Did you know that John Harris of the Washington Post wrote a book? No? Really? Well, apparently, neither did his co-workers. Or, at least Harris doesn't think they know about it. Hence this letter "from the department of shameless self-promotion" in which he begs his peers to buy The Way to Win: Taking the White House in 2008." And they say the media isn't biased! Well, at least he's honest.
From: John Harris/news/TWP
To: NEWS - All Newsroom@WashPostMain
Date: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 02:05PM
Subject: from the department of shameless self-promotionI recently wrote a book on presidential campaigns and strategy. "THE WAY TO WIN: Taking the White House in 2008" is focused on the way the political game has changed over the past generation and tries to illuminate the specific principles that people who have thrived at winning this game (including Bill Clinton and Karl Rove) know and how they put those principles to work.
He also encourages his Post colleagues to come hear him speak tonight. And the alluring fact that his underling simply adored the book is his main selling point.
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Mark Leibovich just became our new favorite Times scribe (and, by default, our favorite ex-WaPo byline as well). In the middle of a Lebanon-Israeli crisis, New Yorkers melting, an Iraq war, and Jon Friedman disavowing Gawker, he's got today's real scoop: senators are being forced to ride the elevator with .. regular people! And it's not Leibovich's story choice – or the fact that it's the feature story on the Times' homepage right now – that makes us linger for him, but the loaded sarcasm that editors appreciate but rarely print.
Add the elevator problem to the litany of senatorial hardships, somewhere between flying coach and the high costs of barbering.
At times, senators even find themselves on public elevators, an ordeal fraught with the possibility of having to push their own buttons (the senators-only elevators usually have attendants).
Worse, senators sometimes share their moving sanctums with staff members, lobbyists and T-shirt-clad tourists who apparently missed (or ignored or cannot read) the senators-only signs.
Or, double-worse, with reporters.
Washington Traffic Jam? Senators-Only Elevator [Mark Leibovich, NYT]
