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Good morning, everyone. How did Bob Woodward miss the biggest media story of the new millennium? It was right under his nose! I wonder if we can soon put “Chat with Bob Woodward” in our Amazon shopping cart? Do Prime customers get Deep Throat anecdotes, too? Why did this happen? Simple: Follow the money.
The sale naturally makes me wonder about papers here in Nevada. I think, in order, the newspapers most likely to be sold are:
The Sun
The “newspaper”
The RGJ.
I wonder what the pricetag would...
Good morning, everyone. The congressional kids are on recess, which means they get to go play on trips to Israel (Dina Titus) or come home for some R&R and, probably, manufactured news (not that I am putting the National Clean Energy Summit in this category). Rep. Steven Horsford will emerge from his recovery this week to show he is getting back to fine fettle (Isn’t “fine fettle" a great English idiom?).
Lots of stuff for premium subscribers Sunday, including a new prospective candidate...
Good morning, everyone. If you haven’t seen/heard the clip yet, you missed Harry Reid scolding his colleagues as a father might an obstreperous child. “Sit down and shit up.” You don’t hear that often on the Senate floor. But, so far as I can tell, they listened to Prince Harry.
Tonight on “Ralston Reports,” a first: We have to bleep a guest who swore on the air. Luckily, the interviewer was taped with Ben Chavis, an outspoken education reformer. He’s actually a great interview, so please watch...
Good morning, everyone. “Lowden announces interest in Nevada lieutenant governor's race.” Ah, “newspaper.” No. She already had done that. Both Las Vegas papers showed what a daunting task Lowden has by mentioning the infamous “chicken lady” stuff from 2010 – the Sun even had video! I don’t want to be a, ahem, Chicken Little here, but that is not helpful.
I gave you my take Wednesday. She could be a factor in the race IF she puts in her own money and doesn’t listen to the wrong people. Or, as...
Good morning, everyone. Did you hear about Newt Gingrichinviting Harry Reid to come on “Crossfire” when it starts up again?
Imagine:
Newt: “Fundamentally, do you care that you don’t know what you are talking about?”
Prince Harry: “Don’t you have a zoo to go to or something?”
Newt: “What does that have to do with anything? Frankly, you need to retire.”
Prince Harry: “You tried that once. By the way, thanks for coming to campaign for Sharron Angle. That was really helpful to her.”
Newt: “This is...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: We'll see.
DAYS UNTIL PRIMARY ELECTION DAY 2014: 315
DAYS UNTIL GENERAL ELECTION DAY 2014: 462
Good morning, everyone. A short time ago, Gov. Brian Sandoval was gushing about those cool statehood license plates. (I hate personalized license plates, but as a proud Nevadan, I may even get one.) But who would have guessed those celebratory plates aren’t even being made in Nevada?
Oregon? Really? Oregon? So the ...
Good morning, everyone. Mondays are the days I usually tell you, dear Flashees, how awful “The Newsroom” is after an evening hate-watching the program. I will bore you no more. Suffice it to say, the obnoxious Sorkinese, the terrible female characters, the heavy-handed plot points (Team Romney was mean to the media, and the media didn’t do its job!) and the great Jeff Daniels suffocated by the dialogue. Ah, what might have been. It’s euthanasia time, HBO.
If you missed premium content Sunday,...
Good morning, everyone. Mondays are the days I usually tell you, dear Flashees, how awful “The Newsroom” is after an evening hate-watching the program. I will bore you no more. Suffice it to say, the obnoxious Sorkinese, the terrible female characters, the heavy-handed plot points (Team Romney was mean to the media, and the media didn’t do its job!) and the great Jeff Daniels suffocated by the dialogue. Ah, what might have been. It’s euthanasia time, HBO.
If you missed premium content Sunday,...
Good morning, everyone. The Rawson-Neal controversy continues with what has become a predictable trajectory. Government downplays latest development, Democrats attack, administration reacts with sunny statement. The latest
is really something after the disclosure that the troubled hospital was denied accreditation and the day ending with the state announcing it wouldn’t appeal but that everything would be fine. If this were an issue people cared about----
What’s interesting here is that...
Good morning, everyone. I should write a book someday (or at least a long piece) about some of the stuff that’s been said over the last 12-plus years during breaks in my program. Lots of great stuff, but none better than Wednesday night when I turned to William Horne’s two beautiful children and asked about how fired up their Dad was on Stand Your Ground laws. “That’s why he should run for the Senate,” his son, Henry, responded, without missing a beat. You should have seen his father’s face. (...