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Jason Linkins

How The Page Turns Breaking News Into A Painful Annoyance

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.02.2008 | Media

Read More: Media Criticism, The Page, Mark Halperin, Halperin the Page, Mark Halperin the Page, Halperin Page, Media News

It can be very hard to describe what it is precisely about The Page that makes it such a toxic annoyance to the many inside-the-Beltway types for whom hating The Page is a shibboleth, bespeaking common sense. But today's news offers an example.

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Jason Linkins

Obama Spokesman On McCain: We Know 'Who Is Erratic In A Crisis'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Joe Scarborough, Morning Joe, Financial Crisis, Robert Gibbs, Barack Obama, Mark Halperin, Video, Politics News

On today's Morning Joe, Obama flack Robert Gibbs, prompted by a question from Mark Halperin, lashed into John McCain, terming his behavior "erratic." ...

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Jason Linkins

Mark Halperin Somehow Concludes McCain Won The Week

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.19.2008 | Media

Read More: John McCain, Sarah Palin, Media Criticism, The Page, Barack Obama, Mark Halperin, Media News

After this sort of week, one might expect that the negative poll trends that bedeviled Obama in the run out from the RNC would begin to reverse themselves. And, you know what? They have. BUT FORGET ALL THAT.

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Nervous Dems Give Obama Stupid and Redundant Advice

Ari Melber | Posted 10.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Democratic Anxiety, Washington Independent, Bob Shrum, Ari Melber, Steve Elmendorf, Mark Penn, Strategist, Mark Halperin, Barack Obama, Politics News
Ari Melber

No matter how the Democrats are doing, it seems, their top strategists and party elders spend September publicly "worrying" that they look weak -- which is weak.

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The Power of No

Alex Jones | Posted 10.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama Lipstick on a Pig, Lipstick, Joseph McCarthy, Cnn, Obama Lipstick Controversy, Cable News Channels, Obama Lipstick Pig, Media, Cable News, Lipstick on a Pig, Obama Lipstick, Mark Halperin, Obama Lipstick Remark, Barack Obama, Campbell Brown, Politics News
Alex Jones

There is something sinister about the press's complicity in allowing campaign coverage to feed hungrily on meaningless charges and counter-charges.

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Jason Linkins

Halperin On Palin: "Stop The Madness"

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: David Gergen, Anderson Cooper, Media Criticism, Mark Halperin, Video, Obama Pig Comment, Ipstick on a Pig Origin, You Can Put Lipstick on a Pig, Obama Lipstick, Politics News

Halperin went on AC360 and straight-up bare-knuckled it -- accusing the press of indulging McCain's "crocodile tears," calling the media's unwillingness to hold Palin to account "embarrassing," and dismissing and deflecting the McCain camp's attempt to change the conversation by making a mountain out of Obama's "lipstick on a pig" molehill.

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Jason Linkins

Mark Halperin Blows Obama VP Story, Then Covers It Up

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Dick Lugar, Barack Obama, Mark Halperin, Halperin Lugar, Politics News

Hey, kids! Late yesterday evening, Mark Halperin, who writes "The Page" for Time Magazine - which is like a comic book, full of listicles for childre...

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John McCain, Paris Hilton, and the Politics of Nothing

Arianna Huffington | Posted 09.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Paris Hilton, John McCain, Dana Milbank, McCain Ad, Paris Hilton Mccain Ad, 2008 Election, Conventional Wisdom, Barack Obama, Mark Halperin, John McCain Paris Hilton, Mccain Paris Hilton, Politics News
Arianna Huffington

The McCain camp knows that the only way they can win the election is to turn it into a carnival sideshow. If this is where they have taken the political discourse in early August, what have they got for us come October?

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The NY Times Sends A Dittohead To Interview Rush Limbaugh

Eric Boehlert | Posted 07.17.2008 | Media

Read More: Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, Rush Limbaugh, Zev Chafets, New York Times, Newsbusters, Brian Williams, Barack Obama, Mark Halperin, Media News
Eric Boehlert

The Times writer who profiled Limbaugh is pretty much a Dittohead, a Limbaugh devotee. So of course there was no reason to fear a "hit job." The whole...

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Mark Halperin, John Heilemann Get Six Figure Deal To Co-Author Book About 2008 Campaign

New York Post | Keith Kelly | Posted 06.19.2008 | Media

Read More: Mark Halperin Book Deal, John Heilemann, Harpercollins, Mark Halperin, Media News

Two magazine veterans, each on the campaign trail for nearly two decades, have snared a big-bucks deal from HarperCollins to write about the current p...

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Mark Halperin, The Man Behind "The Page"

New York Times | Brian Stelter | Posted 04.29.2008 | Media

Read More: Mark Halperin the Page, Mark Halperin, Media News

Months before the first primary votes were cast, every news organization worth its salt asked itself: how will our election coverage stand out? Mark ...

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Jason Linkins

Time Sends Their Seasoned Political Reporters To Cover Oscar Fashion

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Joe Klein, Oscar Red Carpet, The Oscars, Time Magazine, Mark Halperin, Politics News

In what may be the most bizarre deployment of reportorial "talent" I can recall, Time Magazine allowed Joe Klein and Mark Halperin to opine on Oscar f...

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Time's Halperin Apologizes For Saying Edwards "Thinks Obama Is Kind Of A Pussy"

Time/Fishbowl DC | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

Read More: John Edwards, Barack Obama Pussy, Barack Obama, Edwards Obama Pussy, Mark Halperin Pussy, Mark Halperin, Media News

Fishbowl DC reported this morning that Time's Mark Halperin "has a filthy, dirty mouth," quoting from his interview yesterday with Sirius Radio's Bill...

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Fox News: We Report -- Even if We Know It's False

Paul Begala | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Hillary Clinton New Hampshire, John Harris, Teddy Davis, David Gregory, Patrick Healy, Major Garrett, Jill Lawrence, Peter Baker, Mark Halperin, Tim Russert, Bill Sammon, Paul Begala Fox News, New Hampshire Primary, George Stephanopoulos, Jonathan Alter, New Hampshire, Paul Begala Major Garrett, Paul Begala, Beth Fouhy, Paul Begala Hillary Campaign, Media News
Paul Begala

After I told Fox yesterday that the story about me wasn't true -- and this is the surreal part -- they kept reporting it anyway. Fox's Garrett told me he'd "take it under advisement." Take it under advisement?

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Jason Linkins

Media Upbraids Itself For Its Own Unfair Treatment Of Clinton

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: John Edwards, Howard Kurtz, Hillary Clinton, Media, Howard Fineman, Barack Obama, Media Bias, Mark Halperin, Politics News

Until any other candidate gets Kurtz, Halperin, and Fineman to inveigh on their behalf against the media's unfairness, we're just going to have to say, yes, indeed, it is not a level playing field.

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Jason Linkins

Mark Halperin Finally Concedes The Battle To The Totally Obvious

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mark Halperin, Politics News

Halperin now "thinks" that making a one-to-one correlation between the superficial pageantry and well-constructed facades that define running for president, and actually being president, may be "wrong."

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Handicapping The Election: Crystal Balls, Ouija Boards and the Three Long, Long Months 'Til February 5th

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

Read More: 2008 Election, Jonathan Alter, Dan Rather, Mark Halperin, Media News

Halperin said that with "three titan candidates" in Hillary, Barack Obama and John Edwards, "I don't think Al Gore thinks he can come in -- and the polls don't suggest he can come in -- and shake this race up."

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Petra Nemcova, Tony Snow and Dan Rather Walk Into A Bar...At The AMC, It Just Might Happen

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Pilar Guzman, Waverly Inn, Cephalods, Cnbc, Conde Nast, David Zinczenko, Robert Nardelli, Tony Snow, Arianna Huffington, Petra Nemcova, Dan Rather, Cindi Leive, Eileen Naughton, Mark Halperin, Media News

The American Magazine Conference kicks off in Boca Raton this weekend, and between the wandering EICs, columnists, biz dev types, CEOs, anchormen and supermodels, there should be plenty to glean from all perspectives.

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