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

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


Arianna appeared on the Joy Behar Show Thursday evening with Joy Behar and radio host Stephanie Miller. She was there to weigh 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 pointed to the "supreme irony" in President...

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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)

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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Roy Sekoff Talks To Ed Show's Ed Schultz About The Latest Example Of Why We Need a Public Option

273 Comments | Posted December 4, 2009 | 08:44 PM (EST)


Health insurance giant Aetna is planning to force up to 650,000 clients to drop their coverage in 2010 as the company seeks to meet profit expectations. The move , HuffPost Editor Roy Sekoff argues, is the perfect example of why a public option needs to be included in the...

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Arianna On "Morning Joe": War Is Not A Right-Left Issue (VIDEO)

590 Comments | Posted December 2, 2009 | 09:39 AM (EST)


Arianna was a guest on MSNBC's Morning Joe today to discuss President Obama's speech last night explaining his plan to escalate the war in Afghanistan.

She debated Jane Mayer of the New Yorker about Obama's decision to order a surge of roughly 30,000 troops to Afghanistan. Mayer argued that...

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Arianna, Jesse Ventura And Ben Stein Discuss Afghanistan On Larry King Live (VIDEO)

267 Comments | Posted December 1, 2009 | 02:15 AM (EST)


Larry King sighed when he came back from a commercial break on Monday.

"I wish we had more time."

Arianna joined a packed panel including Jesse Ventura and Ben Stein to discuss the expected US troop escalation in Afghanistan -- and how to pay for it.

Ventura, before becoming a...

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Arianna Discusses Obama's Afghanistan Decision On Charlie Rose (VIDEO)

624 Comments | Posted November 26, 2009 | 01:15 AM (EST)


If you were traveling on Thanksgiving Eve, you might have missed Arianna on Charlie Rose. She was there to discuss President Obama's forthcoming decision on US troop levels in Afghanistan. Joining Arianna were Yale English Professor David Bromwich, Council On Foreign Relations President Emeritus and Board Senior Fellow Leslie Gelb,...

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HuffPost Editor Roy Sekoff Discusses Shameless Tea Party Heckling Of Hough Family On 'The Ed Show' (VIDEO)

552 Comments | Posted November 25, 2009 | 06:59 PM (EST)


Earlier this month, members of the Chicago Tea Party Patriots heckled a pair of town hall speakers who lost their daughter-in-law and unborn grandchild due to a medical emergency. Dan and Midge Hough wanted to explain how a lack of health care may have contributed to the two deaths.

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Arianna Discusses Senate Health Care Reform On Countdown With Keith Olbermann

53 Comments | Posted November 23, 2009 | 09:42 PM (EST)


Arianna stopped by Countdown with Keith Olbermann Monday night to talk about the politics behind the Senate's approach to health care reform, including recent comments by Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) and whether Democrats can afford to settle. Her view: "Without a public option, there's no real cost containment. There's no...

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Arianna On Olbermann: Glenn Beck Is "Morally Liable" For His Words "If Violence Ensues From What He Says" (VIDEO)

1212 Comments | Posted November 19, 2009 | 09:20 PM (EST)


Arianna Huffington went on MSNBC's Countdown to discuss a new report from the Anti-Defamation League on anti-government rage, that calls Glenn Beck the "Fearmonger-in-Chief."

The report calls Beck "the most important mainstream media figure who has repeatedly helped stoke the fires of anti-government anger."

Arianna argued that...

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Sam Stein Talks Jobs, 2010 Elections On The Ed Show With Ed Schultz (VIDEO)

11 Comments | Posted November 18, 2009 | 05:09 AM (EST)


Huffpost political reporter Sam Stein appeared on The Ed Show Wednesday and weighed in on the nation's high unemployment rate and what it could mean for Democrats in 2010.

Stein told Ed Schultz that Democratic operatives are worried that President Obama underestimated labor problems. The party is worried about...

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HuffPost Editor Roy Sekoff Discusses The Sarah Palin Coin Controversy On The Joy Behar Show

233 Comments | Posted November 12, 2009 | 02:00 AM (EST)


HuffPost Editor Roy Sekoff appeared on The Joy Behar Show Wednesday night to talk about religion in politics and the controversy surrounding Sarah Palin's "In God We Trust" coin conspiracy. Joining Roy, was Libertarian and magician Penn Jillette.

Behar started off the discussion by playing a clip from Fox News,...

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WATCH: HuffPost's Roy Sekoff On Massive Bank Bonuses: White House Continues To Coddle Wall St

114 Comments | Posted November 10, 2009 | 07:24 PM (EST)


HuffPost Editor Roy Sekoff appeared on MSNBC's The Ed Show tonight to discuss new financial reform legislation in Congress as well as the fate of the House health care reform bill as it enters the Senate.

Sekoff agreed with Schultz that the White House is still not being tough enough...

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HuffPost Reporter Sam Stein Debates Fate Of House Health Reform Bill In The Senate

3 Comments | Posted November 9, 2009 | 07:57 PM (EST)


HuffPost reporter Sam Stein joined the panel on MSNBC's The Ed Show tonight to discuss the fate of the health care reform bill that passed this weekend in the House. One hot topic for the panel is whether progressives will succeed in forcing the Stupak amendment, a strict anti-abortion provision...

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Roy Sekoff On The Election Wake Up Call (VIDEO)

244 Comments | Posted November 4, 2009 | 07:22 PM (EST)


HuffPost Editor Roy Sekoff was a guest on The Ed Show Wednesday to discuss what Tuesday's election results mean for Democrats and President Obama. Sekoff said that pundits are reading too much into the outcome and that the dire scenarios they're painting for Democrats are misguided:

It was definitely a...
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Arianna Discusses Today's Elections, Delayed Vote On "Too Big To Fail" Legislation On "Morning Meeting" (VIDEO)

Posted November 3, 2009 | 10:47 AM (EST)


Arianna joined MSNBC's Morning Meeting, hosted by Dylan Ratigan, today to discuss the elections today in New York, New Jersey and Virginia; the potential national impact of the rift between conservatives and the Republican party opened by the congressional race in New York; and the decision by Congressman Barney Frank...

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Arianna Discusses Candidate Obama Vs President Obama And Nation's Growing Discontent With DC (VIDEO)

61 Comments | Posted November 3, 2009 | 10:44 AM (EST)


Arianna was a guest on MSNBC's Morning Joe today to discuss her latest column comparing candidate Obama to President Obama, as well as the public's growing discontent with its political leaders, from both parties. She noted that the the same feelings of disenchantment that Obama the candidate tapped into...

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