Mort Zuckerman

Jason Linkins

Here Are Some Thoughts I Had For America! This Week In Pundit Pontifications

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.21.2011

You know, I'm proud to have my nation compared to Slovakia. I'm pleased that the new head of state in Peru -- Ol' What's His Name -- is tamping down the leftist rhetoric and embracing the investor class, rather than flamboyantly consolidating his own power, like the guy who runs Brazil. And rather than concern myself with the soggy sleep-ins and warmed-over anarchism of Occupy Wall Street, I'm sending some money to Somalia, because despite the fact that the Somalians are dirt poor, they have their priorities right. Rather than organize for relief of the destitute, they're demonstrating against an offshoot of al Qaeda, which heretofore was and forever hence will never be on our list of strategic priorities.

Erin Burnett Anchors Out Front

Regina Weinreich | Posted 11.29.2011

Regina Weinreich

In the elevator moving 9 floors up the Museum of Art and Design to Robert Restaurant, C and Jeffrey Toobin hotly debated the news of the day: the tria...

Arianna On CNN: 'This Is The Time For The Government To Step In'

Huff TV | Posted 09.02.2011

Huff TV

Arianna appeared on Ali Velshi's Your Money on CNN alongside Mort Zuckerman and Eliot Spitzer to discuss how the United States can get a handle on une...

O'Reilly Defends Trump From Paper That Called Him Racist

Posted 07.10.2011

Bill O'Reilly defended Donald Trump from accusations of racism in an interview with Mort Zuckerman, owner of the New York Daily News. The newspape...

Michael Calderone

Daily News Owner: Trump Never 'Saved' Paper

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 06.14.2011

NEW YORK -- Donald Trump didn't care much for the Daily News' cover on Monday that mocked his presidential aspirations as a circus act, complete with ...

Dealing with Dick Holbrooke's Considerable Charms

Joe Lauria | Posted 05.25.2011

Joe Lauria

I covered Richard Holbrooke for the Boston Globe when he was U.N. ambassador from 1999 to early 2001. I've covered about a dozen U.S. ambassadors at the U.N. since 1990. Holbrooke was the most engaging of them all.

The Big Squeeze -- Unwitting Tenants Caught Between Defaulting Owners and the Banks

Gary Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Gary Stein

An interesting by-product of any downturn in an economy is that you can categorize the stakeholders into four categories -- victims, users, scavengers and survivors.

Krugman Slams Mort Zuckerman -- Obama Is Not Anti-Business

nytimes.com | Paul Krugman | Posted 05.25.2011

That's basically the thrust of Mort Zuckerman's op-ed accusing Obama of "demonizing" business. The op-ed contains the usual -- false claims that Fa...

Why Do Serious People Say Crazy Things?

Gary Hart | Posted 05.25.2011

Gary Hart

After one of the most disastrous performances by the business community in decades, what do its members expect from the government? A tap on the wrist? A mild "don't do it again" lecture?

Mort Zuckerman's Hit Piece on First Lady Michelle Obama

Taylor Marsh | Posted 05.25.2011

Taylor Marsh

Implying that First Lady Michelle Obama should have her head cut off in a blaring headline? Well, that at least tells the reader they're in for a righ...

Mort Zuckerman Is Not Incompetent

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011

Richard (RJ) Eskow

Zuckerman's saying that corporate executives are refusing to make money because the President scares them. Any executive who misses an opportunity to make money should be fired on the spot.

New York Daily News To Move Headquarters Downtown

Crain's New York Business | Posted 05.25.2011

The New York Daily News has signed a lease for new space in lower Manhattan and will leave its 450 W. 33rd St. headquarters for 4 New York Plaza next ...

Jason Linkins

Mort Zuckerman Clarifies Claim That He 'Helped Write' An Obama Speech

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Mort Zuckerman has become so inured to the belief that the world revolves around him, whenever he sees something in the world that he agrees with, he naturally assumes that he is the reason for its existence.

Mort Zuckerman: I Helped Write Obama Speech (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Media and real estate mogul Mort Zuckerman told Fox News' Neil Cavuto Monday that he had helped write one of President Obama's speeches. "I voted for...

Zuckerman Blasts Obama for Bush Mistakes

Barrett Brown | Posted 05.25.2011

Barrett Brown

U.S. News and World Report publisher Mort Zuckerman's latest editorial on Barack Obama's foreign policy is a work of such vast incompetence that I blush to even refute it.

The Assault on Public Employees

Gerald McEntee | Posted 05.25.2011

Gerald McEntee

For more than a generation, America's working families have been under a constant assault from the CEO's and extraordinarily wealthy members of our society.

Resolved: Obama's Foreign Policy Spells America's Decline

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 05.25.2011

Reese Schonfeld

At least, that was the proposition debated at NYU last week. The debaters in favor of the proposition were Dan Senor and Mort Zuckerman, against were ...

Phony Republicans, a New York Tradition, Live on in Steve Levy

Dan Collins | Posted 05.25.2011

Dan Collins

In New York, elections are frequently contests between Democrats and phony Republicans. But Steve Levy is different from most New York faux Republicans, who tend to be social liberals with an aura of fiscal conservatism.

Are Public Employee Unions Strangling Us?

Dave Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011

Dave Johnson

We, the People, should set the example for private companies to follow. It should be public policy to promote this and encourage companies to treat employees better.

Vanity Fair's Coverage of the White House State Dinner: A Namedropping Guide

Danny Groner | Posted 05.25.2011

Danny Groner

The author was obviously trying to put the 2009 dinner in context with how previous years' affairs went. But he may have gotten a bit carried away in including quite so many characters, even as afterthoughts.

Bloomberg: Gillibrand Could Have Been Defeated By Ford Or Zuckerman

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

NEW YORK — New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg says he thinks Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (KUR'-stehn JIHL'-uh-brand) could have been defeated by eithe...

Mort Zuckerman Out: Mortimer Zuckerman Not Running For NY Senate

AP | SARA KUGLER | Posted 05.25.2011

NEW YORK — Real estate tycoon and newspaper publisher Mortimer Zuckerman won't run for the U.S. Senate in New York, his newspaper reported Tuesd...

Dan Senor Running For Senate? Former Bush Advisor, Campbell Brown's Husband Eyeing Gillibrand Challenge

Posted 05.25.2011

Yet another famous face may be eyeing Kirsten Gillibrand's senate seat. Dan Senor, the former Bush administration foreign policy advisor and husband ...

Evan Bayh Tastes Sour Grapes

Michael Wolff | Posted 05.25.2011

Michael Wolff

While political insiders don't feel powerful enough, the outsiders feel political office is a worthy acknowledgment of all the power they already have.

Mort Zuckerman For Senate? Media Mogul May Challenge Kirsten Gillibrand

Huffington Post | David Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011

Is media mogul Mort Zuckerman running for senate? The New York Times reports that Zuckerman, the publisher of the New York Daily News and Editor-In-C...