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Ryan Grim: Being 'Hard' Or 'Soft' On Terror Doesn't Make Sense

Posted January 5, 2010 | 07:34 PM (EST)


HuffPost's Ryan Grim was on MSNBC Tuesday to discuss, along with conservative journalist Jamie Weinstein, whether Obama is "soft on terror."

"I kind of had this naive hope we were done with the 'soft on terrorism/hard on terrorism' idea," said Grim. "Because what we're talking about is a network...

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Arianna Talks About Misplaced Priorities In Fighting Terrorism (VIDEO)

132 Comments | Posted January 4, 2010 | 10:13 PM (EST)


Keith Olbermann invited Arianna onto his first show back after the holidays to discuss the way terrorism has become a political football. Following Richard Wolffe's analysis that our first line of defense is our intelligence system, Arianna pointed out that systemic failures are exacerbated because we are distracted by the...

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Arianna the Bear: Behind the Scenes of the Cleveland Show

14 Comments | Posted January 4, 2010 | 01:01 PM (EST)


The producers of "The Cleveland Show" have released a behind-the-scenes look at Arianna's work on the animated Fox show, in which she provides the voice of a bear named... Arianna.

In the clip, Arianna describes her character as "a little judgmental" but say she is "a very human bear" with...

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Arianna Explains Move Your Money To CNN's Rick Sanchez

188 Comments | Posted December 31, 2009 | 07:16 PM (EST)


Arianna spoke to Rick Sanchez on CNN Thursday afternoon to urge Americans to withdraw their money from big bailed out banks and move it into local community banks.

Visit moveyourmoney.info to learn more about the project, and find a well-ranked community bank near you.

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Arianna Says Obama's Focus On Wall Street Rather Than Main Street At Root Of Public Anger (VIDEO)

1339 Comments | Posted December 31, 2009 | 03:36 PM (EST)


President Obama's support for Wall Street, rather than Main street, is behind the public anger and frustration, Arianna argued on Morning Joe.

She weighed in on the president's job performance during a taped appearance that aired Thursday morning. Obama, she says, campaigned on a platform of change, but instead of...

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Arianna Calls Out Kudlow For Dow '50,000' Prediction, Urges People To Ditch Bailed Out Banks (VIDEO)

665 Comments | Posted December 31, 2009 | 01:31 PM (EST)


Arianna was on CNBC's "The Call" today to discuss the Move Your Money campaign. Host Larry Kudlow challenged the idea of switching money from big banks to community banks. Arianna countered that she's not sure why anyone is still listening to Kudlow, given his previous predictions that have...

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HuffPost Editor Roy Sekoff Blasts Cheney For Latest Attack On Obama (VIDEO)

306 Comments | Posted December 30, 2009 | 07:49 PM (EST)


HuffPost Editor Roy Sekoff appeared on MSNBC's The Ed Show tonight to discuss how progressives should respond to false right wing attacks on President Obama that politicize security issues. Sekoff told Schultz that the Left needs to hit back hard with the facts.

Singling out Dick Cheney for his particularly...

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Roy Sekoff Discusses Latest AIG Bonus Outrage On 'The Ed Show' (VIDEO)

17 Comments | Posted December 23, 2009 | 07:18 PM (EST)


HuffPost's Editor, Roy Sekoff, was on The Ed Show Wednesday night to discuss the latest AIG outrage: the refusal of company executives to follow through on their promise to return $45 million in bonuses by the end of the year.

While agreeing with Ed Schultz that this amounted to "business...

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Roy Sekoff Discusses Palin's Hawaiian Vacation On "The Joy Behar Show" (VIDEO)

182 Comments | Posted December 17, 2009 | 08:27 PM (EST)


Huffington Post Editor Roy Sekoff appeared on HLN's The Joy Behar Show Thursday night. Talk Stoop's Cat Greenleaf and comedian Jessica Kirson joined Roy on Joy Behar's panel.

Among the topics up for discussion were Tiger Woods's continued drama, MTV's Jersey Shore and its cast of self-described "guidos," as...

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Arianna Discusses Health Reform, State Of The Nation: 'The Lobbyists Are Winning'

646 Comments | Posted December 17, 2009 | 10:09 AM (EST)


Arianna was a guest on MSNBC's Morning Joe today to discuss the health care reform bill making its way through the Senate. She criticized the degree to which the legislation has been twisted into benefiting industry more than the public. The lobbyists are winning, she said. ""You know who should...

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Arianna On "The Ed Show": It Is Absurd To Cede Control Of Health Care Reform To Joe Lieberman

863 Comments | Posted December 15, 2009 | 07:36 PM (EST)


Senator Joe Lieberman has pushed the health care debate to a level of absurdity that can't be ignored, Arianna argued on Tuesday evening. During her appearance on The Ed Show with Ed Schultz, Arianna took issue with the power bestowed upon the Independent Democratic senator from Connecticut and she blamed...

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HuffPost's Roy Sekoff Grades The Grade Obama Gave Himself

344 Comments | Posted December 14, 2009 | 08:44 PM (EST)


On Monday night on the The Ed Show, HuffPost's Roy Sekoff applied his own grading system to the "B+" grade President Obama gave himself on Oprah's Christmas at the White House special, Sunday night.

Host Ed Schultz began the segment by offering the president an incomplete with the offer...

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Ryan Grim Discusses Joe Lieberman's Medicare Flip-Flop On MSNBC (VIDEO)

131 Comments | Posted December 14, 2009 | 05:59 PM (EST)


Huffington Post reporter Ryan Grim joined political consultant Liz Mair as a guest on MSNBC Monday afternoon to discuss Joe Lieberman's declaration that he will filibuster the Senate's health care bill.

Lieberman's opposition to a Medicare buy-in is a reversal of the position he held just three months ago, Ryan...

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Arianna To John Podesta On Afghanistan: 'You Now Sound Like George Bush' (VIDEO)

413 Comments | Posted December 13, 2009 | 12:18 PM (EST)


During ABC's "This Week" on Sunday, Arianna and Center for American Progress CEO John Podesta sparred over President Obama's escalation of the war in Afghanistan.

Arianna argued that the President has twice failed to make a coherent case for why America's national security interests are threatened by Afghanistan.

Asked about...

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Arianna On The 'Supreme Irony' Of Obama's Nobel Speech (VIDEO)

423 Comments | Posted December 11, 2009 | 01:50 AM (EST)


Arianna appeared on "The Joy Behar Show" Thursday evening with Behar and radio host Stephanie Miller, where she weighed in on President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize, Glenn Beck's conflict of interest, the party-crashing Salahis and Tiger Woods's alleged affairs.

Arianna noted the "supreme irony" of President Obama's Peace Prize speech...

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Sam Stein Discusses Afghanistan, Health Care Reform On The Ed Show (VIDEO)

Posted December 9, 2009 | 12:12 AM (EST)


Huffington Post reporter Sam Stein joined GOP strategist John Feehery as guests on The Ed Show on Tuesday.

Ed Schultz asked about recent comments by Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai that the United States could be there for another 15 to 20 years, despite a July 2011 deadline recently announced by...

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Scott Horton Discusses Guantanamo Wrong-Doing On Countdown With Keith Olbermann (VIDEO)

47 Comments | Posted December 7, 2009 | 10:41 PM (EST)


The Defense Department's conclusion that three prisoner deaths in Guantanamo Bay were suicide doesn't appear to pass muster after a report issued on Monday by Seton Hall.

Law professor Mark Denbeaux supervised the study and was interviewed for the Huffington Post by Scott Horton, a contributing editor at Harper's...

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Arianna, Joseph Nye, Robert Kuttner And Timothy Naftali Discuss Presidential Leadership At Truman Library Institute (VIDEO)

1 Comments | Posted December 7, 2009 | 09:20 AM (EST)


On Nov. 1st, Arianna participated in a forum that discussed "Presidential Leadership in Transformational Times." The panel was brought together by the 2009 Howard and Virginia Bennett Forum on the Presidency, part of the Harry S. Truman Library Institute, and included Robert Kuttner and Timothy Naftali. It was moderated by...

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Arianna On The Problems Posed By Tea Party Activists In 2010 Elections (VIDEO)

698 Comments | Posted December 4, 2009 | 11:04 PM (EST)


Democratic National Committee Chairman, Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine recently weighed in on the Tea Party movement, saying that Democrats stand to gain from the fringe group's assault on more conventional GOP leaders. Arianna isn't so sure.

MSNBC's David Shuster Interviewed Arianna on Countdown about the effects that Tea Partiers will...

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Arianna Breaks Down Obama's Afghanistan Speech With Dylan Ratigan (VIDEO)

9 Comments | Posted December 4, 2009 | 10:54 PM (EST)


The morning after President Obama went to West Point to lay out his plans for troop deployment in Afghanistan, Arianna broke down the issue with Dylan Ratigan on MSNBC's Morning Meeting. Wednesday's show went into the "tortured logic" of Obama's approach to the country, when the real danger seems to...

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