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A Military Mom "Tells" Her Story

Steve Ralls | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Don't Ask Don't Tell, Congress, Army, Pflag, War in Iraq, 60 Minutes, Gays in the Military, Military, Gay Parenting, Politics News

"Don't Ask, Don't Tell" has cast a shadow over the careers, lives and families of the service members I have come to know and respect, many of whom are LGBT.

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Friday Talking Points [36] -- End The Media's Pro-McCain Bias! Now!!

Chris Weigant | Posted 06.20.2008 | Media

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McCain has joked that the media is "his base" of support. It was a funny line, but there is a truth at its core: the media has been hard on Obama but unbelievably light on McCain. And this has to stop. Now.

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The Big Unmentionable

Carol Felsenthal | Posted 06.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, Tammy Wynette, The Today Show, Meredith Vieira, Don Hewitt, Hillary, The Name That Must Not Be Spoken, 60 Minutes, Politics News

The former president's absence from Hillary's photo album brings the campaign full circle. So poor Bill, who has temporarily dropped from sight, sustained a double humiliation.

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Bill Clinton's Failed Television Career

Carol Felsenthal | Posted 06.08.2008 | Media

Read More: Cleopatra, Don Hewitt, Monica Lewinsky, Bob Dole, You Ignorant Slut, "Jane, " "I'm No Tammy Wynette Standing by My Man, Newt Gingrich, Bill O'Reilly, 60 Minutes, Gennifer Flowers, " Bill Clinton, Media News

Just two years out of the White House, Clinton was still struggling to find his place; Don Hewitt hoped that TV face-off starring Bill would become so popular that it would be parodied on SNL.

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Dum Dum Bullets Swaddled in Angora

Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler | Posted 05.27.2008 | Media

The accomplished Barbara Walters is not that different from the beleaguered little girl: a victim and a beneficiary of the glitz and glamour of showbiz.

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Karl Rove's Pundit Problem

Eric Boehlert | Posted 05.21.2008 | Media

Read More: Dan Abrams, John Conyers, Karl Rove, Breaking Media News, Don Siegelman, Fox News, Wall Street Journal, 60 Minutes, Newsweek, Norah O'Donell, Media News

Why is TV's newest talking head being held up as a paragon of political analysis at the very moment the Republican president he helped mold is in complete free fall?

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Unearthed: News of the Week the Mainstream Media Forgot to Report

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle | Posted 05.09.2008 | Media

Read More: Gas Prices, Persian Gulf, Right Wing Media, Oil Sands, Renewable Energy, Neal Boortz, Depleted Uranium, Dick Cheney, Tar Sands, Dan Abrams, Environmental Protection Agency, Solar Tax Credits, Oil Industry, Richard Nixon, Dow Chemical, Guantanamo Torture, Michael Savage, John Ashcroft, Mary Gade, Chevron, Dioxin, Solar Power, Thomas Friedman, Tavis Smiley, John Conyers, Karl Rove, Bp, Rush Limbaugh, Exxon Mobil, Mother Jones, Green Building, Lou Dobbs, Iraq Contractors, Co2, John Yoo, Iraqi Interpreters, Shell Oil, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Whistleblowers, Talk Radio, Kbr, Media Consolidation, Don Siegelman, 60 Minutes, Sean Hannity, Conocophillips, Ducks, Fox News, Clean Technology, Glenn Beck, Bush Approval Rating, Bill O'Reilly, Media News

Hundreds of ducks made a fatal landing in oil and toxic sludge; Republicans block federal aid to wind and solar; the shocking testimony of three whistleblowers on US contractors in Iraq.

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Justice Scalia: Mired in the 18th Century

Kathryn Kolbert | Posted 04.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, 60 Minutes Antonin Scalia, 60 Minutes, 2008 Election, Antonin Scalia, Politics News

Scalia's 60 Minutes interview underscores just how high the stakes are when Americans go to the polls this November.

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HuffPost Blogger Scoops 60 Minutes

Mike Stark | Posted 04.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: 60 Minutes, Antonin Scalia, Scalia 60 Minutes, Scalia Bush v. Gore, Politics News

I was able to chat Scalia up a little bit recently. And, what do you know? It looks like this lil' ol' blogger scooped 60 Minutes' Leslie Stahl.

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Why Our Feith-Based Iraqi Policy Failed

Lionel Beehner | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Douglas Feith, Postwar, Intelligence, Iraq, Office of Special Plans, Pentagon, Feith Iraq, Doug Feith, George Packer, Doug Feith Book, Doug Feith 60 Minutes, 60 Minutes, George Tenet, Bremer, Iraqi Army, Chalabi, Politics News

Only in the field of foreign policy can someone have so disastrous a record and be showered with medals, professorships, and endowed chairs at prestigious think tanks.

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Al Gore Launches $300 Million Bipartisan Ad Campaign, Including Al Sharpton & Pat Robertson

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.30.2008 | Media

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Watch Al Gore: "I'm Not Applying For The Job Of Broker"

Huffington Post | Posted 03.30.2008 | Politics

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Speaking to 60 Minutes' Lesley Stahl on Sunday, former Vice President Al Gore said that Democratic presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Cl...

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Gore Launches $300 Million Climate Change Initiative

Huffington Post | Posted 03.30.2008 | Politics

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Former Vice President Al Gore is set to unveil a three-year, $300 million climate change campaign Wednesday, one of the most ambitious and costly publ...

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Where "60 Minutes" Missed The Mark On Big-Pharma Lawsuit Story

CJR | Dean Starkman | Posted 03.27.2008 | Media

Read More: 60 Minutes, Biovail, Media News

The Securities and Exchange Commission sued a Canadian drug maker this week--and in the process blew apart the premise of a two-year-old 60 Minutes in...

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Dennis Quaid's Misdiagnosis

Alison Rose Levy | Posted 03.23.2008 | Living

Read More: Dennis Quaid Twins, AIDS Vaccine, Medical Errors, Dennis Quaid Babies, Cedars Sinai, 60 Minutes, Aids, Infections, Dennis Quaid, Living News

The Quaid twins were just two of the two million people, who each year contract infections in hospital. Ninety thousand die from these infections annually.

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Anderson Cooper Plays With David Beckham On "60 Minutes"

Huffington Post | Posted 03.21.2008 | Media

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This coming Sunday, CBS will broadcast an interview between regular CNN host and occasional "60 Minutes" contributor Anderson Cooper and soccer megast...

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Morning Shows, Newsmags See Audiences Decline

New York Times/TV Decoder | Brian Stelter | Posted 03.17.2008 | Media

Read More: Good Morning America, Primetime, News Magazine Ratings, Newsmagazines, Today Show, Early Show, Dateline, 20/20, Morning Shows, 60 Minutes, Morning Show Ratings, Media News

Sure, the ratings for the evening newscasts are steadily sinking. That twenty-year-old trend is hardly surprising. But a new report by the Project for...

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Dennis Quaid On Death By Medical Error: "It's Bigger Than AIDS, It's Bigger Than Breast Cancer"

CBS | Posted 03.13.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Dennis Quaid Babies, 60 Minutes, Medical Malpractice, Dennis Quaid, Entertainment News

Dennis Quaid sat down with "60 Minutes" and opened up about the medical mistake that almost cost his newborn twins their lives at LA's Cedars Sinai ho...

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Hillary Clinton, 60 Minutes, and the Muslim question

Eric Boehlert | Posted 03.11.2008 | Media

There simply is no other candidate, from either party, who has had their comments, their fragments, dissected so dishonestly the way Hillary Clinton's have been.

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Icahn: I Made $300M On Time Warner

CNN/Money | Posted 03.06.2008 | Business

Read More: Richard Parsons, Time Warner, Icahn Time Warner, Carl Icahn, 60 Minutes, Time Warner Shareholders, Business News

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn may have lost his bid to break up Time Warner Inc., but he will tell "60 Minutes," how he walked away with $300 millio...

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Hillary's Stockholm Syndrome

Joel Whitney | Posted 03.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hilary Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Republicans, 60 Minutes, Barack Obama, Stockholm Syndrome, Politics News

Clinton may still favor many Democratic policies, but her tactics are veering further and further into Rove-Republican territory. Is she still a Democrat?

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That Other "60 Minutes" Story: About 47 Million Uninsured Americans Desperate For Health Care

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.04.2008 | Media

Read More: Scott Pelley, Democratic Nomination, Stan Brock, Remote Area Medical, Hillary Clinton, 60 Minutes, Barack Obama, Ram, Media News

Hey, did you see that shocking video clip from 60 Minutes the other night? The one about an issue pivotal about the current Democratic campaign?

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FCC Official Wants Investigation Of "60 Minutes" Rove Blackout

Reuters | Peter Kaplan | Posted 03.04.2008 | Media

Read More: Censorship, Karl Rove, Bill Canary, Don Siegelman, Michael Mukasey, George W. Bush, Alabama, Bob Riley, Larisa Alexandrovna, DOJ Corruption, 60 Minutes Blackouts, Don Siegelman Case, 60 Minutes, Big Brother, Media News

U.S. Federal Communications Commission official is seeking an inquiry into the blacking out of a politically charged segment of the CBS News magazine ...

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An Open Letter to Powerline (And Others): For the Love of Karl Rove?

Larisa Alexandrovna | Posted 03.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Corruption, Selective Prosecution, Karl Rove, US Attorney Scandal, Nick Bailey, Doj, Alabama, Noel Hillman, Bill Canary, Alice Martin, Don Siegelman, CBS News, William Pryor, Leura Canary, 60 Minutes, Mark Fuller, Lanny Young, Politics News

If Mr. Rove had no involvement, as he claims, in the political prosecution of Don Siegelman, then why does he not appear before Congress and testify under oath?

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CBS Local Station Claims Equipment Failure For Blackout During Karl Rove Story

Huffington Post | Posted 02.29.2008 | Media

Read More: Censorship, Don Siegelman Case, Karl Rove, Bill Canary, Don Siegelman, Michael Mukasey, George W. Bush, Alabama, Bob Riley, DOJ Corruption, Larisa Alexandrovna, 60 Minutes, 60 Minutes Blackouts, Big Brother, Media News

Blogger Larisa Alexandrovna wrote about the blackouts that occured during a 60 Minutes story on how Karl Rove had helped to put Alabama's democratic G...

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