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Gates in Cuffs: Scenes from 'Post-Racial' America

Rick Horowitz | Posted 08.23.2009 | Living

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You just know that, if all the players -- the neighbors, the "intruders," the cops -- had been white, or if they'd all been black, the whole story would have played out differently.

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Obama Press Conference On Health Care: TEXT, VIDEO

AP/Huffington Post | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics

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Below is the full text of the prepared remarks President Obama delivered during his press conference last night, along with updates from the subsequen...

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Obama Press Conference To Keep Focus On Health Care

AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Six months in office, President Barack Obama sought Wednesday night to rally support for sweeping health care legislation he's stru...

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Obama News Conference: WATCH LIVE VIDEO

The Huffington Post | Posted 07.24.2009 | Politics

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President Barack Obama will hold a news conference Tuesday, and is expected to open the afternoon event with remarks on health care reform, energy leg...

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Obama Rose Garden News Conference Scheduled For Tuesday

AP | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has scheduled his first Rose Garden news conference. The White House on Monday said Obama would take questi...

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Obama Remarks: Primetime Press Conference (ADVANCE EXCERPTS)

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.30.2009 | Politics

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***WATCH OBAMA LIVE AT 8 PM EST*** In his primetime press conference Wednesday night (the third of his term), President Obama will echo what he said...

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Fox Not Airing Obama Press Conference

AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 05.28.2009 | Media

NEW YORK — Fox became the first broadcast network to turn down a request by President Barack Obama for time, opting to show its drama "Lie to Me...

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Press Corps: Obama Bored Us By Answering Our Questions

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.25.2009 | Politics

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If you look at the breakdown from Tuesday's press conference, a pattern emerges: the "traditional" media outlets brought the repetitive, dull, blunt force trauma, and the smaller outfits provided the evening's flavor.

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What Time Is Obama's Press Conference?

The Huffington Post | Posted 04.24.2009 | Politics

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President Barack Obama said Tuesday night his attempts to lead the nation out of economic turmoil are beginning to yield results, and toned down his c...

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March 24: Obama's Second Primetime News Conference (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post/AP | Posted 04.18.2009 | Politics

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SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEOS President Barack Obama said Tuesday night his attempts to lead the nation out of economic turmoil are beginning to yield resul...

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Can't Get There from Here

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 03.13.2009 | Politics

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The Obama administration has made its first serious misstep. No, it wasn't the wooing of ingrate Republicans, or the dining with clueless reactionary pundits. It is much more significant.

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The Voice Of American Pragmatism

Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 03.13.2009 | Media

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Decades of Reagan, Bush and now Limbaugh Republicanism have created such a toxic environment for American pragmatism that anyone who dared to step in that direction has been ridiculed and silenced. That ended last night.

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Why Did Obama Diss Helen Thomas?

MJ Rosenberg | Posted 03.13.2009 | World

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Why did Obama refuse to answer Helen Thomas' question alluding to Israeli nuclear weapons? Simple. Because if he did, the media would have reported it as a gaffe.

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Obama's Press Conference Answers Three Formal Grade-Levels Higher Than Bush's First

Mark Nickolas | Posted 03.12.2009 | Politics

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I copied each transcript into separate Word documents, deleted the intros and all reporter questions, leaving just the unscripted answers to all questions. Then I ran Word's readability tool.

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Obama Takes Questions From HuffPost And Helen Thomas

eandppub.com | Posted 03.12.2009 | Media

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President Obama took his first question from Helen Thomas as a press conference tonight -- and from Sam Stein at Huffington Post! Stein asked about t...

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Obama's First News Conference: FULL TRANSCRIPT

Huffington Post | Posted 03.12.2009 | Politics

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Good evening. Before I take your questions tonight, I'd like to speak briefly about the state of our economy and why I believe we need to put this re...

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Obama News Conference (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 03.12.2009 | Politics

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Scroll down for video... Read Obama's opening remarks here President Barack Obama, pressuring lawmakers to urgently approve a massive economic recove...

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Today's Obama Press Conference (VIDEO)

MSNBC | Posted 03.24.2009 | Politics

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President Barack Obama said Tuesday night his attempts to lead the nation out of economic turmoil are beginning to yield results, and toned down his c...

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