Ana Marie Cox: March 2009

March 23, 2009

Possible Terms for White House Briefing Drinking Game, Spring 2009

As I'm thinking of it now, the Official White House Briefing Drinking Game will have two parts: A Master List, covering all briefings, and a Daily Addendum, which would correspond to that day's briefing. Here are some thoughts about what might be included in the Master List. Please email or add comments with further suggestions:

Dog/puppy

Critical investments

Jobs

"I read in the paper"/"your paper"

Sports metaphors

Gibbs takes a drink of water

Helen asks about war crimes

Doogie Howser asks a question

Science fiction reference

Simpsons reference

"Study after study"

"The Gibbsie" (Towards the end of the briefing delivering a clearly rehearsed mini monologue on a topic that is only vaguely related to the question asked)

pre-judge

"don't want to get ahead"

"I haven't discussed [INSERT THE MOST PRESSING ISSUE OF THE DAY] with [person in charge of it] yet"

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March 05, 2009

Prop 8 Liveblog

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Biomass

Your basic bio-type information, excluding birthday, can be found here. (And it's 9/23/72). Otherwise: I am a Wonkette emerita, political junkie, self-hating journalist and occasional grown-up: I used to do this. And then this. You can also find me here every once in a while, and more regularly here (it's a COLUMN, people, a COLUMN). I appear with some regularity on The Rachel Maddow Show; most recent clips of these segments are here, and my 2008 talking head jag is here. Back in the day, I did this, and this, and this. I live in Washington, DC with an adorable husband and three very understanding pets.

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Post-Election Pontificating
Now that Obama is President-Elect -- how did we get to this point, and what's next? Ana Marie Cox of Swampland talks about last night's outcome, and we'll also check in with some surprising results from swing states. Then, a look back at some of the funniest, most outrageous moments of the long election season.
Me on On the Media
The bad news for traditional media is seemingly unending. From The Christian Science Monitor to TIME Inc. to ABC News to Radar magazine. In fact, when Radar folded last week, reporter Ana Marie Cox found herself with credentials to cover the McCain campaign, but no funding. Instead of giving up her seat on the press bus, she went all public radio on the problem and launched a pledge drive. From a Palin press van, Cox says the pledges poured forth.
And One of Them Also Gets Shot in the End
One of the physical laws of politics is that if your campaign wins, you’re a genius. If you lose, you’re an idiot. I know and have worked with Obama’s lead adviser David Axelrod, and he’s as smart as anyone I’ve worked with in politics and deserves a lot of credit for a well-run campaign. But I know he’d be the first to admit that he just had the good judgment to saddle up on Secretariat. I also know and have worked with McCain’s guru Steve Schmidt, who is also one of the most talented players in the game. He just saddled up on Seabiscuit. But he’s running against Secretariat. And only one great horse gets to win.
I Prefer the Term "Crazypants"
Something about science fiction remains grubby and unappetizing to the mainstream. Maybe that's because it's the one branch of science that rarely makes money, and never results in a lucrative patent. Or maybe that's because it's associated with troops of socially awkward people who would rather play war games than actually go to war. Whatever the cause, we know the result. If you want to make pop science fiction, you'd better call it something else.
More Often Than You'd Think
So caught up was I in my assigned role as ingénue that I was perfectly willing to entertain the possibility that another book on the same subject had come out simultaneously and I'd somehow missed it. He was already telling me about the very important book -- with that smug look I know so well in a man holding forth, eyes fixed on the fuzzy far horizon of his own authority...I should have known when Sallie interrupted him to say, "That's her book." Or tried to interrupt him anyway. But he just continued on his way. She had to say, "That's her book" three or four times before he finally took it in. And then, as if in a nineteenth-century novel, he went ashen.

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March 2009

March 23, 2009

Possible Terms for White House Briefing Drinking Game, Spring 2009

March 09, 2009

Another Little Experiment

March 05, 2009

When I Feel Bad About My Productivity...

Prop 8 Liveblog

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I'm All Over the Place

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