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George Stephanopoulos

Sunday Watch 10-26-08: In Which Weariness Strikes

Todd Gitlin | Posted 11.27.2008 | Media

Read More: John McCain, Meet the Press, This Week With George Stephanopoulos, George Stephanopoulos, Tom Brokaw, Jack Welch, Media News
Todd Gitlin

With a this-hurts-me-more-than-it-hurts-you air, Brokaw plopped unfavorable poll results on a dogged but visibly weary McCain, and while he tried to show his game face, it was not his strongest performance.

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Jason Linkins

Stephanopoulos: Obama Camp Worried About "Surprise, Complacency" - Not McCain

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.27.2008 | Media

Read More: John McCain, George Stephanopoulos, Barack Obama, Video, Media News

With a week to go in the race, George Stephanopoulos painted a more or less rosy picture for the Obama campaign, but one nevertheless framed with a fe...

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Ali Wentworth Talks Porn, Sex With George Stephanopoulos

Huffington Post | Posted 11.10.2008 | Media

Read More: George Stephanopoulos Sex, Oprah Winfrey, Video, Television, George Stephanopoulos, Ali Wentworth, Sex, Sex Addiction, Media News

Ali Wentworth, wife of ABC's George Stephanopoulos, talked about sex addiction and porn on Oprah today. Wentworth was on Oprah's live Friday show, a n...

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Ian Cameron Named Executive Producer Of ABC News' "This Week"

AP | Posted 11.07.2008 | Media

Read More: Ian Cameron, George Stephanopoulos, This Week With George Stephanopoulos, Abc, ABC News, Media News

NEW YORK — Veteran Washington hand Ian Cameron was appointed Monday as the producer in charge of ABC's Sunday political talk show "This Week wit...

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Ed Rendell Delivers -- For McCain

Carol Felsenthal | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Ed Rendell, Jeremiah Wright, George Stephanopoulos, Mel Martinez, This Week, John McCain, Bill Ayers, Barack Obama, Politics News
Carol Felsenthal

Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell, an all-out Hillary supporter, now supporting Obama in a state that will be key to McCain's fortunes a month from now, continues to be a loose cannon.

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House Bailout Bill Has The Votes To Pass, Top House Official Says, According To ABC

ABC | Posted 11.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: House of Representatives, Wall Street Crisis, Bailout, George Stephanopoulos, Abc, Bailout Bill, Politics News

ABC News' George Stephanopoulos reports: A top House official is confident House leaders have enough votes to pass the financial rescue package, which...

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Sunday Watch 9-28-08: In Which George Stephanopoulos Shies Away From Moments of Truth

Todd Gitlin | Posted 10.30.2008 | Media

Read More: Meet the Press, John McCain, This Week With George Stephanopoulos, McCain-Obama Debate, Tom Brokaw, George Stephanopoulos, Media News
Todd Gitlin

To perform a public service, an interview ought to (in journalists' jargon) "advance the story" -- to move the candidate out of the zone of the known into the less known.

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It's Time for the "Deregulators" Like McCain to Step Aside and Shut Up

Mitchell Bard | Posted 10.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mccain Deregulation, John Boehner, Derivatives, Rick Davis, This Week, Rick Davis Fannie Mae Freddie Mac, Subprime Bailout, Fannie Mae, Republican Deregulation, Chris Dodd, Democrats Bailout, Political News, Freddie Mac, George Stephanopoulos, Phill Gramm, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Deregulation, Warren Buffett, Fannie Mae Freddie Mac Bailout, Bipartisanship, John McCain Keating 5 Scandal, Glass-Steagall, Politics News
Mitchell Bard

How can a guy like John Boehner, who got us into this mess in the first place, have the unmitigated nerve to try and dictate the terms of how to fix things?

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Sunday Watch 9-21-08: In Which a Whole World View Collapses With Little Notice

Todd Gitlin | Posted 10.23.2008 | Media

Read More: Henry Paulson, Credit Crisis, Meet the Press, This Week With George Stephanopoulos, George Stephanopoulos, Wall Street Crisis, Lehman Brothers, Recession, Media News
Todd Gitlin

How can any official be kept accountable when journalists don't inquire into the sources of their errors?

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Obama Thinks Like a Leader, And Therefore Might Lose

Rusty Russell | Posted 10.10.2008 | Home

Read More: Polls, John McCain, Dwight Eisenhower, George Stephanopoulos, Barack Obama, Rick Warren, Sarah Palin, Campaign Manager, Campaign Advice, Palin Mccain, Obama Warren, Obama Biden, Obama Abortion, Home News
Rusty Russell

Nearly every admonishment of Obama these days includes some call for the candidate to cut to the chase. Simplify the speeches, they say. Chop down the answers into blurbs. But what all these freelance campaign managers miss is this: Barack doesn't think that way. He's not a refrigerator magnet guy.

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Twittering The Sunday Shows

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 10.08.2008 | Media

Read More: John McCain, Rush Limbaugh, Tom Brokaw, George Stephanopoulos, George Will, Sunday Shows, Twitter, Bob Schieffer, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Media News

140 characters sure add up — when you Twitter non-stop for about two hours while watching the Sunday shows. I didn't mean to do it, it just sort...

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Obama, Stephanopoulos Interview On ABC's This Week

Huffington Post | Posted 10.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama Abc Interview, Obama This Week Interview, Obama Stephanopoulos Interview, George Stephanopoulos, Barack Obama, Politics News

Barack Obama gave an interview to George Stephanopoulos on ABC's This Week. The interview is set to air tomorrow morning, but here are some excerpts ...

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Sunday Watch: In Which Skepticism Revives (But Not for Everyone)

Todd Gitlin | Posted 10.02.2008 | Media

Read More: Denver Convention, Lindsay Graham, Tom Brokaw, George Stephanopoulos, GOP Convention, Maria Bartiromo, Sam Donaldson, Sarah Palin, Mike Murphy, Tim Pawlenty, Hillary Clinton, Media News
Todd Gitlin

In terms of attention seized, McCain-Palin "won the weekend." Whether they won supporters is more doubtful. Judging from the top two Sunday shows, they didn't impress.

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

Todd Gitlin | Posted 09.25.2008 | Media

Read More: Sean Wilentz, Democratic Convention, Rudy Giuliani, This Week With George Stephanopoulos, George Stephanopoulos, David Axelrod, Joe Biden, Franklin Roosevelt, Barack Obama, John Mccain's Houses, Mccain Houses, Media News
Todd Gitlin

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

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Jason Linkins

Sunday Hosts Under The Microscope At Pre-Convention Panel

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Judy Woodruff, George Stephanopoulos, Media Criticism, Tom Brokaw, Bob Schieffer, Sunday Morning Talk Shows, Ed Rendell, Politics News

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...

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

Huffington Post | Posted 09.24.2008 | Politics

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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...

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

Arianna Huffington | Posted 01.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Democratic Convention, Yes We Can, Charlie Rose, Saturday Night Live Political Satire, Rep. Rahm Emanuel, Barack Obama, John Edwards Nightline Confession, George Stephanopoulos, Mybo, Youtube, New Media, Katharine Weymouth, Will.I.Am, Macaca, Chad Hurley, Fred Armisen, HuffPost Inauguration Ball, Media News
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.

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

Todd Gitlin | Posted 09.18.2008 | Media

Read More: Michael Gerson, John McCain, George Stephanopoulos, Bobby Jindal, George Will, Charles Keating, Rick Warren, Cliff Schecter, David Gregory, Joe Klein, Meet the Press, Bridget McCain, Amy Silverman, Saddleback Church, Matt Welch, Media News
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.

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Jason Linkins

Lieberman Backtracks On Alito Vote, Now Supports Him

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Samuel Alito, John McCain, Joe Lieberman, George Stephanopoulos, George Will, Politics News

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

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The Men Who Made Me Love Hillary

Glenn Hurowitz | Posted 09.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama Vice President, Evan Bayh, Vice President, John McCain, Kathleen Sebelius, Right to Work, James Carville, Sam Nunn, Dlc, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Jack Reed, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Democratic Leadership Council, Labor, Labor Union, George Stephanopoulos, Gays in the Military, Hillary Clinton, Paul Begala, Tim Kaine, Politics News
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.

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

Todd Gitlin | Posted 08.12.2008 | Media

Read More: John McCain, This Week With George Stephanopoulos, David Gergen, George Stephanopoulos, George Will, Cokie Roberts, Sam Donaldson, Nancy Pelosi, Jake Tapper, McCain Offshore Drilling, Barack Obama, Donna Brazile, Media News
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.

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Why the Right's Messaging is Working

Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Gaffe, John McCain, Youth, Trust, Money, George Lakoff, This Week, Barack Obama Polls, John Amato, Arnold Schwarzenegger, The Paris Hilton/Britney Spears Attack Ad, Power, Qualities, Control, The Terminator, Young Turks, Crooks and Liars, Old Man Dozing, George Stephanopoulos, Flip-Flop, Child Lights Fire, Oil, Foreign, Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Petraeus, Simplicity, Celebrity, The Political Mind, Mistake, Confidence, Linguist, Values Voters, Think, Repetition, Unconscious, Language, Politics News
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.

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

Todd Gitlin | Posted 08.05.2008 | Media

Read More: John McCain, George Stephanopoulos, George Will, Sam Donaldson, Campaign Desk, Sunday Watch, Bill O'Reilly, Barack Obama, Iraq Timetable, Columbia Journalism Review, Stephanopoulos Mccain, Media News
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.

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

Cenk Uygur | Posted 08.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Gaffe, George Stephanopoulos, This Week, ABC News, Chairman of the Joint Cheifs of Staff, General Petraeus, John McCain, Interview, Politics News
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?

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Jason Linkins

McCain Appearance on This Week Overrun By Dogs

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Video, This Week With George Stephanopoulos, George Stephanopoulos, Politics News

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

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