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

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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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)

589 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)

626 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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