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Larry David: "Help A Bald Brother Out" For 'Stand Up To Cancer' Campaign (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Sean Morrow | Posted 06.27.2008 | Entertainment

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Huffington post blogger Larry David of Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm fame has released a video in which he states "Cancer has many victims, I shou...

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McClellan and the "Enablers"

Timothy Karr | Posted 05.30.2008 | Media

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Timothy Karr

The root of the problem of journalistic complicity extends beyond the performance of individual reporters and to a news system that allows itself to be manipulated by a dishonest leadership.

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McClellan's Inconvenient Truths: Media And GOP Flacks Pile-On

Beverly Davis | Posted 05.29.2008 | Home

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Beverly Davis

As we are reminded again this week: you don't get in trouble in D.C. for lying, covering up and stonewalling, but you catch hell for telling the truth-- even if it's the least-surprising truth ever.

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Charlie Gibson: "I Honestly Don't Know" If I Want To Renew My ABC News Contract After The Election

New York Times | Jacques Steinberg | Posted 05.29.2008 | Media

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Charles Gibson, whose contract as anchor of "World News" on ABC is due to expire soon after the presidential election, said in an interview this week ...

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The "I Didn't Do It" Letter

Mary Lyon | Posted 05.28.2008 | Politics

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Mary Lyon

Scott McClellan's new confessional that's pointed the finger at Bush administration figures in the Valerie Plame scandal reminds me of something my hu...

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TV Hosts, What the $#@! Are You Doing?

Jim David | Posted 05.16.2008 | Media

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Jim David

Times are hard, and our trusted TV hosts, who should know better, are becoming unglued.

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Same Old, Same Old ABC

Alison Rose Levy | Posted 04.22.2008 | Media

Read More: Abc, Debate, Watchdog Press, ABC News, Deregulation, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, Obama, Free Press, Charles Gibson, Clinto, Media News
Alison Rose Levy

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been repeatedly censored by ABC and the very same media conglomerates that brought you last week's debate coverage.

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The ABC Debate: Enough Capital Gains Tax Nonsense

Jeff Madrick | Posted 04.21.2008 | Business

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Jeff Madrick

Capital gains tax cuts are not magic. Over time, cuts in taxes on profits made by investing do not raise total tax revenues.

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Nico Pitney

Debate Analysis: ABC Asked Most Scandal Questions, Obama Was Clear Target

HuffingtonPost.com | Nico Pitney | Posted 04.20.2008 | Politics

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Obama has received the overwhelming majority of scandal questions over the course of the four debates, by a margin of 17 to 4. Clinton has received only four such questions.

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The Torture Memo and the Flag in the Lapel

David Bromwich | Posted 04.19.2008 | Politics

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David Bromwich

Something sickish happened on Wednesday night. A lesson of our time is that respectable culture now embraces the bread and circuses. The two have become one.

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Watch the Zany New ABC Laff-Fest, Distracting America, with Hillary Clinton and Charlie Gibson -- Featuring Redd Foxx as The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and Introducing "Little Georgie" Stephanopoulos as Joe McCarthy

John Eskow | Posted 04.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Stephanopoulos, Barack Obama, Lucille Ball, ABC Debate, Jeremiah Wright, Hillary Clinton, Charles Gibson, Politics News
John Eskow

In the pilot episode, forced to team up with her doddering Republican opponent, Hillary decides to stage a mock TV "debate", in which she will magically turn her fortunes around.

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Asking Questions about ABC's Gotcha Debate

Andrew Tyndall | Posted 04.18.2008 | Media

Read More: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama, George Stephanopoulos, Charles Gibson, ABC News, Media News
Andrew Tyndall

As McCarthyite as questions concerning the words of associates and the absence of ostentatious displays of patriotism might be, there were nevertheless a couple of journalistic justifications for this line of questioning in the debate coverage.

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You Don't Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows at ABC News

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 04.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mayhill Fowler, Bill Ayres, John McCain, Sean Hannity, Barack Obama, Charles Gibson, Rupert Muroch, George Stephanopoulos, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

I have a suggestion: Next time, for fairness sake, Stephanapolous should ask John McCain a question formulated by Bill Ayres.

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The Pennsylvania Democratic Debate In 1 Minute

236.com | Posted 04.18.2008 | Politics

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Wednesday night, Philadelphia was home to the 467th Democratic debate of this election year. Didn't see it? Heard it was boring, predictable, irreleva...

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Journalists Slam ABC Debate Tactics

The Nation | Posted 04.18.2008 | Politics

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We, the undersigned, deplore the conduct of ABC's George Stephanopoulos and Charles Gibson at the Democratic Presidential debate on April 16. The deba...

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Making Lemonade From Lemons After Debate

Carlotta Cooper | Posted 04.18.2008 | Home

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Carlotta Cooper

Obama's politics of change is just a more subtle version of the same. He said the debate was all about "gotcha games" and "slash-and-burn politics." Then he said Clinton "looked in her element" on stage there.

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What Everybody -- Pro and Con -- Missed About the Debates (Plus, a Fun Pop Quiz!)

RJ Eskow | Posted 04.18.2008 | Media

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RJ Eskow

There are still a few things I haven't heard anybody say, and the right is already cuing up ABC's next line of questioning.

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Flipping off Hillary, Silly petitions, Chelsea's tight Pants, and Obama's Weather Underground Connection

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 04.18.2008 | Home

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Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Whoever called the presidential campaign grind, the silly season got it wrong. It's worse. It's the farcical season. Let's look at some of the latest...

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Mad As Hell At ABC's Debate

Oliver Willis | Posted 04.17.2008 | Media

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Oliver Willis

2008-04-17-madashell_abc.jpgAny right-thinking American who watched the travesty of a debate on ABC last night should get mad. Very mad.

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Gibson Trounces Stephanopoulos in Crucial Debate

Andy Borowitz | Posted 04.17.2008 | Media

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Andy Borowitz

An aide to Gibson later summed up his victory: "He didn't let the candidates talk too much, and he made sure that this debate would be about Charles Gibson and nothing but Charles Gibson."

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Reading The Pictures: And, If You Happened To Have Missed Any Part Of Last Night's Clinton-Obama Pennsylvania Debate

Michael Shaw | Posted 04.17.2008 | Media

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Michael Shaw

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51 to 11: The Odds That ABC Knows How To Run A Presidential Debate

Steve Young | Posted 04.17.2008 | Media

Read More: Abc, Charles Gibson, Stephanopolus, Media News
Steve Young

I sat at my press seat at the Kimmel Theater checking my watch. It was either running fast or I had been swept into a space time-continuum that was about to swallow up any semblance of a learning experience.

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Just How Soft has Obama's Coverage Been?

Taylor Marsh | Posted 04.17.2008 | Politics

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Taylor Marsh

Finally Obama got real questions for which he should have had ready answers. Forgive me if all the blogospheric bellyaching permeating Democratic circles is not impressing me much.

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The ABC Debate: A Shameful Night for the U.S. Media

Greg Mitchell | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics

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Greg Mitchell

Gibson and Stephanopoulos focused mainly on trivial issues as Clinton and Obama faced off in Philadelphia. They, and their network, should hang their collective heads in shame.

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Charles Gibson Doesn't Like Primary System

Huffington Post | Posted 01.31.2008 | Media

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ABC anchor Charles Gibson told Regis and Kelly this morning that he doesn't like the country's primary system. Gibson was on, in part, to celebrate hi...

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