SENIOR EDITOR
Michelle Cottle
Michelle Cottle has been a senior editor at The New Republic since February 1999. She is a 1992 magna cum laude graduate of Vanderbilt University with a B.A. in English and a minor in European Studies.
Prior to joining tnr, Cottle was an editor of The Washington Monthly for two years. She has also worked for the Tom Peters Group, editing its monthly newsletter; served as an editorial fellow at Mother Jones magazine, and has done freelance writing, editing, and commentary for CNN, The New York Times, Time, Slate, The Atlantic and George magazine, among others. Cottle is a regular panelist for the PBS political affairs show, "Tucker Carlson Unfiltered."
Post date 07 23, 07
Thwack! An elaborately beaded elephant handbag lands solidly on FredThompson's upper arm. "Law and Order on the Border!" the bag'sowner, a short, sassy, middle-aged brunette, crows at the presumedpresidential candidate. "There's your campaign slogan right there!"Vibrating with pride at her cleverness in linking Thompson'sget-tough immigration stance with the title of the NBC series onwhich he until recently starred, the Republican dame grins broadlyand repeats the line with even greater gusto: "Law and Order on theBorder!" The former Tennessee senator, characteristically imposingin dark blue pinstripes, responds with a smile of indulgence andweary amusement as he ambles through the herd of fans trailing himacross the lower level of the Greater Richmond Convention Center,where he has just headlined the Virginia Republican Party's 2007Commonwealth Gala. |
Post date 10 19, 07
No one thought Jeri Kehn could do it. Back in 2000, the dishy young Republican operative, then 33, had Washington wags atwitter over her high-profile quest to capture the famously footloose Fred Thompson. Divorced from his high school sweetheart in 1985, the senator and erstwhile actor, then 57, had become one of the hottest tickets in town. A deep- drawling, broad-shouldered six-and-half footer, Thompson had a devastating Southern charm, with a gilding of movie-star glamour. Country music bombshell Lorrie Morgan, cosmetics queen Georgette Mosbacher, conservative pollster Kellyanne Fitzpatrick, and <i>Time</i> columnist Margaret Carlson were among Hollywood Fred's better-known, better-heeled paramours. |
Post date 09 10, 07
Patti Solis Doyle, Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, is laboring to explain why she doesn't like the word "family" used to describe Hillaryland, the circle of longtime loyalists who dominate the candidate's political empire. Because it sounds too precious? Too insular? Too Mafiaesque? This last suggestion sends Solis Doyle into a full-bodied fit of laughter. Her head flies back, her dark hair sweeps her shoulders, her lean frame twists in the chair pulled up to the small, oval conference table in her blue-carpeted corner office of the campaign's suburban Virginia headquarters. "Yeah! It does!" she shrieks delightedly in a girlish voice that makes her seem closer to age 16 than 42. I make a joke about "The Sopranos," and Solis Doyle heads off on a tangent about that week's episode of the now defunct HBO hit. |
