George Stephanopoulos

Live from Obamapalooza: Day One

John Marshall | Posted 08.25.2008 | Politics


John Marshall

The feel-good, pleasant vibe makes me wonder--is this who we are now? A nation of nice people who will offer to help others? People who tolerate the unpleasant? People who make hemp ice cream?

Sunday Watch 8-24-08: In Which House Dwellers Throw Stones

Todd Gitlin | Posted 08.25.2008 | Media


Todd Gitlin

Stephanopoulos pushed the question of McCain's real estate onto Rudy Giuliani, who broke new ground in the annals of property assessment.

Jason Linkins

Sunday Hosts Under The Microscope At Pre-Convention Panel

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.25.2008 | Politics


Sunday morning was business as usual on the networks, with Face The Nation, Meet The Press, and This Week performing their familiar weekly duties agai...

David Axelrod On This Week: Axelrod Denies Campaign Is Scaling Back Efforts In Red States (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 08.24.2008 | Politics


David Axelrod, appearing on ABC's This Week, denied that the campaign was scaling back their efforts to compete in red states. Axelrod said reports t...

HuffPost's DNC Panel: Game Change -- How the New Media Are Impacting the '08 Race

Arianna Huffington | Posted 08.22.2008 | Media


Arianna Huffington

Tech advances -- and the new media they've made possible -- have had a game-changing effect on the political world. To explore this brave new world of broadband politics and political coverage, HuffPost is hosting a discussion during the Democratic National Convention.

Sunday Watch, 8-17-08: On Air Kisses and Free Passes

Todd Gitlin | Posted 08.18.2008 | Media


Todd Gitlin

If pundits want to note McCain's maverick moments, fine. He's had some. But it never ceases to amaze me (call me naïve) how this flattering label circulates uncorrected.

Jason Linkins

Lieberman Backtracks On Alito Vote, Now Supports Him

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.18.2008 | Politics


Yesterday, George Will just about blew poor George Stephanopoulos' mind when he announced that he had done this "reporting" stuff and got an interesti...

The Men Who Made Me Love Hillary

Glenn Hurowitz | Posted 08.09.2008 | Politics


Glenn Hurowitz

Unfortunately, the coterie of cautious centrists being touted by the Obama campaign as short-listers for the vice presidential nod are hardly up to the task of taking on the Republican attack machine.

Sunday Watch, 8-3-08: In Which David Gergen Collides with the Straight Talk Express and Walks Away from the Wreck

Todd Gitlin | Posted 08.04.2008 | Media


Todd Gitlin

Washington fights sound petty even when they are deeply consequential, and neither journalists nor politicians have discovered how to make them sound as dramatic and consequential as they deserve to sound.

Why the Right's Messaging is Working

Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 07.30.2008 | Politics


Logan Nakyanzi Pollard

Why is the young brilliant upstart Obama only ahead by single digits. At least part of the reason is this: John McCain knows how to control his message.

Sunday Watch: In Which McCain Is Not Greeted as a Liberator

Todd Gitlin | Posted 07.28.2008 | Media


Todd Gitlin

It was a delight to see Stephanopoulos nudge McCain to Iraq, getting at what is the most fundamental difference between the two candidates -- the grown-up test of independence from the Bush worldview.

Another McCain Gaffe? Calling Gen. Petraeus the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff?

Cenk Uygur | Posted 07.28.2008 | Politics


Cenk Uygur

I don't think McCain actually thinks Petraeus is the chairman of JCS. But within the context of all of his other gaffes, one has to wonder. Is he slipping and making simple mistakes on a regular basis?

Jason Linkins

McCain Appearance on This Week Overrun By Dogs

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.27.2008 | Politics


One of the highlights of the John McCain/George Stephanopoulois interview, besides McCain amply demonstrating the sort of terrifying president he'd ma...

Sunday Watch 7-13-08

Todd Gitlin | Posted 07.14.2008 | Media


Todd Gitlin

On Meet the Press, as elsewhere, the Gramm "whiner" scandal dwindled into a flip-flop revelation when the real revelation was what McCain's long-time trusted economic buddy believes.

Sunday Watch 7-6-08

Todd Gitlin | Posted 07.07.2008 | Media


Todd Gitlin

As Joe Biden might say, the shortest distance between Joe Lieberman and a microphone is a sentence consisting of three parts: a subject, a verb, and "Ready on Day One."

Ignoring the 'Rocks in Glass Houses' Rule, Lieberman Calls Obama a Flip-Flopper on This Week

Mitchell Bard | Posted 07.06.2008 | Politics


Mitchell Bard

How apathetic does McCain think the voters are that his campaign can get away with accusing Obama of the very thing that has been McCain's biggest weakness?

Memo to Obama: Moving to the Middle is for Losers

Arianna Huffington | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics


Arianna Huffington

By running to the middle in an attempt to attract undecided swing voters, the Obama campaign is making a very serious mistake. It didn't work for Al Gore in 2000. It didn't work for John Kerry in 2004. And it didn't work when Mark Penn convinced Hillary Clinton to do it in 2008. READ MORE Seven Things Barack Obama Should Do to Keep from Blowing It To counter the conventional wisdom pundits, the cautious campaign advisers, and his own inner cautiousness, I'm offering Obama seven suggestions for staying true to the vision that took him from longshot "unlikely candidate" to presidential frontrunner. READ MORE Watch Arianna Discussing Secretary Rice's "Proud" Comment on CNN's The Situation Room

A Thousand Points of Blight: Lindsey Graham and the McSmear Campaign

Linda Hansen | Posted 06.19.2008 | Home


Linda Hansen

Lindsey Graham wants to be a kinder gentler right-winger. Really he does. He doesn't want to talk about which church Obama attends, he says, and, as we say down here in the Deep South, "That's mighty white of him."

Two Cheers for Tim Russert

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 06.17.2008 | Media


Reese Schonfeld

I shook hands with Tim Russert was back in 1984. His whole career had been spent advising and spinning for politicians: not the best credentials for a journalist. But he did much to dispel my doubts.

How Tim Russert Got His Start

Martin Nolan | Posted 06.16.2008 | Media


Martin Nolan

For more than 30 years, my friendship with Tim was rooted in a shared Irish heritage and similar education, with minimal emphasis on self-expression and more on what Tom Brokaw calls "accountability."

Who Will Fill Russert's Chair?

Dave Winer | Posted 06.14.2008 | Media


Dave Winer

We haven't yet heard any speculation, so we thought we might as well raise the question and run down some possibilities.

Senator Graham: McCain's Policies Would "Absolutely" Be An Extension Of Bush's (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 06.08.2008 | Politics


Senator John McCain has aggressively tried to distance himself from Bush in an effort to avoid being tagged by Democrats as running for Bush's third t...

Jason Linkins

DNC's Howard Dean Criticizes Ferraro For Comments, Blames Media For Sexism Of Campaign

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.01.2008 | Politics


Ever since Geraldine Ferraro was released from whatever cryogenic tube was housing her lizard brain and propensity for verbal diarrhea, people of all ...

Jason Linkins

DNC's Brazile Says Clinton Camp Refused Obama 'Olive Branch'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.01.2008 | Politics


On today's This Week, Donna Brazile, fresh from yesterday's DNC Rules and Bylaws Tango at the Marriott Wardman Park, broke a little bit of a bombshell...

Time For The Political Pre-Nup!

Matt Miller | Posted 05.30.2008 | Politics


Matt Miller

There's no downside to a pre-nup. "Of course I trust you," Elizabeth Dole or George W. Bush can say lovingly into their aides' eyes, "but look what happened with George."


 

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