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David Sirota: Senate Health Care Bill Is A 'Handout To The Health Industry'

USA Today | David Sirota | Posted 12.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Bill, David Sirota, Health Care Debate, Public Option, Senate Health Care Bill, Health Insurance Industry, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Health Care, Health Care Public Option, Senate Health Care, Politics News

The Senate health care bill betrays the promise of fundamental "change" Democrats made during the 2008 election. It cloaks a handout to the health ind...

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David Sirota To Permanently Replace Jay Marvin On Talk Radio AM 760

Westword | Michael Roberts | Posted 12.10.2009 | Denver

Read More: Talk Radio, AM 760, David Sirota, Jay Marvin, Denver News

Jay Marvin has been unable to helm the AM 760 morning show since early March due to a life-threatening health crisis we've documented in this space. ...

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The Danger of Backsliding

Mike Lux | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Taxes, David Sirota, Offshoring, Economics, Investment, Enron, Sarbanes-Oxley, Politics News
Mike Lux

In a political system like ours dominated by big money and the lobbyists that money hires, democracy requires eternal vigilance, even in years when Democrats control of Congress and the White House.

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Talk Radio Inciting Violence? What Happened to Listener Discernment?

Michael D. Brown | Posted 11.21.2009 | Denver

Read More: Holland Cooke, Left Wing, David Sirota, Talk Radio, Violence, Right Wing, Media Bias, Daily Kos, Chris Matthews, Dog Whistles, Denver News
Michael D. Brown

We should never refrain from expressing our opinions with emotions and passions for fear that the nut case will hear it wrong and act out violently.

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Romanoff Makes It Official: He's Running For Senate

Posted 11.14.2009 | Denver

Read More: Michael Bennet, Ken Salazar, Andrew Romanoff, Rachel Maddow, David Sirota, Markos Moulitsas, Slideshow, Denver News

Watch Romanoff's remarks, courtesy of denverdirect.tv at Wednesday's Denver campaign event in Washington Park: Update: Andrew Romanoff has pic...

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Columnist David Sirota receives 'full-on' death threat

dscriber media | dscriber media | Posted 11.14.2009 | Home

Read More: David Sirota, Obama Death Threats, Tea Party Protests, Home News

Progressive columnist and author David Sirota is telling his friends on Facebook that he's receiving death threats after appearing on CNN to di...

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The Westword.com blog shortcut, September 11, 2009

Westword | Westword | Posted 11.11.2009 | Home

Read More: Anthony Bourdain, Barack Obama, Chad Ocho Cinco, Cheba Hut, David Sirota, Denver Broncos, Denver Food & Wine Classic, Marco's Coal-Fired Pizza, Michael Bennet, Michael Roberts, Mike Rosen, Monolith Festival, Monotonix, Home News

Yeah, I hate typing that date, too. Today in Backbeat Online: • Our top 5 Monolith can't-miss acts. • Q&A with Frank Turner. • Q&A ...

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Don't expect a Mike Rosen-David Sirota debate sequel

Westword | Westword | Posted 11.11.2009 | Home

Read More: AM 760, David Sirota, Koa, Michael Roberts, Mike Rosen, Home News

In April, KOA conservative Mike Rosen and AM 760 liberal David Sirota participated in a debate of President Barack Obama's first hundred da...

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Wall Street Journal: "Glenn Beck Counts For More At the Obama White House" Than the Progressive Movement

David Sirota | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Glenn Beck, Wall Street Journal, 2012 Elections, Van Jones, Afghanistan, Green Jobs, David Sirota, Blue Dog Democrats, Barack Obama, Karl Rove, Editorials, Mitt Romney, Cnn, Fox News, Fox, Health Care, Politics News
David Sirota

The White House answers more to Glenn Beck than it does to the progressive base of the Democratic Party that got them into the White House in the first place.

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'Blue Dogs' or Corporate Shills?

Thomas Frank | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Insurance Industry, Stephen Carter, David Sirota, Medical Industry, Blue Dogs, Health Care Reform, Washington Post, Health Care, Blue Dog Democrats, Politics News
Thomas Frank

What makes the Blue Dogs run? Profit motive. Individual Dogs do far better than garden variety Democrats when it comes to bringing in contributions the insurance and medical industries.

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Weekly Audit: Why the Rich Can't Afford to Get Richer

The Media Consortium | Posted 08.28.2009 | Home

Read More: Elizabeth Warren, Steven Benen, Truthdig, David Sirota, Washington Monthly, Naomi Klein, The Real News, The Progressive, Faisal Islam, Salon, John Talbott, Weekly Audit, The Media Consortium, Zach Carter, Tmc, Alternet, Simon Johnson, Home News
The Media Consortium

by Zach Carter, TMC MediaWire Blogger If we want our economy to be strong and stable, we have to start thinking about it as a product of community--n...

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Open Letter to MSNBC President Phil Griffin

Jennifer Nix | Posted 04.02.2009 | Media

Read More: Newspapers, David Sirota, Msnbc, Populism, Television Ratings, Death of Newspapers, Progressive Movement, Keith Olbermann, Center for American Progress, Blogs, Phil Griffin, Progress, Media Matters, Activism, Rachel Maddow, Traditional Media, New Media, Television News, Media News
Jennifer Nix

I hope you'll take a moment to consider why I think your move with the 10 p.m. program is so important, and why David Sirota is the best candidate for host.

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MSNBC's 10pm Slot: How About a Populist Progressive?

David Sirota | Posted 03.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: David Sirota MSNBC Host, David Sirota, New Msnbc Host, Politics News
David Sirota

My friend and fellow OpenLeft.com writer Chris Bowers launched a formal campaign to ask MSNBC to consider me for the slot, and now I'm asking for your help.

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Jason Linkins

Sirota, Silver Debate Devolves Into Petty Name-Calling

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cat Fights, Bloggers, Nate Silver, David Sirota, Silver Sirota, David Sirota Nate Silver, Chimpanzee Attack, Politics News

Ugh. This is the sort of day that it's been, that I've found myself slogging through the two sides of a terrifically boring blogfight between Open Le...

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Getting More Progressives Elected -- And Where You Fit In

Adam Green | Posted 02.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Innovation, Pccc, David Sirota, Victory, Consultants, Technology, Progressive Change Campaign Committee, Digby, Huffington Post, Chris Bowers, Atrios, Recommended, Politics News
Adam Green

I realized at MoveOn that it makes no sense for progressives to raise tons of money for candidates who then spend it inefficiently. We need to help them run effective campaigns and win.

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Attacks On Hildebrand Aren't Progressive But Politics As Awful

Lee Stranahan | Posted 01.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Steve Hildebrand, Joe Lieberman Democrats, David Sirota, Hillary Rosen, Barack Obama, Politics News
Lee Stranahan

People hear what they want to hear sometimes and the politically charged atmosphere doesn't seem to have lost it's electricity just because No Drama Obama won in a landslide.

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Sirota: Obama Aide's "Rant-ish" Message To Critics A "STFU"

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 01.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Steve Hildebrand, Hildebrand Obama Critics, David Sirota, Obama Critics Left, Sirota Hildebrand, Obama Steve Hildebrand, Obama Left, Barack Obama, Politics News

Liberal commenter David Sirota responds to Obama Deputy Campaign Manager Steve Hildebrand's missive to critics, wondering if Democrats "were elected t...

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Study: "Center-Right Nation" Narrative Spiked Immediately After Election Day

OurFuture.org | David Sirota | Posted 12.23.2008 | Politics

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When I wrote my first column about the "center-right nation" and subsequently launched the "Center-Right Nation Watch" series on this blog I predicted...

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Can We?

Wendy Block | Posted 12.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: David Sirota, The Uprising, Lobbyists, Grassroots, Fun, Bailout Deal, Illegal Activity, Progressives, Amy Goodman, Community Organizer, Federal Reserve, Corporate, Congress, New Activists, Shareholder Dividends, Government, Gordon Brown, u.s. Economy Problems, Shock Doctrine, Movement, Obama Change, Samuel Beckett, Banks, Moveon, Bonuses, Gay Marriage Ban, Saul Alinsky, Democracy Now, Naomi Klein, Barack Obama, Politics News
Wendy Block

I'm not ready to return to the same non-adrenaline-rush grassroots work that propelled Obama and the Dems to such a decisive victory.

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"Spreading the Wealth" Allows for Creativity

Stephen Herrington | Posted 11.29.2008 | Home

Read More: Taxes, David Sirota, Taxes Mccain, John McCain, Trickle Down, Obama Tax Plan, Innovation, Capitalism, Teddy Roosevelt, Campaign 2008, Barack Obama, McCain Tax Plan, Joe the Plumber, Obama Spreading the Wealth, Socialism, Election 2008, Socialism Obama, Spreading the Wealth, Taxes Obama, Home News
Stephen Herrington

If more people have more money, then more business is done and a small increase in taxes comes right back to you. If you are in the forefront of innovation, more comes to you.

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What Americans Want: An Agenda a Majority Agrees On

Sarah van Gelder | Posted 09.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: David Sirota, American Agenda, Economy, David Korten, Pundits, Thanksgiving, War, Jobs, Platform, Agenda, Purple States, Working Families Party, Jon Stewart, Fox News, Climate Change, Health Care, Minutemen, Hunter, Politics News
Sarah van Gelder

You've probably been there. It's a family gathering, maybe Thanksgiving or a wedding, and someone starts a political conversation that is as ill-infor...

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Sam Stein

Book Exclusive: Lou Dobbs Said He'd Be Happy To Triple Immigration Levels

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics

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A new book by a prominent progressive author contains a rather ironic revelation: CNN's Lou Dobbs -- the disgruntled television voice of anti-immigrat...

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