The Third Estate Sunday Review focuses on politics and culture. We're an online magazine. We don't play nice and we don't kiss butt. In the words of Tuesday Weld: "I do not ever want to be a huge star. Do you think I want a success? I refused "Bonnie and Clyde" because I was nursing at the time but also because deep down I knew that it was going to be a huge success. The same was true of "Bob and Carol and Fred and Sue" or whatever it was called. It reeked of success."
Sunday, May 26, 2013
Truest statement of the week II
Similarly, Obama tried to detach himself from his own Justice Department’s grabbing of the phone records of more than 100 AP reporters and the claim by the Justice Department that Fox News’s James Rosen was a “co-conspirator” in violating the Espionage Act of 1917.
“I am troubled by the possibility that leak investigations may chill the investigative journalism that holds governments accountable,” Obama said.
Then fire Eric Holder, for God’s sake.
-- Matthew Rothschild, "Obama Gets Slippery on Killing U.S. Citizens" (The Progressive).