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...part of its InDecision '96 campaign coverage, the cable network paired the liberal Franken with gazillionaire conservative columnist Arianna Huffington for reports from the convention floor. Close friends despite their differences, Franken and Huffington offered the perfect blend of goofiness and good manners. If there was big news to come out of this convention, it was that the often-reviled Huffington is an affable wit indeed. Asking absurd questions of her compatriots (to Missouri Senator John Ashcroft: "Have you ever paid for a meal at this convention?") she metamorphosed into a finishing-school version of Howard Stern...
...even abusive--until last Wednesday, when he was finally exposed by a handwriting analysis in the Washington Post. In fact, one of his worst performances was on the weekend before the New Hampshire primary when, enraged by the New York article, he publicly berated the magazine's political columnist, Jacob Weisberg, and questioned the professionalism of editor in chief Kurt Andersen and Vassar professor Donald Foster, the Shakespearean scholar who had analyzed Klein's prose...
...during his press conference, became more subdued as he suffered the contempt of his colleagues. "The public looks at us as people who make judgments about character,'' said nbc News Washington Bureau Chief Tim Russert. "When they see one of us lying, it hurts everyone." Added New Yorker media columnist Ken Auletta: "The issue of cover-up became the issue. Maynard Parker allowed something to go into publication that he knew was untrue. Here's Newsweek requesting an interview with Admiral Boorda to ask him whether he had lied about the medals on his chest. We have the same right...
...those who missed it, Newsweek political columnist Klein was outed last week as being the anonymous author of Primary Colors. No big deal except that he had explicitly and vehemently denied his authorship not just to the public but to his journalistic colleagues, ho ended up speculating, in print, about alternate primary suspects...
...versions of his books; he has also been known to frequent Ramones' concerts. But King makes his own music: he plays lead guitar for the all-writer band the Rock Bottom Remainders. The group covers a litany of rock favorites, dubbed "hard-listening music" by band member (and humor columnist) Dave Barry. To the tune of These Boots Are Made for Walking, fellow Remainder (and novelist) Amy Tan dons a tight leather jumpsuit and whips other band members. Says Barry: "We try to be moderately entertaining, so people don't know...