Former adviser to Hillary Clinton and John Kerry. Veteran of two presidential campaigns.
With Election Day less than 40 days away, this is what Donald Trump saw fit to do at 5:30 AM: Staying up all night to shame women, that’s Trump’s idea of campaigning. So Hillary Clinton decided to show him what a real overnight tweetstorm should look like: It's 3:20am. As good a time as any […]
By Peter Daou - October 01, 2016
Injecting some satire into pre-debate discussion, I launched #TrumpSoftballs to mimic the corporate media’s sheepish treatment of Trump. Funny and scary at the same time: https://twitter.com/SuZeeQP/status/780148792578441216 #TrumpSoftballs Do you like me? Wink twice for "Yes, I like you." OMG he winked! Twice!! Swoon!! — Eric Schmeltzer 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 (@JustSchmeltzer) September 25, 2016 Who's the man? #TrumpSoftBalls — […]
By Peter Daou - September 25, 2016
Donald Trump has repeatedly said he won’t release his taxes because he’s under audit. But that dubious rationale has been disputed by Warren Buffett, among many others. A week ago, Trump gave himself away by saying he would release his tax returns immediately if Hillary Clinton produced her deleted personal emails. "Let her release emails. I'll release my […]
By Peter Daou - September 15, 2016
Trump did an interview with Russia Today where he continued his perturbing habit of being more favorably inclined toward Vladimir Putin than to his own country. Chuck Todd reacted with a level of indignation typically reserved for Clinton, exclaiming, “Donald Trump went on Russian propaganda television to trash the American press corps!” Watch the clip:
By Peter Daou - September 09, 2016
The reaction to Fallon’s softball Trump interview was swift: https://twitter.com/MariaErnandez3b/status/776722856927432704 https://twitter.com/JeffreyGoldberg/status/776768620139388928 https://twitter.com/aminatou/status/776647702432124929 https://twitter.com/Ateeya/status/776633870598959104 https://twitter.com/KAmorphous/status/776732092285812737 "Wow, Donald Trump went on Jimmy Fallon, acted cute, & let Jimmy mess up his hair! I guess that erases the years of Trump's hate speech!" — Eric Wolfson (@EricWolfson) September 16, 2016 Jimmy Fallon: Don't put Trump on TV & […]
By Peter Daou - September 16, 2016
I’ve been covering the grossly imbalanced coverage of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump for the duration of the 2016 campaign. The double standard against Clinton has reached new lows and the frenzy to take her down is at a fever pitch. I tried to capture it all in a recent piece titled R.I.P. Political Journalism (1440-2016). In July […]
By Peter Daou - September 13, 2016
As a long-time lower Manhattan resident, I spent years surrounded by the spirits of those who gave their lives on that defining day of September 11, 2001. Like all New Yorkers, the awful sights, sounds and smells of that morning and the days that followed are seared into my mind. I flew back to New York from London […]
By Peter Daou - September 11, 2016
This is astonishing by any standards. Mike Pence defends Donald Trump's praise of Vladimir Putin: 'Inarguable' that Putin is a stronger leader than Obama https://t.co/dmjkTvpaMA — Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) September 9, 2016 Trump’s ghostwriter: Trump reveres Putin. He wants Putin's power. He wants to be a dictator. Every American — every American — should […]
By Peter Daou - September 08, 2016
With a few tweets and demeaning nicknames, Donald Trump handily dispatched some of the most powerful and well-funded Republicans in the country. So why is he struggling against Hillary Clinton in the general election despite a monumental and well-documented effort by the national media to tilt the playing field in his favor? Prof. Thomas Patterson examined […]
By Peter Daou - September 21, 2016
Humans have an uncanny ability to deny the obvious, even when the obvious is an existential threat. In the case of the 2016 election, we are looking at the potential end of the American experiment. That is a sentiment expressed by a range of scholars and public figures across the political spectrum. On May 18, […]
By Peter Daou - September 18, 2016
Garrison Keillor waxes eloquent about Hillary Clinton’s quest to break a 227-year barrier: Some day historians will get this right and look back at the steady pitter-pat of scandals that turned out to be nothing, nada, zero and ixnay and will conclude that, almost a century after women’s suffrage, almost 50 years after Richard Nixon signed […]
By Peter Daou - September 15, 2016
President Obama made a powerful case for Hillary Clinton, tearing into the double standard she faces: I sure do get frustrated with the way this campaign is covered. I’m just telling the truth. Guys in the back [reporters], I’m just telling you the truth about how I feel about this. Do you mind if I just vent for a second? […]
By Peter Daou - September 13, 2016
My colleague Matthew Chapman writes about Gary Johnson’s highly questionable environmental policies: As we have noted before, there is a great deal to dislike about Johnson. He wants to eliminate the federal income tax. He keeps flip-flopping on Citizens United. He wants to abolish mandatory vaccination. He has very weird ideas about public accommodation laws. His […]
By Peter Daou - September 23, 2016
THE CLINTON RULES In July of 2015, reporter Jonathan Allen famously defined the Clinton Rules: “The Clinton rules are driven by reporters’ and editors’ desire to score the ultimate prize in contemporary journalism: the scoop that brings down Hillary Clinton and her family’s political empire.” Independent studies have reinforced Allen’s observation, concluding Clinton has received the most negative coverage […]
By Peter Daou - September 10, 2016
Hillary Clinton has weathered one of the toughest periods of her campaign and Team Trump can’t be happy about his 7-point deficit in the new NBC/WSJ poll: In two-way race, Clinton leads Trump by 7pts among both likely and reg voters, per new natl NBC/WSJ poll pic.twitter.com/8fcl32a75e — Mark Murray (@mmurraypolitics) September 21, 2016 Notably, Trump’s unpopularity is more than […]
By Peter Daou - September 21, 2016
On a day when Donald Trump has again invoked the assassination of Hillary Clinton, this response, from Kierna Mayo, is stunning in its simplicity and power: Time is winding down and most of the 2016 race is in the rear view mirror. The view is ugly. https://twitter.com/Shakestweetz/status/776930224730673152 Hillary Clinton’s emails have been covered by major media […]
By Peter Daou - September 16, 2016
Over the course of a week, the corporate media largely ignored a half dozen Trump transgressions that would have sidelined any other candidate. Among them: saying the U.S. military was a “gang that couldn’t shoot straight.” We covered the story as soon as Trump’s words were posted online, and credit to Alex Burns for picking it up and tweeting […]
By Peter Daou - September 20, 2016
There is a fascinating and illuminating exchange between media insider (and Clinton detractor) Chris Cillizza and Norm Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute, in which Cillizza metaphorically stomps his feet and defends his profession’s unseemly obsession with Hillary Clinton’s emails. Ornstein’s retort is priceless: Chris, I hate to say it, but I find your response incredibly weak. Yes, her […]
By Peter Daou - September 17, 2016
Wow AC if you had that intensity on any variety of issues with DT you might be doing your job. Come on man. — jmartin (@jallnet12) September 13, 2016 There’s a reason I wrote an article titled R.I.P. Political Journalism. It’s because of corporate media spectacles like the one we were treated to by Anderson Cooper, who interviewed Hillary Clinton […]
By Peter Daou - September 12, 2016
This really doesn’t require any commentary: https://twitter.com/SopanDeb/status/778356178585653249
By Peter Daou - September 20, 2016
Here is where Trump’s carelessness matters: https://twitter.com/SopanDeb/status/778036404702019584 Trump may be directing his insults at President Obama, but if you read the transcript above, Trump is calling our military the “gang that couldn’t shoot straight.” He is categorically unfit to be commander in chief.
By Peter Daou - September 19, 2016
There isn’t a spectacle more pitiful in U.S. politics than the corporate media’s willingness to endure daily abuse from Donald Trump — and to reward him by glossing over his transgressions and focusing fire on his rival. Here are a few prime examples (one can only imagine the reaction if these insults came from Hillary Clinton): Just heard that […]
By Peter Daou - September 17, 2016
September 11 was a wild day in campaign 2016. After Hillary Clinton overheated and became weak at a 9/11 ceremony, an ugly feeding frenzy ensued that capped weeks of increasingly shrill conspiracy-mongering about her health. However, by the end of the day, the tables had turned on her detractors after it was revealed she was maintaining a grueling […]
By Peter Daou - September 11, 2016