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William Safire

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Name: William Safire (Bill Safire)

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

IRS Internal Revenue Service

Three Signs There's a Cover-Up | National Review Online

The late columnist William Safire once said that a good clue that someone in Washington was engaged in an artful dodge, i.e., a cover-up, was that they used the phrase mistakes were made. Safire defined it as a passive-evasive way of acknowledging error ... [Published Newsvine - May 21 2013]

Entities: IRS Internal Revenue Service, Steven Miller, Joe Crowley

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Three Signs There's a Cover-Up

John Fund, National ReviewThe late columnist William Safire once said that a good clue that someone in Washington was engaged in “an artful dodge,” i.e., a cover-up, was that they used the phrase “mistakes were made.” Safire defined ... [Published RealClearPolitics - Homepage - May 20 2013]

Entities: William Safire, Ron Ziegler, John Fund

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 1 reports

Spiro Agnew

Editorial: It’s time for politicians to fish or cut bait

The noted political speech writer turned columnist William Safire penned the phrase “nattering nabobs of negativism” for use by then Vice President Spiro Agnew in 1970. Mr. Safire wrote those words in defense of the Nixon Administration against what it ... [Published East Providence Post - May 19 2013]

Entities: William Safire, Spiro Agnew, Atmosphere

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Richard Nixon

Worse than Watergate?

SOURCE: AP/Jacquelyn Martin An email from then-CIA Director David Petraeus is among the 99 pages of emails regarding Benghazi released by the White House on Wednesday, May 15, 2013. In a new poll from Public Policy Polling, 74 percent of Republicans ... [Published Center for American Progress - May 16 2013]

Entities: Richard Nixon, John Mitchell, Benghazi

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Spock Inc

Fact-Checking Spock: Was the “Enemy of My Enemy” Guy Really Killed by His “Friend”?

Toward the end of the latest Star Trek film, Captain James T. Kirk makes yet another in a string of bold decisions: He decides he will join forces with one of his enemies to fight another even more dangerous enemy, rationalizing his decision with the ... [Published Slate Magazine - May 16 2013]

Entities: Spock Inc, William Safire, Barry Popik, Fred R. Shapiro

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

Alberto Gonzales

It's True: 'Mistakes Were Made' Is The King Of Non-Apologies

Make no mistake, the acting commissioner of the IRS put himself in historic company Tuesday by writing in USA Today that "mistakes were made" when his agency singled out for extra scrutiny some conservative groups.No less an authority on language than ... [Published WVPE 88.1 - May 14 2013]

Entities: William Safire, Ron Ziegler, Bill Schneider, Alberto Gonzales

First reported May 11 2013 - Updated May 11 2013 - 1 reports

"I kid you not: The IRS just released a statement on its improper harassment of conservative groups in the run-up to the 2012 election including the words: 'mistakes were made.'"

Says Instapundit , under the heading "It just gets worse."I see that "Mistakes were made" has its own Wikipedia page :The New York Times has called the phrase a "classic Washington linguistic construct." Political consultant William Schneider suggested ... [Published Althouse - May 11 2013]

Entities: Richard Nixon, Ron Ziegler, Harassment, Carl Bernstein

First reported May 10 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 1 reports

The Dogs of War in the Night-Time

Everyone’s attention is rightly focused on what was said at the Benghazi hearings on Wednesday. But what was not said, or much discussed, is at least as illuminating — and alarming. My New York Post column today takes a look at two non-barking hounds: ... [Published The Corner on National Review Online - May 10 2013]

Entities: Benghazi, James Clapper, CIA Central Intelligence Agency, Scipio Africanus, First Lady

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 2 reports

In praise of short-termism

The environmental movement generally lacks an appreciation for the imperatives of business.FORTUNE -- Peter Seligmann, the chairman and CEO of Conservation International, has a solution for our environmental ills: He wishes companies didn't have to report ... [Published Fortune - Apr 30 2013]

Entities: Peter Seligmann, Environment, Jochen Zeitz, William Safire, Clarence Otis

First reported Apr 22 2013 - Updated Apr 22 2013 - 1 reports

White House speechwriter William Safire’s letter to President Nixon on the failed moon landing of 1969

AS we in the know know, the 1969 moon landing never happened . But in case what never happened, never happend badly and the mission failed, speechwriter William Safire wrote to President Nixon’s Chief of Staff, H. R. Haldeman. He wanted to outline a ... [Published Anorak - Apr 22 2013]

Entities: William Safire, Speechwriter, Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong

First reported Mar 12 2013 - Updated Mar 12 2013 - 2 reports

Purchase of the day.

From the March 11, 2013 Amazon Associates Earnings Report: "Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History" , Updated and Expanded Edition [Hardcover] William Safire (Editor) (Earnings to the Althouse blog = $2.38)... and 85 other items purchased — at no ... [Published Althouse - Mar 12 2013]

Entities: William Safire, Earnings Report

First reported Dec 06 2012 - Updated Dec 06 2012 - 2 reports

Cal Thomas Column: No Skin in the Game

An Internet search is inconclusive as to where the phrase "no skin in the game" originated. Some ascribe it to the late columnist William Safire; others to investor Warren Buffett. Politicians often use the phrase to justify policies to their liking. ... [Published NewsBusters.org blogs - Dec 06 2012]

Entities: Cal Thomas, William Safire, Warren E Buffett

Quotes

Republicans picked the ball up again during George W Bush's administration. As Safire wrote, Bush added a "skillful refinement ... the subordinate-clause admission or error, compounding passivity and present-perfection with a conditional 'whatever.' " Speaking of the Iraqthe Iraq war, Bush said in 2006 that "whatever mistakes have been made in Iraq, the worst mistake would be to think that if we pulled...

It's True: 'Mistakes Were Made' Is The King Of Non-Apologies [Published WVPE 88.1 - May 14 2013]

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Three Signs There's a Cover-Up [Published RealClearPolitics - Homepage - May 20 2013] John Fund, National ReviewThe late columnist William Safire once said that a good clue that someone in Washington was engaged in “an artful dodge,” i.e., a cover-up, was that they used the phrase “mistakes were made.” Safire defined ...
"I kid you not: The IRS just released a stateme... [Published Althouse - May 11 2013] Says Instapundit , under the heading "It just gets worse."I see that "Mistakes were made" has its own Wikipedia page :The New York Times has called the phrase a "classic Washington linguistic construct." Political consultant William Schneider suggested ...
The Dogs of War in the Night-Time [Published The Corner on National Review Online - May 10 2013] Everyone’s attention is rightly focused on what was said at the Benghazi hearings on Wednesday. But what was not said, or much discussed, is at least as illuminating — and alarming. My New York Post column today takes a look at two non-barking hounds: ...
Eric Boehlert: When Anthony Lewis Stood Up To T... [Published Media Matters for America - County Fair - Mar 27 2013] With the passing of legendary New York Times newsman Anthony Lewis this week, observers have noted that his lasting legacy will likely be his clarion insights and logical, lucid writing style that helped make the courts and the law more accessible ...
"McCain jokingly wiped his face, pretending to ... [Published Althouse - Mar 17 2013] Moss can't be wiped off , and it's not — like the metaphorical egg — only on the face.In fact, the standard term is mossback :A reactionary; one who furiously resists progress of any kind.The word is derived from a sea creature so ancient that it ...