish
01/21/09

@dado: You are forgetting the In 'n' Out burger, sir.
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dado
01/21/09

@BookishLookish ★.......✈: True...I still like to remove the "b" and the "r" from my In'n'Out bumper stickers, too.
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BookishLookish
01/21/09

@dado: Everything you do is clever. Your kid is lucky!
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Private Hangnail
01/21/09

In reply to New York's Camelot Envy
To paraphrase Lisa Simpson, Washington D.C. was built on a foul, rotten swamp some two hundred years ago and not much has changed about it since.
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Private Hangnail
01/21/09

@Private Hangnail: Whereas New York was a quaint little island stolen from Native Americans, which is the way we do it in the U.S. of A.
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