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Jon Stewart Shows C-SPAN How To Handle Racist Callers (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: C-Span, Jon Stewart, The Daily Show, Daily Show, Video, Washington Journal, Racism, Bill Scanlan, Eat the Press, Comedy News

"The Daily Show" did an enjoyable segment about the recent on-air incident on C-SPAN, in which a caller from North Carolina went on a racist diatribe ...

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C-SPAN Caller Assails Network For Taking Black Callers

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bill Scanlan, Washington Journal, Racism, C-Span, Eat the Press, Video, Media News

This video's been making the rounds and it's worth watching, just for the bare flicker of recognition in Bill Scanlan's eyes when the C-SPAN host realizes that this is going to be one of "those calls."

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Newt Gingrich Tells May Run for President in 2012

Politics Daily | Patricia Murphy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Washington Journal, C-Span, Presidential Bid, 2012 President, Callista Gingrich, Newt Gingrich, Republican Party, Run for President, Politics News

Newt Gingrich, the former House Speaker and perennial big thinker in the Republican party, said this morning that he will likely run for president in ...

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Jason Linkins

Profiles In Twittering: C-SPAN Builds An Online Bridge

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Washington Journal, Video, Twitter, Media Criticism, C-Span, Technology, Eat the Press, Media News

So, with Twitter somewhere betwtixt the "So Hot Right Now" and "Backlash To The Whole Premise Of Whether It Is Now Or Has Ever Been Hot" stages, it's ...

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Will Afghanistan be Obama's Tragic Folly?

Norman Solomon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Washington Journal, Barbara Lee, C-Span, USA Today, Pentagon, Vietnam, Wayne Morse, War Made Easy, Taliban, New York Times, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Obama Afghanistan, World News
Norman Solomon

Reminiscent of 1965, the tenet that we must send additional troops to Afghanistan is axiomatic in U.S. news media, on Capitol Hill and -- as far as can be discerned -- at the top of the incoming administration.

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Kit Bond Tries To Backpedal From Waterboarding Comments

Crooks and Liars | Nicolle Bell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: CIA Torture, Bush Administration Torture, Gop Senator Kit Bond, Bush Administration Waterboarding, Washington Journal, Enhanced Interrogations, Waterboarding, Kit Bond, Torture, Kit Bond Waterboarding, Politics News

Obviously, the Republican leadership has gotten to Sen. Kit Bond with the message: You're. Not. Helping. Our. Cause. by likening waterboarding to swim...

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