Dana Milbank

Friday Talking Points -- Milbank's Unfunny Puns

Chris Weigant | Posted 04.18.2012

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The line between certain types of comedy and the political/media world should be brighter than ever. This is a lesson Dana Milbank of the Washington Post apparently has yet to learn.

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Gingrich Loses the Media Primary

Dan Kennedy | Posted 04.02.2012

The rough media consensus today is that the Republican contest is, in fact, over. Gingrich is described not so much as a serious contender for the Republican nomination as he is an impediment to Romney's need to unify the party and focus on Barack Obama.

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Obama Finally Gets Tough

Andy Ostroy | Posted 11.20.2011

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President Obama came out swinging on Monday, heeding the advice of his critics in taking a firm stand on his positions for fixing the economy and reducing unemployment in the face of intense, unyielding opposition from Republicans.

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The Leadership Question

The Relentless Conservative | Posted 10.30.2011

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Obama was a follower in leader's clothing from the beginning -- or, as Winston Churchill said about Clement Atlee, "a sheep in sheep's clothing."

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Mitt Romney's Dunder Mifflin Infinity

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.15.2011

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This week, the Mitt Romney campaign earned itself some plaudits after releasing a rather evocative new advertisement, called "Bump In The Road." The spot is a brutal attack ad that hits right at the heart of the nation's ongoing unemployment crisis.

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Washington Post Columnist: It's Ridiculous That Lawmakers Would Advocate For The Middle Class

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.15.2011

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It seems like just a little while ago that the Washington Post's Dana Milbank was rightfully complaining about the rogering he was getting at the hands of Citibank. One might have imagined that Milbank's trials and tribulations then would have given him some insight into the reality that income disparity exists and that ordinary people are bearing the brunt of the bad economy. Only, now that a bunch of Democratic lawmakers have set out to try to ameliorate these problems, Milbank has reverted back to a position of hyena-bray ridicule.

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Jay Carney's Hidden Wild Side

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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The New York Times has a quasi-profile of new White House Press Secretary Jay Carney out, and the big takeaway is basically... I don't know, exactly! Jay Carney is kind of dull, maybe? Or he wasn't all that forthcoming with reporter Jeremy Peters?

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Beltway Reporters' Garters Popping In Aftermath Of Bardella Email Flap

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

On Tuesday afternoon, Kurt Bardella, a spokesman for House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), was fired after it came to light that he had sh...

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Washington Post Accidentally Breaks Dana Milbank's 'Palin-Free February' Promise

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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On January 21, Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank boldly declared he was going to take a "Palin-free month" in February. On February 1, Milbank posted an item on Sarah Palin, breaking this promised moratorium.

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Sarah Palin Moratorium? I'm Not With Dana Milbank on This One

Joanne Bamberger | Posted 05.25.2011

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No Sarah Palin news for a whole month.? Ahhhh. Sounds sort of heavenly, doesn't it? But why stop with her?

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Shoot First, Ask Questions Never

Cliff Schecter | Posted 05.25.2011

There is simply no understanding the prevalence of gun violence in America without discussing the nefarious role played by the NRA. Any public conversation regarding restricting access to guns has been considered verboten.

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Friday Talking Points [152] -- A Palin-Free Month?

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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With some regularity, this column excoriates the mainstream news media for all sorts of continued idiocy in the way it conducts its business. But eve...

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Milbank: GOP Has Entered The 'Post-Post-9/11 Era'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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There are two very good things going on in Dana Milbank's latest column, "Republicans in a post-post-9/11 era". First of all, there's the recognition...

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Washington Post Columnist Responds To O'Reilly Beheading Joke

The Huffington Post | Jack Mirkinson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dana Milbank and Bill O'Reilly have entered a war of words with each other after Milbank criticized Fox News' election coverage, and O'Reilly responde...

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Change the Punditocracy Doesn't Want to Believe In

Brian Ross | Posted 05.25.2011

The national news media and the punditocracy had its hat handed to them by President Obama in 2008 when he leveraged public opinion on the Internet to...

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Memo To Milbank: Obama Repeatedly Said That Change Wouldn't 'Happen Overnight'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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So, here's Dana Milbank, closing off his riff on President Barack Obama's appearance on last night's "Daily Show", in which the president and Jon Stew...

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A Rising "Social Psychosis" In Public And Private Life

Douglas LaBier | Posted 11.17.2011

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The pursuit of greed, self-centeredness and materialism have become the holy trinity of public and private conduct in America. And it's generating a growing "social psychosis."

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Glenn Beck's Violent Words Harm America

Paul Helmke | Posted 05.25.2011

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Glenn Beck's recognition of the power and consequences of his words has not dampened his enthusiasm for injecting them with violence to hammer home his perspective.

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Dana Milbank: Republicans 'Coming Unglued'

Washington Post | Dana Milbank | Posted 05.25.2011

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Future historians tracing the crackup of the Republican Party may well look to May 8, 2010, as an inflection point. ...

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Can Bennet Survive the Washington Post's Damning Praise?

Sean Paige | Posted 05.25.2011

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If Michael Bennet really is friendly with folks at The Washington Post, he ought to call them up and tell them to knock it off.

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Friday Talking Points [120] -- Republicans Chicken Out

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

Democrats had a pretty good week last week. As attention shifts to the struggle in the Senate over Wall Street reform, the two parties almost seem to have changed their normal methods of playing the political game.

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The Unbearable Lightness of Reading Dana Milbank

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011

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Feel free to read Dana Milbank if that sort of thing appeals to you, but don't imagine for a minute that you're learning anything. That would be like studying the French Revolution by reading Marie Antoinette's cake recipes.

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Ignore the Media's Rahm Obsession

John McQuaid | Posted 05.25.2011

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While the recent spate of Rahm Emanuel profiles offer some insight into the workings of the Obama presidency, they're simply not interesting. They reveal more about the media than our current political predicament.

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Popping the Washington Post's Rahm Bubble

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rather than fighting to save his own skin and to skewer others who are in and out of the Oval Office nearly as much as he is, Emanuel needs to help champion a sensible transition to a more effective team.

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The White House: Post-#@*!ing-Rahm

Bob Franken | Posted 05.25.2011

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What's so remarkable about this latest wet-kiss Washington Post article about White House Chief-of-Staff Rahm Emanuel, is that it is appearing at all,...

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