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Marc Ambinder

Media: Angry Right-Wingers Are Important; Angry Libs Are Annoying

Eric Boehlert | Posted 09.25.2009 | Media

Read More: Marc Ambinder, Dick Armey, Howard Dean, Cnn, Health Care Reform, Town Halls, New York Times, Washington Post, Brian Williams, Media News
Eric Boehlert

Suddenly this summer, as right-wing mini-mobs turn health care forums into free-for-alls, as unhinged political rage flows in the streets, and as the Nazi and Hitler rhetoric flies, anger is in.

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Tea Party Madness to Sweep the Nation?

John McQuaid | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Teaar Pty, Town Halls, Health Care Reform, Marc Ambinder, Health Care, Patrick Ruffini, Barack Obama, Politics News
John McQuaid

To most of us on the outside, the town-halls-gone-wild appear to reflect the intense feelings of a relatively small group of people who are very badly misinformed about what's actually happening in Washington.

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Memo to Marc Ambinder: The Right-Wing Is Not the Middle

Bill Scher | Posted 09.05.2009 | Media

Read More: Health Care Reform, Marc Ambinder Health Care Reform, Marc Ambinder the Atlantic, Health Care Reform Town Hall, Marc Ambinder, Obama Health Care Reform, Media News
Bill Scher

I don't consider Ambinder to be a right-wing shill. He's giving sincere analysis, as he always does. Just in this case, he's wrong.

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Obama Courts Disaster With New Detention Plan

Ari Melber | Posted 07.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Preventive Detention, Obama, Ari Melber, Marc Ambinder, Detention, Executive Order, Politics News
Ari Melber

The Obama administration is rushing towards a unilateral plan to imprison people without trial. The proposal would cut Congress out of the process by using an executive order to essentially bring Gitmo stateside.

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Jason Linkins

Marc Ambinder: Following #iranelection On Twitter

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Marc Ambinder, Twitter, Iran Election, Iran Election 2009, #Iranelection, Iran Election Riot, Media News

Writing for the Atlantic, Marc Ambinder has up a solid and well-considered brief for anyone who's attempting to follow the news out of Iran on Twitter...

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Arianna Joins Katie Couric's Live Webcast To Discuss Obama's First 100 Days

Huff TV | Posted 05.30.2009 | Media

Read More: Marc Ambinder, Video, Jeff Greenfield, Chip Reid, Obama Press Conference, CBSNews.Com, Mike Allen, Katie Couric, Katie Couric Webcasts, Obama's First 100 Days, Arianna Huffington, Media News
Huff TV

Tonight Arianna joins Katie Couric's live webcast on CBSNews.com, directly following President Obama's First 100 Days press conference. The Atlantic'...

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The Truthiness of Political Polling

Andrew Sargus Klein | Posted 05.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Polls, Politics, Marc Ambinder, Polling, Public Opinion Polls, Public Opinion, New York Times, Media Coverage, Media, Barack Obama Polls, Poll, Barack Obama, Politics News
Andrew Sargus Klein

Barack Obama has been in office less than the totemic 100 days, and yet we are bombarded by public approval polls almost every day.

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Freeman On Resignation: "S--- Happens"

Marc Aminder | Posted 04.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aipac, Marc Ambinder, Chas Freeman Questioned, Chas Freeman, National Intelligence Council, Obama Chas Freeman, Chas Freeman Foreign Ties, Chas Freeman Financial Ties, Politics News

On Monday I recorded an episode of blogging heads with Brian Beutler on the subject of Charles Freeman. I took the position that, since Freeman had ma...

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Jason Linkins

Keith Olbermann Traces "Anatomy Of A Smear" -- Bizarre Stimulus Attack (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Msnbc, Betsy Mccaughey, Marc Ambinder, Video, Cnn, Economic Stimulus Package, Fox News, Keith Olbermann, Media News

Hopefully the next editor who holds a piece from Betsy McCaughey on health care will see it as the equivalent of Plaxico Burress penning an op-ed on clubwear, and file it in the closest cat litter box.

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McCain's Mixed Messages Leave None Getting Through

The Hill | Posted 11.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Marc Ambinder, McCain Joe Plumber, Mccain Ayers, John McCain, McCain Mixed Messages, John McCain Mixed Messages, Mccain Obama Attack Ads, Politics News

John McCain is employing several lines of attack each day and Republican strategists say the lack of focus makes it nearly impossible for him to gain ...

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McCain Campaign: "Bullshit" To Deny That Obama Palled Around With Terrorists

The Atlantic | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Marc Ambinder, John McCain, Palling Around With Terrorists, Randy Scheunemann, Politics News

In response to an earlier post on Marc Ambinder's Atlantic blog, Randy Scheunemann, McCain's chief foreign policy adviser (pictured at left), had some...

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Right-Wing Bloggers Leave Their Stain On The Campaign

Eric Boehlert | Posted 11.01.2008 | Media

Read More: Ace of Spades, Red State, Marc Ambinder, Ben Smith, Ethan Winner, Confederate Yankee, Matt Stoller, Glenn Greenwald, Bruce Wilson, Jawa Report, Michelle Malkin, Jane Hamsher, Media News
Eric Boehlert

Last week was a perfect example of how the conservative blogosphere's leading lights have been demoted to ridicule, simply because their efforts have become so thoroughly laughable.

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The Media's Problem Of "False Balance" Showing Itself In Electoral Map Analyses

Mark Nickolas | Posted 09.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Polls, Marc Ambinder, Msnbc, Karl Rove, John McCain, Pollster.com, Media Coverage, Media, Arianna Huffington, Barack Obama, Real Clear Politics, Mainstream Media, Pollsters, The Atlantic Monthly, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, Cnn, The Atlantic, False Balance, Media Bias, Politics News
Mark Nickolas

What is particularly noteworthy is where the media bias lies: it's a clear willingness to give John McCain (R) the benefit of the doubt, but not Barack Obama (D).

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Obama's "Bizarre" Bauhaus Flyers

John Lumea | Posted 08.01.2008 | Home

Read More: Obama Design Team, Obama Bauhaus Flyer, Mayhill Fowler, Marc Ambinder, Meaningful Distraction, Senator Obama, Obama Flyer, Obama, Obama Flyer Meaningful Distraction, Obama Germany, Obama German Flyer, Barack Obama, Obama Bauhaus, Home News
John Lumea

By employing Bauhaus-inspired graphic cues, the Obama campaign was tapping in to the German cultural psyche, speaking to Germans in a design language that is familiar to them. That was smart.

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Jason Linkins

Website Allows Obama Supporters To Set Agenda

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Marc Ambinder, Internet Politics, Digg, Obama Netroots Outreach, Netroots, Barack Obama, Politics News

In the June 2008 Atlantic, Marc Ambinder, touching on the remarkable success the Obama campaign has had leveraging the power of online social networki...

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