Cokie Roberts

These Famous Daughters Credit Their Mothers With Their Success

Posted 01.02.2012

Read More: Senator-Kirsten-Gillibrand, Diana Ross, Goldie Hawn, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Cokie Roberts, Isabelle Rossellini, Kiran Desai, Anita Desai, Famous Mothers, Famous Daughters, Kate Hudson, Hillary Clinton, Tracie Ellis Ross, Elettra Rossellini Wiedemann, Women News

This week, with the death of Hillary Clinton's mother, we got some insight into the major female influence in the life of one of the most accomplished...

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For Her Own Funeral, Betty Ford Requested Political Eulogy

AP | LINDA DEUTSCH | Posted 09.10.2011

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LOS ANGELES — Former first lady Betty Ford, always known for her take charge attitude, chose the people who will eulogize her and the subjects t...

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Defunding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting

Alan Chartock | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Npr, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Pbs, Juan Williams, Cokie Roberts, Bill Oreilly, Doug Lamborn, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Government Accountability Office, Glenn Beck, Public Broadcasting, Colorado, Media News

Colorado Representative Doug Lamborn's op-ed, calling for the defunding of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, is truly one of the most disingenuous pieces of propaganda I have ever read.

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I Respect Tom Brokaw and Al Huang, but I Can't Afford to Eat With Them

Harvey Gotliffe, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

October in California is fundraising time and if you are on any Republican Party's mailing list you'll be receiving pleas for contributions from two p...

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The Politics of Fiction

Richard C. Morais | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Steve Roberts, Politics, The Hundred-Foot Journey, Forbes, Cokie Roberts, Fiction, Greece, Fiscal Crisis, Europe, Forbes Magazine, Books News

Journalists today are forced to pontificate from their armchairs, barking out at a furious pace the short, sharp commentaries that are the staples of the Internet. Seeking fulfillment, I turned to fiction.

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Don Imus, Chris Wallace Discuss Cokie Roberts's Criticisms

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Yesterday, I made note of this segment on NPR, in which ABC News contributor Cokie Roberts, while discussing the way female politicians never find the...

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Cokie Roberts Assails Chris Wallace For Palin 'Lap' Joke: 'Appalling'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chris Wallace, Media Criticism, Cokie Roberts, Sarah Palin, Chris Wallace Palin, Chris Wallace Lap, Cokie Roberts Chris Wallace, Palin Lap, Eat the Press, Video, Media News

Cokie Roberts took to the airwaves today, joining in a terrific segment about the way female politicians seem to be able to exert some degree of self-control and do their jobs without getting enmeshed in crazy, news-making sex scandals.

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Talking Sex, Money, Politics and Tennessee Williams at Lit Festival

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: David Eggers, New Orleans, The Blind Side, Tea Party, Jesse James, Patriot, Cokie Roberts, Edward Albee, Michael Lewis, Tennessee Williams, Tennessee Williams Literary Festival, Books News

Tennessee Williams New Orleans Literary Festival speakers touched on everything from Jesse James to the Tea Party Patriots. Here are moments from my first day at the festival.

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Cokie Roberts: Glenn Beck A 'Terrorist'

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 05.25.2011

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Cokie Roberts devoted her syndicated column (which she writes with husband Steve) to the subject of Glenn Beck, who she writes is "worse than a clown"...

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Cokie Roberts On Polanski: "Just Take Him Out And Shoot Him" (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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A surprising number of celebrities and media figures have come to the defense of Roman Polanksi, arguing that the famous director should not have to f...

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Cokie Roberts: "I Couldn't Give Up Jesus" For My Jewish Husband

Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Religion, Cokie Roberts Catholic, Cokie Roberts, Interfaith, Steve Roberts, Cokie Roberts Husband, Interfaith Relationships, Cokie Roberts Jewish, Media News

Sally Quinn talks to the journalist couple about their Catholic-Jewish marriage....Cokie also talks about her decision not to convert to Judaism for h...

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The Incredible Shrinking Health Care Reform

Norman Solomon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Time Magazine, Mandates, President Obama, Single Payer, Drug Lobby Insurance Companies, Organizing for America, Cokie Roberts, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Karen Ignagni, America?S Health Insurance Plans, Medicaid, Healthcare Reform, Physicians for a National Health Program, Home News

Notions of universal health care are fading in the power centers of politics -- while more and more attention focuses on the care and feeding of the insurance industry.

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Think Again: Conflicts of Interest by the Wealthy and for the Wealthy

Eric Alterman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Howard Kurtz, Atlantic Monthly, Andrew-Alexander, Politico, James Fallows, Blogola, Bloggers, Cokie Roberts, David Bradley, Marcus Brauchli, Washington Post, Tom Friedman, Katherine-Weymouth, Washington Post Salons, Media News

Given the power of perception media institutions enjoy over the profits of so many industries, these same institutions can use this privilege to line their own pockets.

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A Wry Look-Back at the Presidential Campaign

Lea Lane | Posted 05.25.2011

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Has it been only two months since the presidential campaign ended?

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Sackcloth and Ashes on Wall Street

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Greed, Henry Paulson, Wall Street, Cokie Roberts, Bible, Ceos, Housing, Bailout Package, Ethics, Investment Banker, Wall Street Banks, Economy, Financial Crisis, Wall Street Crisis, Politics News

The proposed bailout of Wall Street gives unprecedented power to one man -- Henry Paulson -- including any action deemed necessary, with no review, and a report to Congress only every six months.

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Cokie Roberts Attack Ad

Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: McCain Cheating, John Edwards Affair, John McCain Attack Ads, Obama Hawaii, Barack Obama, Cokie Roberts, John McCain, Satire, South Carolina, Myrtle Beach, Politics News

Last week when Cokie Roberts attacked Obamafor vacationing in the "foreign" and "exotic" land of Hawaii, most of us just assumed she was schilling for McCain. But she was schilling for something entirely different. Just watch.

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Sunday Watch, 8-3-08: In Which David Gergen Collides with the Straight Talk Express and Walks Away from the Wreck

Todd Gitlin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John McCain, This Week With George Stephanopoulos, David Gergen, George Stephanopoulos, George Will, Cokie Roberts, Sam Donaldson, Nancy Pelosi, Jake Tapper, McCain Offshore Drilling, Barack Obama, Donna Brazile, Media News

Washington fights sound petty even when they are deeply consequential, and neither journalists nor politicians have discovered how to make them sound as dramatic and consequential as they deserve to sound.

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Steven Paul Mark On Colbert, Writers' Strike

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Writers Strike Opinion Page, Stephen Colbert, Linda Ellerbee, Jon Stewart, Comedy Central, Cokie Roberts, The Daily Show, New Orleans Musicians Relief FUnd, Lou Dobbs, Dr. John, Writers' Strike, Writers' Strike News, George Bush, Home News

I recently sat down with Steven Paul Mark, formerly of Comedy Central, and chatted about the writers' strike, Colbert For President, and the Daily Show blackout's impact on campaign overage.

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