The Fromson File

In an analysis of the foreign policy approaches of both John McCain and Barack Obama, the New York Times says “both men have been forced into surprising detours.” McCain’s perspective is drawn from his experience as a prisoner of war in Hanoi during the Vietnam War. The question rarely ever broached is this: did he [...]

At a time when the U.S. economy seemed to be going into the tank, the question no one seemed to be asking the past two weeks was what about the press… the talking press? For years, everything seemed quite rosy if you watched or listened to the broadcast media. Rukeyser, Dobbs and all the other [...]

The past two weeks in election year politics resemble a script that might have been written by Woody Allen or the late Peter Sellers. But the story has lent itself more to tragedy than comedy. What was on John McCain’s mind except his own desperate need to be president when he chose a gun-toting radical [...]