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Articles Written by: JEFF GREENFIELD
Who is This?
Jeff Greenfield (born June 10, 1943) is an American television journalist, non-fiction writer, and novelist.
When I listen to the complaints that follow just about every presidential debate, I'm reminded of the well-worn joke about the Jewish mother who buys her son two shirts. When he shows up at dinner wearing one, she says: "What's the matter? You didn't ...
From JEFF GREENFIELD,
Slate,
13 Oct 2008
Yes, it was exciting for us political types to play Al Roker and figure out the potential impact of Gustav on the campaign. Yes, riffing on the limits of abstinence-only sex education was diverting. And, Lord knows, it was eye-opening to watch ...
From JEFF GREENFIELD,
Slate,
3 Sep 2008
As surely as the swallows come back to Capistrano, the political class has returned to one of its favorite diversions: deciding which past presidential candidates the current presidential candidates most resemble.
Is Obama the bold, successful Ronald ...
From JEFF GREENFIELD,
Slate,
1 Aug 2008
Four years ago, after Sen. John Kerry effectively clinched the Democratic nomination, I wondered aloud—the most effective way to communicate on television—whether he would reach out to the white evangelical community. Suppose he asked to address a ...
From JEFF GREENFIELD,
Slate,
26 Jun 2008
Jeff Greenfield, a CBS political correspondent, and his daughter Casey, an associate at a New York law firm, exchanged e-mails this week about the media coverage of the Obama-Clinton contest. Casey called her dad on what she sees as rife sexism; he ...
From CASEY GREENFIELD AND JEFF GREENFIELD,
Slate,
17 Jun 2008
Among the burdens Sen. John McCain carries is this apparently stern lesson of history: Americans don't like to hand the White House to the outgoing president's political party. In the post-FDR era, they have done so only once, in 1988, when George H.W. ...
From JEFF GREENFIELD,
Slate,
9 Jun 2008
On Monday, as the primary season was about to end, Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, one of Hillary Clinton's most prominent supporters, offered a valedictory. Noting his candidate's success in the later primaries, and her strength against John McCain in ...
From JEFF GREENFIELD,
Slate,
3 Jun 2008
In January 2007, Rush Limbaugh proclaimed that "the media are in the midst of Obamagasm. Because Obama—that would be 'Barack Hussein Obama'—has announced the perfunctory predictable exploratory committee." More than a year later, after denying he'd ...
From JEFF GREENFIELD,
Slate,
23 May 2008
Elitism has bedeviled American liberalism for the better part of four decades. It undermined the presidential campaigns of Al Gore and John Kerry, and now it's making mischief in the Obama campaign every bit as much as the omnipresence of the Rev. ...
From JEFF GREENFIELD,
Slate,
1 May 2008
It is a dream that emerges every presidential cycle, as a gaggle of candidates begin the trek. It grows as polls show no clear leader and the primaries split between the contenders. It has taken on unexpected strength this year because of the ...
From JEFF GREENFIELD,
Slate,
22 Apr 2008
