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President Obama's MIA Campaign Latino Playlist

Viviana Hurtado | Posted 04.14.2012

Read More: Politics, Latino, Ricky Martin, Video, Politico, Jennifer Lopez, Juanes, Viviana Hurtado, President Obama, Mike Allen, Hispanic, Salsa, Gloria Estefan, Election 2012, The Wise Latina Club, Latino Voices News

You mean to tell me that at campaign headquarters, there isn't one Latino lackey who could have added some sabor to the campaign playlist leaked Thursday?

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Media Awards Romney New Hampshire Victory Before Votes Counted

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: The Backstory, New Hampshire Primary Results, Joe Klein, Politico, Dan Balz, Ron Paul, Elections 2012, New Hampshire Primary Election, Rick Perry, Walter Shapiro, New Hampshire Primary Election 2012, David Gergen, Newt Gingrich 2012, 2012 Election, New Hampshire Polls, Rick Perry 2012, Rick Santorum 2012, Washington Post, Newt Gingrich, New Hampshire Primary Election Results, New Hampshire Primary 2012, New Hampshire Primary Election Results 2012, Mike Allen, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Jon Huntsman 2012, Mark Halperin, New Hampshire Primary, Santorum, Jon Huntsman, Mitt Romney 2012, Ron Paul 2012, Media News, New Republic, New Hampshire Primary Results 2012, Media News

MANCHESTER, N.H. -- Politico's Mike Allen sounded a bit existential Monday night during a media panel at Saint Anselm College. "Why are we here?" he a...

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Politico Hires Reporter Mike Allen Recently Trashed

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.30.2011

Read More: Eat the Press, Politico, Mike Allen Politico, Mitt Romney 2012, Mike Allen, Media Criticism, Byron Tau Politico, Media News, Donovan Slack Politico, Donovan Slack, Media News

Here's a fun story with a happy ending. Donovan Slack is an eight-year veteran of the Boston Globe who, during that time, moved from covering City Hal...

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Romney Campaign Discipline Prevents Embarrassments In New E-Book

HuffingtonPost.com | Jon Ward | Posted 11.30.2011

Read More: Video, Politico, Dave Carney, Mike Allen, Mitt Romney, Evan Thomas, Republican Presidential Primary, Newt Gingrich, E-Book, Election 2012, Barack Obama, Rick Perry, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- In Politico's new and highly anticipated e-book about the 2012 campaign, the most notable thing may be what's not in it: much of anythin...

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Mike Allen Takes Cheap Shot At Globe Reporter For Her Good Reporting

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.07.2011

Read More: Eat the Press, Mitt Romney 2012, Mike Allen, Mitt Romney, Media Criticism, Donovan Slack, Media News

The Boston Globe leads with a story today from Donovan Slack, which details how well some of the aides to Mitt Romney's presidential campaign are maki...

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Whither Bachmann? Back to School

Rebecca Sive | Posted 11.08.2011

Read More: Rick Perry, Hillary Clinton, Michele Bachmann, Mike Allen, Chris Cillizza, Barack Obama, Politics News

School has begun in earnest for us girls enrolled in the school of politics. So, girlfriends, sit-up straight and pay attention, for these two school ...

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Beltway Reporters' Garters Popping In Aftermath Of Bardella Email Flap

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

On Tuesday afternoon, Kurt Bardella, a spokesman for House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), was fired after it came to light that he had sh...

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What Did a Senior Administration Official Really Say About Social Security?

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tim Fernholz, Deficit Commission, Social Security, Obama Administration, Mike Allen, Politics News

Unless there's significant political pushback between now and December, my impression is that the Administration is likely to embrace a package of Social Security "tweaks" that includes some benefit cuts.

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Mainstream Media Swoon Over Rove's Power Play

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Steven Levingston, Mark Foley, Bill Clinton, Realclearpolitics, Karl Rove, Politico, Rahm Emanuel, The Page, Mike Brown, New York Times Magazine, Mike Allen, Jon Podesta, George W. Bush, Washington Post, Barack Obama, Media News

One doesn't have to buy in to the deification of Rove to acknowledge just how effectively disingenuous he can be.

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Elena Kagan Will Be Obama's Supreme Court Pick: Mike Allen

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Elena Kagan Scotus, Scotus, Mike Allen, Supreme Court Nominee, Obama Supreme Court Nominee, Kagan Supreme Court, Obama Elena Kagan, Obama Supreme Court Nominees, Elena Kagan, Elena Kagan Supreme Court, Politics News

Updates below... President Obama is expected to nominate Solicitor General and former Harvard Law dean Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court on Monday, Mi...

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Gossip and The New York Times

Peter A. Ubel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Media Criticism, New York Times, Timothy Geithner, Politico, Mike Allen, Reporting, Chinese Food, Mark Leibovich, Media News

Is it too much to hope that the world's best reporters will stay focused on the big picture, without being distracted by the daily undulations of minor gossip?

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The Last Temptation of Politico's Mike Allen

Swopa | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Valerie Plame, Politico, Journalism, Mike Allen, Media News

I could weigh in on all the alternately snark-worthy and/or unsettling anecdotes in the NYT's mammoth profile of Allen, but I'm interested in the untold story of how Allen arrived at this point in life.

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Mike Allen Profile: We Read The NYT Magazine's Politico Piece So You Don't Have To

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York Times Magazine, Politico, Media Criticism, Mark Leibovich, New York Times, Mike Allen, Mike Allen Profile, Politico Profile, Eat the Press, Media News

Oh boy! Today the fecund womb of the New York Times magazine has birthed into the world Mark Leibovich's seventy-kabillion word essay on Politico's Mi...

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Kent Conrad's Repeated Explanation Of Budget Reconciliation Not Good Enough For Mike Allen

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Video, Alan Grayson, Media Criticism, Kent Conrad, Health Care Reform, Chris Matthews, Budget Reconciliation, Jonathan Chait, Idiots, Mike Allen, Eat the Press, Media News

No discussion of the media's ongoing battle to understand basic seventh-grade civics would be complete without enjoying Jonathan Chait's post in which...

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Lost in the Tweets

Mark Blumenthal | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: CBS/New York Times, Health Care Reform, Mike Allen, Robert Gibbs, Taegan Goddard, Pollster, Politics News

This morning, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs passed along a link for his "poll obsessed" Twitter followers pointing to a possibly overlooked...

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Core Chicago Team Sinking Obama Presidency

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Edward Luce, Valerie Jarrett, Policymaking, ABC's the Note, Chicago, Mike Allen, US Foreign Policy, Denis McDonough, Chuck Hagel, Barack Obama, Jim Jones, Rahm Emanuel, John Podesta, Financial TImes, James Steinberg, David Axelrod, Tom Daschle, Politico, Tom Donilon, Robert Gibbs, Health Care, Gregory Craig, Brent Scowcroft, Fareed Zakaria, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Arianna Huffington, Politics News

Serious critiques of the internal game around Obama have to be read -- because Obama is not winning. He is failing, and people need to consider why.

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How the White House Used Gruber's Work to Create Appearance of Broad Consensus

Jane Hamsher | Posted 05.25.2011

The White House is placing a giant bet on Gruber's "assumptions" to justify key portions of the Senate bill. Now we know that Gruber's work was not that of an independent analyst but a contractor to the White House.

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Elections: The New National Pastime That Could Save Journalism

Glynnis MacNicol | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The State of Journalism, Baseball, Election 2009, Barack Obama, Michael Bloomberg, Mike Allen, Politico, Cable News, Election 2008, Murray Chase, Media News

Apparently the future of journalism is politics. Can anyone remember this level of attention being paid for a handful of local elections? I can remember presidential elections that barely got this level of coverage.

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Fox News Is the Story

Eric E. Burns | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The O'Reilly Factor, Josh Gerstein, White House, Happening Now, Bill Shine, The Nation, Martha MacCallum, Politico, FOX Report, America?S News HQ, Dick Morris, Ruth Marcus, Cavuto, Jake Tapper, Tea Parties, Roger Ailes, Fox News Sunday, Fox Business Network, Trace Gallagher, Julie Banderas, Jon Scott, Chris Wallace, Mike Huckabee, Rupert Murdoch, The Fox Nation, Washington Post, Bernard Goldberg, Fox News Channel, Greg Gutfield, Brian Kilmeade, Bernie Goldberg, Bill Clinton, News Corp, Red Eye, Tom Rosenstiel, Greta Van Susteren, Studio B, Shepard Smith, Bill Hemmer, Mike Allen, Center for Media and Public Affairs, FoxNation.Com, Steve Doocy, The Live Desk, Barack Obama, Harris Faulkner, Special Report, Fox News Watch, Gretchen Carlson, Sean Hannity, America?S Newsroom, Fox & Friends, Fox News, Neil Cavuto, Project for Excellence in Journalism, Glenn Beck, Bret Baier, Megyn Kelly, ABC News, John Nichols, Robert Gibbs, Bill O'Reilly, Media News

The White House has exposed Fox News for what it is: not a news organization, but a partisan political entity that is waging a war against the Obama administration and its progressive agenda.

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HuffPost, TPM In White House Pool: Newspaper Reporters Gripe

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Peter Baker, Pool Reporting, Media Criticism, Sam Stein, Talking Points Memo, White House Press Corps, Huffington Post, White House Press Pool, Pool Reports, Christina Bellantoni, Mike Allen, Eat the Press, Media News

According to Politico, a "debate" has been "sparked" over the new White House pool rotation. This debate is raging, I'm sure, among the handful of people who are deeply invested in White House pool reporting.

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Seething Dems Hit Back At Report That Public Option Is Dead In House

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein and Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pelosi Public Option, Democrats Public Option, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Dems Seething, Politico Report, Allen Public Option, Mike Allen, Politics News

Democratic lawmakers including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are adamantly pushing back against reports that she does not have the necessary votes to pas...

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Stenography 101: How the Press Let Palin and Cheney Rig the System

Eric Boehlert | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politico, Fox News, John Harris, Media Criticism, Sarah Palin, Mike Allen, Dick Cheney, Media News

Journalists have set aside what had been decades' worth of guidelines and embraced special new rules for how Cheney and Palin get treated. In a word, it's stenography.

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The Myth of Fox News' Ratings Spike

Eric Boehlert | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kathleen Parker, Ruth Marcus, Pbs, Nielsen, Mike Allen, David Brody, Sally Quinn, Michael Wolff, Cnn, David Gergen, Travis Smiley, Politico, Fox News, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune Swamp, Bill O'Reilly, Media News

The breathless claim that Fox News' ratings recently spiked thanks to the White House's public critique is bogus hype.

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Obama Has Off-The-Record Lunch With Journalists At White House

Politico | Posted by Michael Calderone 03:13 PM | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Andy Rosenthal, Jon Meacham, Cynthia Tucker, David Gergen, Mara Liasson, Howard Fineman, David Brooks, Mike Allen, Obama Journalists, Josh Marshall, Obama Journalists Lunch, Chris Cillizza, Gail Collins, Media News

The attendees for Friday's lunch were as follows: CNN's David Gergen, Washington Post's Chris Cillizza, Newsweek's Jon Meacham and Howard Fineman, the...

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Obama and the Cowardly Goons; or, Politico's Incorrect and Appallingly Stupid "Analysis" of the President's Response to his Critics

Michael J.W. Stickings | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: News Media, Conservatives, Republican Party, Barack Obama, Wall Street, Rush Limbaugh, Mike Allen, Jim VandeHei, US Chamber of Commerce, Politics News

Obama is fighting back only because Republicans have so far spent his entire presidency trying to obstruct his every move.

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