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Thank You for (Not) Running for President

Michael Sigman | Posted 11.02.2009 | Media

Read More: Pat Buchanan, Politics, Joe Scarborough, C-Span, Sean Hannity, 2012 Election, John Edwards, Jimmy Carter, Joe Klein, Hamilton Jordan, Newt Gingrich, Presidency, Barack Obama, Media News

In the U.S. any child can grow up to become president. But with our new 24/7 cable/Internet news culture, it's more fun to explain why you're not running for President.

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Newt Gingrich Says He May Run For President In 2012

Politics Daily | Patricia Murphy | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics

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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Small Group Now Leads Closed-Door Health Care Reform Negotiations

Washington Post | Perry Bacon Jr. | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Baucus, Public Option, Nancy Pelosi, John D. Rockefeller, Pelosi, C-Span, White House, Obama, Reform, Max Baucus, Ted Kennedy, Harry Reid, Schumer, Negotiations, Bills, John Boehner, Health Care Reform, Anthony Weiner, Dodd, Chris Dodd, Health Care, Snowe, Politics News

Three senators are working on the bill behind closed doors. Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) sits at the head of a wooden table at hi...

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To "Americans for Prosperity" Capitalism Is a Love Story

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 10.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tim Phillips, C-Span, David Koch, President Obama, It's a Wonderful Life, Ann Coulter, Enron, Frank Capra, Koch Industries, Newt Gingrich, Capitalism, Tsa, Savings and Loan Scandal, The 2016 Olympic Games, Henry Clay Frick, Cnbc, Tyco, Free Market Fundamentalism, Americans for Prosperity, Laura Ingraham, Worldcom, Afp, Larry Kudlow, Supply-Side Economics, Knights of Labor, National Defending the American Dream Summit, Megan McCain, Long-Term Capital Management, John Birch Society, Pinkertons, Politics News

The only distinguishing feature of the Americans for Prosperity Foundation's "National Defending the American Dream Summit" was its astonishing homogeneity both in thought and in demography.

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Joe Wilson, Serena Williams and Kanye West Kick Off National Outburst Week

Andy Borowitz | Posted 09.14.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Borowitz Report, C-Span, Serena Williams, Andy Borowitz, Kanye West, Joe Wilson, Comedy News

Joe Wilson (R-SC), tennis legend Serena Williams and recording artist Kanye West held a press conference in Washington, DC today to kick off the first annual National Outburst Week.

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"Unsettling": Chief Justice John Roberts On Changing Supreme Court

Huffington Post | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Politics, Chief Justice John Roberts, Sotomayor, Sonia Sotomayor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Wise Latina, C-Span, David Souter, Stephen G. Breyer, U.S. Supreme Court, Politics News

For Chief Justice John Roberts, the arrival of a new Supreme Court justice is "to some extent .... unsettling." Justice Roberts, a relative newcomer ...

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Obama on Drugs: 98% Cheney?

Greg Palast | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Big Pharma, C-Span, Dick Cheney Secrecy, Bush, Billy Tauzin, The Veterans Administration, Obama Big Pharma, George Bush Energy Policy, Obama Health Care, Obama Health Care Reform, Health Care, Politics News

When Cheney was caught having secret meetings with oil companies, we denounced it as a case of foxes in the henhouse. But Obama's secret meetings, he assures us, are in the public interest.

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O'Reilly, Beck, Olbermann and Maddow: Venomous Snakes?

Charles Warner | Posted 09.12.2009 | Media

Read More: Fox News, Msnbc, Glenn Beck, Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, Bill O'Reilly, Pat Buchanan, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Lou Dobbs, C-Span, Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, Sean Hannity, Jim Lehrer, David Brooks, The News Hour With Jim Lehrer, Media News

No one wants to watch normal, well-adjusted, happy, rational, reasonable people on TV; they're boring -- like C-SPAN or the News Hour with Jim Lehrer on PBS.

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Slogging Towards Repeal

Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: C-Span, Elaine Donnelly, Senate Appropriations Committee, Department of Defense, Colin Powell, Ike Skelton, Ann Coulter, The Rachel Maddow Show, U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy, Sen. Dan Inouye, Senate Armed Services Committee, Obama Administration, Admiral Mike Mullen, House Armed Services Committee, Robert F. Kennedy, Defense Secretary Gates, Gays in the Military, Don't Ask Don't Tell, H.R. 1283, Eugene McCarthy, Iraq Veterans, Sen. Carl Levin, Martin Luther King, Human Events.com, "Summer of Love, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Rep. Jared Polis, Politics News

The nation's armed forces are stretched thin, very thin. Repeal of DADT is a national security issue, first and last.

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Is the Left Dead?

Beth Borzone | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Michelle Obama, Democrats, Left, Barack Obama, Mainstream Media, Blogosphere, Human Rights, Counterterrorism, Terrorism, Washington DC, C-Span, Obama Transition, Politics News

Lots of people are disappointed with some of Obama's recent decisions but they still love him because he is a person of conviction working within a flawed system.

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Profiles In Twittering: C-SPAN Builds An Online Bridge

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.21.2009 | Media

Read More: Washington Journal, Video, Twitter, Media Criticism, C-Span, Technology, 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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Supreme Court Audio Will Be Released Immediately, Same-Day For Voting Rights Case

AP | Posted 05.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Supreme Court Audio, Supreme Court Audio Release, Voting Right Case, Voting Rights Act, C-Span, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will release audio tapes soon after the April 29 argument over a key provision of the federal Voting Rights Act. ...

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Huffington Post Hits TV Overload

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 02.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Huffington Post Ugly Betty, Countdown, C-Span, Television, Entertainment Tonight, Video, James Inhofe, 30 Rock, Cspan, Huffington Post 30 Rock, Ugly Betty, Keith Olbermann, Huffington Post, Tv, Media News

Everywhere you looked Thursday, HuffPost was being mentioned on the tube. From "Entertainment Tonight" to "Countdown," "Ugly Betty" to "30 Rock," Ja...

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C-SPAN Barred From Covering RNC Candidate Meeting

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.07.2009 | Media

Read More: C-Span, Rnc, Rnc Cspan, Rnc Debate, Rnc Media, Rnc Meeting, Republican National Committee, Media News

We have news of some activity at today's meeting of the Republican National Committee at the Capitol Hill Club, part of a continuing effort to determi...

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Will Afghanistan be Obama's Tragic Folly?

Norman Solomon | Posted 01.08.2009 | World

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

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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Cable News Networks Ban Actual News

William Klein | Posted 12.14.2008 | Media

Read More: Msnbc, Cnn, 2008 Presidential Race, Cable News Channels, C-Span, News Media, Keith Olbermann, Bbc News, Mika Brzezinski, Wolf Blitzer, Campbell Brown, Media News

Just off their mostly news-free coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign, the major news networks have directed their correspondents to refrain from traditional news and stick to glitz.

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What A Country, What an Election

R.W. Sanders | Posted 12.05.2008 | Home

Read More: Civil Rights Movement, Cuban Missle Crises, Election Day, Election Day 2008, Race Riots, Civil Rights, Studs Terkel, Book Tv, C-Span, Obama Election, Barack Obama, Historic Election, Missouri, John McCain, Voting, Home News

In my fifth decade of life, I thought very little could excite me. And I had not the vaguest idea that I would help make history. And I didn't even have to leave my house!

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Never Again! No More Focus Groups Please!

Linda Bergthold | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Msnbc Democratic Debate, C-Span, Nate Silver, Focus Groups, NBC News, Presidential Debates 2008, Commission on Presidential Debates, CBS News, Fox News, ABC Debate, CNN Debate, Blink-182, Presidential Debates, Malcolm Gladwell, Politics News

As we watch the debates on CNN, we too are influenced by the response lines, and after the debate is over, the influence of these small groups increases disproportionately.

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MediaBizBuzz on Democrats, Republicans, Gustav and Ike

Jerry Weinstein | Posted 10.09.2008 | Home

Read More: Sms, Pow, 9/11, Aim, Mccain, Stall, Perspctv.com, Craig, Texting, Vp, Rnc, Virtual Worlds, Fox, Minneapolis, Rove, Dncc, Alaska, Boxer, Nbc, Twitter, Platform, Biden, Blogs, Powell, Warner, St. Paul, Techpresident, Brave New Films, Politico, Northern Command, Celebrity, Myspace, Police, Huffingtonpost, Cheney, Kennedy, Romney, Obama, Jindal, Cbs, Bush, Dean, Lieberman, Lobbyists for McCain, Pawlenty, Giuliani, Daily Show, Clinton, Protest, C-Span, Big Tent, Keynote, Mccain's Mansions, Im, Abc, Gustav, Streaming, British Petroleum, Facebook, Cnn, Digg, Ike, Palin, Web Video, Rasiej, Rncc, Quik, Nagin, Mashup, Sifry, Fowler, Greenwald, Daylife, Secondlife, Hutchinson, Ridge, Kovic, Sanchez, Sheehan, Home News

Click for News, Photos and all the links to major press coverage of the Republican Convention and for the Democratic reaction. This past week could ha...

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The Convention As Seen From The Couch

Paul Peete | Posted 09.28.2008 | Home

Read More: Cable Television, Msnbc, Barack Obama, Mccain, Cnn, Democratic National Convention, Enron, Fox News, C-Span, Fox, Special Orders Speeches, Home News

As I watched the speeches and the various events unfold throughout the day on C-Span, I could enjoy the event free of the inane anchor comments that endlessly fill the airwaves.

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Mike Dukakis & John Kerry: The Day The Losers Redeemed Themselves

Tony Sachs | Posted 09.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Democratic Convention, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Karl Rove, John McCain, Pbs, 2008 Elections, Michael Dukakis, Joe Biden, Democratic Convention Television Coverage, Barack Obama, Katie Couric, John Kerry, Republican Attack Machine, C-Span, Politics News

It was nice to see John Kerry as angry at George Bush and John McCain as Democrats have been at John Kerry the last four years.

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And The Talking Heads Run On, Gavel To Gavel

Beverly Davis | Posted 09.26.2008 | Home

Stay tuned! Rest assured there's more "election coverage" coming at you from one of the many "best political teams" on television. My advice: Switch to C-Span.

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