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Sarah Palin Snags Ziggy Honors

Gerald Sindell | Posted 11.25.2009 | Books

Read More: Egomaniac, Going Rogue, Carnivores, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin Going Rogue, Writing, Palin, Going Rogue Reviews, Sigmund Freud, Frank Rich, Costco, Memoir, Books News

Maybe there was something about Ms. Palin that everyone had missed. Maybe the secret of her attraction would finally, suddenly, become dazzlingly clear to me.

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NPR Gets in News Staff's Facebook

Bill Lichtenstein | Posted 10.19.2009 | Media

One has to wonder just what the editors at NPR will say if they are asked, "Is it OK to post a link to last night's Jon Stewart rant or to Frank Rich's recent editorial on my Facebook page?"

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goldman-sachs, giant vampire squid

Gershon Hepner | Posted 10.27.2009 | Home

Read More: Noblesse Oblige, Bonuses, Goldman Sachs, Economic Meltdown, President Obama, Frank Rich, Home News

Goldman Sachs, the giant vampire squid, wrapped around our faces with a funnel, sits upon a Ponzi pyramid, preventing light to shine within its tunnel...

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Wall Street and the US Government: Where's Jimmy Stewart When We Need Him?

Steven G. Brant | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

With all the interest in the damage Wall Street has done, activity that's the opposite should draw some attention. But coverage of the corporate social responsibility movement is not yet an idea whose time has come.

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Frank Rich: Goldman Can Spare You A Dime

New York Times | FRANK RICH | Posted 10.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Timothy Geithner, Larry Summers, Economy, Barney Frank, Jobless, Regulation, Obama, Reform, Lloyd Blankfein, Frank Rich, Unemployment Rate, Goldman Sachs, White House, Jobless Rate, Bailout, Treasury, Blankfein, Wall Street, Health Care, Greed, Sec, Depression, Senate Finance Committee, Derivatives, Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, Goldman, Recession, Financial Services Committee, Health Care Reform, Bonuses, House Financial Services Committee, Business News

As leader of the Wall Street pack, Goldman declared surging profits, keeping it on track to dispense a record $23 billion in bonuses for 2009. But mos...

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Frank Rich Slams McCain, Neoconservatives: 'Two Wrongs Make Another Fiasco'

New York Times | Frank Rich | Posted 10.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Afghanistan War, Frank Rich John Mccain, Lindsey Graham, Frank Rich, Neoconservatives, Joe Lieberman, John McCain, Politics News

THOSE of us who love F. Scott Fitzgerald must acknowledge that he did get one big thing wrong. There are second acts in American lives. (Just ask Mari...

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Frank Rich Warning On Afghan War: Don't Conflate The Taliban And Al Qaida (VIDEO)

Posted 10.08.2009 | World

Read More: Frank Rich Rachel Maddow, Afghanistan War, Video, Frank Rich, Rachel Maddow, Frank Rich Video, World News

Rachel Maddow interviewed New York Times columnist Frank Rich last night about the Afghanistan war and the upcoming decision that President Obama must...

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Frank Rich: Will Lobbyists Defeat Obama's Agenda For Reform?

New York Times | Frank Rich | Posted 10.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Democrats, Barack Obama, Lobbyists, Frank Rich, Politics News

IN the annals of American excess, there often arrives a moment when those with too much money, too much clout and too much hubris just can't stop them...

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Frank Rich: Obama At The Precipice In Afghanistan

New York Times | Frank Rich | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

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THE most intriguing, and possibly most fateful, news of last week could not be found in the health care horse-trading in Congress, or in the internati...

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Foiled eBay Bidder Challenges Palin to $100,000 'On the Record' Dinner for Veterans' Charities

Jeanne Devon ("AKMuckraker") | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics

Former banker Ken Morris will donate $100,000 to veterans' charities for a dinner with Sarah Palin and guests, on-the-record and taped so as to minimize misrepresentations.

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Frank Rich: Even Glenn Beck Is Right Twice A Day

nytimes.com | FRANK RICH | Posted 11.19.2009 | Media

Read More: American Racism, You Lie, Great Recession, Frank Rich Column, Joe Wilson, President Obama, 9/11, Glenn Beck, Global Financial Crisis, Frank Rich, Tea Parties, Race, Frank Rich Glenn Beck, Republican-Extremism, Republicans, Media News

Beck frequently strikes the pose of an apocalyptic prophet, even insisting that he predicted 9/11. This summer he also started warning of domestic ter...

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Frank Rich: Obama's Squandered Summer

New York Times | Frank Rich | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama, Frank Rich Obama, Frank Rich, Politics News

THE day before he gave his latest brilliant speech, Barack Obama repeated a well-worn mantra to a television interviewer: "My job is not to be distrac...

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Renee Zellwegger Spotted Toting Frank Rich's Memoir

X17 | Posted 10.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Ghost Light, Frank Rich Memoir, Frank Rich, Renee Zellwegger, Books, Media News

And what's that in Ms. Zellweger's sexy hands? A book! Ghost Light by Frank Rich, a memoir about the writer's love of theatre. Hmm... could Renee be p...

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The Afghanistan Gap: Press vs. Public

Norman Solomon | Posted 09.26.2009 | World

Read More: Al Qaeda, Escalation, Vietnam War, New York Times, Iraq, Afghanistan, Washington Post, News Media, Lyndon Johnson, Frank Rich, Barack Obama, World News

Increasingly, public opinion is not cooperating. While the media establishment and the political establishment appear to belong to the same pro-war affinity group, the public is shifting to the other side of a widening credibility gap.

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Frank Rich: Guns Of August And The Threat Of The Radical Right

New York Times | FRANK RICH | Posted 09.22.2009 | Politics

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"IT is time to water the tree of liberty" said the sign carried by a gun-toting protester milling outside President Obama's town-hall meeting in New H...

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Debtor's Revolt?

Marshall Auerback | Posted 09.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Tarp, Bailout, Household Debt, Asset Holdings, Loan Modifications, Securities, Financial Reform, Frank Rich, Richard C. Koo, Post-Bubble Japan, Asset Swaps, Personal Debt, Business News

Once all the TARPs are tidied up and the quarterly profits no longer a revelation, American consumers will still be swaddled in debt. What's to stop them from just walking away from it?

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Why Is Frank Rich Mad as Hell?

Michael Wolff | Posted 09.11.2009 | Media

Read More: New York Times, Michael Wolff, Media, Frank Rich Obama, Frank Rich, Barack Obama, Journalism, Frank Rich Column, Media News

Frank Rich has pulled off his career goal: becoming as quintessentially part of the establishment as you can be.

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Obama Did Not "Punk" the Common Guy

Randy Shaw | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Economic Stimulus Package, Health, President Obama, Obama, Frank Rich, Health Care, Stimulus, Barack Obama, Politics News

Has Barack Obama abandoned the populist policies that got him elected, and done nothing for working people?

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Frank Rich: Is Obama Punking Us?

nytimes.com | FRANK RICH | Posted 09.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Adnrew Card, Vacation, Obama, Bush, August Recess, Obama Vacation, Frank Rich, Politics News

"AUGUST is a challenging time to be president," said Andrew Card, the former Bush White House chief of staff, as he offered unsolicited advice to his ...

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Frank Rich: "Beer Summit" Ended With A Burp

nytimes.com | FRANK RICH | Posted 09.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Birther Movement, Frank Rich Beer Summit, National Conversation on Race, Frank Rich Column, Frank Rich, Beer Summit, Racial Makeup of America, Politics News

THE comforting thing about each "national conversation on race" is that the "teachable moment" passes before any serious conversation can get going. ...

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Frank Rich: Most Trusted Man In News Can't Be "Outsourced To Comedy Central And Jon Stewart"

nytimes.com | FRANK RICH | Posted 08.25.2009 | Media

Read More: Walter Cronkite, Jon Stewart, Frank Rich, Walter Cronkite Dead, Most Trusted Man in News, Comedy Central, Media News

That's why the past week's debate about whether there could ever again be a father-figure anchor with Cronkite's everyman looks and sonorous delivery ...

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An Interview With Nick Reding, Author of Methland

Patrick Sauer | Posted 08.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Nick Reding, Iowa, Methamphetamine, Meth, Politics, Agribusiness, Pharmaceutical Industry, Big Pharma, Big Ag, Farming, Local Food, Local Farmers, Frank Rich, New York Times, Methland, Oelwein, Media News

Oelwein is a microcosm of small town everywhere, but Methland shows that the drug abuse is a symptom, not the cause, of the deeply ingrained problems facing rural America.

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The NY Times Made Me Do It

Charles Warner | Posted 08.16.2009 | Media

Read More: NY Times, Merck, Stanford Law School, George Bush, The Washington Post, Katharine Weymouth, Grey Lady, Bloggers, Ad Age, Vioxx, Oxford University, New York Times, Blogging Heads, Judith Miller Iraq, Frank Rich, Judith Miller, David Carr, Harvard College, Media News

The nation's journal of record; America's first draft of history; the Grey Lady, -- the New York Times -- got it wrong and that the crowd-sourced, open-source, oft-criticized Wikipedia got it right.

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The Challenges of Communicating the Crisis

Robert Teitelman | Posted 08.06.2009 | Media

Read More: Matt Taibbi, Goldman Sachs, Rolling Stone, Financial Journalism, Robert Teitelman, Media, Frank Rich, Felix Salmon, Media News

We should all try harder to write more accessibly. But can the complexity of finance (and economics) be effectively captured by the kind of simple explanations required by an audience that barely knows the basics?

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TwitNotes from #PDF09

Eric Kuhn | Posted 08.01.2009 | Media

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Over 1,000 people descended upon the annual Personal Democracy Forum earlier this week. Here are some of my notes -- taken on Twitter, of course -- from the two day conference.

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