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Michael Winship: The John McCain Land Rush
Thursday, 15 May 2008, 9:17 am | Michael Winship
Hell hath no fury like a convert. Or so it seemed back in the early nineties, when the political career of Arizona Sen. John McCain almost went down in flames during the savings and loan scandal. More >>
Michael Winship: Why Shouldn't We Be Bitter?
Thursday, 17 April 2008, 10:31 am | Michael Winship
Having grown up in a small town, I'm always struck at how rarely movies and television shows and other art forms capture the quality of life there. The false notes are thumped as discordantly as the "Moonlight Sonata" on a badly tuned spinet; the citizens ... More >>
Michael Winship: John Yoo's Tortured Explanations
Wednesday, 9 April 2008, 11:01 am | Michael Winship
"John Adams," that entertaining and instructive TV mini-series based on David McCullough's biography, is a reminder that, in some respects, nations are created as much from rancor and ego as they are from hope and goodwill. More >>
Michael Winship: Talking Down to America
Friday, 28 March 2008, 3:35 pm | Michael Winship
I haven't worked in the realm of children's television in more than a decade, but lessons learned in that world are lessons learned for life. More >>
Rudy's Numbers Don't Add Up
Monday, 10 December 2007, 11:38 am | Michael Winship
Back in the days when I was a publicist, one of the people whose work I promoted was a filmmaker who frequently appeared on television talk shows. From time to time, the host or another guest would challenge his facts and figures, at which point he ... More >>
Michael Winship: "A Plank in Reason, Broke"
Wednesday, 21 November 2007, 10:56 am | Michael Winship
Years ago, during the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979-81, a colleague of mine and I took the train from Manhattan down to Princeton, New Jersey's Institute for Advanced Study, where we had an appointment with Bernard Lewis, the renowned, conservative ... More >>
TV Baghdad Diary Troubling, Firsthand Look at War
Wednesday, 14 November 2007, 1:42 pm | Michael Winship
Like Alice in Wonderland's wacky Queen of Hearts, who believed six impossible things before breakfast, the current inhabitant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue believes the preposterous on a regular basis and then talks about it. More >>
The Weak Slat Under the Bed of Democracy
Saturday, 3 November 2007, 2:13 pm | Michael Winship
When I was an adolescent, Canandaigua, my small hometown in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, got its first radio station, WCGR. You can hear it to this day, at 1550 on the AM dial. More >>
Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose
Thursday, 18 October 2007, 11:22 am | Michael Winship
There's a line in an old Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers movie of which I'm especially fond. It often comes to mind when I read the latest news from the White House. More >>
Iraq: Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics
Friday, 14 September 2007, 8:21 pm | Michael Winship
A journalist I know, who has spent a lot of time in Iraq, tells the story of talking to an American infantry major in Baghdad the day Saddam's statue was toppled in Firdos Square, almost four and a half years ago. More >>
My Job Interview With Rupert Murdoch
Friday, 7 September 2007, 10:49 am | Michael Winship
A winter of discontent, some thirty years ago. I was searching for a new job, trying to move from TV publicity work back into journalism. Rupert Murdoch had just bought the New York Post and it occurred to me that he'd probably be looking for a new television ... More >>
History Will Tell Lies, Sir, As Usual
Thursday, 30 August 2007, 12:41 am | Michael Winship
Monday, Monday. Can't trust that day. The GOP always seems to purge its leadership ranks on Mondays - just when I'm sweating the deadline for this column, so I have to start all over. I swear, it's the work of that vast right-wing conspiracy. Go ... More >>
Michael Winship: The Jaundiced Rove of Texas
Wednesday, 15 August 2007, 10:28 am | Michael Winship
Not bloody likely. If you think otherwise, you've got greater faith in the power of wolf's bane, garlic and wooden stakes than I have. But why is he leaving that Cloud Cuckooland of Make-Believe known as the White House on such seemingly short ... More >>
